Na Saisiyalatu
Na Saisiyalatu, a famous Mongolian poet and scholar. A native of Bayinhansumu, Balinyou Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Member of the Communist Party of China. Graduated from the Mongolian Language and Literature Major of Inner Mongolia Normal University in 1953. He has successively served as a teacher at Inner Mongolia Normal University, a professional teacher in Mongolian language and literature at the Department of Oriental Languages ??and Literature at Peking University, and a lecturer, associate professor, department director, and professor at the Department of Mongolian Language and Literature at Inner Mongolia Normal University. Director of the China Ethnic Minority Writers Association, member of the International Mongolian Society, and director of the China Mongolian Literature Society. Enjoy special government subsidies.
Chinese name: Na Saisiyalatu
Alias: China
Nationality: Mongolian
Birthplace: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Bayinhan Sumu, Balin Right Banner, Chifeng City
Occupation: scholar, poet
Graduation school: Mongolian Language and Literature Major of Inner Mongolia Normal University
Representative Works : "Precious Gift", "The First Morning", "Selected Poems of Na Saisiyarattu"
Position: Director of China Ethnic Minority Writers Association
Professional title: Professor
Literary career
Literary road
He began publishing works in 1952. Joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1984. Promoted to professor in 1987. He once served as department chair and other positions. In 1994, he was rated as an expert enjoying government subsidies. He began to publish poems in 1952, joined the Inner Mongolia Branch of the Chinese Writers Association in 1956, and became a member of the Chinese Writers Association in 1984. He is currently a member of the International Society of Mongolian Studies and a director of the Chinese Ethnic Minority Writers Society. Professor Na Saisiyalatu’s achievements are multifaceted. As a Mongolian language and literature worker, he has not only made outstanding achievements in Mongolian literature research, but also made gratifying achievements in Mongolian literary creation. Since the early 1950s, he has created poems on many themes with graceful and smooth writing. The poem "Young Athletes" attracted the attention of readers and won the third prize in the literary works award for the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the autonomous region. He was also selected into the Mongolian It has appeared in "Selected Asian and African Poems" in China, and has appeared many times in the "Mongolian Language" textbook for primary and secondary schools in my country.
Literary works
Since 1957, he has published "Precious Gift" (published in 1957), "The First Morning" (published in 1976), "Na "Selected Poems of Saisiya Latu" (published in 1983) and "New Selected Poems of Na Saisiya Latu" (published in 2003). These poems passionately eulogized the new people and new things under the socialist system, and eulogized the grassland people's longing and yearning for a new life. He became a well-known poet among the Mongolian people. In 1986, the Inner Mongolia Branch of the Chinese Writers Association awarded him an honorary certificate for "making significant contributions to the prosperity and development of the literary cause of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region over the past thirty years."
Some of his poems have also been translated into Chinese, such as "Tiananmen Lyrical", "Swan in the Heart", "Bayanhan Mountain" and other poems. The famous modern and contemporary Mongolian poet Na Saiyinchaoketu commented that his poetry creation "has a strong flavor of life and a bright sense of rhythm." In addition, Na Saisiyalatu is also good at Mongolian literary criticism. In the 1950s, he published critical articles such as "On the Image of Xiaogang Suhe" and "Reading A. Odesir's "Son of the Prairie"". It caused a great response at the time. "White Eagle Mountain" won the second prize in the autonomous region's literary, drama and film creation awards from 1957 to 1980; "Traces of Time on the Boss's Face" won the autonomous region's "Suolongga" Award and the first folk culture "Aldin" Award for Outstanding Contribution.
In 2007, a collection of poetry, prose, academic papers, poetry theory, folklore and research, and Bahrain historical documents compilation and research of Mr. "Collected Works of Latu" (six volumes) published. "The Collected Works of Na Saishiaratu" is the fruit and crystallization of his more than 50 years of hard work. It brings together Na Saishiaratu's poetry, prose, literary criticism, literary research, folk culture research and the compilation and research of local historical documents. article. This collection is rich in content and covers a wide range of fields. It has important material value and academic significance for Mongolian literary creation and research, as well as folk literature, folk literature, and Mongolian history research.
Published four collections of poems: "Precious Gift", "The First Morning", "Selected Poems of Na Saisiaratu", and "Selected Children's Literature" (a collection of four). In addition, he has published more than 150 short and long poems and more than 30 prose works. Published the academic monograph "Research on the Rhythm of Mongolian Poetry" and published nearly 30 academic papers. He edited and published the national textbook "History of Mongolian Literature" (ancient and modern part) compiled by Mongolian universities across the country. He edited and published a collection of essays, "Research on Mongolian Folklore", etc. He has won the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Literary Creation Outstanding Work Award and the highest award - "Suolongga" Award four times.
