"Facing the Sea, Spring Blossoms" is Haizi's famous lyrical poem. It was written on January 13, 1989. Two months later, Haizi committed suicide by lying on the train near Shanhaiguan. Haizi, a poet who sings from his heart, has always been eager to listen to the beautiful echoes far away from the hustle and bustle of the world. He is far away from the worldly life, and has even been trying to get rid of the fetters and burdens of the world all his life.
"From tomorrow onwards, be a happy person/Feed horses, chop firewood, and travel around the world" seems to announce that the poet faces the world and begins a series of experiential actions, no longer allowing time to wander in poverty and monotony. and passed away in loneliness. "Traveling around the world" is the poet's ideal, which is to fully open his mind to the world and fully enjoy the world. "From tomorrow on, we will care about food and vegetables." "Food and vegetables" are originally representatives of material worldliness and the most basic materials for survival. "Caring about food and vegetables" is a positive attitude towards life and a manifestation of love for life. From this, we can feel that daily life itself includes enjoying material happiness and making people relax. The poet made up his mind to "care about food and vegetables from tomorrow on", which shows that in the past the poet lacked happiness and was indifferent to life, so he was complacent and planned to reorganize his mind, rebuild his life and pursue happiness. "I have a house facing the sea, with spring flowers blooming." The poet constructs his own happy home in his imagination, imagining that he has a posture and space beyond life, overlooking the sea, where the poet can face the sea and gain unfettered spiritual freedom. The aesthetic connotation of poetry is often generated by a single word or sentence. The scene "facing the sea, spring flowers are blooming" shows the poet's rich imagination and creates a vital aesthetic situation. Here, we feel the connection between nature and human beings. The inner world merges into one and reaches a sublime state.
From "Facing the Sea, Spring Flowers Blooming", we can understand a care for life that transcends ourselves. "From tomorrow on, I will write to every loved one/tell them about my happiness." When the poet has such a wonderful feeling of happiness, he can't wait to tell every relative about this feeling. He even wants to give happiness to everyone who is not related to him. "That happy lightning told me/I will tell everyone." "That happiness" is like "lightning", indicating the suddenness of happiness and the poet's strong feeling of happiness. It also seems to indicate that this kind of happiness will be fleeting and so illusory.
"Giving every river and every mountain a warm name" is actually a re-examination, re-feeling and re-discovery of the mountains and rivers that are commonplace in daily life and have long since lost their luster. "Stranger, I also wish you blessings/May you have a bright future/May your lover eventually get married/May you be happy in this world." In this happy world of bright spring, the poet's feeling of happiness is too strong and overflows. He prays for strangers with sincere wishes, worldly and practical wishes. Caring for all things and life is the existence value of poetry. The lyrical subject of this poem cares for mankind in a "beyond self" attitude and wishes all people happiness. The human feelings of compassion make the whole poem break through the emotional expression of ordinary lyric poems. , the whole poem enters a new realm. "I just want to face the sea and see the flowers blooming in spring." "I only wish" hints at everything before. It turns out that the poet is praying for others. He himself is not willing to embrace the world at all, but sticks to his own space and posture. He only wants to face the sea alone and turn his back to the world. , quietly watching the flowers bloom and fall.
Therefore, whether it is earthly happiness in imagination or reality, Haizi is not among them. Haizi, the last pastoral poet in the 1980s, will always live in his own wheat field and watch over the happiness of others.