According to the Poetry Journal, Zheng Min, a famous Chinese poet, poetry critic and scholar and professor at the School of Foreign Chinese Literature of Beijing Normal University, died of illness at 7 o'clock in Beijing on January 3, 2022 at the age of 102.
"Mr. Zheng is older, January 1st is still very good, suddenly ..." The famous poet Lin Mang told the Red Star News reporter that when Zheng Min could still speak in the past two years, he often went to visit and chat with her. Later, when I went again, I found that Zheng Min was a little delirious. In Lin Mang's heart, Zheng Min is a very famous poet in China, very accomplished in poetry research, and among Chinese poets, she is also an old poet with great theoretical attainments. Lin Mang said.
Zheng Min, born on July 18, 1920, is a native of Minhou, Fujian. In 1939, he was admitted to the Philosophy Department of Southwest Union University and graduated in 1943. During his studies at southwest United University, he began to write poetry, and began to publish poetry works in 1943, which was highly affirmed by the poetry critics at that time. In April 1949, the Shanghai Cultural Life Publishing House published her first book of poems, Collected Poems (1942-1947), which established her important position in the history of new Chinese poetry. In 1948, he went to Brown University in the United States and received a master's degree in English literature. In 1955, he returned to the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (formerly known as the Chinese Academy of Sciences) to work in English literature research. In 1960, he was transferred to the Department of Foreign Languages of Beijing Normal University.
It is reported that Zheng Min has devoted his life to the creation of new Chinese poetry, the study of Chinese and Western poetry, the study of contemporary Western philosophical thought, poetry translation and education and teaching. From the 1940s to the 21st century, her creations have gone through 80 years of ups and downs, and her creative vitality has been enduring. After the reform and opening up in 1979, Zheng Min's poetry creation shone with new vitality, and he successively published the poetry collection "Seeking Collection" (1986, won the Third National Excellent New Poetry Award of the Chinese Writers Association), "Heart Elephant" (1991), "Morning I Pick Flowers in the Rain" (1991), "Zheng Min's Poetry Collection (1979-1999)" (2000) and other poetry works, and translated and published "Selected Contemporary American Poetry" (1987). Mr. Zheng Min has written a large number of poetry works in his lifetime, especially since the new era of reform and opening up, as an important poet of the "Nine Leaf School", her works have had a broad and far-reaching impact on the development of new Chinese poetry. In 2006, Zheng Min won the "Poet of the Year Award" from the CCTV New Year Poetry Conference, and in 2017, he won the Poetry Creation Award of the 6th Zhongkun International Poetry Award.
At the same time, Zheng Min has conducted extensive and in-depth explorations in Chinese and Western poetry criticism, poetry aesthetic thought, deconstructivist philosophical thought, Chinese language, culture, etc., with outstanding results and far-reaching influence. Her publications include Studies in Anglo-American Poetry and Drama (1983), Structure-Deconstruction Perspective: Language, Culture, and Review (1998), Poetry and Philosophy as Neighbors: Structure-Deconstructed Poetics (1999), and Thinking, Culture, and Poetics (2004). In 2012, the six-volume Zheng Min Anthology was published.
The School of Foreign Chinese Literature of Beijing Normal University wrote in its obituary that Mr. Zheng Min's poetry pursues sensibility and rationality, and the high unity of "poetry" and "thought", integrating her concern for human nature and her perception of life into poetic philosophical thinking, and her poems are closely related to the vicissitudes of the times and the fate of Chinese intellectuals. In terms of the aesthetics of poetry creation, her poems focus on the exploration of the heart, showing the confession of the soul, dialectical thinking, beautiful and complex imagery, which has brought major breakthroughs to contemporary poetry. Her exploration of contemporary Western philosophical thought, her thinking on new poetry and Chinese, her concern for the fate of mankind, and her concern for issues such as science and humanistic education all show the courage, responsibility and noble sentiment of a Chinese poet and intellectual to seek truth.
Zheng Min taught a number of basic English courses while teaching in the Department of Foreign Languages of Beijing Normal University (later renamed the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the Chinese). In 1981, she began to recruit master's degree students, teaching Shakespeare's plays, British metaphysical poetry, Romantic poetry, British and American modern and contemporary poetry, Chinese modern and contemporary poetry, deconstructivist literary theory and other courses. In 1986, due to Zheng Min's academic achievements and extensive influence, the Department of Foreign Languages of Beijing Normal University was approved as the first doctoral degree in english discipline of domestic teachers' colleges and universities. In that year, she began to recruit doctoral students, and her research direction was mainly Western dissertation and deconstructivist philosophical thought.
Zheng Min's poems ·
Longing: A male lion
There was a wide open mouth in my body
It resembles a roaring male lion
It rushed to the bridgehead of the river
Watch the turbulence under the bridge
The ship that glides quietly across the bridge hole
It hears the times roaring
It was as if the elephants in the forest were roaring
It looked back at me
Walked back into the cage of my body
The golden retriever of the lion resembled daylight
The elephant's roar was like a drum
Flowering vitality returned to my body
The lion took me to the bridgehead
There, I went on a date
To the God of Poetry
Suddenly I heard the call
There is no time to look for pen and ink
It's like a tidal wave
Just go in silence
Aoyama cannot be recovered
Qiu Shui only swelled on its own
I followed with my eyes
The echo of the sky in an instant
Space floats all the time
You and I are hard to catch track of
Water only stays when it flows
Clouds are only intentional when they change
I hear your breath
The wind was blowing news from the woods
Red Star News reporter Zeng Qi
Edited by Li Jie
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