(1) pen name: Chang Xin
Gender: male
Date of birth:1929/11/21.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
1On July 2, 946, he joined the revolutionary work and served as an assistant editor and journalist of the People's Liberation Army. After participating in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he worked as a teacher, lecturer, associate professor and professor in colleges and universities. 199 1 Since leaving the body in June, I have not been engaged in documentary literature creation and theoretical research. Published more than 70 literary works and theoretical articles, less than one million words. He is the author of Zhan Tianyou, the first railway engineer in China, Xian Xinghai, a people's musician, a historic turning point (a documentary to resist US aggression and aid Korea), MacArthur and the Korean War, the social value and value orientation of reportage, typical characteristics of reportage, and learning to write.
(2) Zhou Tao was born in 1946, a poet and essayist. Born in Shanxi and published in Beijing, the teenager moved to Xinjiang with his father. 1969 graduated from the Chinese Department of Xinjiang University and is now the workshop director of Xinjiang Military Region. He has published more than 20 kinds of poems and essays, and won the National Poetry Award, the first Lu Xun (Prose) Award and the August 1st Award of the whole army. Easy-going and occasionally stubborn, small things are serious and big things are confused; If you have no ambition in this life, is poetry a family matter? That's it. I will die.
Zhou Tao, once famous for writing frontier poems, has now become a veritable essayist, and even his prose achievements have surpassed poetry. Poets writing prose, in Byron's view, is a kind of depravity. However, Zhou Tao, an accomplished essayist, did not fall because of this. Writing prose helped him find a field that can better express his talents, a style that can easily express his life feelings. His unique creation has had a far-reaching impact on contemporary prose. In retrospect, Zhou Tao abandoned poetry and wrote prose. After all, his predecessor was a poet, so the poet's temperament made his prose inevitably unaffected by poetry. In other words, Zhou Tao's prose makes him a natural singer in the west, and the limitation of his prose creation is bound to be related to poetry.
Zhou Tao, the Representative of New Frontier Poems
Zhou Tao: Born on1March 5, 946, he is a famous poet and essayist in China. Born in Shanxi, he was enlightened in Beijing, and the teenager moved to Xinjiang with his father. 1969 graduated from the Chinese Department of Xinjiang University and is now the workshop director of Xinjiang Military Region.
At present, more than 20 kinds of poetry and prose collections have been published, which are deeply loved by readers. Won the National Poetry Award and the August 1st Award of the whole army, 1998 the first Lu Xun Literature Award. He is the representative of the new frontier poems. At the same time, he is also an outstanding writer with the most charisma and literary temperament in contemporary China.
[Edit this paragraph] Zhou Tao is a literary genius.
Author: Zhang Xiaocheng
I first met Zhou Tao at a dinner party. Zhou Tao doesn't talk much, so he is very reserved. This is quite different from the outside rumors. At that time, the most rumored thing was Zhou Tao's arrogance. Zhou Tao once said that the newly published Selected Works of Zhou Tao is the best in China. Zhou Tao's poetry reading is also the best in China. Jia Pingwa, a famous writer, once wrote: Crazy Tao.
I met Zhou Tao again at a seminar on his works. Famous people have expressed their views and opinions on Zhou Tao and his works. Zhou Tao is still sitting there implicitly.
Verify whether Zhou Tao said: What works of his are the best in the country. He nodded and admitted, yes, and on TV. But added: These two examples are taken out of context. The completeness should be: Selected Works of Zhou Tao is the best in China, but it is certainly not the only one; Zhou Tao's poetry reading is also the best in China, as far as I know.
Although it is an explanation, there is still a boast in the speech. So, what do famous celebrities think of Zhou Tao?
The famous scholar Yu said, "Zhou Tao is a distant mountain to me. Personally, I think his personal growth experience and lifestyle are different from mine. But this difference is the reason to look up to each other and surprise each other. In the development of China culture, the status of Xinjiang culture is definitely higher than people think. I believe that this place in Xinjiang, or a bigger place than Xinjiang, is the frontier for China culture to expand its living space and then change the essence of existence. I think this is the meaning of Zhou Tao. He combined a kind of power in the sense of time that once existed on this land with a kind of power in the sense of space that he already had, combined it into a living body and became a contemporary discourse. This contemporary discourse is not common sense, but because it is embodied through one's own life, it has always maintained a nobleness. "
Zhou Tao is1.80m tall and has a straight waist. It gives people the feeling that the heaven is full, the skin color is white and red, especially the eyes are full of gods. Put on your military uniform and do some movements. Very elegant. Some people say that Zhou Tao is a "Confucian general". But Zhou Tao is indeed a Confucian general and a talented civilian general.
He has been in the army for more than 20 years, and has published 36 collections of poems and essays, and won the second, third and seventh China People's Liberation Army literary awards, the National Poetry and Prose Award and the Lu Xun Literature Award. In 2002, he was awarded the second-class qualification certificate of the army civilian, which is equivalent to the rank of major general.
