2001年初冬,全国第七次文代会上,《散文》月刊的主编刘雁女士找到我,要我为他们的刊物写点文字。我答应了。回到西安以后,我白天上班,晚上写作。连续写了三个晚上,写了三篇西部大写意风格的散文。一篇即收入高中语文课本的这篇《西地平线上》(它发表时叫“西地平线上的 In the early winter of 2001, Ms. Liu Yan, the editor-in-chief of the monthly “Prose” magazine, met with me at the 7th National Conference on Languages ​​and asked me to write some text for their publications. I promised. After returning to Xi’an, I went to work during the day and wrote at night. He wrote three consecutive nights and wrote three western-style freehand style essays. One on the ”West Horizon“ which is the high school language textbook (it was published on the ”West horizon"