At 17:00 yesterday, the famous Taiwanese writer and poet Zhang Xiaofeng set foot on Gulangyu Island. She said that she and two other female poets came to participate in the 2007 Gulangyu Poetry Festival on behalf of Xi Murong and other Taiwanese female poets.
About Women and Poetry
Reporter: The theme of this poetry festival is "Women and Poetry". As a female poet with decades of poetry experience, your female identity What impact did it have on writing poetry?
Zhang Xiaofeng: Women have a natural advantage in language. Women are more willing to use language. For example, they like to chat with people and are good at expressing feelings in language, which is very helpful for writing poems. But today's young women don't like to use words. They can't even say words like "Yeah" lazily. They prefer to use visuals, such as staring at computers or TVs for a long time, and the language of TVs is very poor. . In fact, frequent use of language is very helpful for writing poetry.
Reporter: Poetry writing is often restricted by age, but you are still writing poetry. How do you maintain your ageless creativity?
Zhang Xiaofeng: I think poetry can be written for a lifetime, and I have been writing. To maintain the ability to write poetry, there are two things to do. One is to have something to say and observe things with concentration. The other is to have the ability to express yourself in language. You must string together experiences in an instant and draw conclusions quickly. .
Research on Lin Yutang
Reporter: Lin Yutang once lived on the island at your feet, and the Liao family villa is not far from you. As a member of the management committee of Lin Yutang’s former residence in Taipei, he said In what way are you commemorating this literary master?
Zhang Xiaofeng: In addition to the discussion of Lin Yutang's literary works, we start from more details to let everyone truly experience Lin Yutang. For example, in order to experience Lin Yutang's peaceful life in Zhangzhou when he was a child, we organized a Qingming Festival At the cake-making party (moon-cakes are spring rolls, reporter’s note), everyone makes the rolls together. Later, we specially sent people to Zhangzhou to learn about several ways to make moist cakes, and introduced them to everyone when we returned to Taiwan.
Reporter: From your perspective, what is the most precious spiritual wealth that this literary master left us?