Zhang Ailing said that you should become famous as early as possible. Everyone wants to be famous, but becoming famous has its troubles. Take Yu Xiuhua as an example. Everyone who understands poetry but does not know poetry will know Yu Xiuhua's name to some extent. Yu Xiuhua is indeed famous, and the accompanying benefits are naturally unimaginable. However, Yu Xiuhua was very depressed. In the process of her becoming famous, there were always two words that followed her closely. The author will not mention these two words and everyone knows them, which is cerebral palsy. Yu Xiuhua said, "When the matter of my cerebral palsy is brought up on the table, it is a kind of putting the cart before the horse." With the attention paid to her poetry, this is indeed a kind of putting the cart before the horse.
It was indeed not easy for Yu Xiuhua in her early years! When she was born, she suffered from cerebral palsy due to the lag in medical technology. This caused Yu Xiuhua considerable distress. Her body lost balance and it was difficult to walk normally, and her speech was not as sharp as a normal person. But her intelligence and thinking were not affected, which was a blessing among misfortunes. In rural areas, Yu Xiuhua was regarded as an alternative by the villagers because of her disability. Yu Xiuhua, who was not willing to fail, also wanted to go to school. Finally, her parents allowed her to go to school, and she did well in her studies. It is not easy for Yu Xiuhua's intelligence to be able to show off her skills in the provincial Go competition.
However, God played a joke on Yu Xiuhua. Her studies did not continue and she dropped out of high school before graduating. Yu Xiuhua's life was arranged by her parents, and she could only marry her future husband, an honest farmer who was much older than herself. This old man joined his wife's family and became a rare labor force in the family. Under the protection of her parents and husband, Yu Xiuhua lived a comfortable life, and officially came into contact with poetry in 2009. It was not easy for Yu Xiuhua to write poetry. She held one hand with the other as she struggled to create. Yu Xiuhua felt very uncomfortable, but she enjoyed the process.
Perhaps Yu Xiuhua never expected that Yu Xiuhua would become famous within a few years of writing poetry while others could never become famous after writing poetry for a lifetime. The platform provided to Yu Xiuhua was the very influential Poetry Magazine in the poetry world. Yu Xiuhua became famous overnight under the recommendation of Peng Min, the two-time runner-up in the "Chinese Poetry Conference". Also becoming popular was Yu Xiuhua, a "cerebral palsy poet". After Yu Xiuhua became famous, various media naturally would not let her go. She has been trapped in the labels of "peasant woman", "cerebral palsy" and "poet" from beginning to end. For Yu Xiuhua herself, she has very clear criteria for judging cerebral palsy, which is often mentioned by others.
Yu Xiuhua believes that the fact that I have cerebral palsy is being put on the table is putting the cart before the horse. In Yu Xiuhua's view, she positions herself as a poet, rather than gaining sympathy as a poet with cerebral palsy. In Yu Xiuhua’s mind, you can approve my poetry, but you must first acknowledge that I am not cerebral palsy. The facts are contrary to Yu Xiuhua's self-justification. When mentioned on the Internet, Yu Xiuhua is a "cerebral palsy poet". In the author's opinion, this is indeed putting the cart before the horse, and a very serious one at that.
Leaving aside the neglect of the poetry itself, mentioning Yu Xiuhua must also mention cerebral palsy, which is indeed disrespectful to Yu Xiuhua. The author believes that Yu Xiuhua is a healthy person first and a poet secondly. However, most people like to talk about Yu Xiuhua's "cerebral palsy", which fully shows that among the groups who pay attention to Yu Xiuhua, many people have a spectator mentality, and the picture is just a novelty. This kind of mentality is not a lucky thing, but more of a disaster for the shaping of the overall cultural atmosphere.