Sun Youtian, a contemporary poet, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a director of the Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association, has a first-level literary creation degree and enjoys special allowances from the State Council. His major works include 10 poetry collections, "Songs from the Coal Sea", children's long poems, "Bloody Mud Whistle", "Birds in the Mine", and children's knowledge books, "In the Black Jewel's Home", etc. His works have won many awards. The poem "I Want to Act as a Child Laborer" was selected into the "Selected Poems Recited by Teenagers", and the poem "Open the Green Textbook of Nature" was included in the national primary school Chinese textbook. Sun Youtian, contemporary poet, Chinese Writers Association Member, director of Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association, first-level literary creation, enjoys special allowance from the State Council. His major works include 10 poetry collections such as "Coal Sea Short Songs", children's long poems "Bloody Mud Whistle", "Mining Birds", and children's knowledge books "In the Black Jewel's Home". His works have won many awards. The poem "I Want to Play a Child Laborer" was selected into the "Selected Poems for Youth Recitation", and the poem "Go to Open the Green Textbook of Nature" was included in the Chinese textbooks for primary schools across the country.
I was born in a small town in northern Anhui. I entered the only primary school in the town at the age of eight. My parents were both illiterate, but they paid close attention to my studies because they had suffered enough from being uneducated. Whenever my mother sees me coming home from school, the first thing she says is, "Go write!" She doesn't care what words I write, she just watches me and watches me draw in my notebook with a pencil. I like "writing" and that's when I started.
I like composition, but I don’t like diaries. The compositions have titles, most of which are "my teacher", "my mother", etc. The people and things they write about are all familiar to me, and they can be "handy". The diary not only needs to be written every day, but also contains the content, which is quite difficult for a primary school student. My diary at that time was almost the same, always with the following sentence: "In the early morning, I went to school with my schoolbag on my back. On the way, I saw two dogs fighting. After watching it for a while, I went to school." Before the diary, there were also You need to fill in the date, weather, wind direction, etc. The date and weather are easy to fill in, but what about the wind direction? I just grab a handful of sand and throw it into the air, and then fill in "east" or "southeast". Because I didn’t understand the role of a diary and didn’t know how to observe life, I always regarded diaries as a burden during my primary school years. In fact, developing the habit of keeping a "diary" is helpful for accumulating life and practicing writing. Nowadays, primary schools adopt the form of irregular "diary" to give primary school students a certain amount of thinking space. This is a method suitable for them.
Although I like writing, I am quite careless and often make typos in my writing, which I have not completely corrected until now. I remember that one of my essays was selected by the teacher and posted on the back wall of the classroom as a "demonstration", but there was a big alias in the article, which was "eye damage" due to poor hygiene (red, swollen and inflamed eyes, locally called "eye damage") I thought the word "harm" was related to the eyes, so I added the word "eye" next to it, making it the word "blind". "It hurts the eyes" becomes "blinds the eyes". The teacher didn't notice it, but when the students discovered it after the exhibition, they laughed at me: "Aren't your eyes good? How do you say you're blind?" "Let's call him 'Blind Sun' from now on." I ran away in anger. Go to the back wall of the classroom and tear down the essay. ——Carelessness kills people! The year I graduated from elementary school was the eve of the liberation of my hometown. I dropped out of school and was only thirteen years old at the time. Our family had four acres of land. When autumn came, my father bought a little black donkey and asked me to cut the grass and feed it. The little black donkey's fur is like black satin, but its four hooves are snow-white. I nicknamed it "Snow Station". I happily carry the grass skip and cut the grass every day. Sometimes when I am tired from mowing the grass and enjoy the shade under the trees, I feel envious when I see groups of students returning home from school. Those students wore triangular school badges on their chests, which aroused my desire to learn, so I kept scratching "?" on the sand with a shovel... After the liberation of my hometown, I wanted to go back to sixth grade. My parents agreed, and when they went to school to talk about it, the principal replied: Let’s take the test. One day, I excitedly walked into the teaching office, which was a three-room lobby. The dean asked me to sit at a table and write an essay titled "An Unforgettable Thing". When I saw this title, I immediately thought of my beloved little black donkey "Xueli Station". Not long after the Battle of Huaihai started, the reactionary troops of the Kuomintang retreated from Xuzhou and passed by their hometown. They not only arrested people everywhere to lead the way, but also robbed the people's property. The hometown was in the darkness before dawn. It was a deserted and extremely terrifying evening. Several defeated reactionary soldiers broke into my house and took away the little black donkey without any explanation... This is something I will never forget. I leaned on the table and started writing quickly. Teachers and students from the teaching office were coming in and out. It was even more busy especially when get out of class was over. But I didn’t feel at all. It was like I was sitting alone in the three rooms. I was completely immersed in it. In the story, it’s like an actor entering the role. Sometimes I was terrified, sometimes angry, sometimes painful. My emotions changed rapidly as the plot developed. I simply couldn't control myself and wrote "An Unforgettable Thing" in one breath. By this time, school had already ended, and there was only the dean waiting for me in the room. The next day, I was notified of admission.
This composition has become an unforgettable thing for me.
Although I didn’t understand theories such as writing methods at that time, I knew I had to write about things I was familiar with with emotion. Gender: Male
Date of birth: 1936/12
Nationality: Han
Member of the Communist Party of China.
