Recently, I was "hooked" on the Chinese Poetry Network, because on it, I can always see some "novelty" things, full of harvest. Before, I always looked only at the front, that is, the headlines. Today, idle and fine, I want to see who sponsored this "Chinese Poetry Network"?
The image comes from China Poetry Network
So, I swiped to the bottom of the web page and saw "Organizer: Poetic Spring and Autumn (Beijing) Network Technology Co., Ltd." What does this web company do? Curiosity drove me to search. Well, the legal representative of this network company turned out to be "Li Shaojun", and the "executive director" was also "Li Shaojun". Is this "Li Shaojun" Li Shaojun, the editor-in-chief of the Poetry Journal? We can't verify that.
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However, as far as the organizers of the China Poetry Network and the co-sponsored publications of the China Poetry Network are "Poetry Journal", this "Legal Representative and Executive Director Li Shaojun" is basically "Li Shaojun, editor-in-chief of "Poetry Journal". The appearance of two "Li Shaojun" with the same name and surname, and both engaged in the poetry industry, this probability is very, very small, almost impossible.
This is a bit interesting, the editor-in-chief of the Poetry Journal is actually the legal representative and executive director of a network company. We can think that Li Shaojun is indeed busy enough. On the one hand, he had to control the direction and overall situation of the Poetry Journal, and even took responsibility for each manuscript. On the other hand, he is also responsible for the network company.
Poetry, in the eyes of ordinary people, is an "elegant cause", as if it is not related to the business behavior of "stained with copper". However, Li Shaojun has "perfectly unified" the two, which has to be said to be a "miracle". This "Poetic Spring and Autumn (Beijing) Network Technology Co., Ltd." with a registered capital of 3 million yuan has made Li Shaojun also a businessman.
The nature of the merchant is to pursue the maximization of profits, while the nature of the poet is to abandon the world. "Merchants weigh profits lightly, and buy tea in the former moon." In Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing" of the Tang Dynasty, the definition of "businessman" is "heavy profit". In our traditional poetry, the "merchant" is always a symbol of not so good, with almost no poetry.
Will Li Shaojun, who has the identity of a "businessman", "subconsciously" maximize the interests of the Poetry Journal? We can't guess for no reason, but going back and forth between two contradictions for a long time may also have the possibility of "going astray".
Not only that, Li Shaojun, editor-in-chief of the Poetry Journal, is also a visiting professor at the Beijing Second Chinese College and the general adviser of the Hainan University Literary Society Alliance. Let's see, how busy is Li Shaojun? With so many "mundane affairs", how much time does Li Shaojun have to take care of the Poetry Journal?
But this worry is obviously superfluous. How popular is the poetry journal now? One issue in January is not enough, it should be broken into two and a half months to use. It can be described as "like a city" and "supply outstrips demand". As for whether it Chinese core journal, what does it matter? Did it affect the "prosperity" of the Poetry Journal? Not at all.
Poetry, including poets, is meant to be pyrotechnic and cannot be suspended in mid-air. Therefore, poetry and poets walked off the altar and threw themselves into the torrent of commerce, which can actually enrich the content of our poetry writing. Didn't Li Shaojun write a long poem "Song of Breaking into the Sea" and also won the China Long Poetry Award?
Part of "Song of the Sea"
Writing this, I really have to admire Li Shaojun. Any of the things he did, the editor-in-chief, the executive director, the visiting professor, the general counsel, the famous poet of the Poetry Journal, all of which are beyond our reach, and he can combine these things, can this not be admired? People are more angry than people, and they are really angry.