I always think of street poetry and have fun. It is as if you have returned to your teenage years, and it is inevitable that your heart will be surging and your blood will boil, and you will not be able to help yourself.
Qingdao's street poetry gallery first appeared in the very unusual years of 1958, and the poetry gallery that bloomed with charm, like a huge magnet, was adsorbed on the brain screen of memory, and its freeze frame lingered for a long time.
At that time, the wave of the Great Leap Forward swept across the north and south of the great river with mania, inside and outside the Great Wall, and the industrial and agricultural fronts were accompanied by exaggerated winds. Mr. Guo Moruo, a cultural titan and the helmsman of the Ministry of Culture, took the lead in proposing to set off a great leap forward climax of "writing folk songs for the whole people", and the whole country quickly became popular.
Workers, peasants, merchants, and soldiers have written folk songs, and when poets, they are in full swing, and they put satellites every day, and the fiery momentum has stained workshops, fields, barracks, shops, and schools red. Singing the Great Leap Forward, folk songs singing the three red flags, and the city's street poetry gallery came into being.
Not willing to be lonely, the Qingdao Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, which is determined to take a leap, chose the façade of the China-Soviet Friendship Association on Zhongshan Road and set up the Qingdao Street Poetry Gallery. The street poems edited by Kong Lin, Neon, Zhang Jian, etc. are particularly eye-catching, and they are across the street from the pier.
The poems of famous poets Liu Raomin, Fu Jialei, Dai Chuanlin, Lu Guodong, Lin Heshui, Singer, Li Huo, Shi Dekai and so on are impressive. Rather than saying that the crowded pier is a major landscape in Qingdao, it is better to say that the popularity of the street poetry gallery is a great scenery.
Every day, people come to taste poetry and admire paintings in an endless stream, three floors inside the wall, three floors outside, men, women and children, plus there are many hand copyists, and the lively scene is gripping. Admittedly, it also allowed me to find myself. The emergence of the poetry gallery, like a fertile land, has cultivated a number of literary buds, cultivated a group of poetry creation talents, and strengthened the team of literary creation in our city. Like a positive energy ready to go, it is very powerful. At that time, my classmates and I unanimously began to submit articles to newspapers and cultural centers.
At that time, I was a student of Qingdao Nineteenth Middle School, and my family lived in Dongzhen. Every Sunday, I often walk to the poetry gallery to study. It absorbed immeasurable literary nutrition and laid a favorable foundation for future literary creation.
Soon, the Taitung Cultural Center set up a street poetry gallery under the tall façade of the Taitung Yilu Rice Factory, and the editor-in-chief was Mr. Wang Hongxi. Authors from all fronts in the region have sprung up: Wang Zhaoqing, Xiao Huarong, Zhao Yong, Deng Shiguang, Xu Xuanliang, Zhao Zhonghan, Xu Ruichang, and She Yu are very popular.
Every day on my way home from lunch and from school in the afternoon, I pass by the poetry gallery and admire the poems. Over time, I was so intoxicated and enchanted that studying in the poetry gallery became an indispensable part of my life. If you don't look at it for a day, it's as if you have lost your soul.
Street poetry and painting opened my eyes and benefited me a lot, and from this as a starting point, I gradually embarked on the road of literary creation, and since then, it has been out of control.
The development of street poetry and painting is not smooth, like the phoenix nirvana, which has experienced ups and downs, ups and downs. In 1959, the years of famine began with horrors, people running for their livelihoods, the love of writing poetry and painting disappeared, and the street poetry gallery disappeared.
In 1963, the economic situation began to improve and the quality of life improved. With the rolling boom of learning Lei Feng across the country, the street poetry gallery has regained its youth and played an active role. First of all, the poetry gallery of the Shibei Cultural Center appeared under the high window of the South-facing Post Office of Tangyi Road at the corner of Dayaogou and Market 3rd Road, and every day, in front of the glass vitrines, there were always many people watching.
The Shibei Cultural Center has very strict requirements, convenes a meeting of poetry writers on time, and in order to optimize the construction of the creative team, it issues a sky blue "Poetry Author Card" to each author, which is as large as a bicycle license and is very standardized. The Municipal Workers' Cultural Palace has set up a small poetry gallery on the southwest side of the Workers' Theater, the Taitung Workers' Club has launched a simple small poetry gallery in the courtyard of Guokou Road; the poetry gallery of the Taitung Cultural Center has reappeared in the old place.
Who knows, the good times did not last long, with the ultra-left "Four Qing" movement in 1964 and the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, the street poetry gallery disappeared.
In the spring of 1972, Mr. Gong Zhaozhi of the Taitung Cultural Center approached me to discuss the launch of the taitung literature and art magazine and the street poetry gallery, and I gladly supported it. With the strong support of the Propaganda Department of the Taitung District Party Committee, the publication and the Street Poetry Gallery were launched at the same time, and it was known as an "oasis in the desert".
The Shibei Cultural Center, the Shinan Cultural Center, the Cangkou Cultural Center, and the Sifang Cultural Center have successively set up street poetry galleries, which regularly engrave and print the compilation of street poems published every month, and send them to all relevant units in various places for cultural exchanges. Coupled with the advent of "Taitung Literature and Art", the city's poetry creation level has undergone new and tremendous changes in quality and quantity, and is at the leading level in the province.
Like a pleasant oasis, the Poetry Gallery has made an outstanding contribution to the prosperity of the city's literary creation. And trained many writers and poets, from Qingdao to the province, to the whole country, for Qingdao to win honors.
In 1979, a national poetry delegation composed of dozens of people, including Yan Yi, Yan Jin, Bingfu, Quartz, miao Deyu, etc., went to Qingdao to observe and study, and all of them affirmed and praised the street poetry and paintings in Qingdao that year. Oh, the street poetry gallery, the chip in my heart. Oh, and the gallery of street poetry, as a negative of history, is forever treasured in the atrium of the heart...
Author: Ju Dezhang Pen name: Jin he is a member of the Shandong Writers Association and the Qingdao Writers Association. He is a director of the Qingdao Contemporary Literary Creation Research Association.