Gu Cheng compares himself to a flower with soil under his feet. His breath is like a grass. Ants are carrying sand around him. He will never be distressed by love. The free wild bees are here. Sing, give a song to all the flowers.
Appreciation of Gu Cheng’s resume:
He always tells spring about his soft dreams. He wants to be able to sing many songs so that the happy smile will never disappear. But if you talk about your dream, it can no longer be realized. He was broken off and put into a vase. From then on, he lost the nourishment of romance, flowers, snow and moon, and lost his innocence and brightness.
The "Sixth Patriarch Altar Sutra" says: "The human nature of the world is inherently pure, and all dharmas arise from its own nature... Just like the sky is always clear, the sun and the moon are always bright, covered by floating clouds, and it is bright and dark at the top. When the wind blows and the clouds disperse, everything is clear up and down, and everything appears." As for Gu Cheng, he had transparent eyes that made everything clear up and down, so he saw the world as crystal clear as raindrops hanging on it. The dust of the earthly world came up and obscured the poet's eyes, so the poet's heart became sad. Where can he find the purity he once had?
He braved the wind and sand of the world and walked in a sad way, so he had long thought of abandoning himself. Death does not come suddenly, but is the end of walking. In 1980, Gu Cheng wrote his resume, marking the footnotes of his life in his prime youth. Half a life has not passed, and one life has been known for a long time. There will be nothing new under the sun in the world to come. He said that he was originally an apple tree, always dreaming of bearing oranges, but in the end, one had to be honest and bear apples. Destiny never changes, what changes is people's hearts.
Introduction to Gu Cheng:
Gu Cheng, a contemporary Chinese poet, regards poetry as his life and life as poetry. Born in Beijing in 1956, he began writing poetry in 1962. In 1987, he was invited to visit and give lectures abroad. He died in 1993. Gu Cheng's philosophical thoughts are concentrated in his work "I" without Purpose: An Outline of Natural Philosophy. He believes that philosophy makes people feel at ease, but does not make people exist. "Nature" is the highest realm of Chinese philosophy, a peaceful state without preset purpose.
Beauty is Gu Cheng’s lifelong belief, which runs through all his works and his entire life path. Gu Cheng once roughly divided his poetry creation process into four stages: the natural me. The author takes "Fantasia of Life" as his representative work; The Cultural Me. The author's representative work is "I Was a Wayward Child"; The Counter-Cultural Me (1982: 1986) The author's "Brin's Files" is his representative work; no self. The author's representative works are "Ode to the World" and "Mercury". His poetic style is natural and pure, making him unique in China's contemporary poetry world.
His poems not only point out the essence of poetry for Chinese poetry, but more importantly, make people feel the pure breath of life and forget themselves when reading. Gu Cheng's novel "Ying'er" uses an open structure and poetic language to show the true nature of the world, which is shocking.