Now many young people don't know who Gu Cheng is, and they don't know that more than 20 years ago, there was a star in China's literary and art circles named Gu Cheng, who surpassed all the heavenly kings and heavenly queens today. Even if today's young people have heard of Gu Cheng's name, many people don't know much about Gu Cheng's life. Gu Cheng, 1956, from Beijing. His father is Gu Gong, a famous "professional" poet in China. It is said that Gu Cheng showed artistic talent when he was very young. /kloc-when he was 0/2 years old, he took over his father's inheritance and began to write modern poems, which soon surpassed his father. In this regard, Gu Gong never disagreed and was even very happy.
After the reform and opening up, modern poetry, like a horn and a banner, has become the spiritual food for countless young people in China. Beidao, Shu Ting and Gu Cheng became the iconic figures leading China's modern poetry. Of the three, Gu Cheng is the youngest. His famous sentence is: "The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to find light." Others include: "People surround themselves, like a horse, around a stake" and so on.
The reason why China's modern poetry won the title of "misty poetry" has a lot to do with Gu Cheng. At that time, a commentary pointed out that a poem by Gu Cheng was too obscure to understand. Caused widespread controversy, and the word "misty poetry" was established. Gu Cheng's poems are very distinctive and easy to identify. Because there are many surreal imaginations in his poems, Gu Cheng personally won the title of "Fairy Tale Poet". In my impression, Gu Cheng is the only person who has won this title among the people who have written poems in China through the ages.
1988, Gu Cheng, who was in full swing in China at that time, went to New Zealand, settled in Rapids Island with his wife Xie Ye (one of Gu Cheng's fanatics) and gave birth to a child. 1993 10 10 On 8 October, Gu Cheng hacked his wife to death with an axe at his residence in Riptide Island, and then committed suicide. At the age of 37. After Gu Cheng settled in New Zealand, his signature feature was always wearing a high flanging chef hat woven from New Zealand wool. This has also become the most important personal image he left to future generations.
After Gu Cheng's death, there are many interpretations about why he killed his wife and committed suicide. Hong Kong made a film called Farewell to Gu Cheng, in which Feng Delun played Gu Cheng. The response was average, and not many people knew it. According to the content of Gu Cheng's suicide note Yinger, Gu Cheng's last madness was caused by a woman who pursued interests and hurt him, which led to his collapse. This woman is called "Yinger" in Gu Cheng's book, and her real name is Li Ying. She used to be the editor of Poetry magazine under the pen name Maggie, and now she often publishes her works. After Gu Cheng died, Maggie made it clear that she was opposed to the label that Gu Cheng put on her in her inheritance.
In my opinion, the deep cause of Gu Cheng's tragedy is his extreme individualism. As a person, Gu Cheng's attitude towards life is as distinct as his poems, which can be summarized as: extremely selfish egoism, extremely ignorant male chauvinism, extremely utopian liberalism and extremely naive fantasy world. Gu Cheng is a contradictory body born of all kinds of extreme things, sometimes like a naive child, sometimes like a crazy tyrant. Gu Cheng declared that he loved all mankind, but he didn't love the people around him. Gu Cheng's wife was pregnant once before going to New Zealand. Gu Cheng didn't look forward to and be curious about his own flesh and blood like other husbands, but complained to her for a whole week that children would drive him crazy. The wife had to have an abortion alone. After arriving in New Zealand, his wife became pregnant for the second time, and Gu Cheng did the same thing again. However, the wife thought that she was over 30 years old and it was too late to have another child, so she delayed the abortion with various excuses and finally gave birth to the child. It is a boy. Gu Cheng said that his wife is a cunning liar, his son is a poisonous fungus in his fairy tale castle, and there is no second man in his world. Gu Cheng never even hugged his son once. He said to his wife: My son is not like you and me, which is good. I don't think I have anything to do with him.
