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The golden bouquet of rice stood
Cut the autumn fields
I think of countless tired mothers
……”
The author of this poem is Zheng Min
He is a native of Minhou, Fuzhou, Fujian
Famous Chinese poet, poetry critic and scholar
Professor of the School of Foreign Chinese Literature of Beijing Normal University
As the last poet of the "Nine-Leaf School"
Her poems
It has influenced countless literary youth
7 a.m. on January 3
She is 102 years old
But it is forever away from us
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 1940s, and pursues the balance between reality and art, sensibility and rationality in the writing of new poems.
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 modern 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.
Zheng Min, whose original surname was Wang, had attended middle school in Nanjing
Zheng Min, born on July 18, 1920, is a native of Minhou, Fujian. Many people do not know that Zheng Min was actually originally surnamed Wang. She was a native of Minhou, Fujian, and her grandfather, Wang Youdian, was a well-known local poet. Her biological father studied in France and Belgium, specializing in mathematics. Her biological mother studied private school and was very fond of poetry.
Zheng Min recalled before his death that when he was young, he was passed over by his parents to his aunt, and then naturally changed his surname to Zheng with his uncle' surname, that is, his adoptive father. She once joked that she could live a long life, perhaps closely related to the family environment when she was a child.
When she was young, Zheng Min was frail and sickly, and her adoptive father often let her participate in sports activities. For a while, she went to work and live in the Liuhegou Coal Mine in Henan with her adoptive parents, and her adoptive father took her to climb the mountain every day, and encouraged her to learn to swim, exercise while also cultivating her strong will quality.
When he got older, Zheng Min's family moved to Nanjing. Born smart, she did not have time to finish the sixth grade, and was directly admitted to the Jiangsu Provincial Nanjing Girls' High School to attend junior high school. Her academic career in Nanjing had a great influence on her literary career, and here she was exposed to a large number of literary works, from Charlotte M. Brontë, Nietzsche, to Li Yu and Li Qingzhao, she read no books.
Equating writing poetry with the breath of the mind
In 1939, Zheng Min 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, the Shanghai Cultural Life Publishing House published her first collection of poems, Collected Poems 1942-1947, which established her as an important place 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, 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 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).
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.
In an interview, The famous poet Ji Di Majia, former vice chairman of the China Writers Association, said that Zheng Min is a very important poet in contemporary China, and her poetry creation and poetry theory research have witnessed the historical process of most of the new Chinese poetry. "She is not only a witness to The New Chinese Poetry, her own existence is a symbol in the history of the development of Chinese poetry, a living fossil."
In 2006, CCTV selected Zheng Min as the "Recommended Poet of the Year", and the recommendation said that he was "an evergreen tree of poetry". Zheng Min responded to the incident in an interview, saying, "Like 'spring silkworm to the end of the dead silk', a poet who equates writing poetry with his own spiritual breath will naturally live a day and write a day." Of course, if it is really 'exhausted', it is only like a singer who has lost his voice, listens to the singing, and continues to revel in the singing of others. Poetry can give strength to all the noble emotions and actions of human beings, but she can also patiently wait and summon the awakening of passion at the low tide of history in the silence and silence. History is always rich, the climax has the excitement of the climax, the evil waves have the anger of the evil waves, the rising tide of the dawn rolls from the sky, bringing the anticipation of a new day, the silence of the dark moment has the silent contemplation, and the poem is always their notch and footprint. The poet's poetry does not come only from his own feelings, his ears listen day and night to the waves of history, and the heartbeat of mankind. ”
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Keep a girlish mindset keep thinking and creating
Anqi, a Fujian poet who has been working in Beijing, has interviewed Teacher Zheng Min many times, and the deepest impression that Teacher Zheng gave her was her frank personality, sunny mentality and philosophical speculation.
"Teacher Zheng is particularly simple, her speech and demeanor have a naïve and romantic girlish feeling, chatting with her is very relaxed, Teacher Zheng always blurts out her views, or deep or poetic, talking with Teacher Zheng, there are many places where she will be happy." Angel Qi recalled that when interviewing the elderly Zheng Min for the first time, she found that her voice was as crisp and pleasant as a young girl, her smile was stretched, and sometimes there was a mischievous look, very affinity and appeal, Teacher Zheng has not been an old man's old dragon bell, leaving people always so agile, whether action or thinking.
