"People who were crucified, you nailed to my heart, and the nails that pierced your hands also pierced my heart. Tomorrow, when Ke Song passes Golgotha (the place where Jesus was crucified) in the distance, he will never think that there were two people bleeding here, but only that the blood came from you. "
This modern "Son Jesus" was born on February 6, 1983 in a small farm in the mountains of northern Lebanon.
Here, there is a strong oriental Islamic culture, but at the same time, Ji Bolun is a little Catholic. Since he was a child, he was immersed in the cultural atmosphere of the intersection and integration of eastern and western cultures. My father is a herdsman, greedy for wine and living in poverty. Living in it, Ji Bolun Jr. deeply felt the cruel oppression of the feudal rulers on the people and the fraud and exploitation of the people by the church using religion. Fortunately, the thin mother propped up a warm sky for the poor children with a kind heart. Mother's love and encouragement made Ji Bolun feel the warmth of the Virgin Mary, which he will never forget.
"Does a great mother love her son less than Maria loves Jesus?"
In order to make a living, my mother took her brother, two sisters and 12-year-old Ji Bolun to Boston, USA on 1895 and settled in Chinatown. Here, relying on the efforts of her mother and sister, Ji Bolun entered a local school for foreigners. He began to accept more western culture. At the same time, his talents in painting and literature began to show. Since then, he has been insisting on studying literature and painting, and has been helped by many people who appreciate his talent. At the same time, Ji Bolun also began to write poems, and began to publish his early poems in The Awakening of the Motherland.
190 1 year, Ji Bolun returned to his relatives in the United States after studying in the motherland. However, due to the long hard life, Ji Bolun's sister, brother and mother died in succession in more than a year, which brought him great pain and deepened his nostalgia for his motherland. 1903 published a prose poem in Boston Expatriate, which was well received by the society. 1905, he held his first art exhibition, which was appreciated by a local headmistress. Since then, the headmistress has given him great help. 1908, Ji Bolun published his collection of short stories, Rebellious Soul. His works exposed the darkness and hypocrisy of feudal rulers, especially the church. Especially one of them, Helile, who doesn't believe in God, is full of hatred for the church and feudal rule. Ji Bolun's attitude angered the authorities, the novel was destroyed in public, and Ji Bolun was excommunicated and deported. With the support of the headmistress, Ji Bolun fled to France to study painting. Under the guidance of Rodin, the master of art at that time, Ji Bolun made great progress in art, and his oil painting Autumn won the silver prize in the French Spring Art Exhibition.
During his stay in France, Ji Bolun visited many places of interest. Extensive contact with western civilization. At the same time, he also deeply studied the works of art of ancient masters. He worships Michelangelo very much. In addition, Ji Bolun also dabbled in famous European writers and their works, and was deeply influenced by1Black, a poet and painter in the early 9th century. Rodin called him "the black man of the 20th century". Of course, Ji Bolun's achievements are much higher than Blake's. At this time, Ji Bolun has integrated the eastern and western cultures into his heart. This enables him to stand at a higher level and analyze the thoughts and souls of this world with his profound thoughts. "If you sit high in the clouds, you can't see the boundary between the two countries or the boundary pillar between the manor."
"Unfortunately, you can't sit on the cloud."
"They said to me: A bird in the hand is worth ten birds in the tree.
I said to them: A bird in the tree is better than ten birds in the hand. "
"Twenty hunters on horseback and twenty hounds chased a fox. The fox said, they will definitely kill me. However, they are really stupid, really stupid. I don't think even our foxes are stupid enough to chase a person with 20 foxes riding 20 donkeys and 20 wolves. "
"I once talked about the sea to a stream, and the stream thought I was just an exaggerated fantasy."
"I also talked about the stream flowing to the sea, and the sea thought I was just an underestimated slanderer."
"When wisdom is too proud to cry, too solemn to laugh, and too complacent to look at people, it will not become wisdom." 19 1 1 year, Ji Bolun returned to Boston, USA. After finishing his novella Broken Wings, he moved to new york and devoted himself to literary creation.
Broken Wings is a masterpiece of Ji Bolun's novels and an autobiographical work. The novel centers on the love story between the protagonist "I" and the rich woman Salma. I fell in love with Salma at first sight, and they soon fell in love. But Archbishop Paul coveted Salma's huge wealth and asked his nephew, the villain Mangol Baker, to marry her. Salma's father agreed to the marriage out of traditional ideas. Salma was forced to marry someone she didn't love. After the marriage, her husband asked Liu for flowers on weekdays, not caring about her life and death, and life was very painful. Five years later, Salma became pregnant, and she pinned all her hopes on this unborn child. However, the child died at birth. Salma fell into extreme grief and despaired of life. Soon, she also died silently. After losing Salma, "I" have been suffering from acacia. Later, I met Salma several times, which only increased my grief.
The novel is full of deep sadness, expressing the author's strong dissatisfaction and profound criticism of the stale reactionary forces in society.
