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Che Yangao, the founder of "Lamb Body", became the headline poet of "Shanghai Poets"

Today I went to the China Poetry Network and found that the headline poet of "Shanghai Poets" in February 2022 was Che Yangao. "Shanghai Poets" published 13 poems by Che Yangao under the title of "Spring Wiped a Face with Dew".

Che Yangao, the founder of "Lamb Body", became the headline poet of "Shanghai Poets"

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Speaking of Che Yangao, many people may not remember who it is for a while. However, if we talk about the founder of the "Lamb Body", many people will suddenly say: "Oh ~ it is him!" Yes, the origin of the joking name "Lamb Body" lies in the harmonic sound of Che Yangao's name.

Twelve years ago, in 2010, Che Yangao's poem "Xu Fan", winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize poetry prize, was pulled out. This kind of vernacular poetry, which is not like poetry, is called "lamb body", which is another "peak" of poetry after Zhao Lihua's "pear blossom body".

Che Yangao, the founder of "Lamb Body", became the headline poet of "Shanghai Poets"

Che Yangao's "Xu Fan" fragment

Che Yangao explained that the poem "Xu Fan" "adopts a zero-degree lyrical vernacular technique, a style of writing for me, an attempt at writing." Che Yangao has tried this more than once, such as his poem "Liu Yifei". Obviously, such an attempt by Che Yangao was a failure.

Che Yangao, the founder of "Lamb Body", became the headline poet of "Shanghai Poets"

Che Yangao (image from the Internet)

Of course, it can also be said that such an attempt was "very successful". Isn't this modern poetry a hot topic of discussion again? Isn't Che Yangao well known? However, such an attempt has caused modern poetry to be pressed to the ground and rubbed again and again, and modern poetry actually cannot withstand such a toss.

The "headline poet" Che Yangao, the name of this group of poems "Spring Wipes a Face with Dew", comes from one of the poems "Orchid". This poem, like "Xu Fan" and "Liu Yifei", is written about women. But not the current female star, but the beauty of the Tang Dynasty.

Che Yangao, the founder of "Lamb Body", became the headline poet of "Shanghai Poets"

This poem also involves Li Bai, a thousand cups of li bai who is not drunk, because he saw Hu Ji, he was drunk without dripping wine. This poem does not have the taste of "lamb body", but to say how clever, it seems that there is really no place worthy of admiration.

Li Bai actually wrote Aboutuji, which is in the second part of his "Youth Line". "Wuling young gold city east, silver saddle white horse degree spring wind." Fallen flowers swim everywhere and laugh into the orchid liquor store. The poem is about a rich man who went on a trip and ended up in a hotel for a drink.

Che Yangao, the founder of "Lamb Body", became the headline poet of "Shanghai Poets"

Orchid is a general term for Hu people's women, and it is also a collective name for the women who persuade people to drink in liquor stores, just like the people who sell alcohol in restaurants today. Li Bai's poem is actually not a good poem of his. However, compared with che Yangao's "Orchid" by Che Yangao, the founder of the "Lamb Body", it is not a star and a half.

This is actually not the gap between Che Yangao and Li Bai, but the overall gap between modern poetry and traditional poetry. Modern poetry takes a lot of effort, and it is not as clever as the dozens of words of traditional poetry. So, the question arises, why is it that after more than a thousand years, we are not as good as before in writing poetry?

Che Yangao, the founder of "Lamb Body", became the headline poet of "Shanghai Poets"

They say that traditional poetry is obsolete, while Western poetry is modern. Therefore, they blindly imitated foreign poetry, completely abandoned our traditional poetry, and reached this point. The "pear blossom body" is the "lamb body", and then the "black green body" and "feces and urine body". These various "bodies" can be said to make modern poetry hit the nose and face, but they just don't look back.

The main reason is that modern poetry is easy to write, while traditional poetry is not easy to write. You see, the vernacular branch has become modern poetry. No matter how well you write, as long as it is "famous" enough, it must be a good poem. If someone says it's not a good poem, say he's a layman and treat it with scorn.

Che Yangao, the founder of "Lamb Body", became the headline poet of "Shanghai Poets"

What kind of modern poetry is good is not only written by them, but also decided by them. It is equivalent to being a referee for yourself and scoring yourself, how free must it be? Traditional poetry is different, good or bad, that can be seen at a glance, and it cannot be confused at all.

Che Yangao, the founder of "Lamb Body", this "Orchid" is not a "bad poem", but it is not enough to reach the "headlines". However, Che Yangao is the winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize poetry prize and a "famous poet", which is another matter. There are also many "famous poets" who say that his "Xu Fan" and "Liu Yifei" are good poems!

Che Yangao, the founder of "Lamb Body", became the headline poet of "Shanghai Poets"

They can use whomever they want, how much "freedom" they want to say. As for what will happen to the poetry world, they seem to care on the surface, but in fact they don't care at all. Although they cannot do without poetry, they have never thought about the future of poetry.

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