After Gu Cheng had children, he thought that his children affected his wife's care for him. At his repeated requests, naive and poor Xie Ye had to send the child to (or foster care? ) to the indigenous Maori in New Zealand. However, there is another important reason why Gu Cheng's wife gave her son to others: Gu Cheng's dislike of her son even developed to the level of physiological reaction. He will suddenly and violently attack his son, kick him off the sofa, and then fall to the ground himself, with muscle spasms. Gu Cheng's wife couldn't judge whether Gu Cheng deliberately pretended to be sick, but for the sake of the two men she loved, the woman had to separate the two men and herself from her son. In Gu Cheng, Xie Ye can only be a wife, not a mother.
Gu Cheng is with his wife. At first, he wanted to enjoy the feeling of being worshipped infinitely. Later, because Gu Cheng's social life ability was extremely poor, especially when he went abroad, he could hardly survive in society without his wife. His wife Xie Ye became his full-time nanny and full-time assistant to some extent.
Gu Cheng's so-called inner love is too idealistic, which is actually another extreme manifestation of his inner cruelty. I always think that people who don't love children are loveless. If they don't even love their children, then their advertised love must be false. Man is not a god, and it is impossible to completely separate human nature from the so-called vocation. Gu Cheng's ideal love for all mankind in the world is actually only love for himself. Because he thinks he is the whole world and all mankind. When this kind of love can't be realized, the other extreme of it jumps out, that is, the cruelty in Gu Cheng's character.
After Gu Cheng settled in Rapids Island, New Zealand, perhaps because of his meager income to supplement his family or to enjoy the rural life, Gu Cheng circled a piece of land next to his home and raised hundreds of chickens. Once, a dog from out of nowhere in Gucheng killed two chickens. In retaliation, Gu Cheng laid nails around the henhouse, but he still felt dissatisfied and finally laid rat poison. When his wife said he had gone too far, Gu Cheng said his wife was hypocritical and kind. Finally, I don't know if the dog is poisoned, but the cats of the surrounding residents are really poisoned. Gu Cheng denied that he did it. The chickens raised in the ancient city eventually caused dissatisfaction among other residents in the community. First, the residential area was turned into a chicken farm by the ancient city, which was too noisy. Second, because of environmental problems such as appearance, smell and pollution. On behalf of all residents, community officials visited many times and asked Gu Cheng to get rid of the chickens. Gu cheng certainly doesn't want to. He thought, in a free world, don't I have the freedom to raise chickens? Finally, the community residents had to resort to legal means, and the court issued a judgment, asking Gu Cheng to handle it by himself within a time limit, otherwise it would be forced to deal with it. As a result, Gu Cheng, like a madman, entered the henhouse with a knife on the night of receiving the court verdict, slashing wildly, and hundreds of chicken carcasses were everywhere, with blood overflowing. Then, Gu Cheng put the chicken head in a plastic bag and handed it to the community officials, proving that he had completely disposed of all the chickens. The community officials were scared and fled on the spot. Whenever I imagine this scene, it's like seeing a swordsman with high martial arts, carrying a sharp sword, breaking into an unsuspecting crowd and killing innocent people for no reason. In fact, for ordinary people, the treatment method is very simple, such as selling these chickens or distributing them to the surrounding residents. Perhaps it is because Gu Cheng's lofty attitude makes him disdain to buy chickens for a few stinking money. Perhaps because of the arrogance of Gu Cheng, he can't say sorry to his neighbors with a smiling face. In short, he took
The way he disposed of his chicken shocked all the community residents. After this incident, Gu Cheng said to his wife: The whole world is bullying me. Moreover, in order to vent, Gu Cheng went to cut down trees on the hillside at will. His wife said that Gu Cheng had been chopping for a whole week. This detail once again strengthened my judgment on Gu Cheng's humanity: under the appearance of his fairy tale poet, there is a cruel heart and a heart full of revenge desire. In the residential area where Gu Cheng lives, residents all think that Gu Cheng is a freak, maybe a madman. I really don't know if Gu still lives in this community if his wife doesn't try her best to mediate between the neighbors. He may be more suitable for a lifestyle without neighbors, and Gu Cheng's male chauvinism is also extremely prominent. In addition to not letting children share the care of their wives, Yinger's appearance also fully embodies Gu Cheng's personality characteristics. The relationship between Gu Cheng and two women is transparent, and everyone knows them. Of course, Xie Ye, Gu Cheng's wife, is so naive that she clearly knows that a woman is sharing her husband. However, the blind worship of Gu Cheng may make her think that it is the right of genius. She