He is not only an excellent poet who can write meaningful poems, but also a famous essayist, translator and critic. He wrote a lot in his life and made great achievements. He was an influential scholar in Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province. Some people even say that with Mr. Yu Guangzhong gone, half the sky in China's poetry world has collapsed.
But human nature is often complicated, and a person has more than one side. Yu Guangzhong was naturally a great poet, but his personality was controversial at that time, which always made people want to explore it carefully.
Scold the mainland predecessors
Historically, talented people have been arrogant and arrogant. Xie Lingyun is like this, Li Bai is like this, and Yu Guangzhong has such a proud side.
Zhu Ziqing is an important figure in the literary world and an influential essayist. 1992, Yu Guangzhong's critical article "On Zhu Ziqing's Prose" was born, which stirred up a thousand waves in an instant and caused a huge sensation.
Yu Guangzhong strongly criticized Zhu Ziqing's prose in his article, and even said that Zhu Ziqing was not a famous prose master. He strongly criticized Zhu Ziqing's prose in language, saying that all the words were pale and dull, and the sentence pattern remained unchanged. The whole article is plain, and the prose is not only too vernacular, but also mixed with Europeanization, which makes it look neither fish nor fowl.
On the theme, Yu Guangzhong also said that "the back is about my father, but the full text used a lot of space to describe me, which actually deviated from the theme and was not properly described." Prose is made of old materials, not new, and some people even groan.
In this commentary, Yu Guangzhong only pays attention to the works, not Zhu Ziqing himself. Although his evaluation is sharp, it is also to the point. Yu Guangzhong is one of the best candidates who dare to criticize such an influential celebrity.
In fact, in the 1990s, Yu Guangzhong not only criticized Zhu Ziqing, but also criticized his predecessors in Chinese mainland, such as Lao She, Guo Moruo, Wen Yiduo, Dai Wangshu and Ai Qing. So, where is Yu Guangzhong's confidence?
Dedicated talent
Like Zhang Ailing, Yu Guangzhong is also a writer who enjoys delicious food from heaven. His sensitivity to words is innate. Others try their best to improve their writing, but in the end they may not be half as good as Yu Guangzhong. Li Bihua said that Zhang Ailing is like a well that others can't find. Yi Shu, Zhang Xiaoxian and other female writers, their works are also very popular, but their writing style is not as charming as Zhang Ailing's. Yu Guangzhong is like this.
Because of the war, he moved from Jinling to China many times, and finally settled in Taiwan Province Province, which has buried deep sadness in his heart, enough to merge into a lonely river and become a part of the nourishment of writing. At the age of 20, he had published a collection of poems; After graduating from high school, domestic famous universities did not try their best to choose because of their excellent grades; At a young age, he was already a university professor. ...
Liang Shiqiu commented on Yu Guangzhong: "Writing poetry with your right hand and writing prose with your left hand is a high achievement." He himself said, "A poet needs half a hand to write prose." . Yu Guangzhong, who studied in the Department of Foreign Languages, has a profound understanding of the traditional culture of China and has become a rare scholar-like poet in contemporary literary circles. He has devoted himself to studying Chinese and western literature for decades, and naturally he can see some faults in the Europeanization of prose syntax.
Yu Guangzhong's prose is poetic, but there is no groan in it. Sentences are combined with paragraphs, and the artistic conception structure is perfect, which has both the aesthetic feeling of poetry and the charm of prose. Zhu Ziqing's prose "The Back" and "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond" are dwarfed by his "Living in a Mountain in Sha Tin" and "Listening to the Cold Rain".
It is more than enough to criticize the works of Zhu Ziqing, Dai Wangshu and Wen Yiduo with Yu Guangzhong's language and writing skills.
The whistleblower case was exposed.
We admire Yu Guangzhong's talent, but we can't ignore that he was once a poet deeply involved in politics and a literary thug.
