Gu Cheng's Death: What are the neglected issues behind the labels of poet, soft rice man, and wife murderer?
In 1993, the most shocking thing in the Chinese poetry world was the death of Gu Cheng.
It is difficult to associate a fairy tale poet who has written a large number of beautiful verses with a murderer who cruelly chops his beloved wife to death with a sharp axe, but this is the case. Some people today even hate Gu Cheng, disparaging his poetry along with his people, saying that he is a scumbag, a narcissist, and a murderer.
If you want to understand Gu Cheng, you must go to his childhood to find the reason.
Gu Cheng's wife, Xie Ye, is two years younger than Gu Cheng, and one day in July 1979, the two met on the train, and the two literature lovers had endless topics to talk about. Xie Ye, who was overwhelmed by love, did not know that Gu Cheng was actually a young man with psychological problems, and if she could detect it early, perhaps the tragedy of being slashed and killed could be avoided.
Gu Cheng went to Xie Ye's house to propose marriage, Xie Ye's mother felt that Gu Cheng was not an ideal son-in-law, how much money could he sell for writing poetry? She didn't want her daughter to eat the last meal without the next meal.
Gu Cheng came to a riot operation at this time, which made Xie Ye's mother suspect that he was neurotic. It is true that the prince courting the princess will wait under her window for a long time, but he will not never be like Gu Cheng- making a wooden box and placing it in front of Xie Ye's house, lying in it himself, the Xie family does not agree to their marriage, he will not leave.
Oh my God, Gu Cheng's forced marriage method is really scary to death, you are equivalent to setting up a coffin in the future mother-in-law's house. People with normal heads can't do this! Xie Ye's mother asked Gu Cheng to go to the hospital for examination, and the psychiatrist showed a certificate that Gu Cheng was all right, which agreed to the marriage between the two.
From the matter of forced marriage, Gu Cheng's selfish paranoia and self-centered childishness have begun to appear.
The fairy tale poet Gu Cheng is a premature child: cheng is also childlike, and defeat is also childish
To understand Gu Cheng, we must look at his growth history. Everyone praised him as a fairy tale poet, with beautiful verses, bold and strange imagination, and childlike fun, which is rare for an adult. However, in my opinion, Gu Cheng's ability to write such a poem actually has a lot to do with his psychological age.
I have a strong intuition: Gu Chengcheng is also childlike and childlike. Gu Cheng's childlike heart stems from his pathological personality — a wounded child who refuses to grow up lives inside.
Gu Cheng was born in Beijing on September 24, 1956, and because of his mother's health, Gu Cheng came to this world 7 weeks earlier than the expected date of delivery, which means that Gu Cheng was a premature baby.
A growing body of medical research has shown that premature babies tend to have the following physical developmental symptoms: late speech, slow toddler, poor motor skills, poor communication, and not looking directly into the eyes when talking to people... In addition, from the perspective of psychological development, the incidence of mental health disorders in preterm infants in childhood is significantly higher than that of full-term children of the same age.
The more typical psychological characteristics of premature babies are insecurity and easy fear and anxiety. Because he was not ready to come to this world, fate hurriedly pushed him out of his mother's gentle village.
Premature babies, insecure children, strong control, defensiveness, poor social skills, sensitive and suspicious, irresponsible, self-centered, and have a stronger sense of love and fear than the average person.
If you understand the development law of premature babies, and then look at Gu Cheng's life, it is not difficult to understand his shocking behavior. Are there bound to be behavioral and psychological disorders in premature babies? Not necessarily, it all depends on the acquired growth environment.
Some premature babies are very intelligent and their personal achievements are also outstanding, and the physicist Einstein, the naturalist Darwin, the astronomer Newton, the politician Churchill, and the writer Mark Twain are all premature babies.
If Gu Cheng's premature birth is the unfortunate beginning of fate, then childhood catching up with the vigorous political movement is undoubtedly the worsening of fate. A special childhood is destined for a special life. Anyone who understands child psychology knows that childhood experiences and childhood memories affect a person's entire life.
Gu Cheng's childhood may only be summed up in one word, that is, fear. When a child is afraid, if the parents can accompany him, it will be a great comfort and healing for the child, but unfortunately, the parents are not around to accompany him.
Gu Cheng recalled the past: "They are always absent, they often leave, year after year. I just hung a key around my neck and went to the cafeteria to eat by myself at the age of seven or eight; then I went home and walked the long corridor by touching the black child, scared to death, running into the house to get a quilt cover, and shrinking the corner of the wall and falling asleep. Sometimes I fall asleep with a stick in my hand. ”
Special social and historical background and family life environment, let Gu Cheng lose trust in the world, when he needs the company of his parents the most, he is ignored and forgotten, does not feel any love, can only endure the torture of negative emotions alone, such psychological harm, let him form an extremely divided personality, he does not like to deal with people, eager to live a secluded life, so that he can avoid the noise of strife, he has been fantasizing about his ideal country since childhood.
Gu Cheng did not like to talk to people since he was a child, and when there were guests at home, he chose to run away. Other children gathered to play, and he preferred to be alone under the tree to watch the ants. Compared with the personality and psychological characteristics of the premature baby mentioned above, Gu Cheng's behavior style is not surprising at all - he has some psychological obstacles on social issues.
If the parents can detect it in time and give the right guidance - but there are not so many in the world, Gu Cheng's father, Gu Gong, is an old revolutionary and a writer, who has written poems, plays, and novels. In 1969, at the age of 13, Gu Cheng followed his father to a place called Huodao Village in Shandong. At this time, Gu Cheng was more withdrawn, he looked autistic, cowardly, sensitive and suspicious, and out of control.
