Chen Xijun: The great V of ancient poetry that walks through the magic capital

This article is jointly presented by Southern People Weekly × Jinsha Liquor Industry, telling the story of Chen Xijun, a lover of ancient poetry, who has a new choice for a better life. He borrowed Su Dongpo's words to interpret the beautiful life: when he was busy, he did not need to "sigh in the colt, the fire in the stone, the body in the dream", and when he was idle, he had the state of mind to "go to a piano, a pot of wine, a stream cloud".

At 7 o'clock in the morning , in the traditional terms of "the beginning of the morning", Chen Xijun parked the car and walked quickly into the subway. The most ordinary day of the "Magic Capital" opened the curtain, and countless hurried figures passed by him. The carriages in the morning rush hour were already crowded, and few people could recognize the new champion of the "Chinese Poetry Conference". Chen Xijun found a relatively comfortable posture, like most people, buried his head in the mobile phone, the world inside the carriage, the advertisement outside the carriage, was temporarily isolated from the heart. On the 40-minute journey, he used this time every day to conceive and edit his own Weibo of the day, which of course contained poetry.

On Weibo, 1.08 million followers are waiting for him.

Ancient poetry and the national style and chinese studies behind it are becoming a new choice for countless Chinese a better life, and Chen Xijun did not think that there would now be so many people walking together on the lone road in those days.

Ancient poetry has changed Chen Xijun's life, and he hopes to use ancient poetry to influence the lives of more people.

Poetic life

On May 3, 2021, the sixth season of "Chinese Poetry Conference" ushered in the closing night. Chen Xijun, an rail bus police officer at the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, wore his straight uniform and won the overall championship of the sixth season.

This was his fourth time attending a poetry conference. He imagined various moods when he was at the top, such as the ecstasy of "laughing at the sky and going out", and the excitement of "tears falling into the beads", but when the final moment came, his heart only had the calm of "clouds in the sky and water in the bottle".

In the sky, it is made of clouds; in the bottle, it is idyllic water. This is Chen Xijun's life choice, and it is also a state of mind brought to him by ancient poetry.

Chen Xijun was born in 1987 in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province. Both his father and grandfather were lovers of poetry, and "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" and "Kasa Weng To Rhyme" naturally became Chen Xijun's enlightenment readings when he was a teenager, and opened a door to traditional Chinese culture for him. When the people of the same age had just learned to read, Chen Xijun began to chant in his mouth, "East of Jieshi, to view the sea". He also loves poetry and chinese in his language class, and the four words that everyone is most afraid of seeing, "memorizing the whole text", are a kind of enjoyment for him.

"I like to memorize poems, I will think about it repeatedly, even if I don't need to memorize ancient texts and poems, I will take the initiative to memorize them." He said that there were 350 poems from elementary school to high school, and he memorized them all.

Ancient poetry has constructed Chen Xijun's aesthetic and world view, and has also won him love and family. Ancient poetry has also become a warming agent for his and his wife's love, and the two have also encouraged and supported each other, and won the championship in the Qixi special session of the "Chinese Poetry Conference", the gods and immortals, and sprinkled countless "dog food".

Their two sons grew up and began to learn and enjoy poetry. "Instead of making children become the subjects of ancient poetry, I hope to let them improve their aesthetic ability through the beauty of language, sound and rhyme, and realm beauty in poetry." He said that poetry will not only shape a person's clothing, literary behavior, and conversation, but also affect people's worldview, outlook on life and values.

In fact, "spitting out lotus flowers" has become the norm in this small family. For example, if Chen Xijun wants to say to his wife, "I miss you," he will say, "If you don't see you for a day, you will say "thank you" to your parents, and he will say "Whoever says anything will repay the three Chunhuis." If there is occasional unhappiness, Chen Xijun will go to the study to quietly read the poems, and after reading a few poems, the mood will basically calm down. He felt that evoking the yearning for beautiful emotions and returning the heart to the beginning of tranquility was another important role of poetry in life.

Push open the window, it is a big Shanghai that is busy day and night; close the window, you can "hide in the small building into a unity."

This is the way of life of Chen Xijun's family - in fact, this is also the "mental method" of many Chinese for thousands of years, but they were once forgotten by the public in impetuousness.

When ancient poetry was gradually revived in the lives of contemporary people, Chen Xijun's life also became colorful. He borrowed Su Dongpo's words to interpret the beautiful life: when he was busy, he did not need to "sigh in the colt, the fire in the stone, the body in the dream", and when he was idle, he had the state of mind to "go to a piano, a pot of wine, a stream cloud".

