On October 8, 1993, the famous Chinese poet Gu Cheng raised an axe to his wife on Waihei Island, killed her, and hanged himself, leaving his son alone in this world, causing an uproar at home and abroad.
Gu Cheng's death is undoubtedly big news, but both the poetry and the press have paid close attention to this matter and made all kinds of speculations. As a romantic poet, why would Gu Cheng do such a crazy thing? Why did he hang himself after hurting his wife? Gu Cheng's son lives alone in this world, and the follow-up is development? Let's take these ones one by one.
Romantic poet Gu Cheng
On September 24, 1956, Gu Cheng was born in Beijing into a family of scholars. Gu Cheng's father was a well-known poet Gu Gong at that time, and under the influence of his father, Gu Cheng showed great interest in poetry from an early age, and reading and writing poetry became Gu Cheng's childhood hobby.
Gu Cheng and his family
Gu Cheng has an older sister named Gu Xiang, in Gu Xiang's impression, his brother is a quiet and introverted child, only like a person to read quietly, unlike other children, like to get together to play.
Due to the high amount of reading, Gu Cheng always had endless stories in his mind when he was a child, which made him particularly popular with his classmates. However, because of his introverted and shy personality, Gu Cheng does not like to tell stories when there are many people, and only likes to tell stories to his sister alone.
But sometimes the sister had to deal with her own affairs, and there was no time to listen to Gu Cheng's stories, so Gu Cheng could only enter the small room alone and talk to himself against the wall.
Gu Cheng's lonely nature cultivated since he was a child did not have many close friends, but this love of reading and patience helped him go farther and farther on the road of literature.
Gu cheng
Due to the impact of social changes, Gu Cheng had to leave his beloved school at the age of twelve and return home to raise pigs. Even so, Gu Cheng's love of literature has not changed. Instead, dropping out of school led him to write poetry earlier.
Whenever he has leisure time, Gu Cheng always likes to stay quietly alone, and his mind is brewing poems that make people shoot cases. The verse that has been passed down to this day, "The night gives me black eyes, but I use it to find the light", is the work of Gu Cheng in this period. When the poem appeared in magazines, Gu Cheng became an idol that young people at that time were frantically pursuing.
Throughout Gu Cheng's life, the first half of his life is undoubtedly a template for winning in life, and his excellent literary literacy has made him an object of pursuit among young people and laid the foundation for his status as a "fairy tale poet".
However, Gu Cheng's heart is sensitive and anxious, and the poet's sentimental personality lays the groundwork for his tragic life in the second half, and his love triangle with his wife Xie Ye is the fuse.
The triangular relationship between Gu Cheng, Xie Ye and Li Ying
In 1979, Gu Cheng accompanied his father to a poetry conference in Shanghai and stayed in a guest house. Once the two went out, Gu Cheng went back halfway through, and as a result, he had no key and could only stand outside the gate of the guest house.
The cold wind of Shanghai blew on Gu Cheng, making him start to worry. Suddenly, Gu Cheng directly went through the window, came to the room to pack up his things, found his father, and said angrily: I want to go, go now, in Shanghai I am about to suffocate.
Gu Cheng and his wife Xie Ye
Before his father could figure out what was going on, Gu Cheng was already on the train back to Beijing. That time, the woman who became Gu Cheng's wife, Xie Ye, happened to be on this train.
At that time, Xie Ye was sitting opposite Gu Cheng, and Gu Cheng's handsome appearance made Xie Ye feel good about this young man. In the dim light, Gu Cheng suddenly talked to Xie Ye about poetry, and then about movies and music. At the end, Gu Cheng wanted to paint a portrait of Xie Ye, and Xie Ye looked at Gu Cheng and gave him a response.
After a long night, the train finally arrived in Beijing, and the two packed their bags and prepared to get off. Suddenly, Gu Cheng shoved a note into Xie Ye's hand and hurried away before she could react.
After Xie Ye opened the note and saw the address and name written by Gu Cheng, he realized that the man who had spiritual communication with her last night was Gu Cheng, a well-known "fairy tale poet" in the country.
At that time, the domestic people were fanatically obsessed with the poet, and Gu Cheng's fame made Xie Ye ghost send God to Gu Cheng's home to find him, and the two officially began a relationship, perhaps the poet's love was so romantic. In 1983, after more than four years of happy and bitter running-in, Gu Cheng and Xie Ye married under the blessing of their relatives.
After marriage, the two are inseparable, and every time Gu Cheng is invited to participate in a poetry symposium, he will definitely take Xie Ye with him. Gu Cheng gave a speech on the stage, Xie Ye was waiting outside the door, the two were like glue, and they could not be separated for a moment.
