Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
On the third day of 2022, the news came that a poet had traveled far away. The School of Foreign Chinese Literature of Beijing Normal University released to the public: Zheng Min, a famous Chinese poet, poetry critic and scholar, and professor of the School of Foreign Chinese Literature of Beijing Normal University, died of illness at the age of 102 in Beijing at 7 o'clock on January 3, 2022.
As an important poet of the "Nine Leaf Poetry School", Zheng Min's works had a broad and far-reaching impact on the development of new Chinese poetry. When the news of Zheng Min's death came, the poetry circle expressed its condolences. Liang Ping wrote in the circle of friends: "The last leaf of the nine leaves is flying, Mr. Eons. Wang Jiaxin mentioned, "Mr. Zheng Min's translated poems are also a valuable legacy, which has benefited many contemporary Chinese poets and is worth studying well." ”
Gong Xuemin also believes: "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." ”
Hu Liang said: "I was surprised to learn that Mr. Zheng Min died at the age of 102 today, and all nine leaves have withered away. I remember that in October 2016, I was studying at Peking University, and one night I went to Tsinghua Garden to visit her bit by bit. ”
What is the Nine Leaf Poetry School?
The Nine Leaf Poetry School, also known as the Nine Leaf Poets, refers to a modern poetic genre in 20th-century China. The members include Xin Di, Mu Dan, Zheng Min, Yuan Kejia and nine others. In 1981, the nine men published the Nine Leaves Collection, hence the name. The Jiuye poetry school consciously pursues the combination of realism and modernism, pays attention to creating new and peculiar images and realms in poetry, and contributes to the development of new poetry. 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 write poetry.
Studied in the Department of Philosophy of Southwest United University
Zheng Min was born on July 18, 1920, in 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.
In 2012, the six-volume Zheng Min Anthology was published. Zheng Min's poetry pursues sensibility and rationality, and the high unity of "poetry" and "thinking", integrating her care 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.
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.