I write the sentimental words of the small courtyard poem
Author | Feng Enchang
The small farm yard that gave birth to me is the treasure of my life. I began to write poetry in the small courtyard, and in the poetry circle I was called the representative of the small farm school. The hut under the plane tree where I wrote the poem, the old little table under the window of the hut, the small table under the gourd shed where the green leaves were warm, and the small teapot of nanni that my grandfather passed to me when I wrote, are still vividly remembered in my mind. In the small courtyard, I began to learn to write poetry, I wrote folk song-style nostalgia poems, and also wrote about the gourds, lentils, loofahs, pumpkins, flowers and plants in the small courtyard, and things related to the small courtyard. When I wrote a poem, I submitted an article to the newspaper for the first time in a small courtyard, the first time I received a reply from an editor, the first time my poem became a lead word in the newspaper, and the first time I received a meager remuneration. In the small courtyard for the first time to become a poetry writer, the first time to be called a poet, and even the first time to publish their own works, for the first time to truly establish a lifetime to take the road of literary creation, to achieve their dream of being a poet and writer.
The small courtyard is the source of life for creation, the small courtyard is my poetry nest, and the small courtyard is my ideal residence in life. I love the small courtyard, inseparable from the small courtyard, infatuated with the small courtyard, we have established a deep love relationship. I write poems in the courtyard, white gourd flowers, red green lentil pods, green loofahs hanging from the grass rope in the courtyard, the flower crown on the small gatehouse, the hanging melon like a yellow dog on the roof, the red pepper hanging on the wall, the home cooking planted on the courtyard, the silver moon hanging on the top of the old elm tree at night, the grasshoppers clucking on the gourd rack, all of which will produce inspiration for writing poetry. Under the cool gourd shed, several bowls of fragrant tea entered the stomach, passion soared, and inspiration jumped out of the mind. In my small courtyard group poem, there is this one:
Courtyard
Semi-shade green leaves
Half-shaded pods
A small red chamber appeared in the flowers
A watercolor painting in the courtyard
This gourd
Loofah over there
The village girl holds up a spray kettle in her hand
Tennō Scattered Flowers Dance Rainbow
Mountain Villa
Ideal home
After the rain reveals the moon between the clouds
Breeze and people share poetry
The poem, written about this small courtyard, is that the peasant family, under the inspiration of the party's policy, has gradually become richer in life, and a beautiful scene of the small courtyard of peace and prosperity has emerged. This small courtyard is a vegetable garden, a garden, and an amusement park for peasant children. People live here, eat and wear without worry, and live a sweet life. Since the land reform, it has been peaceful and quiet, and with the continuous improvement of the living standards of the peasant families, the small courtyard has gradually abandoned the old and replaced the new, becoming the best place for the peasant family to live and the paradise for celebrating the years. I write small courtyard poems with the intention of embodying such beauty in the human world.
I have been writing poems for more than 60 years, about 5,000 poems in the small courtyard, the majority of which are ten sentences and eight sentences, and only 20 sentences are long. The highlights of the poems in the small courtyard are many and colorful, and there are themes that can never be written. However, in writing small courtyard poems, I am also principled, mainly grasping the following points:
The small courtyard is the most fundamental source of life, and there are endless poems to write
In the small courtyard, the life of poetry is full, and it is impossible to obtain it without much effort. The way of living in the courtyard is handed down from generations of elders in ancient times, with a profound life history and a treasure of life that can never be explored. Don't look at the small courtyard, it not only has a life within the scope of the small courtyard, the people who live in the small courtyard have a close relationship with the society outside the small courtyard, and almost all the people are related to relatives, friends and even all people, and there is an inseparable relationship with the whole nature, and there is also a close relationship with the things outside the small courtyard. Therefore, the waves of life in the small courtyard, string after string, are always flowing and blooming. As long as you live in a small courtyard, inadvertently, the inspiration of poetry will pop out, making people unable to write. For example, the life of the farmer's sister-in-law feeding the chickens, from hatching the chicks to the chicks pecking, to the scene of feeding the chickens and the chirping of the chickens, can arouse people's passion for writing, I once wrote such a poem:
Under the tree a flock of chicks
Pecking at the bugs on the blades of grass
Bright-winged chirping
Peasant woman sweet thoughts
Like a gourd vine
It touches the comfort of farm life
I've written more than a dozen poems about chickens. The poem "Chicks" published in "Stars" was republished as a good manuscript when commemorating the 30th anniversary of its founding.
