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First, the creative background:
1975 Cai Qijiao, an old returned overseas Chinese poet who once helped her a lot in writing, visited Gulangyu Island. That night, when Shu Ting accompanied him for a walk, Cai Qijiao told her about the girl she met in her life. It was bold to talk openly about liking girls in the 1970s.
Cai Qijiao said that there are beautiful girls, but no talent; Talented girls are not beautiful; Beautiful, talented and fierce, he found it difficult to find a perfect girl.
Shu Ting said that she was very angry after listening to it. She thinks this is male chauvinism and men and women should be equal. So that night, she wrote a poem "Oak Tree" and gave it to Cai Qijiao. Later, when it was published, it was changed to To Oak.
Second, the author profile:
Shu Ting, Zi Gong, is from Quanzhou, Fujian. After graduating from high school, I went to work in the countryside of Shanghang County. /kloc-started writing poetry in 0/971year. 1972 transferred to Xiamen and worked as a bricklayer, mortar worker, car stopper, statistician and welder.
1979 published his first poem, Motherland, My Dear Motherland, which attracted attention and won the 1970- 1980 National Excellent New Poetry Award for Young and Middle-aged Poets. 1980 transferred to Fujian Federation of Literary and Art Circles to engage in professional creation. His main works include poetry collection "Double Mast Boat", "Singing Iris", "Archaeopteryx" and prose collection "Heart Smoke". ?
Shu Ting rose in the China poetry circle in the late 1970s. She and her contemporaries, such as Beidao, Gu Cheng and Liang, set off a wave of "misty poetry" in China's poetry circles with different poetic styles from their predecessors.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-to oak tree