Chinese Name: Haji Ji Bolun (Kahlil Gibran) Nationality: Lebanese.
Ethnic group: Arabs
Birthplace: Bushri, a mountain city in northern Lebanon
Date of birth: 1883
Date of death: 193 1 year.
Occupation: poet, painter
Main achievements: poetry, prose and painting.
Representative works: My mind warned me, Prophet, about friendship.
main work
A collection of short stories: grassland brides and rebellious souls.
The novel Broken Wings
Prose "Music Short Chapters", "Poems of Flowers" and "My Mind warns me"
Prose and poetry anthology The Prophet (considered as his masterpiece), Tears and Laughter, The Storm, Pioneer, Sand and Foam, Jesus, The Son of Man, The Garden of the Prophet, The Wanderer and Songs (including Song of Beauty, Song of the Waves and Rain)
Poetry, team songs, anecdotes, whispering to the soul, essays, lunatics
Poetic drama "God of the earth, Lazarus and his lover"
Ji Bolun Ji Bolun was born in 1883. Bushri is a mountain city in northern Lebanon. /kloc-When she was 0/2 years old, she went to Boston with her mother. Two years later, I returned to my motherland and studied Arabic, French and painting at Hikma School in Beirut. While studying, I founded Truth magazine with a radical attitude. 1908 published the novel Rebellious Soul, which angered the authorities. The work was forbidden to burn, I was fired and went to America. Later, he studied painting and sculpture at the Paris Art Institute, and was awarded by Rodin .. 19 1 1 year. He returned to Boston and moved to new york the following year to engage in literary and artistic creation activities until his death. He is the author of prose poetry anthology Tears and Laughter, Prophet, Sand and Foam, etc. Ji Bolun is the pride of Lebanese literature. As a philosophical poet and an outstanding painter, like Tagore, he is a pioneer of modern oriental literature going to the world and a "giant standing on the bridge between eastern and western cultures". And there is a comment that "the prophet of God is raised in him". At the same time, the first school of Arab literature formed with him as the backbone-Syrian aesthetics school is famous all over the world. In his youth, Ji Bolun mainly wrote novels, and after he settled in the United States, he mainly wrote prose poems, almost all of which were written in Arabic, including short story collection Bride on the Grassland (1905), Rebellious Soul and novel Broken Wings (19 1 1. Broken Wings describes the tragic fate and struggle of oriental women, denounces greed, fraud and submission, and praises self-esteem, will and strength. The novel is full of the protagonist's philosophical monologues, dialogues and narratives, especially the passionate talk of the oppressed and the injured. Other works published in Arabic include Short Chapters of Music (1905), Tears and Laughter (19 13), The Tempest (1920) and Hymn of Rank (13). His first work written in English was a collection of essays, Crazy People (19 18). Since the 1920s, Ji Bolun's creation has shifted from novels to prose and prose poems. Later, Lu Ji published a collection of prose poems: Pioneer (1920), Prophet (1923), Shamo (1926) and Son of Man Jesus (65438+). The Prophet is a masterpiece, which discusses a series of life and social problems such as love and beauty, life and death, marriage and family, work and happiness, law and freedom, reason and enthusiasm, good and evil, religion and so on in the form of parting words from wise men. It is full of metaphors and oriental colors of philosophy. Ji Bolun also drew his own romantic and profound illustrations. Ji Bolun believes that to sing "the song in the mother's heart", his works mostly take "love" and "beauty" as the themes, and express deep feelings and lofty ideals through bold imagination and symbolism. Thought is greatly influenced by Nietzsche's philosophy. Works often reveal a cynical attitude, or show some mysterious power. He is the first writer to use prose poems in the history of modern Arabic literature. He led the famous overseas Arab literature group "Pen Club" and made great contributions to the development of Arab new literature. His works have been translated into many languages in the world and are welcomed by readers all over the world. Prophets were first introduced to China (translated by Bing Xin, 193 1). Since 1950s, it has been gradually known to readers in China. Ji Bolun's main works are full of sociality and oriental spirit, and are not plot-centered, aiming at expressing rich emotions. This period of editor's life188365438+1October 6th, was born in the famous "sacred valley" in the northern mountainous area of Li near Li Village. During his short and brilliant life journey, Ji Bolun experienced displacement, bereavement, love twists and turns, debt and illness. He was born in a farmhouse in the mountains of northern Lebanon. The beautiful scenery of the strange mountains in his hometown gave him artistic inspiration. /kloc-at the age of 0/2, Ji Bolun could not stand the brutal rule of the Ottoman Empire. He went to America with his mother and lived a poor life in Boston Chinatown. 1898, 15-year-old Ji Bolun returned to the motherland to study national history and culture and understand Arab society. Just over a year after 1902 returned to the United States, the disease took away his mother and three other relatives. His 14-year-old sister died of lung disease. Before her death, my sister cried and said "I hope to see my brother and father", but she didn't realize this wish. Ji Bolun loves his half-brother very much. Before he could mourn his younger brother, his mother fell ill because she lost two children in succession. 1June, 903, her mother also left him. Ji Bolun once used a painting called Towards Eternity to describe the moment before her mother died. The mother's face in the painting is calm, calm and without any pain. When Ji Bolun recalled his mother's inspiration to his literary creation in the future, he emphasized that "my mother was and still is my soul." . I can still feel my mother's concern, influence and help. This feeling is stronger than when my mother was alive, which is incalculable. "In just 15 months, three relatives died one after another, and they signed an iou for treatment of15,000 US dollars. Ji Bolun's brother and sister sold their property in order to pay their debts. Ji Bolun earns money by writing articles, selling paintings and doing odd jobs, and he has to pay his debts. At this time, Ji Bolun's teacher in Boston, Dai, learned about this situation and extended a helping hand. Give them financial and spiritual help. Ji Bolun was able to return to writing and painting, and began to brew the prose poem Tears and Laughter. He made a living by writing and selling paintings, and struggled with his sister who cut and sewed clothes at the bottom of Jin and Yuan Dynasties. 