The legendary river

He Jiang (1949-), formerly known as Yu Youze, is a Beijinger. 1968 After graduating from high school, I worked as a worker in Beijing. In the 1970s, he began to write poems. 1980, he published his own poem Variations on the Stars for the first time, and his monument is the real symbol of his arrival in the hazy world of poetry. 1985, after the publication of "The Sun and His Image" written according to ancient myths, He Jiang stopped his poetry creation. His poetry collections include Starting from Here, The Sun and Its Reflection, etc. The personalized characteristics of the river in the poetry group of the new poetry tide are mainly manifested in the profound sense of history and strong sense of tragic anxiety in the poems. For example, in his long poem Monument written by 1977, he gave a double symbolic summary of his life and national history with strange imagination and broad momentum: "I often think/life should have a fulcrum/this fulcrum/a monument". In the isomorphic relationship among "monument", "man" and "me", long poems have shaped a lyrical image of the historical undertaker of national struggle for us, and revealed the theme in the interaction of self-life and self-objectification: "Struggle is my theme/I have dedicated my poems and life to the monument". In another early long poem "Motherland, Motherland", the poet sang the song "Where did the hero fall/I got up to sing the motherland" more tragically. With the Great Wall as the central image of self-realization, the poet described the tragic historical journey of a nation. These long poems in Jiang's early days all have a gloomy and tragic lyric tone. Rich in imagination and magnificent, it shows the speculative characteristics of political lyric poetry. 1985 published the group poem "The Sun and Its Reflection", which was based on ancient myths in China. The poet rewrote the tragic stories in myths and legends, such as Kuafu chasing the sun, Jingwei filling the sea, WU GANG cutting down trees, Houyi shooting at the sun, and Gong Yu moving mountains. The poet pays attention to his unique aesthetic value in the struggle against nature, and downplays the tragic significance in the legend. They are no longer symbols of human desire and idealization to conquer nature, but symbols of the integration of aesthetic objects and nature, harmony of life, life consciousness and strength. For example, in "Chasing the Sun", it is said that he was thirsty and drank all the Yellow River in Weishui/in fact, he filled himself up and handed it to the sun/in fact, he and the sun were already drunk/he washed himself in the sun/he spread himself on the ground ",so when" the sun settled in his heart/he found the sun soft and painful ",he" threw his cane at random. As can be seen from this poem, He Jiang The passion of this part of poetry is fading, but the rational intention has been strengthened.