didn't complain, and the three of them lived in peace, even eating and drinking, for fear of leaving out the guests except their own children. Yinger is also a girl with the characteristics of that year. She and Gu Cheng have known each other for a long time and admire Gu Cheng very much. In her view, Gu Cheng is a god, and she never even imagined that she could be a part of the private life of "God". After meeting Gu Cheng in New Zealand, Yinger found that Gu Cheng was still a "fairy tale poet", even more obsessed and less divorced from reality (perhaps for women). At that time, Xie Ye, fresh and lovely, paid too much and worked too hard because of her low energy in life. She seldom gets the love that women deserve, and is becoming a yellow-faced woman who is aging before she gets old. Although Yinger is also very sympathetic to Xie Ye, she is more sympathetic to Gu Cheng. How can a "fairy tale poet" be without romantic love and beauty? At Gu Cheng's initiative, Yinger, who looks fairly beautiful, dedicated herself to the fairy tale poet. After Gu Cheng died, Yinger said that she had sex with Gu Cheng for the first time.
The behavior was that Gu Cheng raped her.
I wonder if Gu Cheng knew the mentality of the two women around him at that time.
Still want to know, I can't see the clue in his posthumous work Yinger. Anyway, Gu Cheng proudly declared that he loved these two women. He said that he had two wives. Gu Cheng even feels like Jia Baoyu in the Grand View Garden. There are too few two women. He said that there must be at least 12 girls in his fairy tale castle, and he wanted to be the king of his daughter country. He fantasized that 12 girls were wearing silver helmets and armor to defend their daughter country from the invasion of a second person (including their own son). Yinger said in the article: Gu Cheng timidly looked at the world from the mouth of the cave. However, reality is not a fairy tale after all. Arabs can marry more than one wife as long as they have financial support. What does Gu Cheng rely on to support two women? Different from China, after going abroad, Gu Cheng's poetry lost its market and the economic situation was very bad. Basically, it depends on the relief of the New Zealand government and the independence of Xie Ye. Sometimes, Xie Ye, who is worried about his survival, has to complain to Gu Cheng, hoping that he can be realistic and find a job with wage income. Whenever this happens, Xie Ye will be reprimanded by the poet Gu Cheng. For Gu Cheng, he thinks he was born for poetry. How can he let those worldly things interfere with him? Yinger doesn't have much say in economic issues. She is not a rich man. She just went abroad and came to Gu Cheng, which means she is still receiving charity from the Gu Cheng couple. Of course, she also tries to do some work that has nothing to do with literature and art to help Xie Ye supplement some family expenses. So, it's not that she can't see the survival guarantee of the strange life with Gu Cheng. However, Gu Cheng is a person who can't afford to lose. In family entertainment such as playing cards, Gu Cheng loses his temper when he loses. His wife
Zi always plays the role of making Gu Cheng the final winner. In the eyes of neighbors, Gu Cheng and his wife are Yinger's sister and brother-in-law. In fact, Yinger had another lover at that time. At home, she fell in love with Liu Zhanqiu, a poet who is more than 20 years older than her. After I arrived in New Zealand, I fell in love with Gu Cheng again. 1992, Mr. and Mrs. Gu Cheng received an invitation to give lectures in Germany, and Gu Cheng began to want to give up. He said unless yinger went with him. However, he doesn't allow his son to go with him. Gu Cheng's wife begged Yinger to persuade Gu Cheng not to give up this opportunity, at least to bring some relief to the family's difficult economic situation. Yinger knew it was time for him to go out. Before the couple left for Germany, Gu Cheng asked Yinger to wait for them at home. Xie Ye said: If you are still here when we come back, that will be my life. I will accept this reality completely, and Yinger finally decides to leave. She soon fell in love with a foreigner 20 years older than her. A few years later (Gu Cheng died), she married a foreigner, and Yinger left Riptide Island at the end of 1992. When Mr. and Mrs. Gu Cheng came back from Germany, they heard that Yinger had lived with the foreigner and eloped. They began to write the novel Yinger. In this book, Gu Cheng turned her previous love for Yinger into resentment. He said Yinger fell in love with Liu Zhanqiu because he wanted to use Liu Zhanqiu to enter Poetry Journal. Yinger fell in love with him because he wanted to solve the problem of going abroad with Gu Cheng. Yinger fell in love with the foreigner's old man because he wanted to use the foreigner's old man to solve the green card problem. Shortly after this book was written, Gu Cheng hacked his wife Xie Ye to death with an axe, and then committed suicide. Gu Cheng's last poem was written for his son. The content of this poem is completely opposite to his attitude towards his son in reality, showing touching affection. However, Gu Cheng changed his son's name to "Shan", a girl's name. Does he want to continue his daughter country with an imaginary daughter?
