Literary ascetic
Text/Tan Talk
The publication of Xiang Wei's three-volume poetry collection "Twelve Causes and Conditions" is a pioneering achievement in the Literary Circle of Hunan Province, and can also be said to be an important harvest of the Poetry Circle.
Literature has always been the career of the lonely. The bench has to sit cold for ten years, and the plum blossom fragrance comes from the bitter cold. Xiang Wei created the longest "aircraft carrier" of Chinese personal poetry with the huge amount of more than 20,000 lines of poetry, and he sang the experience and trek of the life process with the persistence and perseverance of the poet, with his heart and affection. With his tireless spirit of hard work, he searched up and down the path of the past, present, and future. This spirit of exploration is fully demonstrated in the poem "Twelve Causes and Conditions".
Xiang Wei is a writer who has achieved many achievements in his literary career, and he has won poetry, biography, novels, red studies, film and television, especially he won the 27th Hunan Youth Literature Award. At the same time, he was also a monk with a deep study of Buddhism. In the cross-border role transformation, he has a very distinctive feature, that is, he insists that Qingshan does not relax, has ideals, has pursuits, and reaches the other shore of his ideals with the spirit of an ascetic monk and the spirit of not giving up without reaching the goal. It is with this spirit that he can go to poverty for decades, thinking, seeking, meditating, pondering, chewing, and brewing such a breathtaking long volume of poetry between the landscapes and rivers of Changde Huayan Creek.
Poetry, poetry. Xiang Wei is a monk, but his poem is full of attention to real life and full of the spirit of joining the world. The history of the family he wrote about is actually a reflection of social life. Because of his family's poverty, after experiencing the hardships of life, he resigned from his hometown at the age of seventeen, walked out of the remote mountains of Shimen, and became a monk in Changde Huayan Creek. But even if he is an outsider, he still pays great attention to his hometown, and when he is in a slightly better situation, he helps the development of tourism in his hometown and pours his love into the widows and the elderly, left-behind children. He put into practice the great love of Buddhism, he combined the teachings of Pudu sentient beings with real life, and this two-pronged approach of birth and entry into the world was not inconsistent, so that Xiang Wei was full of positive significance in practicing Buddhist teachings.
Xiang Wei's attitude of taking pleasure in suffering, helping others for pleasure, and contentment for pleasure constitutes the essential characteristics of the long poem "Twelve Causes and Conditions" toward goodness, upward mobility, and beauty. We call this long poem a certain epic quality because the whole poem is interwoven with three threads, forming a grand picture of repeated questioning of life, the homeland, and the Buddha. The first is the secret history of his personal and family derivation and development; the second is the history of the evolution and development of the Yuanshui River Basin; and the third is the history of the development of Buddhist Zen Buddhism in China. His poems combine these three organically and become one. According to the causal relationship between the origin and the end of Buddhist life, the "Twelve Causes and Conditions" has not exceeded the rules from the heart, and has always followed its own mental path and listened to the inner call to reflect the relationship between the change of the heart and the change of the times, which makes the more mysterious Buddha say that it changes into concrete people and things, so that people can touch the vivid life of the real society. This makes this long poem both aesthetic and historical value.
"Twelve Causes and Conditions" is a poem born of the times, and although it comes from Buddhism, we can still see the strong atmosphere of the times. Poetry is composed for the sake of things, and this flower of poetry that blooms in the Buddhist world sways on the stage of the times.
As a monk, in the context of Guotai Min'an, he was in the Buddhist world to meditate on his mind, eliminate distractions, and use poetry to express his praise for today's prosperity. Articles are written for the times, and songs and poems are written for the sake of things. At a time when some people in the current literary and art circles are impetuous, the appearance of Xiang Wei's "Twelve Causes and Conditions" is nothing more than a long song of pure zen. In particular, let us pay tribute to the spirit and will of the undecetic monks, dedicated to such a huge poem of the times.
Tan Tan, born in 1944 in Lianyuan, Hunan, is a member of the Communist Party of China, a deputy to the 13th and 15th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China, an alternate member and member of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the sixth, seventh and eighth vice chairmen of the China Writers Association, and now the honorary vice chairman of the China Writers Association. In 1959, he entered the factory as an apprentice, joined the army in 1961, demobilized and returned to the coal mine in 1968, and successively worked as a welder, a propaganda officer in the mining area, and a journalist. In 1978, he was transferred to workers' daily as a reporter, in the same year he was transferred to the literary and art department of Hunan Daily, and in 1984, he was transferred to the Hunan Provincial Writers Association as a professional writer, and later served as executive vice chairman and secretary of the party group. In 1995, he was elected chairman of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature. His works "Bending in the Mountain Road" won the National Excellent Novella Award from 1981 to 1982, the novels "Wind and Rain Mountain Middle Road" and "Mountain Wild Love" won the first Ugin Award in China, the long autobiographical literature "Life Road Bend" won the Fourth National Youth Book Award, and the novella "Mountain Mist Dissipated" and "What Song Do You Leave Behind" won the first and second National Ugin Awards. In 2002, he was rated as the first batch of outstanding experts in Hunan Province.