The death of the unknown poet Gu Cheng.

1993 10 10 On August 8, a man raised an axe to his wife who once loved him deeply, and her wife fell in a pool of blood, and then he ended his young life. This man is Gu Cheng, one of the most important representatives of "misty poetry" in the history of contemporary poetry in China, and it was his wife Xie Ye who fell under his axe. In the "misty poetry" era of the last century, Gu Cheng was a special existence. On 1979, his famous poem The Generation, written in only two sentences, became a textbook work in China's poetry circles, and also became the spiritual motto of the "generation" who just woke up from the disaster: "The night gave me black eyes/I used it to look for light". After that, a young and childish poet, in the starry sky of new poetry, crossed a short decade. Gu Cheng, like Xu Zhimo, is also a poet living in a dream.

Why did the husband raise a sharp axe and chop at his once beloved wife? 10 for many years, this issue has been discussed countless times, and every time it will inevitably mention Gu Cheng's utopian love and the third party-Yinger. If Gu Cheng and Xie Ye got married because they met by chance during a trip, then Yinger and Gu Cheng are totally "poetic faults". Yinger and Gu Cheng met at a "seminar on new poetry tide" and began a tragedy from then on. ...

Gu Cheng and Xie Ye once lived a fairy-like life in a place called Riptide Island in New Zealand, where they were half lecturers and half hermits. There, they had a lovely son, Auricularia auricula, and their life could have been so peaceful. However, Yinger came from China, and a "utopia" family life began. It is hard to imagine that monogamous life has reached an incomprehensible "balance" here. At the beginning, Xie Ye accepted Yinger with tolerance beyond ordinary people's imagination and took care of Gu Cheng and Yinger's life. ...

Yinger and Gu Cheng "adore" each other, just looking at each other from a distance. Once they get closer, life will be different. Gu Cheng's "aura" as a poet gradually disappeared, but his shortcomings as a lover became more and more obvious. Maybe he discovered Yinger's kindness, or maybe Gu Cheng was just a post station in his life. I don't know why anyway. In the end, Yinger chose to leave home and continue his next love with a foreigner. ...

Therefore, despite the pain, he can bear it, because he still has Xie Ye. However, the most unbearable thing is that Xie Ye, who has always endured humiliation, took revenge (or had this open concept in his bones), moved on and fell in love with a German student. Gu Cheng was completely desperate. Gu Cheng, who lost his mind, raised his axe and cut it at his wife ... and then hanged himself.

Gu Cheng fell in love with two people at the same time. No matter his love for Xie Ye or Yinger, the poet is serious and never pretends. Sadly, he is a poet and he is too naive. His "Don Quixote idea" made him try to create an "Eden" where Adam and two Eve ate the forbidden fruit but pretended not to eat it-New Zealand's "Rapids Island". Xie Ye is just Xie Ye, just an ordinary girl from the ancient city who met on the train. Later, she became the wife of this slightly neurotic genius poet and a loyal reader of those misty poems in Gu Cheng's heart. Xie Ye is the bottom line of "attend to city". Once she left, the poet had no idea what was left of him, so he absurdly chose this way of liberation, a tragic way. I think the poet has a strong sense of tragedy in his bones. From the tragic lives of poets such as Zhu Xiang and Haizi, we can deeply feel that Gu Cheng is no exception. Once despair, tragedy happens. They regard life as too perfect to tolerate any stain. This is a poet's tragedy, not someone's.