In 1970s, Taiwan Province Province was in a politically sensitive period. If it was labeled carelessly, it would ruin its future and even its life. Since then, Yu Guangzhong has published articles to defend the position of the new poet, but he not only criticized some old poets on the literary level, but also rose to the political level. For example, scholar Tang Wenbiao almost went to prison.
In 2004, Yu Guangzhong was 76. As a great writer in the literary world, many people respect him. However, according to an insider, Yu Guangzhong wrote a letter to the top of the government in the 1970s, using various examples to accuse Taiwan Province native writer Chen Yingzhen and criticize his wrong ideas. As early as 1990, Taiwan Province scholar Chen disclosed this matter. In 2000, Chen Yingzhen himself confirmed this point, saying that Yu Guangzhong's actions in those years were totally aimed at killing him.
Yu Guangzhong's point of view is not incorrect, but it is shameful for people to tell tales. Moreover, as a scholar, Chen Yingzhen once admired Yu Guangzhong's works and expressed his admiration for Mr. Yu Guangzhong to the public, but Yu Guangzhong stabbed Chen Yingzhen in the back, which was despicable.
In 2004, the insider's accusation was very serious. In addition to sending a secret letter to kill Chen Yingzhen, he also accused Yu Guangzhong of deliberately politicizing literary arguments and even trying to stifle local literature. Yu Guangzhong's commentary "The Wolf is Coming" is as intense as "The Guillotine".
It's been a long time, and some things can't be confronted face to face. However, when the exposure broke out suddenly, public opinion from all walks of life was in an uproar, pushing 76-year-old Yu Guangzhong to the forefront and almost losing his job. Always calm and low-key, he can't sit still. He came forward to clarify these things, denied his informers, and claimed that the materials he sent were not written by him, but by an "outstanding scholar". He did not write these materials to deal with Chen Yingzhen. Many people didn't believe what he said, but it turned out to be a mystery.
As for "deliberately politicizing the literary debate", Yu Guangzhong himself admitted that these disgraceful histories were just a misunderstanding of "heavy heart under the pressure of shock" at that time, and his emotions were out of control and impulsive. He didn't express regret or apology, just played it down. But Chen Yingzhen, the original victim, almost lost his life, and Yu Guangzhong just brushed it off, which inevitably led to a little less introspection.
There is a lot of controversy, but its text can't be abolished.
Apart from the past in which he was tipped off in his later years, Yu Guangzhong was unknown, and there were controversies about him by famous artists.
These controversies are only aimed at these aspects: First, the ridicule of the famous mainland artists such as Zhu Ziqing, Lao She and Guo Moruo mentioned above. Some people are deeply wronged and say that Yu Guangzhong is too mean; Second, it is said that Yu Guangzhong is a man with thousands of faces and his attitude is ambiguous and changeable. His works were included in textbooks in Chinese mainland, and after he became famous in Chinese mainland, he flaunted everywhere and was extremely insincere. There are many famous Yu Guangzhong critics, such as Li Ao, Yu and Xu. Even the late female writer Lin scoffed at it.
But as far as things are concerned, history is extremely complicated, and human nature is more complicated than history. Besides discussing Yu Guangzhong's personality, we can't deny that he is a real poet and a real prose master. From the perspective of poetic art, Yu Guangzhong is known as "an artistic polygamous poet". The style of his works is extremely inconsistent, which varies with different themes, but it has its own changing track.
Wherever pen dust goes, it has a broad vision, profound meaning and unique style, and it has the essence of China classicism and western modern spirit. His name should be engraved in the history of literature.
The poet died on 20 17, and history cannot be changed, but the deceased is gone, and finally some human grievances are taken away. If you don't pay attention to his past, the warm sun shines on the windowsill in the morning, take a sip of tea, then pick up Yu Guangzhong's works and read carefully what he wrote, "Eighteen bamboo bones are twisted into a plain fan", "Between moonlight and snow, you are the third kind of beauty", "Let the wind blow, let the eagle fly, let the misty eyes stretch back and forth, and I pitch the world in it" ...