If time can continue like this, it will inevitably be a good thing for Gu Cheng and Xie Ye, but even if they are poets, they still have to face reality. Like all couples, money slowly became a headache for both of them.
Among all the writers, the poet can get the least remuneration, even if Gu Cheng is very famous, the regular only three or five yuan of the manuscript fee, such a figure, how can it be enough to live?
Days began to slowly become tight, Xie Ye also began to slowly anxious, she hopes that her husband can be like other men, take on the heavy responsibilities of the family, have a stable salary job. But Gu Cheng could only write poetry, and he had no other ability to make a living.
The two rode their bicycles to visit friends, and the friend asked them: such a long distance, you can just take the subway directly, anyway, only need a dime.
Gu Cheng replied: We are just a dime short. The dilemma of the two people's lives can be seen.
In 1987, Gu Cheng and Xie Ye, with the support of their parents and friends, went to Europe and the Americas to study. In the process, the two decided to settle down on a small island in New Zealand called Whitewater Island and live a life back to basics.
On Wailiu Island, Gu Cheng bought a simple house and renovated it himself. Because there was no running water, Gu Cheng made a reservoir on the roof for bathing. After living on Riptide Island for some time, the two's children, Mul, were born.
The birth of the crystallization of love did not bring changes to the family, because Gu Cheng only liked poetry and Xie Ye, and did not like children. Gu Cheng deliberately sent Mu Er to the local chief's home to raise him, paid for his own child support, and did not let Xie Ye visit the child. For this reason, Mu Er had almost no impression of Gu Cheng and Xie Ye when he grew up, and even once thought that the chief was his father.
In Riptide Island, because of the backwardness of commerce and industry, basically can not find jobs. In order to live, Xie Ye could only come to the nearby city to work.
Because of the work relationship, Xie Ye met some new friends in the city, and the beautiful and sociable Xie Ye quickly attracted a group of suitors, one of whom was the best in New Zealand. But because of Gu Cheng's reasons, Xie Ye rejected these suitors.
At this time, Gu Cheng was fighting with a girl named Li Ying.
Li Ying
Li Ying is the editor of the domestic magazine "Poetry Journal" and admires Gu Cheng's fame. Because of the poetry submission, Li Ying met Gu Cheng and his wife, and the three often kept in touch.
Due to the frequent need to go to work, Gu Cheng's communication with Xie Ye decreased, which made Gu Cheng frequently communicate with Li Ying. As a third party, Li Ying began to get involved in this marriage.
After hard work, Gu Cheng finally persuaded Xie Ye to accept Li Ying's existence, and the two let Li Ying also come to Riptide Island, and the three of them lived together. Is the poet's love life so wild? It doesn't matter if the three of them live together?
Later, under the pressure of life, Gu Cheng and Xie Ye had no choice but to leave Rapids Island and go to Germany to give lectures, leaving Li Ying alone on the island. As a result, when the two returned, Li Ying ran away with a foreigner who could be her father because of the green card, which greatly hit Gu Cheng's spirit.
The lover's departure made Gu Cheng's heart begin to despair about the world, and when he barely calmed down, the suitors his wife had known before his job flocked to him, which made Gu Cheng's heart begin to panic again, and his emotions were in a state of high tension.
Gu Cheng began to become unreasonable, and Xie Ye also began to become tolerant. However, such a day is not the life that should be lived between husband and wife after all, coupled with the previous li ying's affairs, Xie Ye began to slowly feel disappointed in Gu Cheng, giving her suitors the opportunity to take advantage of the void.
Soon, a suitor replaced Gu Cheng's position in Xie Ye's heart, making Xie Ye firmly leave Gu Cheng's idea. However, because of the impact of Li Ying's departure, Gu Cheng's heart has long been fragmented, and now Xie Ye is also leaving Gu Cheng, which is undoubtedly the last straw that overwhelms the camel.
In 1993, when Gu Cheng was discussing divorce with Xie Ye, there was an inevitable quarrel, Gu Cheng could not control his emotions, ran to the storage room and took out an axe to cut his wife, and finally led to his wife's death.
In the beginning, Gu Cheng just wanted to teach his wife a lesson, and the result of her death was something he hadn't thought about. However, it has happened, and the departure of his wife makes the sensitive Gu Cheng feel that he has been abandoned by the world.
Gu Cheng wrote four suicide notes, entrusted his son to his sister Gu Xiang to take care of, and then hanged himself and left this world with his wife.
