Half Dust, a collection of poems, is the first work of teacher Yan Diancai.
The title is very Zen. I think the word "half" is good. Life is like this. Half of it is never really finished. Happiness and helplessness each account for a few percent, and success and failure are intertwined; Half young, half old; Even talking, with the growth of age, is half true and half false. No need to blame, this is the "dust" world. Balance left and right, gain and loss. Teacher Yan Diancai realized this. He used his eyes, which have read all the vicissitudes of life but are not lonely, to gain insight into the world and realize life. Poetry is a block of thoughts trapped in the heart. If you don't spit, you won't be happy, so "half dust" appears before our eyes. Let's open the third eye and see "half-life, half-smoke, half-dust".
Teacher Yan Diancai's poems are characterized by: open and close, vulgar language, rich information, calm and humorous language. A poem is a story. He is only responsible for listing several objects in a few words, leaving a lot of room for thinking, so that readers can experience and feel for themselves, just like a big freehand Chinese painting, with a few strokes, minimal but poetic.
The first album "Hometown"
Hometown is a harbor where souls inhabit and an inexhaustible source of creation. From the beginning of "Village", a strong local flavor came to my face. The affection for hometown permeates the images of cows, wells, trees, rivers, bridges and even earth temples, and shows the living state of hometown people and the emotional state of men and women with calm brushstrokes. "Men love to wrangle, and when they wrangle, they say women and old cows/women. They put the last handful of black beans in the cow trough/like a bowl for their men, and put another piece of meat in it. " In the detailed description, the simple feelings of the hometown people remain in the memory. "In those days, it was a joint contract. Uncle Min didn't want to plow, didn't want to rake/only put.
The old mill is an important distribution center in the village. "At this time, the village is cheerful/toothless. The old man looked at the donkey and the donkey driver older than himself, smiling/patting his daughter-in-law, smiling/naked children and birds in the tree. " (The Old Mill), four poems describe the scene of men, women and children working together. Poetry at this time is a flowing painting with a happy and simple atmosphere. At the end of "facing the grave on the sunny slope behind the village, you can just see the old mills/ancestors here, waiting for grinding days/rolling mounds like their waists every day", which is in sharp contrast with the joyful scene in front. But poetry is cool and not sad, calm and content with fate. This calmness forces readers to think deeply about where we come from and where we are going.
After reading this series of contents, I found that everything in the author's eyes can be included in the poem. This should be attributed to the poet's profound understanding of life and his ability to grasp the poetic flash of ordinary things. Compared with those works that pretend to be profound, write in obscure words, and set off mystery with mystery, so that readers can't understand without reading, Teacher Yan Diancai's poems are more intimate and deeply rooted in people's hearts. It is also good to use a couplet in A Dream of Red Mansions here. "Everything is learned when it is clear, and people learn to write articles."
The second series of foreign land
The contents of this series are mostly selected from Tibet. The series "Other Countries" brings the eternal desolation of the plateau, rich regional characteristics and the poet's thinking about the present into the reader's sight. As can be seen from the poem, I entered Tibet for work reasons. On the road of singing, poets express their unique feelings through the appearance of strange things. The themes are enlightenment, sympathy and confusion.
Gao's famous sentence "There are many present days in the world, and there are poems that are far away" later evolved into "Life is many present days, there are poems that cannot be read, and there are distant places that cannot be reached". The public can see the evolution of this sentence and see the distance between poetry and readers. No wonder the public is mocking. At present, some poems just talk to themselves, like being autistic and far away from the outside world. From this point of view, no matter what the theme of Yan Diancai's poems is, he can find an appropriate breakthrough and appropriate expression, so that ordinary readers can understand and gain something. For example:
"Some birds like to guard the shed, become chickens in fear/some birds are good at windproof and sway into rainbows" (The Price), which is an inner feeling and a warning to others. It is estimated that the author must have this point in his mind first, and then further look for evidence to prove it from his own experience and understanding. He successfully used many images of the same species but different personalities to explain his unique understanding. Compare the yak in Tibet with the ox in my hometown; Compared with the plain, the altitude is 5 kilometers; Comparison between Hong Fei and chicken; The people guarding the village are better than those flying out. Through repeated comparison, the open view is further confirmed. Like a poetic argumentative essay, it puts facts, makes sense and distinguishes right from wrong. Finally, the ending was laid out calmly. "Keep a handful of dirt/fly to old beef jerky/yak fly out of a mountain/shopping mall: 125 yuan/Bao. Scalper: 45 yuan/Bao "After reading this poem, it is amazing. What a personality! Look at the topic will never think of simple contrast, which contains profound philosophy. This poem warns people to go out and look far. Especially for teenagers, it has profound educational significance.
