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Gu Cheng, the main representative of hazy poetry. Gu Cheng is known as a contemporary spiritualistic romantic poet. His early poems have a child-like innocent style. Dreamy mood, using intuitive and impressionistic sentences to sing the fairy tale life of a teenager. The line "The night gave me black eyes/I used them to look for light" in "A Generation" has become a classic line in new Chinese poetry.
Gu Cheng, male, is from Beijing, originally from Shanghai. He was born in Beijing in September 1956. In 1969, he was sent to the First Army Farm in Guangbei, Shandong Province 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. He joined the Beijing Writers Association in 1982 and 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. Later, he became a New Zealand citizen and resigned and lived in seclusion on Waiheke Island. In 1992, he received a creative annuity from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In 1993, he received a German B?ll Creative Fund to write in Germany.
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's Fairy Tales and Fables", "City", "Walked Eleven Thousand Miles - Collection of Manuscripts of Gucheng's Old Style Poems and Fables" etc., and 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 Enter the City", "From Self to Nature", and "Me Without Purpose".
Main works
"Dark Eyes" (published by People's Literature Publishing House in 1986), "Ying'er" (published by Beijing Huayi Publishing House in January 1994, co-authored with Xie Ye (author), "Lingtai Monologues" (published by Dunhuang Literature and Art Publishing House in March 1994, edited by Lao Mu and A Yang), "Collected Poems of Gucheng" and "Selected Poems of Gucheng's Fairy Tales and Fables"
Gucheng is a member of the Misty Poetry School Main author