Officials write poems as if they had been around since ancient times. However, in ancient times, it was often those who wrote poems that became famous before becoming officials, and very few people became officials first and then wrote poems. The Qianlong Emperor was the greatest official, and he wrote 40,000 poems in his lifetime, but very few of them survived. Although Li Yu, the "Emperor of Words", was an emperor of the fallen country, his words were indeed a must.
During the Republic of China, there was a great warlord Zhang Zongchang, who was a typical representative of official poets, and he also wrote many poems. However, his poems are called Slip of the Tongue, or oil poems are more appropriate. But because of this, his poems that are not like poetry can be passed down, which can be regarded as a typical example of a different way.
Zhang Zongchang
Now, there are also many people who become officials because they write poems, such as Lei Pingyang, who is a member of the 12th CPPCC National Committee of Yunnan Province. When it comes to the officials who write poems, the ones that everyone is most familiar with, that is, the "most famous", should be the congratulatory telegram, Che Yangao, Hou Ma and Ji Di Ma Jia.
Congratulatory message from the author of the Heian Sutra
Speaking of the Peace Sutra, it is estimated that no one does not know. This is indeed a "ancient and strange text", and the word "peace" has been carried out throughout. The author of the congratulatory telegram, the former deputy secretary of the party committee and executive deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Public Security Department, is a big official without compromise. The advent of the "Ping An Jing" can be described as luoyang paper expensive, many seminars have been held, and some people have written about their feelings after reading.
However, this "Peace Sutra" was really too peculiar, and the congratulatory telegram was dismissed as a result. Congratulatory telegrams were fired because officials wrote poems, and they were also checked for writing poems, that is, the so-called Cheng also wrote poems, and defeat also wrote poems.
Che Yangao, the founder of "Lamb Body"
Speaking of the "lamb body", it is estimated that no one knows it, and it is one of the several major "bodies" in the poetry world. Che Yangao's "Xu Fan", which is the big vernacular branch, is jokingly called "lamb body", which is very image. Che Yangao is the winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize poetry prize, which is quite famous.
The car is high
Not only that, Che Yangao was also a member of the Standing Committee of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee and the secretary of the Municipal Discipline Inspection Commission at that time, and he was also a considerable official. Che Yangao is an official who writes poetry without mistake, and can be regarded as an evergreen tree in the poetry world. No, the headline poet of "Shanghai Poets" in February 2022 is him. Don't you know? Che Yangao is still a calligrapher, oh, inscribed a lot of words.
Hou Ma, author of "The Hun Chicken Prays to the Year"
Houma is an old poet, writing poetry in the 1980s and 1990s. However, he was not very famous until the poetry magazine published his poem "Hun Chicken Worship year" in the first half of October 2021, which made him the focus of attention. I've written two articles about him.
On closer inspection, Houma was not only a poet, but also an official. Hou Ma is the director of the Inner Mongolia Public Security Department, the vice chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and a very big official. I don't know whether HouMa wrote poetry first and then became an official, or whether he first became an official and then wrote poetry. But whether he wrote poetry or became an official, Houma was very comfortable.
"International poet" Gidemaga
Jidimaga is a member of the Yi ethnic group and should have been called a minority poet. But this is obviously not a reflection of his position in the poetry world. Gidimaga is the poet who has won the most international awards, and it is more appropriate to call him "International Poet". Jidimaga was once the vice chairman of the Writers' Association, but for some reason, he "stepped down" at the same time.
Gidemaga
Gideimaga not only wrote poetry well, but also became a great official. He once served as vice governor of the Qinghai Provincial People's Government, member of the Party Group, member of the Standing Committee of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee, and director of the Propaganda Department. Gidemaga not only won many international awards, but his works have been translated and published by foreign Chinese, which is very "international style".
These four are the "famous poets" I know who are both officials and poets, and their reputations are thunderous. I have to admire them, they are not wrong to write poetry as officials, and we ordinary people, even if we focus on doing one thing, can't do it well.
However, as far as poetry is concerned, how can I still prefer Zhang Zongchang's poems? Although his officialdom is indeed very bad, and the poems he writes are not bad, his poems can make people laugh when they are read well, which is much better than chewing wax.