Zang Kejia is known as the poet of the century.
On January 20, 2000, at the Great Hall of the People, the Chinese Poetry Society awarded the "Poet of the Century" Zang Kejia the "Chinese Poet Award-Lifetime Achievement Award". Such a high honor is unprecedented in the Chinese poetry world. Zang Kejia, a name that goes hand in hand with poetry, a name that is as glorious as his poetry, is like a bright star, high in the sky of the Chinese poetry world.
He passed away at Peking Union Medical College Hospital at 8:30 pm on February 5, 2004. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, thousands of lights accompanied him on his westward journey. ?
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"Some People"
Some people are alive, he is dead
Some people are dead Yes, he is still alive
This poem, which is easy to understand, has great capacity, and is extremely philosophical, discusses the greatness and ugliness of life vividly and deeply. The whole poem is so chic and unrestrained, every sentence is full of meaning. Engraved in people's hearts, it speaks the true meaning of life mercilessly with the power of philosophy. "Some People" has educated generations of people to pursue truth, goodness and beauty. It is deeply "branded" in the minds of hundreds of millions of people because of its thought-provoking nature, and is familiar to many people.
Zang Ke’s family has lived in a kingdom of poetry since he was a child. Both his father and grandfather are good at poetry, and the cultural atmosphere in the family is very strong. In 1923, Zang Kejia began his middle school life at the First Normal University of Shandong Province and was influenced by the new literary trend of the May Fourth Movement.
In 1930, Zang Kejia was admitted by Wen Yiduo with a score of 0 in mathematics, due to his three-sentence essay: "Life is always chasing phantom light, but whoever regards phantom light as phantom light, Whoever sank into the bottomless sea of ??misery." Zang Kejia lived up to Mr. Wen's expectations and soon published new poems one after another, and in 1933 he published the sensational collection of poems "Brand".
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