In front of the door is a poem full of childlike innocence, written in August, 1982. Words and expressions are plain and clear, and the natural innocence of rhythm and artistic conception is completed with childlike reverie.
This is a fairy tale for adults. It does not place its own beauty in a distant place, nor dare it fantasize about the future as firmly as a child, but places its hopes in a "doorway" and a "morning".
In our opinion, this narrow area "doorway" and this short time "morning" do not seem to symbolize childhood or vigorous vitality, but only the short-term "beauty" that may appear at any time with such childhood fantasies in a long and complicated life.
The last three paragraphs of "In front of the Door" seem to complete the beautiful dzogchen in this dialectical unity of time and space, big and small, long and short. Land has a history, sometimes bumpy and sometimes narrow, but we love land.
Because it's so beautiful at the moment, "there is a moon/dew and morning": "The earth is hot/the door is hot/we lean gently". Although the land in front of the door is connected with infinite time and space, in this narrow and concrete time and space, it presents the complete beauty in the poet's heart. It is "beautiful" and it is the whole universe.
"In front of the door? 》 ? Author: Gu Cheng
How I wish I had a door.
In the morning, the sun shines on the grass.
We are standing.
Grab the door leaf
The door is low, but the sun is shining.
The grass is bearing seeds.
The wind shook the leaves.
We stood without talking.
It is very beautiful
There is a door, don't open it.
If it is ours, it will be very beautiful.
In the morning, I will wander at night.
We gave him the lyre.
We're not leaving.
We need land.
Need land that will never be destroyed
We are going to ride it.
Throughout life
This land is rugged and sometimes narrow.
However, it has a history.
There is the sky and the moon.
Dew and morning light
We love this land.
We are standing.
Digging with wooden shoes
The door is hot, too
We leaned gently, which was beautiful.
Grass behind the wall
Won't grow up again
It just touched the sun with its fingertips.
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Various comments on Gu Cheng
Shen Qi (contemporary poetry critic): In the contemporary Chinese mainland poetry world full of conceptual confusion and utilitarian expectation, Gu Cheng's poetry is a "spiritual autobiography", as pure and transparent as a "crystal", showing unique spiritual insight and aesthetic value, and easily creating a unique poetry world of Gu Cheng.
The art of China's contemporary poetry has returned to its essence here in the ancient city: it comes not only from life and its creation, but also from lifestyle and life itself.
He (Professor of Nanjing Normal University): Gu Cheng built a poetic paradise with his poetic thinking and style like a child. This kind of day, because it is higher than the world and faces human beings, is actually tense with our earthly world.
Zhang Qinghua? (Professor, School of Literature, Beijing Normal University): From a moralistic point of view, Gu Cheng may not be able to write here, but it should be understood from a more tragic and poetic level.
Cheng Wen's influence exceeds that of almost all contemporary poets, which is why we can't bypass him. Although he has more negative perspectives on the phenomenological significance of spirit, it is precisely because of this that his poems also contain more complicated contents like darkness and abyss of human nature, which makes its simple expression contain rich information.
Source: Gucheng. Baidu baike