Oleander is a famous essay by Ai Qing, a master of literature, written on 1979.
Content introduction:
1965 In the spring, after the National Land Reclamation Conference was held in Zhanjiang by the Central Land Reclamation Department, a friend came back and said, "Zhanjiang is really beautiful, the water is blue, the streets are neat and clean, and oleanders are planted on the tree-lined roads on both sides. When we went there, it had already blossomed, with leaves like bamboo leaves and flowers like azaleas, which were found on almost every street. You see, the blue river is bright red.
I heard for the first time that oleander was planted on the tree-lined road. Common oleanders are planted in large flowerpots, and only one person is tall. How high will it be in the street? Flowers are much bigger than azaleas. How beautiful it would be to plant oleanders on all the streets.
Extended data writing background:
While Zhanjiang vigorously develops the development strategy of "building a city by industry and prospering the city by port city" and fully promotes the coordinated development of economy and society, the editor was fortunate to read Zhanjiang oleander recommended by enthusiastic reader Mr. Luo Guohe and written by great poet Ai Qing.
The article was written in the early summer of 1979, after ten years of turmoil, shortly after the initial stage of reform and opening up. The poet read Zhanjiang critically, and finally expressed his heart that "I did see the magnificent scenery of Qingdao in the south and Geneva in China". The editor felt the poet's sensitivity and kindness to this coastal city between the lines.
The same goodwill once came from the heart of Bing Xin, a literary master. She described her praise of Zhanjiang in poetic language in "Ten Days in Zhanjiang". The same admiration from masters in different periods witnessed Zhanjiang's unique vitality and its inherent creative humanistic spirit.
Ai Qing's poetry inherits the fine tradition of the May 4th New Literature with its close combination with reality and full of fighting spirit, and has become an important achievement in the development of new poetry with its exquisite and innovative artistic style.
This not only reflects the author's artistic talent, but also bears in mind his serious and arduous artistic practice. In his poems, the full enterprising spirit and rich life experience bring something different. Ai Qing's poetry has a vivid and profound image, and with the end of the poem, this image is completed. Image refers not only to people, but also to the visualization of things and ideas.
Ai Qing's works generally describe symbolic things such as the sun, torches and dawn, showing Ai Qing's hatred of darkness and terror in the old society and his yearning and pursuit of dawn, light and hope. Ai Qing, starting from his love for rural working people and approaching their demands, has been presenting his most authentic poems to them for more than ten years.