2012年12月17日夜,是伊犁河谷今年入冬以来最寒冷的时刻,我们惊闻本刊首席顾问耿世民先生逝世的噩耗,仿佛跌入冰谷,时间也好像停止了前行的脚步。我们怎能忘记,2009年夏,在中央民族大学召开的“2009突厥与哈萨克语文学学术研讨会”上,伊犁师范学院的代表曾向耿世民先生恭祝80大寿,敬献哈萨克礼帽与礼袍; The night of December 17, 2012 is the coldest time since Ili Valley started its winter this year. We were shocked by the news that the death of Mr. Geng Shimin, chief adviser to the magazine, had fallen into the ice valley and time seemed to have stopped moving forward. How can we forget that in the summer of 2009, at the 2009 Symposium on Turkic and Kazakh Literature convened by the Central University for Nationalities, representatives of Ili Teachers College had congratulated Mr. Geng Shimin on his 80th birthday and presented Kazakh hat and gown ;