Gu Cheng is extreme. His success in China made him think that the world should revolve around him and change for him, which was in line with his imagination. Gu Cheng's tragedy also comes from his loss in poetry creation. He became famous in China, and all his works are in Chinese. After leaving China, Gu Cheng lost the foundation of his existence and his English was not good. After spending a long time in New Zealand, he would simply answer. His career as a poet ended when he decided to settle in New Zealand. However, in Gu Cheng's eyes, Torrent Island in New Zealand is his Peach Blossom Garden, an imaginary utopia. However, the death of a poet was unexpected and unacceptable to Gu Cheng. He has always held the sense of superiority and privilege of artists under China's socialist system, but in New Zealand, the only people he can give orders are his family and his lover. Once the lover leaves, the worship of his wife is obviously disappearing.
Gu Cheng felt abandoned. He thinks the whole world has abandoned him.
Gu Cheng's tragedy also comes from his naive political ideas. He hated his country because of the suffering during the Cultural Revolution. He thinks that another free world is his ideal, which can make him forget the terrible place of China. The trip to Germany made him hallucinate. In fact, it was just a polite welcome from German sinologists, but he thought that he had once again become the center of the world. He thinks poets like Byron and Shelley can be the flags of society. However, in the commodity economy society, no one will support him to be a fairy tale poet and the king of his daughter country in vain. In the face of capitalism's indifference to artists, the extreme Gu Cheng really collapsed. In the era of China's misty poetry, Gu Cheng was praised to the sky, but he thought that the China society that gave him great honor was still a society that suffocated him. He thought that another world would give him higher honor, higher status and more free space than China society. I wonder if Gu Cheng realized that he was really wrong before he died. He is a fairy tale poet who didn't grow up, and the imaginary king of the daughter country is so naive!
However, there are still many people who like Gu Cheng's poems. Admirers at that time are called fans today. There is essentially no difference except the name. They absolutely like Gu Cheng as a whole, because they like Gu Cheng's poems. They accepted almost all the accusations from Gu Cheng against Ying Er, a woman who used to be a lover of Gu Cheng, and innocently assumed the notoriety of killing outstanding poets. At that time, there was even an article saying: Why didn't Gu Cheng hack this bad woman to death!
Re-examining the tragedy of Gu Cheng, I firmly believe that it is difficult for a poet to be like others. Poetry should not be equated with poets. Gu Cheng was killed by his inner evil. It is precisely because of his inner evil that his fairy tale poet has a strong appearance, but people can't see his real inner world. Even his closest wife didn't fully see it until her death. Gu Cheng knew that he was dead, and he wanted an innocent woman to die for him, because this woman could only be his woman. If this woman doesn't die, the soul of Gu Cheng never wants to see this "thing" that once belonged to him 100%, and one day it all belongs to others, even if this other person is probably just his son. He can never allow it.
Gu Cheng is selfish. Gu Cheng is cruel. His death is nothing to regret. His death seems to be a warning, which indicates that the development of China's modern poetry, represented by Gu Cheng and others, has come to an end.