Poet Wang Zhiguo: Poetry is also a record of the city

Cover news reporter Yan Wenwen

On December 19th, the 5th Chengdu International Poetry Week Theme Interview Forum "Poetic Expression of Urban Aesthetics" was held.

How to express the aesthetics of the city with poetry? In the eyes of some poets, poetic expression is a good medium in urban aesthetics, and Wang Zhiguo, a native poet in Sichuan, believes that poetry is actually a record of the city.

"When it comes to the expression of poetry in urban aesthetics, we first think of some ancient poems, and there are many in Chengdu. Li Bai's description of Chengdu quoted at yesterday's opening ceremony party is "nine days to open a chengdu, thousands of households into the picture", which is the subtle influence of poetry on a city. Wang Zhiguo said, "Yesterday we were at the Wuhou Ancestral Hall, and the narrator naturally quoted the famous sentence 'Where to find the ancestral hall of the XiangXiang, outside the Jinguan City' in the Shu Xiang, I think it is very good." ”

"Poetry is actually a kind of record. Our life in the city has always been anxious to think about how to find poetry, in fact, to mobilize ourselves, to find poetry in daily life. Whether in the countryside or in the city, people are just passers-by, and the most important thing is to be able to pass the cultural things that are left behind. ”