When I die, bury me, put my head between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, with white hair and black soil. In China, the most beautiful and motherly country, I will sleep peacefully. ...
Yu Guangzhong: When I die.
Some works of Yu Guangzhong
Some books of Yu Guangzhong
"The beauty of the West Lake is eternal"
Mr. Yu Guangzhong has a deep relationship with Hangzhou. He has a soft spot for the West Lake. He has visited Hangzhou many times and brought his wife to "seek the roots". In the spring of 20 1 1, he accepted the letter of appointment and became a visiting professor at the School of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, from then on, he became "Zhejiang University".
The following autumn, accompanied by his wife, he came to Hangzhou to attend the 20 12 West Lake International Poetry Conference. The poet celebrated his 85th birthday by the canal. Yu Guangzhong recited his Broken Bridge Canxue on the spot-
"The tablet book with gold characters on a black background is the light of clouds and water, the starting point of ten scenic spots, and the lake light spreads to the southwest. Even if the bridge is really broken, how many stories compete with the willow line, and how can it be broken? A gust of wind blew and wrinkled the cosmetic mirror. "
This poem was written by Yu Guangzhong to the West Lake. He is the real son-in-law of Hangzhou, and his father-in-law is Fan Geng, a professor at Zhejiang University, who was the head of the horticulture department. Mrs. Fanwo Village was born in Daomao Lane, Hangzhou, and lived in Hangzhou until she was 6 years old. Fanwo Village, nicknamed * * *, is a distant cousin of Yu Guangzhong. They celebrated the diamond wedding on 20 16.
Five years ago, when my wife Fan Wocun and I went back to Hangzhou to find our roots, Yu Guangzhong once said, "When I was 6 years old, my father took me out for the first time and came to Hangzhou West Lake. My wife also climbed Beifeng when she was 6 years old. " In Yu Guangzhong's eyes, every time he visits the West Lake in Hangzhou, he will always be as beautiful as when he first saw it when he was six years old. "The beauty of the West Lake is eternal, whether before or after Su Dongpo. It has always been so beautiful and moving, attracting Chinese and foreign tourists to worship this goddess. "
Van Gogh's Sunflower-Yu Guangzhong's Prose was published by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House, in which Yu Guangzhong wrote an article "West Lake Nostalgia" 20 1 1. That year, he gave a speech at the International Conference Center in Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University. At the beginning, he said, "I had a relationship with Zhejiang University as soon as I got married", which made the students of Zhejiang University burst into laughter. Yu Guangzhong explained: "I went to Hangzhou for another purpose, that is, to complete my wife's root-seeking journey ... What's more gratifying is that Zhejiang University has collected the information of my father-in-law in advance and handed it to me on that occasion."
Children of Jinling, Jianghu guests. Mr. Yu Guangzhong has been wandering all his life. Born in Yongchun, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, 1928 was born in Nanjing on the 9th. At the age of 9, she fled her hometown because of the war. Her mother put her little surplus light in the laundry basket and carried it on her shoulder with a pole. She fled all the way to Changzhou and then took refuge in Chongqing. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Nanjing, then went to Shanghai and Xiamen, then from the mainland to Hongkong, and then to Taiwan Province Province. After that, he studied in the United States, taught in Hong Kong, lived in Taipei for many years, and finally settled in Xiziwan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Province. It was frequent migration, reunion and parting that made him write the famous Homesickness.
Hangzhou poets Yu Shu and Yu Guangzhong can be called "forgetting friends". Yu Shu later discovered that Gao Xinghua, her first music teacher and famous guqin teacher when she was a child, was an old classmate of Yu Guangzhong when he was studying at Jinling University. Yu Guangzhong once said in the article "From Xizi Lake to Xizi Bay": "I will go to Hangzhou next time and wake up to play the piano for me." On the 20 12 Double Ninth Festival, Yu Guangzhong realized this wish. At Hangzhou's birthday party, Happy China played a song "The Preface to a Beautiful Night" with guqin, Yu Shu played a song "The Mountain and Waters" with guzheng, and Yu Guangzhong sang Su Shi's famous sentence "Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia" with ancient music.
Yu Guangzhong is reciting his poems.
Yu Guangzhong recited his poems.
Yu Guangzhong is the son-in-law of Hangzhou, and his wife Fan Wocun was born in Hangzhou. (This photo was taken on 200 1)
This photo of Yu Guangzhong and his wife Fan Cunwo was taken on 200 1. Fan was born in Hangzhou.