1908, he was lucky to get the financial support of his friends to study painting in Paris, and was personally guided by Rodin and other artists. 19 1 1 After he returned to the United States, he lived in new york for a long time, engaged in literary and painting creation, and led the cultural trend of Arab expatriates. When he felt that death was coming, he was determined to make the fire of his life burn more vigorously, so he ignored his illness and sat at his desk all day until he died young at the age of 48. 1904 In May, with the arrangement of Mr. Dai and the help of many friends, Ji Bolun held his first solo exhibition in Mr. Dai's gallery. The exhibition was a success and opened the door for Ji Bolun's literary creation. Ji Bolun met the founder of Arab Expatriate, and he promised that Expatriate would publish two articles in distress situation every week. 1903- 1908 Ji Bolun published more than 50 essays in Overseas Chinese Daily, with the total title of Tears and Laughter. Ji Bolun is an artist who loves the motherland and all mankind. In the last few years of his life, he wrote a poem "The Hazy Motherland", which spread all over the Arab world. He eulogized: "You are in our soul-fire, light; You are in my chest-my beating heart. "Love and beauty are the themes of Ji Bolun's works. He once said: "The whole earth is my motherland, and all mankind is my folks. "He is against ignorance and triteness. He loves freedom, advocates justice, and dares to declare war on tyranny and hypocritical saints. He is not afraid of being called a "madman" and calls for the burial of all "Prometheans" who do not keep pace with the times; He opposes moaning and boasting; It advocates writing people's voices with "blood". Literature and painting are the wings of Jibo's artistic life. Ji Bolun's early works are mainly novels, while his later works are mainly prose poems. In addition, there are poems, poetic dramas, literary reviews, letters and so on. The Prophet is the pinnacle of Ji Bolun's entry into the world literary world. It has been translated into more than 20 languages and published all over the world. 193 1 year, Ji Bolun died in New York, USA, and his body was buried in Lebanon. Ji Bolun's family Ji Bolun's mother's name is Camilla. Her third marriage married Ji Bolun's father and gave birth to Ji Bolun and two sisters from Ji Bolun. Ji Bolun's father is a conscientious mountaineer. He is a good man and devoted to his work. However, because he couldn't face the pressure of life, he took drinking as an escape, so that his family's life became increasingly embarrassing. In Ji Bolun's impression, my father often came home drunk and was very rude to his family through drunkenness. Ji Bolun's relationship with his father is becoming more and more tense. 189 1 year, when Ji Bolun was 8 years old, Ji Bolun's father was imprisoned for being framed, and their house and property were confiscated. Ji Bolun's mother decided to follow his uncle to America. Although Ji Bolun's father was acquitted in 1894, his mother made up her mind to go to the United States. On the contrary, Ji Bolun's love for her mother is growing day by day. Her mother is gentle and kind, and she struggles for her family's livelihood without a single complaint. Mother has also become the embodiment of love and beauty in Ji Bolun's heart, and this kind of love for mother is exactly what Ji Bolun needs most and what every child needs. Therefore, mother became the pillar of Ji Bolun's heart and feelings. The writing style of this paragraph was edited by Ji Bolun. Ji Bolun's painting style, like his poetry style, is influenced by the English poet William? Black (1757-1827), so the literary world called him "black in the 20th century". 1908—19 10 Rodin once affirmed and confidently evaluated Ji Bolun when he was studying painting art at the Paris Art Institute: "This Arab youth will become a great artist. "Ji Bolun's paintings, with strong romanticism and symbolism, are collected in the memorial hall. In the history of oriental literature, Ji Bolun's artistic style is unique. His works are both serious and cold in rational thinking and romantic and lyrical in aria. He is good at finding meaning among the people and enlightening profound philosophy in wonderful metaphors. On the other hand, Ji Bolun's style can also be found in his unique language. He is a bilingual writer who can write in Arabic and English, and he is fluent in each language. The language style of his works has conquered generations of eastern and western readers. Americans once praised Ji Bolun as "like a storm blowing from the East and sweeping the West", and his works with a strong sense of the East were regarded as "the best gift from the East to the West". As early as 1923, five prose poems of Ji Bolun were first introduced to China by Mr. Mao Dun. The Prophet translated by Ms. Bing Xin has opened a literary window for China readers to understand Ji Bolun. In recent ten years, some works of Ji Bolun have been published in China. This proud Lebanese literary figure has more and more intimate friends in China. The editor of this paragraph commented that he is an artist who loves the motherland and all mankind. In the poem "The Hazy Motherland", eulogize: "You are in our soul-fire and light; You are in my chest-my beating heart. " He once said: "The whole earth is my motherland, and all mankind is my folks. "Love and beauty are the main theme of Ji Bolun's works, and literature and painting are the wings of his artistic life. In Ji Bolun's mind, the motherland Lebanon is the most beautiful place in the world. As he wrote in his works: "As soon as I close my eyes, charming, solemn valleys and majestic mountains will be displayed in front of me;" "As soon as I cover my ears, the gurgling water of the stream and the rustling of leaves will ring in my ears. I miss this picturesque scenery, just like a nursing baby longing for its mother's arms. His works are both serious and cold in rational thinking and romantic and lyrical in aria.