The chirping silence
Snow, with purity
Rejects people’s arrival
In the distance, in the small bushes
A small group of birds chirped
They were talking about themselves
Talking about how to store grains
Talk about mother
Tell me how the moon bud turned into a golden balloon
I walked to many places
I couldn’t leave
The chirping place Silence
Maybe in my heart
There is also a winter
A deserted snowfield
There
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This poem is Gu Cheng’s typical hazy poetry style. The poet uses symbolic metaphors to write from the perspective of innocence, nature and self-anatomy, and uses an indirect metaphor to make his emotions or feelings concrete. The images created by metaphor hide the poet's emotions deeply. The first thing we come into contact with is only the intuitive world of images, that is, the chirping and silent image of the scene at the beginning of the poem. To further understand the spiritual world "behind the scenes", we need to A journey. "Perhaps there is also a winter in my heart." The poet also has his own chirping silence in his own heart. There is a world that is both silent - silent and full of his own thoughts - chirping. It also foreshadows the poet's psychological understanding of the real world. of escape. The meaning language is simple and bright, complicated and confusing, fully explored, and the aftertaste is lingering.
Introduction to Gu Cheng "The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light." The generation of young people who experienced the "Cultural Revolution" had a deep appreciation for the famous hazy poet Gu Cheng (September 1956-October 1993) ) are very familiar with these two lines of poetry. The misty poetry that emerged from the late 1970s to the early 1980s was an important part of the exciting ideological and literary "liberation" trend at that time. It was also the starting point for the innovation of contemporary new poetry. One year before Gu Chengmingshou's 50th birthday, the first volume of the four-volume "Gucheng Literature Series" - "Selected Works of Gu Cheng?" "There Is Another World" was recently published by Northern Literature and Art Publishing House.
Gu Cheng began writing poetry in 1962. In May 1987, he was invited to Germany to participate in the Münster "International Poetry Festival". He then began to travel around Western and Northern Europe, and later settled in New Zealand. On October 8, 1993 , he and his wife Xie Ye both died on Waiheke Island, New Zealand.
According to Liu Xiqiang, the planner of the "Gucheng Literature Series", this four-volume set will be published until September next year. The entire set of anthologies will be written by Jiang Xiaomin, the owner of the "Guchengzhicheng" website, and Gu Chengqi Sister Gu Xiang jointly edited and annotated. The prose works totaling more than 1.5 million words include works from 1992 to 1993, the peak period of Gu Cheng's creation while he was living overseas, and are expected to present a comprehensive and three-dimensional picture of Gu Cheng.
Jiang Xiaomin, the owner of the "Chengzhicheng" website, is a senior Chinese language teacher in a middle school in Wenling, Zhejiang. She read the poetry collection "Hai Lan" in 1993 and came into contact with Gu Cheng's poems. "In 1994, she read "Poetry Exploration" "The Last Gu Cheng" written by Gu Cheng's friend Wen Xin, the moment I read the paragraph about Gu Cheng's footprints, I fell in love with Gu Cheng. Later I read almost all the information I could collect about Gu Cheng. "
Gu Cheng's early "Fantasia of Life", "Sea of ??Parting" and later "Ode to the World?" "It's the Power of Trees to Swim" made Jiang Xiaomin particularly fond of it. She used "truth" to summarize the biggest characteristic of Gu Cheng as a person, and "natural purity" was the biggest characteristic of Gu Cheng's poetry in her mind. "His poems are not made, but flowed from the heart. When reading his poems , you forget that you are a human being, you are sometimes a ladybug, sometimes a river, sometimes a stone, this is 'nature' on another level." In order to "let more people know about Gu Cheng and share Gu Cheng's beautiful poems", Jiang Xiaomin founded the "Guchengzhicheng" website in 1999.
However, there are also many poetry friends from back then who are now reluctant to "face Gu Cheng" again.
“I don’t want to express any opinions about him,” an influential Yunpai poet at the time refused to be interviewed. Another poet who "had a lot of contacts" with Gu Cheng before he went abroad claimed that he was busy writing a cultural prose manuscript and had no time to comment on his old friend.
