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1September, 932, in China, where the night was dark and windy and silent, Ai Qing, a 23-year-old poet, was a wakener at night and a brave rebel. In the face of the harsh real world, the poet could not restrain his grief and indignation, like a smoldering fire suddenly erupting from his heart. He shouted at the world outside the iron bars and wrote wild and violent poems with the sharp words of "passer-by thief" and "cattle thief" Poetry is stirring with a warm momentum, which is undoubtedly a fierce impact on the vast and silent poetry circle that year. This vivid poem, together with its title, first appeared in China. It brings pure new and healthy vitality to China's new poems, and it is a whistling arrow-like signal projected on the rocky night in China.
This truly meaningful new poem can never be sung in a dusty research room or a living room with purple curtains hanging around it, nor can it be made by those who write poems in faded words and self-pitying literati. "Transparent Night" is a strong voice of the real times, giving people a bloody tremor. Not the kind of poem that is sung in a low voice. Readers can't help raising their voices and reading aloud. They don't have to chew it carefully, but swallow it, and bear and embrace its wild impact with all their lives and emotions. China's suffocating mind got a good breath before singing.
Perhaps some critics will say that this is just a poem of the poet's first talent. It is hard to say that this is a perfect poem. At most, it's just a flash of extraordinary splendour. It is a mirage where the poet's sad soul seeks comfort and warmth in the world, which is revealed in longing and speculation. It can't be said that it is a persistent torch. I think this judgment is unfair. Transparent night is not a spark that goes out in an instant. Ai Qing said, "It celebrates the strength of a group of people and their rude resistance in the dark." It ignited Ai Qing's life and led a great poet out of the horizon.