Addendum to the third series
Judging from the sub-columns and contents of Half Dust, Mr. Yan Diancai roughly divided the topics contained in each column into regions. Hometown, hometown, gleaning. At first, I was puzzled about the material scope of "gleaning". After reading the contents of the poem, I suddenly understood that it should be the place where I work and live. What does it matter when and where it was actually made? As long as poetry can stand on its own feet and show the unique richness of the soul; It is a good poem that can touch the heart, produce * * * sounds and wash the soul.
This series contains many fishing themes. Teacher Yan Diancai is an expert in fishing. He not only fished, but also fished out a lot of insights and philosophies. "Spanish mackerel likes to eat sea crucian carp, barracuda, green scales, rice strips, goby fish/I like to fish/use sea crucian carp, barracuda, green scales, rice strips, goby fish/you eat sea cucumber, abalone, beef and mutton, whole grains, vegetables/drink white wine, yellow wine, beer, wine/you say, quit fishing and accumulate virtue. This phenomenon often happens in life. Some people like to impose their ideas on others when they encounter something, like to occupy the moral high ground and kidnap others with their poor cognition. For example, the bus gives up its seat. Sometimes, if you don't take the initiative to give up your seat to the elderly, you will be accused by some people waving moral sticks. In fact, this may not be the case. From the perspective of creative skills, the author is good at finding the internal connection from two unrelated things and presenting it in simple language, which makes the sentence thought-provoking.
In addition, the theme from Family Life is "I can only make potato cakes/I have been making them since you said you liked them/often." You never tire of eating, the more I eat, the better/I go home for two days a week in high school and do it twice/I go back to my hometown once every semester in college and do it once/I fry the years/you eat more and more space "(potato cake), these rambling sentences are extremely simple. However, it is obvious that the iron clank near the dusk of life is full of tenderness, and all kinds of doting hearts are beating with the rhythm of their daughter's footsteps. Its frightening gesture makes people cry, and makes people understand that a real gentleman dares to look down on thousands of fingers and bow his head as a willing ox. "Wait until one day, you will marry far away/I don't know/my skills will be rusty? "That sentence made readers suddenly realize that they have made potato cakes for many years, and they are getting better and better, just because their daughters like them and they don't like them, so that readers can further feel a kind of love without me!
There are also insights from work and life, such as nature, advertising, terminals and so on. They often use common images or images in life to express contradictions, conflicts, entanglements and helplessness in reality with concise language, which makes readers full of ups and downs of poetry in repeated chewing.
The mood in Half Dust Time is low-key and luxurious, recording the past and containing philosophy. Many people write poems and publish books. I think, for some series, this is just a fashion. Like some rich people who didn't like reading, they must install luxury bookcases in their home decoration. The exquisite books inside are silent, waiting for the wind to blow away the dust around them.
It is understood that teacher Yan Diancai's formal creation is these two or three years. He used to be a businessman and entrepreneur. People who do this kind of work need to devote all their energy to gain a foothold in a highly competitive society. The ever-changing shopping malls are like battlefields, and the survival of enterprises is related to the survival of many people. Such a burden is heavy enough. Even if poetry was once radiant in youth, when people reach middle age, the rough life will sharpen poetry beyond recognition. However, the publication of Half Dust seems to be a miracle! Including his later creations, it is increasingly proved that his creative ability is a flowing fountain.
In "Half Fireworks", there are many successes and many helplessness. "The Xiongguan Road is really like iron, and now it is one step away from the beginning." Cheer up, let the fireworks in the world be complicated, let the fleeting time be bumpy all the way, and young newcomers will no longer carry heavy burdens on the literary road!