On 19 16, Ji Bolun met the American writer Mikhail Numan and became close friends. With the efforts of the two of them, they made extensive friends with Arab writers in North America and set up a "Pen Club", that is, 1920' s "Society for Studying in America". They got together and made great achievements, winning a place for Arabic literature in the world literary world.
Ji Bolun's literary achievements mainly focus on prose poems. At first, Ji Bolun was mainly written in Arabic. His first collection of prose poems, Tears and Laughter, consists of 56 essays, all written in Arabic and published in 19 13. In, Ji Bolun published his first collection of English prose poems, Crazy Man. Later, all his works were written in English, such as Herald, Prophet, Shamo, Jesus the Son of Man, Wanderer, Kingdom of the Prophet and so on. Other books written in Arabic include The Tempest, Interesting Stories, Poetry, Soldiers and Drama Hymns, God of the Earth, etc.
The madman described a deviant who dared to resist and shouted in the sunshine of truth. He ignored tradition and lashed out at the decadent old world. For example, the clever dog wrote, "One day, the clever dog met a group of cats. At this time, it heard a big fat cat coming out of the cat group and saying to the cats,' Dear brothers, pray quickly. If you keep praying, your prayers will be answered, and rats will definitely fall from the sky. The clever dog laughed when he heard this. When he turned to leave, he said to himself, "How stupid these cats are! They don't know what is written in the book. What books and grandparents clearly told me was,' It's not mice that pray, but bones. "
Another example is justice! In the article, Ji Bolun described the justice he saw with amazing brushstrokes: "One night, there was a banquet in the prince's palace, and the guests were bustling in and out. Among the people who entered the palace, one saluted the prince respectfully and solemnly. At this time, all eyes were staring at him in amazement. It turned out that one of his eyes was dug out, and the empty eye kept bleeding. "
The prince asked, "What's the matter, friend?" The man replied, "I am a thief." . I'm going to steal money while it's dark tonight. Who knows, because it was too dark, I accidentally bumped into the loom next door and knocked my eyeball out. I ask your highness to make a fair judgment between me and the loom. '
After hearing these words, the prince sent for the Weaver Girl and ordered that one of his eyes be gouged out.
The weaver said, "Your Highness, you are right. Justice cost me one eye, but I need two eyes to see both sides of the cloth clearly. My shoemaker's neighbor, he has two eyes, but his profession only needs one eye. In order to maintain the dignity of justice, we might as well gouge out one of his eyes. "So the prince sent for the shoemaker and gouged out one of his eyes."
In this way, justice has been done!
Pioneer developed the crazy people's thought, pointing out that everyone can be a pioneer of human beings, as long as they can discover the "divinity" in themselves. Ji Bolun strongly criticized the servility, ignorance and hypocrisy of human beings.
The Prophet is Ji Bolun's masterpiece, and the first poems were written in Arabic when the author 18 years old. Later, with the encouragement of his mother, he continued to write. 1923 was officially published in English, and the whole creative process lasted for 30 years. This prose poem describes the prophet answering questions raised by worshippers when he was about to leave. The whole poem consists of 28 sections, which discuss 26 problems in life and show Ji Bolun's deep affection for the people. In addition, the kingdom of the prophet, like the prophet, is also written in the form of gifts. His works, including the poem 16, are dialogues when the prophet returned to his hometown to meet his relatives and friends. He answered people's questions with profound philosophy and pointed out that "we are God."
Shamo is a collection of works, which contains more than 300 witticisms and short fables. It is the crystallization of deep thinking about life and art, and it is as famous as The Prophet, and it is one of Ji Bolun's representative works. The works are full of Ji Bolun's philosophical thoughts, such as: human nature is a river of light, flowing from eternity to eternity. "
I will walk on the beach forever,
Between sand and foam,
The tide will erase my footprints,
The wind will also blow away the foam,
But the sea and the beach
But it will last forever. In his later years, Ji Bolun was in poor health, but he still insisted on writing, and his struggle with death continued until the last moment of his life.
On April 65, 2000, Ji Bolun died of lung disease. According to his last wish, people shipped him back to the motherland and buried him in his hometown.
The great poet and philosopher left alone. However, the philosophical poems he left us make people feel that he will live among us forever. "For a while, you won't see me; After a while, you will see me again.
Because another woman will conceive me again and give birth to me. "Mikhail Emmanuel said.
"Ji Bolun doesn't need others to commemorate him with stone carvings and bronze statues. As a person, he is more immortal than stone carvings and bronze statues!
"The best commemoration is to spread his literary and artistic works among the people."
Yes, people did. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages and received warm welcome everywhere. This holy flower watered by eastern and western cultures has taken root and sprouted in the hearts of people all over the world. 1000 years ago, one of my neighbors told me that he hated life because there was only pain in life.
"Yesterday, I passed a grave, and I saw life dancing on his grave."