Chen Nianxi (Chinese: 陈年喜; born February 5, 1970)[1] is a Chinese poet from Shaanxi, whose poetic genre is "migrant worker literature".
[1] Following high school graduation in 1987,[3] Chen got married and worked as a farmer, and had a son in 1999.
[2] Alongside publishing poetry in local publications,[4] he worked as a miner for approximately 15 years across China, particularly in the Qinling mountain range.
[5] In 2011, along with the growth of microblogging in China, he was able to reach a broader audience.
[2] This eventually attracted the attention of Qin Xiaoyu, a film critic and producer, who profiled Chen in his 2015 documentary The Verse of Us.