At the end of 2015, a poem "Through Most of China to Sleep with You" swept through social platforms such as Weibo, and in a short period of time, netizens forwarded and commented on this poem hundreds of millions of times, and everyone was shocked and curious about this unconcealed "yellow cavity" poem, and it seemed that reading "Sleeping You" had a sense of breaking taboos.
What netizens did not expect was that the author of this poem who boldly used words and sentences to make sentences was actually a peasant woman in Hubei, called Yu Xiuhua, who was still a cerebral palsy who could not even speak clearly and could not even hold a pen steadily.
Physical disabilities, painful pasts, creative hardships, and more tortuous and bizarre life experiences than operas have also stunned netizens like "Sleeping You".
Digging deeper, everyone found that in fact, 1 year ago, the top mainland journal "Poetry Journal" published 9 of her poems in one go with the main title of "Catching Chickens in the Threshing Ground", and specially held a poetry reading for her.
Immediately afterward, mainstream media such as The People's Daily took advantage of the hot iron to conduct an exclusive interview with her, and Yu Xiuhua soon became a famous poet.
In less than a year, Yu Xiuhua's poetry collections "Moonlight Falls on the Left Hand" and "Shaky Human World" were published and sold well. Not only was the signing sale hot, but with its sales of more than 400,000 copies, it ranked first in the sales list of modern poetry collections.
At the same time, Yu Xiuhua also became a member of the Writers Association, the vice chairman of the Zhongxiang Writers Association, and won various honors in succession, and this phenomenon of red turning purple has never appeared in the literary circles in these years.
And the good are destined to be crusaded by the jealous.
Yu Xiuhua, who was fully accepted by both political and business circles, mainstream culture, and the public, was naturally criticized by many jealous people, and the excuse for the crusade was nothing more than the authenticity and level of her love, character, and talent.
After becoming famous, he kicked off the peasant husband
In December 2015, Yu Xiuhua exchanged 150,000 cash and a house for freedom, and divorced her peasant husband Yin Shiping, who had been married for 20 years, not only the old mother's heart ached to wipe her tears, but many netizens said mercilessly that she "just became famous, I was anxious to abandon my husband and abandon my son!" ”
The old mother wiped her tears and was nothing more than a bodhisattva heart, watching the people who had lived together for 20 years, how much they would be reluctant to leave; second, they were more worried about the old life of their disabled daughters; and third, they cared about the eyes of their neighbors.
Yu Xiuhua bluntly comforted the old mother: "Divorce is not an ugly thing, the days are lived by yourself, and it is stupid to live a life for others to see." ”
And for the crime of "abandoning her husband and abandoning her son" placed by netizens, the abandoned son does not exist, because the son has always been taken care of by her and her parents, and even the tuition fee for the son's study is asked by the parents for several times, and Yin Shiping will be slightly meaningful.
As for the crime of "abandoning her husband", Yu Xiuhua admitted it very happily, and also told her bluntly: divorce is something she thought about for a long time before she became famous, but she suffered from no source of income, and she did not speak well at home.
Romain Rolland said: "The most unbearable pain of a person is perhaps the desire to do something and not to do it. ”
Because his parents did not approve and Yin Shiping did not agree, "abandoning her husband" was not the most unbearable pain in Yu Xiuhua's ridiculous marriage.
Her husband's disgust, indifference, domestic violence, and infidelity, Yu Xiuhua has been silently enduring, really can't hold back, and finally became poetry. Yu Xiuhua once painfully asked Yin Shiping, you don't love me, why do you have to be with me for 20 years?
Since they are two people who do not love each other and are barely tied together, divorce can also be regarded as a relief, Yu Xiuhua is, Yu Yin Shiping is still. With cash and house subsidies, Yin Shiping did not suffer losses in this marriage that was not much to pay.
The two people who went home after pulling the divorce certificate did not quarrel as they used to quarrel when they met, and they also made a few jokes very rarely, and since the parties were different, we wished them each well!
Crazy confession Of Li Jian
Yu Xiuhua was interviewed once, and the host asked her: "Who is your dream lover?" She said without hesitation that it was singer Li Jian. Li Jian is gentle and elegant, talented, and very handsome, and is The male god of Yu Xiuhua.
After the divorce, Yu Xiuhua once promised to write 10 poems for Li Jian.