In the process of conversation, Anqi found that the old man Zheng Min's language expression ability is particularly strong, and he can talk endlessly and can say on the phone for half an hour without resting. It is really very vital, Teacher Zheng's language logic is very meticulous, and it is an article to be recorded directly. The exchange with Teacher Zheng is to listen to Teacher Zheng teach poetry lessons, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign, side to the quotation, Teacher Zheng is also a scholar of Chinese and Western cultures, always able to expound her poetic insights at the height of comparative literature, is a rare female poet with rich knowledge and dialectical thinking. Angel said, "Teacher Zheng especially emphasizes the importance of philosophy to poetry writing, and one of the things he often says is that philosophy is the close neighbor of poetry. Speaking of Southwest United University, Teacher Zheng was very happy to recall that he was young and ignorant at that time, and he always ran to Teacher Feng Zhi's house when there was nothing to do, even if he carried a small bench and sat in front of Teacher Feng Zhi's door to read, he was very happy, regardless of whether it would affect the teacher's rest. ”
102-year-old Zheng Min can be described as a high lifespan, Anqi said, "Teacher Zheng is a person who is basically not in motion, ask her the secret of health and longevity, she said not to exercise, Teacher Zheng also cited the example of the turtle not moving, 'the turtle does not move to live for a thousand years', this sentence I first heard from Teacher Zheng, it is very shocking, completely subverting the conventional view that life lies in movement." Of course, I think the secret of Teacher Zheng's longevity should be a good mentality and pursuit, life lies in making a difference, No matter how old Teacher Zheng is, she maintains a state of thinking and creation, otherwise she is pedantic and numb, which is the secret of her longevity. ”
She is a valuable asset in Fujian
In 2015, when interviewing Teacher Zheng Min by phone, Zheng Min said: "The impression of my hometown is not clear, I returned to Fuzhou when I was very young, and I only remember that the people there love poetry. When I grew up, I never returned to Fuzhou. Anqi will always talk about Fujian in several interviews with Teacher Zheng, and can feel Teacher Zheng's recollection and distant hope for his hometown, Teacher Zheng has always regretted that he rarely returns to his hometown, "Maybe when he is older, he always cares more about the adoption and summoning of his hometown", Anqi said, "Teacher Zheng Min is a Fujianese, the pride and precious wealth of Fujian." ”
In 2020, he took a group photo with a girl and a child at the age of 100
On Zheng Min's 100th birthday in 2020, the girl Wei recorded a small video of her mother on a whim and hung it on the Internet, in which Zheng Lao said, "I am Zheng Min who is studying! I'm 100 years old, but every day I feel like I'm not done yet! In Elder Zheng's heart, reading is far more important than his other labels, and he is a reader. Zheng Min blessed everyone and said: "Always feel that you can't finish the road you want to take." [In this way] you will gradually see a certain kind of progress of your own, and then enjoy the process of progress, and have new feelings. I hope you can see something that you can see. Netizens saw the video and exclaimed that the old poet was too temperamental, accurate and poetic.
Today, Zheng Min has completed her legendary 102-year life path.
The poet travels far, and the poetry lives on
Zheng Min's poems
Golden rice bunches
Golden rice bunches stood
In the fields of autumn that have been cut,
I think of countless tired mothers,
On the road at dusk I saw that beautiful wrinkled face,
The full moon of harvest day is here
On the top of the towering trees,
In the twilight, the mountains are far away
Around our hearts
No statue could be more silent.
Shoulders carry that great tiredness, you
In this stretch out to the far side
The autumn fields bow their heads in contemplation.
Silence. Silence. History is nothing more than that
A small river flowing at the foot,
And you, standing there,
Will become a human thought.
Lotus
——Guan Zhang Daqian's painting
This one, with it, seems to never wither
The cup, filled with the joy of blossoming, stands
There it's like a towering mountain
It carries an eternity that people forget to say
That roll, not eager to stretch the childish leaves
Expectations are preserved in a pure heart
Only to cross the hazy water and look at the world
Refuse to also wear old and faded clothes
But what is the real theme?
In this painful performance? This bends
A lotus stalk that hangs the flower deeply
In your roots, it is not the urge of the wind
Traces of rain, however, because it came from the Creator
Bear more "birth" in your hands, this serious burden
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
Deeply remembered
All the way!
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