In the early hours of October 4, Yu Di, a young poet from Hubei province who had been living in Liangyuan District Three of Kunming, Yunnan, committed suicide at home. According to his friends, Yu Di was raising a pair of twin sons who were less than three months old, while his wife was suffering from a serious illness. On the 8th, after numerous interviews by the media, the mystery of Yu Di's suicide still remained unsolved. (Changjiang Business Daily, October 9, 2007)
A person has died. A poet. A poet from Hubei. At one o'clock in the morning, he ended his own 30-year-old life with a kitchen knife. Left behind are his aging parents, his wife who is gravely ill, and his twin sons who are not yet a hundred days old; there is also a house whose loan has not been fully paid. His only wealth is the collection of books weighing over a ton that fills the entire room; some of these books even have his name inscribed on them!