Cover news reporter Yan Wenwen
On the afternoon of December 19th, the theme interview activities of the 5th Chengdu International Poetry Week continued, and many poets from home and abroad gathered together to discuss the relevance of poetry and urban aesthetics.
The 5th Chengdu International Poetry Week is under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and the overseas edition of People's Daily, sponsored by the Chengdu Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, Chengdu Radio and Television Station, Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Sichuan Shuijingfang Co., Ltd., and co-organized by Chengdu Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature "Caotang" Poetry Publishing House, Chengdu Radio and Television Station News Comprehensive Channel (Chengdu Television Development Co., Ltd.) and other units.
Poetry and the city are actually linked in ancient times, in addition to Li Bai's big stroke of "nine days to open a Chengdu", the poet Du Fu, who has lived in Chengdu for many years, has left many famous sentences in Chengdu: "Xiao see the red wet place, the flowers are heavy in the official city", "Ande Guangsha tens of millions, shelter the world cold people are happy", "Jinjiang spring color comes to heaven and earth, jade floating clouds change ancient and modern" and so on. Their poetry also created Chengdu's urban mood and aesthetic standards.
In participating in the forum "Poetic Expression of Urban Aesthetics", Wu Wanzhen, a post-80s female poet from Deyang, conveyed a concept with her own experience: urban aesthetics is also a process of integration of urban culture and countryside in a certain concept.
"One of my important tasks in recent years has been to participate in the reputation of a city. The aesthetic expression of the city, I think, does not only refer to the urban circle, but the urban culture, and the modern urban culture also includes the countryside. Today's cities are slowly merging with the countryside, and 'countryside' has also been given the concept of 'urban pastoral' to a certain extent. What we are doing is not only building roads and building houses for infrastructure construction, but also carrying out aesthetic transformation. We can see that the post-80s and post-90s groups in the city used to like to visit shopping malls on weekends, but now there are also many people who tend to experience farming culture in townships, so I think that cities and villages are inseparable. The city business card we are building also includes the countryside. ”
"I liked the pastoral poetry of Li Bai and Du Fu, especially when I returned to my hometown in the countryside, I had a better understanding of poetry." Wu Wanzhen quoted several of his favorite poems. "Twilight descends from the Bishan Mountain, the mountain and the moon return with the people", "The birds fly high, the lonely clouds go alone", "Tianshe Qingjiang Qu, Chaimen Ancient Road".
"The current construction of urban aesthetics is also the process of creating urban idylls."
Xiong Youkun, a native poet in Chengdu, also believes that the poetic expression of urban aesthetics is closely related to the aesthetics of pastoralism and nostalgia: "As the largest modern city in southwest China, how to build a city with the smell of fireworks in the world can start from the integration of the imagery of Li Bai and Du Fu. Constructing a poetic urban aesthetic is also calling for a pastoral, nostalgic aesthetic. Combine rural and urban aesthetics to make urban aesthetics more three-dimensional. ”