From 2018 to 2021, Yu Xiuhua wrote six modern poems for Li Jian, from "I like you, Li Jian" to "I want to fall in love with you on crutches."
Although each capital is a masterpiece of modern poetry, her naked confession of love has disgusted Li Jian's fans and violently attacked her on the Internet: harassing Li Jian, toads want to eat swan meat, shameless!
In fact, for the male god Li Jian, Yu Xiuhua is a kind of fan obsession and worship of idols, which is compared with the crazy behavior of fans chasing stars in the rice circle now, Yu Xiuhua wrote a few small poems to Li Jian to remember the throbbing of the past, which is really nothing.
First there was Andy Lau's fan Yang Lijuan, even if he forced his father to commit suicide, he had to frantically pursue idols as an example; then there was Wang Lihong's fan Gao Ruixia, because of years of love, he had to smash Wang Lihong in public as evidence, which is the harassment of the toad who wants to eat swan meat, harm others and harm himself.
Yu Xiuhua simply liked Li Jian, but chose to express his love in the way of writing poetry, just like a fan of the popular top star Xiao Zhan, posted 10 times on the headline number" "Xiao Zhan, I love you!" Does this disturb Xiao Zhan? Is this a mistake? Not really.
"Like" comes from instinct, it is the purest emotion in the world, it is everyone's right, because liking you really has nothing to do with you, it is just my own inner feelings, as long as you have a good time, I will be happy and carefree.
When Yu Xiuhua talked about his liking for Li Jian, he stressed many times: "Liking you is my business, it has nothing to do with you." And she also said that liking does not mean having: "Love is a person's business, if he responds to me, how tacky!" 」 ”
In fact, her liking for Li Jian has risen to a pan-love for beautiful things like the mountains of the famous rivers and lakes.
Li Jian gave Yu Xiuhua a high evaluation of "living in the mud and writing poetry in the clouds", which is also a high emotional intelligence response to her writing poetry, which not only recognizes her talent, but also encourages her to continue to create.
Old cows eat tender grass
Yu Xiuhua released a fierce material at the beginning of the New Year in 2022, and in the video of Yang Yuce on the social platform after the 90s, Yu Xiuhua, wearing a white gauze dress, smiled like a flower on the swing, and Yang Yuce, who was busy pushing the swing behind him, also laughed happily.
Yang Yongce also explained that the two were "meeting in autumn and running in both directions." The implication is that I hope that everyone can understand and bless this year-old love.
But in fact, the reaction of netizens is more questioned: the two-way rush between the post-70s female poets and the post-90s little boyfriends is the attraction of talent? Or a money deal?
To all this, Yu Xiuhua did not formally respond. What is right and what is wrong, what is true and what is false, the passage of time, only time can prove everything.
If this relationship is lucky enough to last, I sincerely wish her happiness. After years of begging, it is good that I can finally embrace love in this day!
If this relationship is unfortunately too short-lived, I still admire her immensely. Even if Heaven was not lenient to her, she never lost the courage to continue to pursue love and be loved.
Yu Xiuhua said: "I have never really experienced the love of skin and the love of the soul, and I am not willing!" ”
If there is no such unwillingness, what else can we do to resist this impermanent fate?
Most of Yu Xiuhua's poems are about love. The heart thinks, the words come out, all her boldness is in the poetry; all her indulgence is in the words.
I sincerely hope that she can find true love and happiness in the real world, and I hope that the person who loves her brilliant talent and loves her hot liver and gallbladder still loves her ordinary appearance of mediocrity.
Yu Xiuhua said in an interview with the Beijing News: "Language is like a mine", and how does she, a well digger, often talk?
"I always feel that Chinese men are not worthy of Chinese women!"
"Mentioning that feminism is inherently unequal, why doesn't anyone advocate patriarchy?"
"Although love is wonderful, her object can change at any time"
"I'm a slut, what's wrong with me?" I do myself, what's the matter with you! ”。
Yes, the shocking language is from Yu Xiuhua's mouth, so many netizens have shouted "disillusionment, collapsed house"!
"Come, make me a slut, or I'll be sorry for what I met in this mighty spring breeze." But Yu Xiuhua's response was even more shocking, directly making people drop their jaws and close their mouths.