Yu Shu wrote in an article: "From 2065438 to February 2002, I drove Mr. Yu and Mrs. Fan Wocun, and experienced the vast lake scenery of Qiandao Lake for the first time. On the second day in Tonglu, I went to Scout in the drizzle, went to the scenic spot of Cormorant Bay, and went to the Diaoyutai in Yan Ziling ... Then we went to Shaoxing and stayed at the resort next to Dayu's tomb. In the Lu Fangweng Old Learning Temple in Shenyuan, he carefully held a book and made a painting of' never too old to learn'. " On another occasion, Yu Shu accompanied Yu Guangzhong to Huzhou. In Zhejiang, Yu Guangzhong has also been to Wenzhou and Yandang Mountain, but Hangzhou is the most visited. "
Yu Shu said, "He wrote Broken Bridges and Snowflakes for the West Lake and Chen Gong Bridge Poetry Society for the Grand Canal. I was the first reader of two poems related to Hangzhou by a generation of great poets, and it is still very gratifying to think of it now. "
Wandering in the four-dimensional space of writing
However, many people may not know that apart from homesickness, Yu Guangzhong's poems also include long poems and narrative poems. Besides poetry, there are many beautiful and meaningful essays. As early as 1996, Yu Guangzhong became attached to Zhejiang Literature and Art. At that time, Yu Guangzhong was a professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung. In the past 20 years, Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House has published four versions of Yu Guangzhong's prose and edited it three times.
Yu Guangzhong's prose has both color and lightness. He often sees sensibility in color and charm in lightness, creating a lofty and extraordinary poetic realm.
Liang Shiqiu once praised him for "writing poetry with his right hand and prose with his left hand, which made great achievements."
Yu Guangzhong's poems and essays, such as Nostalgia, Jade Cabbage, My Four Imaginary Enemies, Listening to the Cold Rain, Riding the Liao River and many other famous works, have been included in textbooks. Many of his works have been set into songs by Yang Xian, Li Taixiang, Tayu Lo and others.
Yu Guangzhong has been engaged in poetry, prose, criticism and translation all his life, claiming to wander in the four-dimensional space of writing. Besides homesickness, he has so many beautiful poems and essays, as well as wonderful translations such as Biography of Van Gogh, Selected Poems of Modern Turkey, Wilde's Childless Play, Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea.
Forever homesickness, forever afterglow
Half a century has passed, why are we still deeply moved by the song "Homesickness"? Many people feel incredible about the great influence and penetration of Yu Guangzhong's poem "Homesickness", so that there is a saying that wherever there are China people's footprints, there will be a chanting sound of "homesickness". This is a very peculiar literary phenomenon.
In fact, Yu Guangzhong later refused to recite this poem publicly. Afterwards, he said that he hoped everyone would read his poems on other subjects, not just homesickness. He himself often said that it only took more than 20 minutes to write this poem. But perhaps the fame of this poem masked the brilliance of his real masterpiece. There are many poems with higher artistic level than Nostalgia, such as Four Rhymes of Nostalgia, Climbing the Great Wall, Visiting the Forbidden City, Sansheng Stone and Jialing River Water.
The touching song "Give me a spoonful of Yangtze River water, Yangtze River water is like wine, the taste of drunkenness, the taste of homesickness, give me a spoonful of Yangtze River water, Yangtze River water …" composed of the lyrics of "Four Rhymes of Homesickness" is still ringing in my ears!
But no matter which one, it has not surpassed the influence of homesickness so far. Why do people like Homesickness best and don't like Yu Guangzhong's other representative works? This "Homesickness" is easy to understand and catchy, and it has become a typical expression of feelings of home and country. Many people find their homesickness from this poem. It can be said that Yu Guangzhong wrote down the expectations of a generation, even all China people, for cross-strait reunification.
Yu Guangzhong said: "Regional homesickness has to be multiplied by the vicissitudes of time to have depth. Since cross-strait exchanges are open, geographical homesickness can be solved, but cultural homesickness still exists ... "
Tracing back to the source, a profound reason behind this is the ultimate direction of all Yu Guangzhong's poems, the strong cultural tradition of the Chinese nation we share, and the eternal sense of belonging and home that fascinates Chinese people all over the world. Yu Guangzhong's poems are always concentrated with such a deep homesickness, which can always impress hundreds of millions of people in China and arouse the cultural memory and destiny of Chinese people all over the world.
Yu Guangzhong's artistic pursuit not only saturated a kind of cultural nostalgia, but also opened up a broad prospect for China people to integrate into the world.
Forever homesickness, forever afterglow!