Gu Cheng (1956— 1993) is from Beijing. /kloc-he began to write poetry in the 1970s, including the collection of poems Unknown Flowers, Selected Poems of Shu Ting Gu Cheng, Selected Poems of Bei Dao Gu Cheng, Black Eyes and Poems of Gu Cheng, and co-authored the novel Yinger with Xie Ye. Gu Cheng is a representative figure of China's misty poetry school in the new period, and is known as a "fairy tale poet" who sees the world with a childlike innocence. Compared with Shu Ting's elegance, charm, beauty and sadness, Gu Cheng's poems are naive. However, in Gu Cheng's poems full of dreams and childishness, there is an adult sadness. Although this sadness is faint, it is as heavy as lead. Because this is not only the poet's personal sorrow, but also the sorrow of a generation after awakening, and the sorrow of an awakened generation to see the reality in front of them.
Two representative poems of Gu Cheng
ancient city
A generation
The night gave me black eyes.
I use it to find the light.
far and near
You,
Look back at me,
Watch the clouds later.
I think
When you look at me from a distance,
You observe the clouds up close.
(Excerpted from Black Eyes, People's Literature Publishing House, 1986)