Gu Cheng is the main author of the misty poetry school, and he has written poems such as Moon in the Day, Selected Lyrics of Shu Ting Gu Cheng, Song of the Lonely Man in the North, Iron Bell, Black Eyes, Poems of Gu Cheng in the North Island, Poems of Gu Cheng's Fairy Tales and Fables, Poems of Gu Cheng's New Poetry, etc. After his death, his father Gu Gong edited and published The Complete Works of Gu Cheng. In addition, he co-authored the novel Ying Er with Xie Ye. Gu Cheng's Poetry 1998 was published by People's Literature Publishing House. Poetry collection "The Moon in the Day".
Gu Cheng is a representative figure of the 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. "The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light." A generation of young people who experienced the "Cultural Revolution" are familiar with these two poems by the famous obscure poet Gu Cheng (1September 1956 ~ 19931October). Vague poetry, which rose in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was an important part of the exciting ideological and literary "liberation" trend at that time, and it was also the starting point for the innovation of contemporary new poetry. The year before Gu Cheng's 50th birthday, the first volume of the four-volume Gu Cheng Literature Series-Selected Works of Gu Cheng? Northern Literature and Art Publishing House recently published Another World.
Gu Cheng 1962 began to write poetry, 1987 went to Germany to attend the "International Poetry Festival" in Mü nster in May, then began to travel to Western Europe and Northern Europe, and then settled in New Zealand. On June 8th, 1993, he and his wife Xie Ye both died in Rapids Island, New Zealand.
However, there are also many poetry friends in those days, but now they are unwilling to "face Gu Cheng" again. "I don't want to comment on him," an influential obscure poet refused to be interviewed. Another poet who had "many contacts" with Gu Cheng before going abroad claimed that he was too busy writing cultural prose manuscripts to comment on his old friends. Editor-in-chief of Today, the position of misty poetry, in the book Half-Life published at the beginning of this year, has fond memories of poets such as Beidao and Munk, but has little impression of Gu Cheng. "At that time, his poems were mainly composed by North Island, and I only met him several times in public." There are many different and complicated reasons why most poets are reluctant to comment. But Gu Cheng does give people a feeling of "living in his own castle". Sister Gu Xiang is two years older than Gu Cheng, two months and three days. The biggest feature of Gu Cheng in my impression is that I don't like to join in the fun. Gu Cheng can walk before he is one year old. "What he did most at that time was to go to the big pier glass that was not high from the ground and look at himself in the mirror." Gu Cheng, who went to kindergarten, still "doesn't like to join in the fun". Every time Gu Xiang picks him up, "he doesn't look for him among the children who play together. He is keen to hide and observe trees or ants. " Gu Xiang recalled that Gu Cheng, who read extensively since childhood, once told the story of Romance of the Three Kingdoms to others in order to comfort his bullied classmates and got the nickname "Story". But when the students gathered around to listen to his story, "it is still not easy to listen to his story because he is not used to being surrounded." "But he wants to talk, and he wants someone to listen." In the "psychological tug-of-war" eager to communicate with the outside world and retreat to the heart, Gu Cheng had to seek his sister as his "one-person audience". Her sister didn't have time to listen. "In desperation, he went into another room and talked to the wall alone across the bed." When the wind and waves of the "Cultural Revolution" swallowed everything up, Gu Cheng still "walked alone in the scorching sun, in the fallen leaves and in the cold wind, picked up an ancient coin on the ancient city wall and looked for grasshoppers and dung beetles in the weeds", "big speakers, rolling crowds and leaflets all over the sky" were nothing to him. He laughed at me (homesick), hated me, and forbade me to participate in group and social activities. He thought those things were boring and my classmates were vulgar. "Gu Cheng, who lives in his own" one-man castle ",has the deepest impression and the most common costume, that is, wearing a tall hat. 1992 gave a speech in the Netherlands in June and1992 gave a speech in Germany in February. In the country of poets, a high hat is not an imaginary crown. Isn't he his own "king" Gu Cheng and his wife Xie Ye, who later raised chickens and grew vegetables on Lapitz Island in New Zealand, which also meant 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 is relatively shy and likes to sit in the back. Professor Cui Weiping affirmed Gu Cheng's "great contribution" to the misty poetry school, but questioned that "the night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light"-"claiming that the environment is dark and I am bright" is a willful performance. It is terrible for a person not to realize the existence of shadow on himself and not to warn himself. "While observing the society, we should also reflect on ourselves." Liu Zili, an important member of "Today" magazine, expressed fundamental doubts about whether vernacular Chinese can write poetry, so the overall evaluation of "misty poetry" is not too high. He felt that Gu Cheng was "just one of them, not better than others." Liu Zili read Gu Cheng's poems when he didn't know him. "I think he writes poetry like a child, with the maturity of an old child, but not an adult." Liu Zili believes that Gu Cheng's creation, first, pays more attention to implication and symbol, and pays less attention to the musicality of poetry; Second, it has a fairy tale color and a so-called "urchin" character-it is a reversal of the rigid thinking mode of the Cultural Revolution, but this "resistance" way is done in a child's way. Therefore, the "urchin" is easy to get out of control in the end, which is related to his lack of poetry, personality defects and interruption of social communication. Liu Zili thinks that Gu Cheng tried to endow his poems with mystery and religiosity by prose language, but in fact, "looking for light" and "believing in the future" are not new.
As an individual, Gu Cheng is a poet, a talented poet, a sensitive, suspicious and fragile poet, living in his own "one-man castle". Such a poetic world adds multiple factors to the art palace, without approval or fear or sympathy. He can't be measured by secular standards, including killing his wife and committing suicide on Riptide Island. Just a poet, a first-class poet, a wrong angel sent by God, my evaluation.