Liu Zhanqiu
Liu Zhanqiu (1935-February 20th, 2023) was born in Wuhu, Anhui. Contemporary famous poet, translator and critic, former deputy editor-in-chief of Poetry magazine. Famous works include Untitled Lyrics and Four Seasons Rain.
Liu Zhanqiu wrote many essays. It focuses on expressing emotions and life, with exquisite brushwork and flowing water, and has its unique aesthetic prose style. The literary circles in Taiwan Province and Hongkong spoke highly of his prose. His works have been translated into English, French, Japanese, Russian, Italian and German.
Liu Zhanqiu, a famous writer, is praised as "the king of lyric poetry" by college students. His works are fresh and ethereal, full of modern consciousness, novel and free, based on expressing feelings and emotions, facing life and transcending time and space.
He believes that modern life makes people "live very tired". He advocates "light poetry", "light prose" and "light lifestyle", and advocates "from light to heavy, from light to tired". He is "not tired of fame and fortune, not suffering from adversity" to himself, that is, he looks at prosperity and interests with a normal heart, like a water mirror.
Desalinate the rigid, rigid and inhuman lifestyle brought about by seemingly serious preaching. His essays "Four Seasons Rain" and "Peach Blossom Water in March" have all been included in middle school Chinese textbooks.
Liu Zhanqiu is famous for her famous lover Li Ying (pen name Maggie), who is the prototype of Ying Er in Gu Cheng's works. Li Ying later married Sydney, divorced Liu Zhanqiu and finally got married.
In 2002, Li Ying published Love Yi Meier. The book tells the story of her overseas life and her husband Liu Zhanqiu, and mentions that "1September 1986, I became Zhan Qiu's lover".