As a result, netizens gave her the nickname of "Keyboard Man Terminator".
Yu Xiuhua said: "I never scold people, and I don't scold people. A lot of what looks like a well-intentioned reminder is not a goodwill at all. The first thing I felt was provocation, and the second was looking down at my perspective. Why do you look down on me? Do you have any qualifications to remind me that you count as old? ”
Yu Xiuhua's untold remarks have also extended to other things, making her seem incompatible with this society, and many people have tried to question her character through these black materials, saying that she and her works are cancerous.
That's it? Can it also be considered black material? Although I don't think this is a big deal, in the eyes of many people, these words are black material, and the number of readers who criticize Yu Xiuhua is not a lot.
There is a famous saying in the feudal era: a daughter-in-law for many years has become a wife. The principle is that when a woman is a daughter-in-law, she is too angry, and when she is a mother-in-law, she finally has the right to let others be angry, and simply vent all the sins she has suffered in the first place on the daughter-in-law.
Even now, when our society has progressed, there are many "mothers-in-law" who do not understand, will not, and are unwilling to express love and kindness. The only thing they can do is to give the malice they have suffered to others as they are. These people are the main force of the Internet storm Yu Xiuhua.
In 2015, at the Women's Media Conference, Yu Xiuhua was stopped by the head of a disability organization after receiving the award, saying that she especially liked her and asked her to pay more attention to the disabled.
Yu Xiuhua refused at the time, she said: "If I want to pay attention to this matter, I must pay effective attention, and I will not do unlimited attention." When I don't have the ability, I don't speak up because I can't do anything. When I really want to do it and have the ability to do it, I do it. At least not yet. ”
Frank and true, dare to be angry and dare to speak, do not cover up, do not concave people, is the most simple shining point of Yu Xiuhua, a peasant woman.
Geng Zhi never wanted to earn some false reputation, and what she had to do was really help others. For example, she will fund the disabled within her ability and will donate after the disaster in Henan.
Under the construction of the local new countryside, Yu Xiuhua's old house was planned by the government as "Yu Xiuhua Memorial Hall" to become a popular tourist attraction in the local township, and this tourism industry chain has driven the surrounding farmers to become rich.
And Yu Xiuhua herself went back to her hometown, and she had to find a staff member for half a day to get the key to the door.
Although the government regarded her as a political achievement, the neighbors used her as a cash cow, although these people had not been kind to her.
But she still calmly watched and resigned herself, did not argue, did not ask for credit or reward, and tried to cooperate as much as possible if she could, which was her silent feedback to the side of the water and soil that had raised her.
Chen Guo, a female professor at Fudan University, said: The two major values of life are to live well, and then to help the people around you to live well.
And these two values are like tailor-made for Yu Xiuhua. Buddha does not cross me and I cross my own ferry, such a Yu Xiuhua, do you still need to question her character?
Literati are light?
As Yu Xiuhua's influence grew, the poets in her peers inevitably noticed her, and more and more controversies arose among her peers.
The older generation of obscure poets who wrote "Believe in the Future" looked at Yu Xiuhua's poems and said that she should not be the "future" of the poetry world, and she was extremely disappointed.
He said: "Yu Xiuhua's ideal is to drink coffee and read books, she does not care about the fate of the country at all, does not express the life of the peasants in poetry, expresses the suffering of the peasants, and now the yearning for a better life, and still praises her so red, what does it mean?" Poetry should be serious, otherwise it will only become a joke of history. ”
In the eyes of the index finger, poetry should be for "the countryside, the people, and the big history", and the poetry in Yu Xiuhua's heart is "fireworks, romance, and love." ”
There is no difference between real emotions and inferiority. The index finger and Yu Xiuhua are also real emotions, but one is to write about the family and the world, and the other is to write the true emotions of the children's love.
In fact, Yu Xiuhua also wrote about daily life in the countryside, such as "the dog called the little witch in the family, the wheat in the field, the persimmon tree in front of the door, the threshing ground to catch chickens" and so on.
The beautiful little things she wrote about in rural life, some small blessings in the life of suffering, are the reasons why her poetry has become popular: in the mediocre life, she transmits the ability to perceive beauty and romance.
The history is long and thick, some people are willing to pay attention to suffering, people's livelihood; and the life in front of them is not easy, at this moment, people who read poetry prefer to use poetry as a haven, used to place the feelings that cannot be held in daily life.
