History is ruthless, and how many people who were once prominent have been forgotten with the passage of time. History is fair, and how many forgotten talents are finally rediscovered has left a strong impression on historians' records. The index finger belongs to the latter person. As a poet, he began to write poems under the special background of the Cultural Revolution, which had a great influence on the educated youth. Compared with the later misty poets and the new generation poets, the forefinger didn't go far, but what's important is that he was the first person. In the era when there was no poetry, when poetry was cornered, he let poetry return. He abandoned the practice of using poetry as a tool of class struggle and began to transform poetry with class as the main body into poetry with poet's personality as the main body. In poetry, there is a call for individual life and human dignity. Poetry is the lifelong pursuit of forefinger, which embodies all his pains and joys. It was poetry that made him cross the valley of spiritual death. When elegant literature was impacted by the commercial tide, poets and literati went into the sea one after another, and forefinger always adhered to his own rules of life, and his life was integrated with poetry. The pioneer of this generation of poetic style, educated youth comrades will not forget him, readers will not forget him, and history will not forget him. (Wu Sijing)
If we want to pursue the pedigree and a "small tradition" of the avant-garde writing of contemporary poetry, he is the most unquestionable source figure, the real initiator and pioneer, and the spiritual portrait of that generation. His unique and personalized lyric poetry, which originated in the historical night of1960s and continued in the 1980s and 1990s, has irreplaceable leading significance to China's contemporary poetry. At the same time, more importantly, he is a poet who witnessed his writing with his own life personality practice, a poet whose works and life prove each other, a poet with spiritual phenomenology and cultural specimen significance, and a poet who belongs to karl jaspers's "one-time writing", so he is also a touching poet. His poems may have nothing to do with intelligent and complicated thoughts, but they belong to life, emotion, and life practice of unity of knowing and doing and symbiosis of humanities. He also succeeded in continuing the tradition and sense of form of "singing" in contemporary poetry, so that the "old" form gained new vitality. His creation for more than 40 years has experienced drastic changes of the times, so he has become "the last poet in the old era and the first poet in the new era". (Zhang Qinghua)