"In my opinion, I get up every day to look forward to, feel something to gain before going to bed every day, have two hours a week dedicated to thinking about life, do a challenging job every month and have a day or two of idyllic leisure, every year there is visible progress, and twice a year to spend time with family and friends. That would be so blissful. ”

Big V down the hill

Many viewers who have watched the "Chinese Poetry Conference" have been "circled" by Chen Xijun's police uniform image.

Many people don't know that just a week before he went to Beijing to attend the "Chinese Poetry Conference", he also took his work partner police dog "Lightning" to carry out sniffing and explosive security inspections on the front line. Working for more than ten hours a day and more than 30,000 steps of patrol, he checked every manhole and every door in high-intensity security work for three consecutive weeks to ensure the safety of the venue and the station.

"Three hundred and sixty days a year, most of them are crossed." This "slash youth" uses Qi Jiguang's poems to describe his job. Poetry is also a vehicle for him to encourage himself and his comrades-in-arms and express joy and sorrow.

But Chen Xijun was lonely for a time.

In the days when he grew up, ancient poetry was not the "obvious learning" in people's lives, and he also felt lonely because of "those who know me, the second and third sons". For Chen Xijun at that time, learning ancient poetry was a self-cultivation, and the higher he climbed, the rarer the companions.

Until the first season of "Chinese Poetry Conference" was broadcast in 2016, Chen Xijun found Zhiyin through the TV program, and between the poems, his poetic heart was rekindled. Since then, memorizing poetry has become Chen Xijun's hobby. In addition to his daily work, Chen Xijun will seize all his free time to read poetry classics, even when training physically, he will not forget to practice the "Flying Flower Order" in his head. "If the gap between the work is not enough to cram into an entire book, then stuff two pages of poetry." The use of fragmented time again and again finally achieved his outstanding performance at the scene of the "Chinese Poetry Conference".

In 2018, Chen Xijun signed up for the Chinese Poetry Conference for the first time. In a few years, his poetry reserve has soared from more than 300 to more than 3,000, and his understanding of beauty, his knowledge of history, and his appreciation of literature have also continued to improve.

The popularity of the show not only made more and more people know Chen Xijun, but also made him make many poetry friends. His Weibo followers are also growing at an alarming rate.

Today, he shares poems through Weibo, which has become a "million big V"; on the Internet, he meets friends with poetry and talks about the past and the present.

"Poetry has set my life back on fire and made my spare time full of meaning." Chen Xijun said.

Ancient poetry created a second public identity for Chen Xijun in addition to his own duties. The love of poetry has changed from a personal comfort to a sense of life to a responsibility.

"Ancient poetry was my personal hobby from the beginning, and when the outside world paid more and more attention to you, it changed from a hobby to a social responsibility. I feel obligated to study ancient poetry and pass on traditional culture. ”

For this responsibility, he reduced unnecessary small talk and drinking and socializing, deleted all the games on his mobile phone, listened to history while driving, and read and wrote Microblogs while riding the subway.

He hopes that through his own efforts, the beauty of poetry will spread more widely horizontally and more deeply vertically. He hopes to let more people feel the interest of ancient poetry itself, let the poetry come from the Sheng Tang Dynasty, and walk out of the student classroom, "accompany us to see the flowers blossom and fall, accompany us to the wine as a song." ”

In 2021, Chen Xijun participated in many programs and activities, in which he completed the transformation from a contestant to a guest. During the epidemic, he also did some online speeches and courses, and sometimes cooperated with some artists to create and revise some ancient style rap or National style songs. His "History of Poetry in the Five Dynasties of the Late Tang Dynasty" is about to be listed, and it has also received the support of many predecessors in Traditional Chinese Studies.

Today's Chen Xijun positions himself as a disseminator and application of poetry, "I have always felt that only by using poetry can poetry come alive." Only by 'living water is not corrupt' can we truly turn expert poetry and student poetry into national poetry. ”

In fact, his expectations are also a certain beat of the times. In recent years, ancient poetry and the national style and traditional Chinese studies behind it are becoming a new choice for countless Chinese a better life, and Chen Xijun may not have thought that there would now be so many people walking together on the lone road in those days.

Ancient poetry is not only the feeling of "retro", but also the direction of "trend". In this country, the ancient literary atmosphere exudes a new light through the various aspects of contemporary life. This is Chen Xijun's life, and it is also a choice for the spirit of the times.