From Wang Guozhen's
That withered flower
Your life is in the prime of spring
Why But I saw the face of Shuangye
Just because that beautiful mirror
broke it
Your attachment is deep
Lingering beside the dream for a long time
Since I can’t lift the moon in the water with both hands
then let yesterday become a memory
It also becomes a memorial
Life is not just one place
Colorful and brilliant
The withered flowers are flowers
—not spring
Introduction to Wang Guozhen
In the early 1990s, the poetry world was abuzz with a man whose name was Wang Guozhen.
Wang Guozhen, whose ancestral home is Xiamen, was born on June 22, 1956, in Beijing. After graduating from high school, he worked as a worker at the Beijing No. 3 Optical Instrument Factory. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Jinan University in 1982. When he was in school, he loved reading and writing poetry. Since 1985, he focused his spare time on poetry creation. During this period, a limerick "One Day at School" was published in the China Youth Daily. . Wang Guozhen claimed that his creations benefited from four people: Li Shangyin, Li Qingzhao, Pushkin, and Dickinson (USA). Pursue Pu's lyricism, Di's condensation, Li's vigilance, and Qing's elegance. After graduation, he was assigned to the China Academy of Art and later served as deputy director of the editorial department of the "Chinese Literature and Art Yearbook". Since 1990, Wang Guozhen has served as a columnist for "Liaoning Youth", "China Youth" and "Girlfriend".
Wang Guozhen's first influential poem is "I Smiling towards Life", which was published in the 10th issue of Hunan magazine "Young People" in 1984, and was later published by "Youth Expo" and "Youth Digest" 》Reprinted successively.
Wang's poem first caused a certain response among middle school students in Beijing, and was circulated among students in the form of handwritten copies. A female teacher informed her husband, who was the editorial director of a publishing house, of this information, triggering its publication. The company is commercially sensitive and quickly contacts authors to publish their works. On April 20, 1990, Wang Guozhen's first poetry collection "Youth Tide" was submitted and published by Beijing Xueyuan Press on May 21.
"Wang Guozhen Hot" appeared after the publication of this collection of poems. The book was printed five times in a row during loading and unloading, with a print run of 150,000 copies. Immediately afterwards, he published poetry collections such as "Young Wind" (Huacheng Press in October 1990), "Young Thoughts" (as of early 1991, three printings totaling 140,000 copies), "Youth and Unrestrained", etc., published by China Friendship The China Women's Publishing House has published nine types of "Wang Guozhen's Poetry Series", and the China Women's Publishing House has published "Wang Guozhen's Love Poetry Cards" and "Wang Guozhen's Lyrical Poetry Appreciation". Conversations. In response, the critical review "Youthful Style - Exclusive Interview with Wang Guozhen" also appeared on the market. In February 1991, the Chinese music scene released the cassette tape "Youth Season - One of Wang Guozhen's Lyrical Song Series", which was listed as third among the ten best-selling tapes of that month by China Youth Daily.
On July 4, 1990, his poetry collection was listed as one of the top ten best-sellers by the "News and Publishing News", the only one in the literature and art category.
In October 1990, there was a craze for Wang Guozhen’s poetry lectures in Beijing universities.
1990 is known as the "Year of Wang Guozhen" in the publishing industry.
In Shanghai, this craze came a little later. In October 1990, Shanghai Xujiahui Bookstore purchased 20 copies of Wang Guozhen's poetry collection "Young Thoughts", which had become popular in Beijing, but it was sold out two months later. In the spring of 1991, Shanghai's "Literary Newspaper" published a feature article "The Conquest of Beauty Begins with "Manuscripts"" to report on Wang Guozhen's situation. This was the first time he was fully introduced to Shanghai. In order to highlight Wang Guozhen's works at the "Wenhui Book Fair", "Wenhui Po" successively introduced and praised Wang Guozhen in "Wenhui Reading Weekly", calling Wang Guozhen the "Prince of Poetry", causing a public opinion offensive, which led to 1991 There was a boom in sales of Wang's poems at the "Wenhui Book Fair" on March 27.
Wang Guozhen’s poetry is positive, high-spirited and detached in theme. A feature of the works is often to raise questions, and this question is often encountered in everyone's life. Its focus is on the guiding practice of life, and it is slightly deepened and comes up with some well-known philosophies. . This kind of quantitative philosophy is very suitable for the thinking characteristics of middle school students. Middle school students have less life experience and are often at a loss for the life problems they face. Wang Guozhen provides middle school students with a way to solve life problems in the form of poetry, which is very fresh for these young children. And simple and practical. For example, one of his poems "To Friends" wrote:
"If you don't stand up
you won't fall
And what's more
We want to wander around the world
Falling is a memorial
Memorial is a warm flower"
This poem is short but has a clear meaning. It is very It is suitable for copying and giving away. Even for reading, it is also most suitable for the public to effortlessly get the pleasure of feeling comfortable in a small and leisure time.
Another example:
"It's not that there are too many worries
It's that our minds are not broad enough
It's not that there is too little happiness
But we don’t know how to live yet
When we are sad, we write a poem
When we are happy, we sing a song
No matter in the sky What is falling?
Life is always beautiful
("Life is always beautiful")
Wang Guozhen's poems are not only about young people. Life and that kind of clear expression are more importantly a kind of detached, open-minded, plain and indifferent attitude towards life, which is the "Wang Guozhen style" of looking down on everything in reality from a higher level of life. "Attitude to life" can not but be said to be the reason why Wang Guozhen's poems are so popular among young readers. This so-called attitude towards life is actually an expression of the open-minded, elegant, unrestrained and detached philosophy of life of traditional Chinese poetry since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Creative transformation.
In short, Wang Guozhen's poetry is actually a more simple expression of various wise sayings from thousands of years in the form of rhyming lines. It is a kind of fast food and philosophy. These works lack the poet's unique perception of the world and the true emotions that poetry should have.
As for Wang, he once claimed that " Words like "Nobel Prize" have become a laughing stock in the literary world today. Anything that lacks real depth will become a thing of the past, and will at most appear in people's memory in the form of historical materials.