If you still question Yu Xiuhua's level of poetry, then I would like to ask you to look at the masterpieces of other famous poets:
Liu Aofu's "Peeing with the Leader";
Wu Qing's "Praise for the White Clouds";
Let's take a look at the 2 poems written by Yu Xiuhua to Li Jian: "I Love You, Li Jian" and "Why I Love This Ridiculous Firework", which completely gallops outside the boundaries of language, making people forget their words, which are the text fireworks that Gu Cheng will never see again after Gu Cheng.
These two poems introduce the rapeseed in the village, the frogs in the field, the wheat field, etc., which are rarely used by contemporary poets, not enough wind and snow, not enough petty bourgeois atmosphere of grounded imagery.
But Yu Xiuhua added the starry sky and other scenery, which is not only fresh and unworldly, but also full of appeal. In order to express her love for her idol, Yu Xiuhua uses the skills of language to achieve the purpose of sublimating her feelings through the analysis of layers of imagery.
Looking at the language, intention, and emotion in Yu Xiuhua's poetry, compared with the masterpieces of these masters above, there is really a sense of déjà vu that is different from cloud and mud.
As for "Sleeping with You Through Most of China", which has the most polarized comments, people who like it praise it as a "declaration of sincere and single-minded love", but those who hate it say that it is a small yellow text, vulgar, vulgar, vulgar and vulgar.
Then please compare the daughter of the great writer Jia Pingwo, Jia Qianqian, who became popular on the Internet with a and poem, and look at the poems she wrote about sex:
After reading Jia Qianqian's poems, the famous scholar Sima Nan was so shocked that he quickly asked the China Writers Association for the standards of modern poetry.
Many people read Jia Qianqian's poems, and then read the full text of Yu Xiuhua's "Sleeping You", and those who scolded her apologized to her. As Yu Xiuhua herself said, when I say sleep with you, I also sleep with you cleanly.
Moreover, love is an indispensable part of the adult world, and avoiding it is not pure, but hypocritical.
Confucius commented on the Book of Poetry: "In a word, it is said: Thinking is innocent." But in this most innocent "Book of Verses", how much love has been written.
Of course, Yu Xiuhua, who is brave and not pretentious, writes boldly if he wants to write.
Just like the evaluation in Yu Xiuhua's award speech:
Her poems, solid and simple, are the poems of authenticity flowing from the veins of reality, the poems of pain that gush out of the tears of survival; her poems, fierce and rough, show the thrill of daily life, directly revealing the mottled and painful nature of the soul.
In 2015, her first and second collections of poems, "Moonlight On the Left Hand" and "The Shaky World", were published in less than a month, with sales exceeding 400,000 copies, becoming the largest poetry collection in China in 20 years. Just last year, "Moonlight On the Left Hand" was translated into English and French and sold well overseas.
In May 2016, Yu Xiuhua's third collection of poems, "We Loved and Forgot", was published, and the first scene in Beijing was crowded. Folk singers Ma Wei and Jiang Shan rushed to help.
In addition to dozens of old works, this collection of poems mainly records her fate from namelessness to popularity, as well as the great changes in marriage and the inner turmoil of her mother's cancer.
In recent years, Yu Xiuhua has won the special prize of 100,000 gold in the third "Peasant Literature Award", the nomination of the first Internet Red Spring Festival Gala and the "Golden Spider Award" for the annual Internet red poet, and the seventh Hubei Literature Award.
Later, he published the essay collection "Gratuitous Joy", and also published the first collection of autobiographical novels, "And in the World".
In the more than ten years since literature has been marginalized, no writer has been so prolific and lucky!
Yu Xiuhua can write 2,000 poems in 7 years, and if there is no ink in his chest, he cannot write it anyway. Moreover, these poems can sell well after publication, and have become a miracle in the sales of modern poetry collections for more than 20 years, which is really loved by everyone.
Such an inspirational and upright, hard-working and prolific poet Yu Xiuhua, pain and beauty coexist, in the end what are you not satisfied with?
If your knowledge of Yu Xiuhua only stops at "Through Most of China to Sleep with You", please read her other works again, so as not to miss a gentle and firm, hot and straightforward, beautiful and moving interesting soul.