Zheng Min, a well-known poet, poetry critic and scholar and professor at the School of Foreign Chinese Literature of Beijing Normal University, died in Beijing at the age of 102 due to illness at 7 a.m. today.
This means that the last poet in the Nine Leaf Poetry School has also left the world.
What is the Nine Leaf Poetry School?
The Jiuye poetry school, also known as the Jiuye poets, refers to a modern school of poetry in China in the 20th century, represented by Xin Di, Chen Jingrong, Tang Qi, Mu Dan and so on. He founded New Chinese Poetry in the late 1940s, pursuing the balance between reality and art, sensibility and reason in his new poetry writing.
Among them, Cao Xinzhi, Xin Di, Chen Jingrong, Zheng Min, Tang Qi, Tang Xiang, Du Yunxie, Mu Dan and Yuan Kejia published the "Nine Leaves Collection" in 1981, hence the name. Most of them entered the poetry world under the influence of modernist poets in the 1930s, and half of them were students of Southwest United University, where they studied the literary theories of Western modernism and began to create poetry.
In the early 1980s, some of the Jiuye poets took a group photo from left to right: Chen Jingrong, Du Yunxie, Cao Xinzhi, Zheng Min, Yuan Kejia, and Tang Qi
Zheng Min, born on July 18, 1920, is a native of Minhou, Fujian. In 1939, he was admitted to Southwest Union University, where he studied philosophy 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, she published her first collection of poems, Collected Poems 1942-1947, published by the Cultural Life Publishing House in Shanghai, 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 his homeland and worked at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (formerly known as the Chinese Academy of Sciences) to engage in The Study of English Literature. In 1960, he was transferred to the Department of Foreign Languages of Beijing Normal University to teach.
Zheng Min 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, Mr. Zheng Min's poetry creation gave a new brilliance of life, and he successively published the poetry collection "Seeking Collection" (1986, won the Third National Excellent New Poetry Award of the China Writers Association), "Heart Elephant" (1991), "Morning I Pick Flowers in the Rain" (1991), "Zheng Min Poetry Collection (1979-1999)" (2000) and other poetry works, and translated and published "Selected Contemporary American Poetry" (1987).
Zheng Min wrote a large number of poetry works in her lifetime, especially since the new era of reform and opening up, as an important poet of the "Nine Leaves School", her works have had a broad and far-reaching impact on the development of new Chinese poetry. Her poetry pursues sensibility and rationality, the high unity of "poetry" and "thought", and integrates her concern for human nature and her perception of life into poetic philosophical thinking, and her poetry is 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.
Source: City Express
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