Original poem
I was born in the soil, from the field, this earth, my mother, and I have deep feelings for her as a human being. I love the sand on the ground, wet and soft, my baby; I love Tian He's green velvet, weeds and nanny's arms. I am willing to rest in this land, grow, grow and die in this human land.
I lie prone on the ground and look at the sky with my head held high. Looking at white clouds, colorful rainbows and blue sky. But my feet are always on the ground, and I always smell the dirt on the ground. I have no intention of living in heaven, because when I lived in heaven, I lost heaven and my mother, this land.
Brief introduction of the author
Li Guangtian (1906— 1968), pen name Li Di, Chen Xi, etc. Shandong Zouping. 1929 was admitted to the Foreign Languages Department of Peking University, and began to publish poems and songs the following year. 1935 returned to Jinan to teach middle school after graduating from college. He has published a collection of poems "Hanyuan Collection" with friends Bian and He Qifang of Peking University, and is known as one of the "Three Poets of Hanyuan".
Prose collections in this period include Gallery Collection, Silver Fox Collection and Quekun Collection, which mainly express inner feelings and local life, and pursue quiet and beautiful writing style and strong local flavor. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he went into exile in the southwest mainland, taught in some middle schools and National Southwest United University, and actively participated in the patriotic and democratic movement.
With the change of life and the progress of thought, the prose collections "Outside the Circle", "Echo" and "Essays on the Edge of the Sun" have broadened their horizons, and the quiet and beautiful atmosphere has gradually been replaced by the emotional heart and the rational interest of the police, and the writing style has become more sophisticated and concise. At the same time, he also wrote novels such as Gravity, Collection of Short Stories, Golden Jar and Literary Branches and Leaves.
Since 1950s, he has been mainly engaged in education, and once served as vice president of Tsinghua University and president of Yunnan University. He is the author of poetry anthology Pucheng Collection, prose Flower Tide and Mountain Colors. He also devoted himself to the study of minority literature, sorting out the narrative poem Ashima of Sani people, a branch of Yi people, and the narrative poem Hangxiu of Dai people. Li Guangtian's anthology contains most of his life's writings.