Original text: Facing the sea, spring flowers are blooming by Haizi Dynasty Modern
From tomorrow on, be a happy person
Feed horses, chop firewood, and travel around the world
From tomorrow on, care about food and vegetables
I have a house facing the sea, with spring flowers blooming
From tomorrow on, I will communicate with every relative
Tell them my happiness
That happy lightning told me
I will tell everyone
To every river Give every mountain a warm name
Stranger, I also wish you well
May you have a brilliant future
May you eventually become a lover Dependents
May you be happy in this world
I just want to face the sea, with spring flowers blooming
Appreciation:
Poetry** *Divided into three sections. The first section writes about the author's life ideals, which are "feeding horses, chopping firewood, traveling around the world", "caring about food and vegetables", "having a house facing the sea, and flowers blooming in spring". These are simple rural lives, a life closely related to the land.
From here we can see the poet's disgust for the hypocritical, degenerate and materialistic life far away from the land. "Traveling around the world" means that the poet has an open personality and pursues freedom. The "sea" here is an unfathomable unknown world. When you are in this kind of world, you will feel relaxed and happy, with spring flowers blooming. It shows that the poet advocates freedom and transcends the world. Spiritual pursuit.
The second section writes about the poet's joy in telling every relative about this happy life.
The third section writes about the poet’s blessings to the world. "Give every river and every mountain a warm name" is the poet's hope that warmth will shine everywhere in the world. The poet then wishes the people in this world a bright future, a successful career, and a happy marriage to all their lovers. And as for himself?
That is the ideal pursuit beyond this world, that is, "facing the sea, the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming." This is reflected in Du Fu's "There are tens of millions of mansions, and the poor people in the world are all happy". The ideas are of the same origin. However, Haizi's view of happiness is something that ordinary people cannot agree with. Therefore, shortly after writing this poem, he chose to commit suicide by lying on the train in Shanhaiguan, "facing the sea" forever, and bidding farewell to the world.
Extended information:
Facing the sea and the creative background of spring flowers blooming
This poem was written on January 13, 1989, just before the poet wrote in March of the same year. It was only more than two months before he committed suicide by lying on the train. The author belongs to the "generation" that "the night gave me black eyes, but I used them to find light". He has personally experienced the era of stifling material desires and focusing only on spirituality in the 1960s and 1970s, to the abandonment of spirit in the late 1980s. , the social transformation process of materialistic desires.
Facing reality, the idealist author is confused, his hopes are shattered, and he feels that he can no longer "dwell in the world poetically". Compared with others who are blindly indulging in the happiness of material life, he feels more pain from inner division and contradiction. This poem is the crystallization of his painful experience in life.
The occasion for the creation of this poem may also include the elements of a "love poem", and the "sea" may also have a specific reference. For some time before his death, Haizi maintained friendly correspondence with his first girlfriend, who had broken up and moved to Shenzhen, and was planning to immigrate overseas.
Based on this, it is speculated that this "sea" image should be related to the imagination of Shenzhen by the sea or the first love girlfriend on the other side of the Pacific.