Gu Cheng's experience makes people sigh with emotion. As a poet, Gu Cheng is rich in literary style and romance, but as a father and husband, Gu Cheng is a failure, does not bear his due responsibility, and even finally kills his wife.
But what about childishness? No matter what Gu Cheng did wrong, he should not blame the child and make the child an orphan. However, it has happened, the orphaned fungus, what is his subsequent life?
Wood ear fungus that does not know the past of parents
When he learned that his brother had committed suicide and saw him in his suicide note asking him to take care of Mu Er, his sister Gu Xiang cried silently. Gu Xiang came to Riptide Island, took the fungus abroad, and left this place full of tragedy.
Gu Xiang regarded Mu Er as his own and took care of him as his own son, which allowed Mu Er to spend a happy childhood abroad. Because he was worried that Mu'er would be sad, the family never talked about Gu Cheng in front of him, which also led to Mu'er not knowing anything about his father.
Sometimes God likes to joke with human beings, as a romantic poet, Gu Cheng's son did not inherit his talent, had no interest in poetry, and even felt sleepy when he saw poetry. On the contrary, the fungus was very interested in science and engineering, and showed extraordinary interest from an early age.
For Mu Er's choice in science and engineering, Gu Xiang expressed unconditional support, perhaps also afraid that his nephew would repeat his father's tragedy.
Speaking of his grandson, Grandpa Gu Gong also felt proud. In an interview with reporters, Grandpa said: Mu Er's current results are very good, and he is in good health, optimistic, and there is no problem with Gu Cheng. Now he is learning the basics of science and engineering, and what direction to choose in the future, it is up to him to decide.
When Gu Xiang chose to take Mu Er for adoption abroad, he hoped that he could forget the tragedy on Riptide Island and start everything again. Therefore, Gu Xiang deliberately arranged for Mu Er to receive Western education, and when he usually communicated, he also communicated in English, which made the Chinese who studied before the age of five slowly be forgotten.
For the current fungus, Chinese is incomparably strange, a character like a book in the sky, let alone to read the poems that my father once wrote.
In the eyes of many people, it is a pity for the fungus to learn English. His father had written poems that had influenced a generation or two, and as the son of a great poet, he could not understand Chinese, and there was no way to understand his father's glorious past.
However, we look at the problem from another perspective, which is a good thing for the fungus. Not being able to understand Chinese means not knowing what my father used to do, which is also a kind of protection for the fungus. It can be said that when Gu Xiang made the decision to let Mu Er receive Western education, he really thought about him.
The tragedy of Gu Cheng and his wife was too cruel for the children. Considering this reason, Gu Xiang would think of taking the fungus abroad for cultivation, one is that it can change to a new environment; the other is that few people here know what happened in Gu Cheng.
Facts have also proved the correctness of Gu Xiang's decision, and to this day, Mu Er still does not know what happened to his parents, only that his father is a famous poet.
Mu'er's grandfather, Gu Gong, said that after Mu'er became a family in the future, he would consider telling him the tragedy that had happened to Gu Cheng and his wife according to the timing, and as a child of the two, Mu'er had the right to know what happened. But this is not the time, and we must wait until the best period. Under the deliberate concealment of the family, the fungus really did not know anything about the events of that year.
After the tragedy of Gu Cheng and his wife occurred, Xie Ye's family could not accept such a tragedy, so they broke with Gu Cheng's family, old and dead did not interact with each other, Mu Er still had not seen his mother's relatives so far, and it was even more impossible to know the truth of the tragedy that happened to his parents.
After following his aunt Gu Xiang to live abroad, Mu Er has always communicated with his grandparents by phone, and because he can't say Chinese, when he talks, both parties are chickens and ducks.
But for Grandpa Gu Gong, being able to hear his grandson's voice was already a happy thing, and the mental damage caused to him by the tragedy of his son was too great. Fortunately, now that the grandson can grow up lively and healthy, there is no better news for the elderly than this.
When Mu Er grew up a little, his aunt took him back to China to visit his grandfather, which made Gu Gong happy for several days and could not sleep. After the return of the grandson Mu'er, the grandparents finally met the grandson who had been separated for a long time, which was a very good-looking boy, very similar to the original Gu Cheng, which made the two old people cry.
Thanks to excellent results, the little fungus successfully graduated from Auckland University and found a job as an engineer, although not rich, but at least life is carefree. Only for the tragedy that happened to his parents, Mul still knows nothing.
Although the son does not know himself, as the children of the two, the life of Mu Er is so happy now, I think Gu Cheng and his wife will feel very relieved if Izumi knows.