Gu Gong actually did not let Gu Cheng go to school and teach him how to integrate into collective life and how to get along with people, but chose to educate himself. When children of the same age enjoy group life and experience interpersonal social interaction at school, Gu Cheng enjoys himself in the ideal world he has built. He didn't know how to get along with people from the beginning because he never jumped out of his own world and couldn't think from the standpoint of others, which led to his extreme selfishness later on.
Gu Cheng's poem "I Am a Wayward Child", which has such a verse:
From the perspective of literary and artistic creation, this poem is full of children's innocence and rich and beautiful imagery. However, combined with Gu Cheng's growth experience, is this not the psychology of a giant baby boy who refuses to grow up? Gu Cheng's father also wrote poetry, and he found his son's poems particularly childish and seriously out of touch with real life. So the old revolutionary decided to educate his son in realism.
Gu Gong took Gu Cheng to Chongqing to see the Zha Di Cave and the White Mansion, hoping that his son could face up to reality and make revolutionary changes in his creation. However, the verse gu cheng wrote while crying was:
Li Meijin once said such a thing when talking about criminal psychology, which basically means that parents personally participated in raising children in the early years, and the painstaking efforts paid for children are the psychological capital that controls and affects children. At this time, Gu Gong probably understood that he could not influence his son Gu Cheng, and he was stubborn and insisted on following his own coming.
Gu Cheng's marriage: Xie Ye is not his wife, but a spiritual mother
Unveiling the hazy veil, the truth is often cruel and cold - Gu Cheng can write such beautiful poems, because he lives in his heart with a sensitive and delicate child. This child is in the literary kingdom, he can unleash his talents, but in the real world, he is afraid, flustered and helpless.
I said that he was also a child's heart and a child's heart, and I will talk about the unbearable reality of his life.
Gu Cheng's talent was a kind of salvation for himself, but also a kind of siege. If Gu Cheng did not have the talent to write poetry, he estimated that it would be difficult to find an object. Xie Ye's admiration for him stems from her love of literature, if the Shanghai woman Xie Ye likes money, especially clear, Gu Cheng how to mess around, they can't come together.
In the years after their marriage, Gu Cheng and Xie Ye's life was very hard. But the two young men were happy. Gu Cheng's ability to take care of himself is close to zero, and he is very dependent on his wife Xie Ye. At this time, Gu Cheng's desire for control had been revealed, but Xie Ye was dazzled by her husband's literary aura and chose to tolerate him.
To give two random examples, Gu Cheng asked Xie Ye to cook meals without separating the ends of a pot, because this would save fire. When Gu Cheng wrote the poem, he asked Xie Ye to accompany him.
It is the nature of men to like to sow seeds everywhere so that they can retain their genes. However, the boy will not, for example, Gu Cheng, Xie Ye gave birth to a son Mu Er for him, but he has no feelings for his son, and even hates this child very much. The arrival of the child disturbed his creation, and also divided Xie Ye's love for him, and he was more disgusted and repulsive to his son.
Gu Cheng had once committed acts of violence against his son, and even threatened to kill him, so that Xie Ye had to put mu'er in foster care with a Maori. What kind of people compete with their children for love? Psychologically unanheated men. Robbing his wife with his own children, is this not exactly the mentality of the eldest son and eldest daughter in the family who are afraid of their parents having a second child and snubbing themselves?
During the time when Xie Ye and Gu Cheng lived on Waihei Island, Xie Ye had to earn money to support his family, and Gu Cheng was a parasite. He refused to learn English, claiming to affect native writing. Laundry and cooking Gu Cheng will not, will not communicate with the locals, he has been praised and sought after in China, there is no sense of existence and value in foreign countries, he is also very depressed. At this time, a woman named Ying Er walked into their lives.
Many people scold Gu Cheng as a scumbag or a soft rice man, which has to mention his deformed love triangle. Ying'er, who was born in the Chinese Department of Peking University, confessed to Gu Cheng in front of Xie Ye, and Gu Cheng actually did not refuse. Ying'er hooked up with Liu Zhanqiu, the editor-in-chief of the "Poetry Journal", and wanted Xiao San to force the palace to ascend to the throne, but after two years of failure, she wanted to hook up with Gu Cheng to go abroad.
Gu Cheng does not have a penny of income, self-centered, of course, no shame, pestering his wife Xie Ye to contribute money, run cumbersome procedures for Ying'er to go abroad, and buy a plane ticket for Ying'er. Xie Ye's money was not easy to come by, and she wanted to raise chickens and sell eggs to save money. Xie Ye actually agreed, so to say, Xie Ye and Gu Cheng's marriage, from the beginning, was misplaced, Xie Ye admired Gu Cheng's talent and tolerated everything about him, and Gu Cheng, a psychological giant baby boy, he worked tirelessly to make up for his childhood, he was not looking for a wife, but a mother, only a mother would tolerate her son's chaos in this way.
In the marriage between Xie Ye and Gu Cheng, Xie Ye has always been a giver, working hard and complaining, and arranging Gu Cheng's life in every detail, that is, a nanny. However, she is a woman, she will also be tired, she also hopes to get the love and support of men, one day, Xie Ye is tired and awakened. She wanted to get out of this deformed and chaotic relationship, but how could Gu Cheng, a person with no ability to survive, endure being abandoned?
Gu Cheng raised his axe to his wife, he was actually afraid and helpless, he could not imagine life without Xie Ye, and he had to return to the situation of no one caring for him in his childhood. Gu Cheng's lack of maternal love in his childhood caused him serious harm, and he made up for the spiritual gap caused by childhood trauma in Xie Ye, who was his life-saving straw.
Throughout his life, Gu Cheng was a child, and poetry was his salvation and his siege. If there is no poetry, he is nothing.