Small courtyard era strong sense of writing poetry has a sense of freshness
The small courtyard changes with the changes of the times, and whenever a new policy of the party is implemented, it affects the change of the small courtyard. For example, in the era of cooperativeization in the countryside and the era of the Cultural Revolution, small courtyards were greatly affected. In the era of the implementation of the family contract system in the countryside, before the reform and opening up, there was a period of cutting the tail of capitalism, not allowing melons and beans to be planted in the small courtyard, and after the opening of the peasant sister-in-law, there was some aftershock, I observed the appearance of the sister-in-law picking lentils, and wrote a small poem:
Pick lentils
The lentils are ripe
Hanging red eaves
The eldest sister-in-law carries a bamboo basket
Standing stupidly in the small courtyard
Reluctant to pick the hope sown in spring
I wanted to see more of the grand scene I had depicted
The peasant sister-in-law pick it up
The wrists don't have to shake
The courtyard has long belonged to you
Together with the picture scroll woven with melon vegetables
Take off this prosperous and prosperous dynasty
Create a brilliant tomorrow
This poem, written by the peasant sister-in-law's psychological changes is very detailed, was selected by the "Selected Pure Lyric Poems of the Twentieth Century in China". Then came the new era of reform and opening up, the implementation of the land household contract system, the peasants were allocated land, and new changes occurred in the small courtyards. I was interested in writing small courtyard poems, and I felt that this was a good opportunity to come up with good works, so I capitalized close-ups, and finally wrote a group of poems with a strong sense of the times, "Awake Mountain Village", and after the poetry magazine was published, it won the Shandong Provincial Literary Creation Award. Following the party's literary line, writing poems reflects the spirit of the times and gives me a taste of sweetness.
The courtyard is a mirror that reflects the great changes in people's lives
Under the correct leadership of the party, the motherland has prospered and prospered, and while we look at it from a large perspective, we can see the changes in the centenary of the founding of the party from the small courtyard, which is like a mirror that reflects the changes in the whole process. I think that the small poems written continuously are also the best testimony. In the book "New Songs of Landscape and Water Pastoral", I wrote a poem:
Small courtyard Red House
Low and dark
Thatched hut Cooking smoke
Gone is the present
A red chamber goes into the clouds
The old farmer didn't dare to think about it
Stay in your own beautiful dreams
He said what he saw when he went into town
It was realized in the small courtyard
This is the party's good policy in the countryside
A gorgeous picture of a farmer
Writing poems with the development of the times, small courtyard poems can never be written. A new change every day, a new look every year, and the sesame blossoms of the farmer's day are getting higher and higher. The joyous things, the blossoming fruits of the courtyard full of melons and beans, the various preferential treatments given by the party to the people, in the progress of time, have continued to write poems in my pen.
Writing small courtyard poems in a clean and beautiful language must reach a refined level
People living in small courtyards generally use plain language, no esoteric words, as long as they speak clearly, hear clearly, and express the meaning they contain. I have written poetry all my life, and I have always expressed my poetry in ordinary words. However, it is not pure Zhuanghu dialect, but a language like Mandarin after processing and refining. Such a language, fresh, clear, new, interesting, can express passion like water, sentences are not difficult to understand, but there is a deep meaning, some have to ponder, in order to understand the meaning of expression. One one reads:
Night under the melon shed
Small stone table
Fly bursting with laughter
The stars lying in the cracks of the grape leaves were fascinating to hear
A flash fell into the flower placket of the village girl
He was just about to shake off and jump into the old farmer's smoke pot
Spit out a string of red stories of mountain villages
A few banana fans that shake the cool breeze
Fan ran away the farmer's heavy sleepiness
Purr ripe grapes
Dripping with intoxicating honey from summer nights
This poem, all in ordinary language, mixed with some interest, is lively and vivid to read, and is known as a good poem for writing small courtyards. In the mood of a cultured peasant, with fiery passion, spitting out words like clouds and flowing water may be a good poem. Don't drag the text, feel that your writing level is high, many people can't understand the words, and they can't guess it. As a peasant literati, he really wrote poetry, wrote poetry clearly, and wrote a proper lyricism, writing a small courtyard poem that was really touching.
Feng Enchang was born in 1937 in Linqu, Shandong. He once served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the county party committee and the chairman of the Literary Association, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Folk Artists Association, a director of the Shandong Prose Literature Association, a standing director of the China Vernacular Poets Association, a famous poet and writer of the National Pastoral School, a representative of the "Rural Small Courtyard School", and was known as the god of Oriental poetry. His works have won many awards at home and abroad, and have won the honorary title of lifetime achievement of the highest award of folk literature in the Asia-Pacific region, "Golden Flying Eagle Award", and have been named the title of world cultural celebrity and national first-class artist, the inheritor of the legend of Feng Weimin, and has published 23 literary monographs, "Sugar Gourd" and "Hometown Cicada Song", which have been selected to read textbooks in full-time middle schools nationwide.