Graduated from Huainan Coal Mine School in 1957, majoring in Mining Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. He has successively served as a technician at Jiawang Coal Mine in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, a professional creative writer at Jiangsu Provincial Bureau of Culture, leader and editorial board member of the poetry group of "Yuhua" magazine, and chief editor of "Yangtze River" poetry magazine. Professional writer of Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association, first-level literary creation. The first, second, third, fourth and fifth directors of Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association. Director of the Poetry Working Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association, enjoying special government subsidies. Began publishing works in 1954. Joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1959.
He is the author of poetry collections "Coal Sea Short Songs", "Gongs and Drums in Mines", "Spring Morning in Coal City", "Coal Song", "Golden Star", "Birds in Mines", "Flower Rain Jiangnan" , "The Bloody Mud Whistle", "Selected Lyric Poems of Sun Youtian Coal Mine" and 10 other works, and the collection of essays "In the Home of Black Jewel", etc.
"Miners and the Sea" won the first National Coal Mine Literature Outstanding Works Award, "Sun Youtian Coal Mine Lyrical Poems" won the first prize of the second National Coal Mine Literary Works Wujin Award, and "People Come from Hometown" "Won the second prize in the People's Daily's Song of Builders essay competition.
Life
Born on December 15, 1936 in Huangkou Town, Xiao County, Anhui Province. In 1951, he graduated from primary school and was admitted to Xuzhou Jiawang Coal Mine Junior Vocational School. A poem I wrote in my graduation year, "Motherland, Just a Finger of Your Hand," was published in the "Youth Daily" published in Shanghai on August 6, 1954. This was the first time that my poems were put into print. In the same year, he was admitted to Huainan Coal Mine School.
In August 1957, after graduating from Huainan Coal Mine School, he was assigned to work in Jiawang Coal Mine in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, where he worked for 16 years. Not long after joining the mine, because of his active writing of poems reflecting coal miners, he was elected as a member of the preparatory committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association and attended the preparatory committee held in Nanjing in the summer of 1958. From 1960 to 2004, he was the first, second, third, fourth and fifth director of the Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association.
In June 1958, Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House published my first collection of poems, "Coal Sea Tanka", which was exhibited at the Leipzig International Fair. Poems reflecting the life of miners were included in the "1958 Selected Poems" edited and published by "Poetry Magazine". The famous poet Xu Chi wrote in the preface: "Sun Youtian, a coal miner from Jiawang, is a new person worth noting."
Joined the Chinese Writers Association in October 1959. In the same year, he was named an activist for building socialism for the second time in Jiangsu Province. In June 1960, he was elected as the vice chairman of the first committee of Xuzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In the same month, as the official representative of Xuzhou City, he attended the National Conference of Cultural and Educational Heroes held in Beijing. Recognized as a national model worker.
While working in the Xuzhou Coal Mine, he published poetry collections "Coal Sea Short Songs", "Mine Gongs and Drums", "Spring Morning in Coal City", "Flowers in the South", "Coal Song", "Golden Star", "Singing in the Coal Sea", as well as children's long poems "Birds in the Mine", "Bloody Mud Whistle", children's book "In the House of Black Jewel" and more than ten books.
In November 1965, he went to Beijing to participate in the National Youth Amateur Literary Creation Activists Conference. In May 1973, he was transferred from Xuzhou Mining Bureau to the creative team of Jiangsu Provincial Bureau of Culture to engage in professional creation. In September 1974, he joined the Communist Party of China. In October 1979, he attended the Fourth Congress of the Chinese Writers Association. In September 1987, Jiangsu TV Station and Xuzhou Mining Bureau jointly produced a TV poem "Song of the Coal Sea" with my coal mine poem as the content. After the broadcast, it won the CCTV "Starlight Award". In September 1988, "Selected Lyric Poems of Sun Youtian Coal Mine" was published by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing Company. In 1992, this collection of poems won the first prize of the "Wujin Award" for the second national coal mine literary works. In July 1990, the "Sun Youtian Coal Mine Poetry Seminar" was held in the Zhalinuoer mining area of ??the grassland coal city. My poem "I am coal, I want to burn" was hailed by poetry critics as "a contemporary miner's manifesto". In June 1994, appointed by the Chinese Writers Association, he and poet Xiaoxue formed a delegation of Chinese poets to attend the 4th International Poetry Festival in Colombia. In the autumn of 1997, he participated in a delegation of Nanjing poets to visit South Korea. In 2004, the essay "Moonlight Enlightenment" was selected into the tenth volume of the Jiangsu edition of primary school Chinese textbooks. In December 2003, the "Sun Youtian Poetry Recital" was held in Xuzhou, and the launch ceremony of two books, "Sun Youtian's Selected Poems" and "Sun Youtian's Selected Prose", was held at the same time. In December 2004, "Selected Poems of Sun Youtian" won the second prize of the 5th Jinling Literature Award.
In the late 1970s, he served as an editorial board member of the editorial department of "Yuhua", a member of the Jiangsu Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and a director of the Chinese Poetry Society. In the late 1990s, he served as director of the Poetry Working Committee of the Jiangsu Writers Association, executive editor of the poetry magazine "Yangtze River", and vice president of the Jiangsu Popular Literature Society. He is a first-level scholar in literary creation and enjoys special allowances from the State Council.