Gu Cheng, male, originally from Shanghai, was born in Beijing in September 1956. In 1969, he was sent to a farm in Guangbei, Shandong with his father Gu Gong, and returned to Beijing in 1974. Worked as a porter, sawmiller, seconded editor, etc. During the "Cultural Revolution", he began to write poetry. In 1973, he began to study painting and entered the stage of writing social works. In 1974, he began to publish sporadically in newspapers such as "Beijing Literature and Art", "Shandong Literature and Art", and "Youth Literature and Art". In 1977, he re-entered pure writing. After publishing his poems in the "Dandelion" tabloid, it aroused strong repercussions and huge controversy in the poetry circle, and became the main representative of the Misty Poetry School. In early 1980, his work unit was disbanded, he lost his job, and he started to live a wandering life. Joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1985. In 1987, he was invited to visit Europe and the United States for cultural exchanges and lectures. In 1988, he went to New Zealand to teach Chinese classical literature and was hired as a researcher in the Asian Languages ??Department of the University of Auckland. He later resigned and lived in seclusion on Waiheke Island. In 1992, he received the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) creative annuity. In 1993, he received the German B?ll Creative Fund to write in Germany. On October 8, 1993, he had a conflict with his wife Xie Ye on the island where he lived in New Zealand due to divorce. Xie Ye was injured and fell to the ground. The process became a mystery. Gu Cheng committed suicide immediately, and Xie Ye died a few hours after his death. The media seized on rumors and claimed that "Gu Cheng killed his wife with an axe", which made the poet demonized from a fairy tale poet to a mentally abnormal murderer after his death, and he was unjust after his death. (Judging from "The Last Fourteen Days of Gu Cheng" written by Gu Cheng's sister Gu Xiang, the ax was just an incidental object and had nothing to do with the case.) In March 1993, he returned to China to visit relatives. When the tragedy occurred, the couple returned to New Zealand from Germany. soon. Gu Cheng left behind a large number of poems, essays, calligraphy, paintings and other works. His main works include "Black Eyes" (published by People's Literature Publishing House in 1986), "Yingzi" (published by Beijing Huayi Publishing House in January 1994, co-authored with Xie Ye), "Lingtai Monologues" (Dunhuang in March 1994) Published by Literary Publishing House (edited by Lao Mu and A Yang), "Collected Poems of Gucheng", "Selected Poems of Gucheng Fairy Tales and Fables", "City", etc. Some works have been translated into English, German, French and other languages. There is also a collection of essays "Where Life Stops, the Soul Moves On" and poems "City", "Ghosts Entering the City", "From Self to Nature", and "Me Without Purpose".
Gu Cheng is the main author of the Misty Poetry School. He is the author of poetry collections "The Moon in the Daytime", "Selected Lyrical Poems of Shu Ting and Gu Cheng", "Songs of the Lonely in the North", "Iron Bell", "Black Eyes", "Selected Poems of Beidao and Gucheng", "Collected Poems of Gucheng", "Selected Poems of Gucheng's Fairy Tales and Fables", "Selected Collection of New Poems of Gucheng". After his death, his father Gu Gong edited and published "The Complete Collection of Gu Cheng's Poems".