Author: Shu Ting
I am an old waterwheel worn by your river, a tired song that has been spinning for hundreds of years. When you grope in the tunnel of history, I am a miner's lamp with black forehead. I am a withered ear of rice, a dilapidated roadbed, a barge on a muddy beach, and I pull the rope deep into your shoulder. Motherland!
I am poor, I am sad, I am your ancestral, painful hope, a flower that has never landed between the "flying" sleeves for thousands of years. Motherland!
I am your brand-new ideal. I just broke free from the spider web of myth. I am the germ of your ancient lotus under the snow, I am your tearful laughing nest, I am the newly painted white starting line, I am the crimson dawn, bursting. Motherland!
I am one billionth of you, the sum of your 9.6 million square meters. You fed me with scarred breasts, lost me, cared for me and boiled me. Then get your wealth, your glory and your freedom from my flesh and blood. Motherland! My dear motherland!
Brief introduction of the author
Shu Ting, a poetess in China, was born in shima town, Longhai City, Fujian Province. 1969 went to the countryside to jump the queue, 1972 went back to the city as a worker, 1979 began to publish poetry works, 1980 worked as a professional writer in Fujian Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Shu Ting rose in the China poetry circle in the late 1970s. She and her contemporaries, such as Kitajima, Gu Cheng and Liang, set off a wave of "misty poetry" in China's poetry circles with different poetic styles from their predecessors, and they are the representatives of the misty poetry school. His main works include poetry collection "Double Mast Boat", "Singing Iris", "Archaeopteryx" and prose collection "Heart Smoke".
In Shu Ting's poems, the image of the lyric hero often appears in the form of opposition, showing the self of sadness and joy. From the initial "Going to the Sea" to "Motherland, My Dear Motherland" with increasing social consciousness, and then to "Singing the Iris" with obvious repentance, the lyrical sentiment of Shu Ting's poems strongly shows the characteristics of sadness and agitation.