Some people say that Zhou Tao is a genius. Zhou Tao neither approved nor denied it. But literary talent has been shown since childhood.
Zhou Tao's father recalled that when he was a child, Zhou Tao loved reading comic books, such as Yue Fei Biography, Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and so on. When he was in middle school, his Chinese was the best, and his compositions were often recited by teachers as model essays.
It was not until he graduated from college, went to the countryside in Kashgar, served as a soldier in Yili, wrote poems and compositions that Zhou Tao's talent was truly revealed. From 65438 to 0979, 36-year-old Zhou Tao became famous with his long poem Orchard published in August, and it was out of control from then on. Poems such as The Shepherd's Collection, Shenshan, Eagle Flute, Wild Horse and Wandering have been widely praised, especially the publication of Shenshan, which won the second national new poetry award and the second army literature and art award in one fell swoop.
Zhou Tao made an in-depth study of frontier culture and national character in his poetry creation. His poems combine frontier fortress scenery with folk stories of ethnic minorities, and combine narration with lyricism to describe the different personality characteristics of various ethnic groups living in Xinjiang.
Zheng Xingfu, the former editor-in-chief of Western Literature, said: "Zhou Tao has rich feelings for the life, customs and habits of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang. He carefully observed life, found poetry from it, and shaped a distinctive historical image."
At the same time, as a military writer, Zhou Tao incorporated too much heroic feelings into his poems. Zhou Tao said he was an army poet. "My baby is a thin military uniform." . Poems such as "Shenshan", "Eagle Strike" and "Mountain Forest" have a period of being a soldier in life, and the quality of a soldier embodies the poet's infinite plot to the army.
Zhou Tao made his debut late, but became famous quickly. In the mid-1980s, Zhou Tao became the leader of "New Frontier Poems" with his poems. His poetry "enriches the aesthetic space of contemporary people with its rough, magnificent, vigorous, deep and tragic artistic style, and creates a generation of poetic style". Some people say that he became a "representative figure connecting the past and the future, which had a great influence on the overall pattern of military poetry after Li Ying".
Zhou Tao said: "This place in Xinjiang is a great poem in itself. Numerous poets have been born since ancient times. Living in a land like Xinjiang, breathing the fragrant dust in Xinjiang, and being in contact with the simple, hardworking and kind characters of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, the simple, cheerful, brave characters of 65,438+10,000 officers and men in Xinjiang Military Region have greatly influenced my poems by Zhou Tao. This is a magnetic field, and people living in this magnetic field cannot but be influenced by this huge magnetic field. It seeps into your blood, your soul, and makes you integrate with this land. Therefore, I am honored to be a part of this huge poetry chain and historical chain in Xinjiang. "
Zhou Tao is a poet, and he attaches great importance to poetry. However, just when his poetry creation reached its peak, he turned to prose creation. Some people feel sorry for this. Zhou Tao said: It took me 20 years to complete this poem after thorough doubt, thinking, practice and searching. But I suddenly found that my opponent was too strong in the field of poetry. With amazing insight and talent, as well as intuitive grasp of reality, they presented me with one battle after another, which turned out to be some chess games I had never seen before.
In fact, Zhou Tao's prose is more influential than his poems. In a book called Zhou Tao's freehand brushwork, there are far more works to evaluate Zhou Tao's prose than his poems. In the eyes of many literary masters, Zhou Tao is an essayist. Although it is poetry that leads Zhou Tao to the literary world; Although Zhou Tao was infatuated with poetry, he was infinitely attached to it.
The publishing world prefers Zhou Tao's prose. Since 1990s, Zhou Tao has collected and published more than 20 collections of essays, such as Rare Birds and Animals, The Great Nomadic Wall, Wu Li Wasteland, Veins in the West, Paradise under the Dome, etc. Prose pushed Zhou Tao from one peak to another.
Han, editor-in-chief of People's Literature, said of Zhou Tao: Zhou Tao is extremely clever. He assessed the situation, accepted what he saw, adjusted his writing route in time, and entered the weakest field of literary creation. He even failed to accept it, and became one of the most influential prose masters in the contemporary era with the quality and quantity of his works.
Zhou Tao became a poet by writing poems and an essayist by writing essays. Zhou Tao's paintings and calligraphy works are also very famous. His paintings have been published in national newspapers and periodicals, and his calligraphy works have also been selected for the "300 Famous Paintings and Calligraphy Exhibition" in Zhongnanhai, which will be exhibited together with the paintings and calligraphy of Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian. This year, Zhou Tao rewrote the novel and published it one after another. But Zhou Tao often said a famous saying: A person can only do one thing in his life.
Zhou Tao explained: A person can only do one thing in his life, and what he wants to express is mainly firmness. When you put your heart and soul into one thing, you must go through these difficulties. You just have to try to do one thing well, don't think so much. When silkworms spin silk, if all they can think about is whether the silk they spit out can be used to weave the silk robe worn by the emperor, I'm afraid they will be worried to death before they spit it out.