Family literary influence
Na Saisiyarattu was born in his uncle’s home in Bayinhan Sumu (now Daban Town), Bahrain Right Banner, and grew up in his uncle’s home. . His grandfather was an official who managed a post station in the late Qing Dynasty. His father had many brothers and sisters, making it a big family. When Na Saisiyarattu started reading, there was no paper or pen. People would smear castor oil on two thin wooden boards, then smear them with plant ash, and then stick the two sides with oil and ash on them. Together.
When writing, open both sides of the board and use a wooden stick as a pen to write on the oil and ash-smeared board. The Mongols call these two wooden boards smeared with oil and ash "Sanbal".
When he was 5 years old, his mother took him to one of his mother's uncles. He became his teacher and began to study Mongolian literature. Na Saisiyalatu took Sanbal to his mother's uncle to learn Mongolian every day. After learning Mongolian writing, he began to study the "Four Books and Five Classics" and the handwritten copies of "Water Margin", "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "The Romance of the Gods" and other literary masterpieces at that time.
The world is full of peaches and plums
In July 1953, Na Saisiyalatou graduated from Inner Mongolia Normal University, majoring in Mongolian language and literature, and stayed at the school to teach. From September 1955 to October 1957, he further studied in the Amateur Research Class of Mongolian Language and Literature at Inner Mongolia Normal University. From October 1957 to November 1959, Na Saisiyalatou was seconded to the Department of Oriental Languages ??and Literature of Peking University (the head of the department at the time was Ji Xianlin) to teach Mongolian literature. At Peking University, while teaching Mongolian, he attended literary theory classes in the Chinese Department and Western aesthetics classes in the Spanish Department. In November 1959, Na Saisiyalatu returned to the Department of Mongolian Language and Literature of Inner Mongolia Normal University.
For more than 50 years, he has taught more than ten courses on Introduction to Literature, History of Mongolian Literature, Mongolian Literary Theory, Marxist-Leninist Literary Theory, and Mongolian Poetry Theory for institutions of higher learning such as Inner Mongolia Normal University, Peking University, and Inner Mongolia University. A variety of special subject courses, most of which were his first courses. Since 1979, he has also trained 9 Mongolian literature master's degree students in 4 phases, cultivating high-level talents for the research and development of Mongolian literature in our region. His students are spread all over the country, including the eight provinces and autonomous regions where Mongolian language and literature are taught, as well as the capital Beijing.
As early as the 1950s, Professor Na Saisiyarattu was quietly engaged in the compilation of Mongolian literature textbooks and research in the field of Mongolian literature. Based on his many years of participation in the collection, investigation and research of Mongolian literary historical materials, in the early 1960s, he wrote the ancient and modern parts of "History of Mongolian Literature", "Modern Mongolian Literature", "Mongolian Literature" The contemporary part of "A Brief History" and "On the Thought and Artistry of "Jianggar"" and other mimeographed textbooks have been used as nationally compiled Mongolian textbooks and are still in use today. Among them, "History of Mongolian Literature" was published by Liaoning Nationality Publishing House in 1995 Publishing, making an important contribution to the construction of teaching materials for Mongolian language and literature in my country.
Due to Professor Na Saisiyalatu’s outstanding achievements in Mongolian language work for many years, he won the first prize of the Mongolian Language Worker of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 1962 and 1980 respectively. In 1994, he was rated as enjoying the government Special allowance for experts. He is currently a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a director and academic committee member of the China Mongolian Literature Society, a director of the Chinese Ethnic Ethnic Writers Society, and a member of the International Society of Mongolian Studies. His biography has been included in large dictionaries such as "Dictionary of Chinese Writers", "Biography of Chinese Writers and Artists", and "Biography of Chinese Writers".
The Harvest of the Golden Autumn
Na Saisiyalatu is also committed to the theoretical research of Mongolian poetry. In 1981, he wrote "The Harvest of the Golden Autumn" which condensed his decades of creative experience and scientific research efforts. "Research on the Rhythm of Mongolian Poetry" was published by Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House. This book is the first academic monograph at home and abroad to systematically discuss the rhythm of Mongolian poetry. It systematically discusses various issues in the rhythm, meter and formation of Mongolian poetry. , filling the gap in this research field. In 1984, the book was awarded the second prize of the "Suolongga Literary Criticism Award" of the autonomous region. In 1990, it won the Outstanding Book Award of the Chinese Ethnic Minority Literature Society.
In order to explore the origin and inheritance relationship of Mongolian poetry, he also wrote a series of papers such as "Research on the Poetry of "Secret History of Mongolia"" and "Several Metrical Styles of Ancient and Modern Mongolian Written Poetry", based on historical development. In order, the morphological characteristics, rhythmic types and the development and evolution process of Mongolian poetry formed in different periods and different cultural backgrounds were systematically and deeply discussed, thereby revealing the regularity of development and providing a basis for Mongolian poetry in the new era. The inheritance, innovation and diversified development of poetry forms provide a certain theoretical basis. In 2000, Na Saisiyalatu published another collection of essays, "Research on Mongolian Poetry and Epic Poetry".