In his book "Half Life" published at the beginning of this year, Xu Xiao, the editor of "Today", the "Misty Poetry" front, has vivid memories of poets such as Bei Dao and Mang Ke, but he does not mention Gu Cheng. Too many impressions, "Bei Dao was mainly editing his poems at that time, and I only met him a few times in public."
Most poetry friends are reluctant to comment, perhaps because of many differences complex reasons. But Gu Cheng really gives people the feeling of "living in his own castle".
Sister Gu Xiang is two years, two months and three days older than Gu Cheng. The biggest characteristic of Gu Cheng in her impression is that he "doesn't like to join in the fun." Gu Cheng could walk when he was less than one year old. "The most important thing he did at that time was to walk to a large dressing mirror that was not high off the ground and look at himself in the mirror."
Gu Cheng, who went to kindergarten, still "didn't like to join in the fun." Every time Gu Xiang went to pick him up, "I wouldn't look for him among the children playing together. He liked to hide and look at trees or ants."
Gu Xiang recalled that Gu Cheng, who had read a lot since he was a child, once told someone the story of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in order to comfort a bullied classmate, and he got the nickname "Story". But when the students gathered around to listen to him, "it was still not easy to hear him telling stories because he was not used to being surrounded in the middle." "But he wanted to speak, and he also wanted someone to listen to him."
In the "psychological tug-of-war" between longing to communicate with the outside world and withdrawing into his heart, Gu Cheng had no choice but to seek his sister to be his "one-person audience." , when my sister had no time to listen, "In desperation, he went into another room and started talking to the wall alone across the bed."
When the storm of the "Cultural Revolution" enveloped everything, Gu Cheng still "walked alone under the scorching sun, among fallen leaves, and in the cold wind, picking up an old coin on the ancient city wall, and looking for grasshoppers among the weeds. , dung beetles," "tweeters, crowds of people, and leaflets all over the sky, all treated him like nothing. He laughed at me (Gu Xiang), hated me, and didn't allow me to participate in group or social activities, thinking that those things were boring, and I All his classmates are vulgar."
The most impressive and common attire for Gu Cheng, who lives in his own "castle", is wearing a tall hat. This was true when I gave a speech in the Netherlands in June 1992, and it was also true when I gave a speech in Germany in December 1992. A tall hat, in the country of poets, is not an imaginary crown. Why is he not his own "king"? Later, Gu Cheng and his wife Xie Ye lived a life of raising chickens and vegetables on Waiheke Island in New Zealand, which also had the meaning of an independent kingdom and self-sufficiency.
In the eyes of Cui Weiping, a professor at Beijing Film Academy, "Gu Cheng is a timid person, not a talkative person, but a person who retreats and likes to 'sit in the back'." Professor Cui Weiping affirmed Gu Cheng's "contribution is considerable" in the Misty Poetry School, but he questioned "the night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light" - "the statement that the environment is dark but I am bright is a A willful expression. It is terrible if a person is not aware of the existence of his own shadow and does not guard himself." "When looking at society, we must also reflect on ourselves."
Liu Zili, an important member of "Today" magazine, expressed fundamental doubts about "whether vernacular can write poetry", so his overall evaluation of "Misty Poetry" is not very high. He feels that Gu Cheng "I'm just one of them, and I'm not better than others."
Liu Zili read Gu Cheng's poems when he didn't know him. "I thought he was writing poetry like a child, and there are old children." Liu Zili believes that Gu Cheng's creations pay more attention to the meaning and symbolism and pay less attention to the musicality of the poems; secondly, they have a certain fairy tale color and a so-called "naughty child" character. ——It is a counterattack against the rigid thinking mode of the "Cultural Revolution", but this "resistance" is done in a child's way. Therefore, the "naughty boy" easily loses control in the end, which is related to the shortcomings of his poetry, personality defects, and the interruption of communication with society. Liu Zili believes that Gu Cheng tried to use prose language to give his poems a sense of mystery and religion, but in fact, "looking for light" and "believing in the future" are not new.