True Love and Far Away - Reading Gao Lingyun's poems
Author | Feng Enchang
Gao Lingyun was born in a small mountain village in The South Zhaizigu of Shimenfang, West Shimenfang, Linqu City. Here the mountains are high and deep, the peaks are steep and curved, and in the past it was a desolate wilderness, and now it is an elegant and beautiful scenic area. When she was a teenager, she lived in such an elegant and quiet environment, pure and pollution-free springs, the crisp natural sound of the creek playing the three strings, the turquoise grass growing in the cracks of the stone, the gorgeous mountain flowers blooming on the cliffs, the green-skinned radish growing in the terraced fields on the hillside, the sweet potatoes with red hearts, the mountain bean horns with a fingernail dripping with water, the string of ripe red pumpkins like small suns, the persimmons like red lanterns on the branches of the trees in the high sky, the warblers and swallows in the willow forest on the river beach, and the little sister green eyebrows like a crescent moon in the mountain at night. The charity of the parents, the warm words of the eldest bride and aunt... Gave her the wisdom and aura of life, so that in the process of growing, she precipitated beautiful things, not only gave birth to the true meaning of how to behave in society, but also gave birth to the inspiration of aesthetics, poetry and prose, and the poems she wrote were sincere, full of novelty, and contained endless charm. The source of this poem is not conceived after adulthood, but precisely the aura and nature that has long been possessed in the hometown in the mountains, which is the most solid and rich foundation for a poet's fame.
Reading Gao Lingyun's poems is like a warm breeze mixed with the fragrance of mountain wild flowers, pouring into the heart. Although it is not hazy, it has a deep meaning, written in nostalgia, but not pure earth nostalgia, but with new concepts to give fresh sublimation, so that the poem becomes a strong sense of the times. For example, a poem in "Welcoming Spring" reads: "I put on, the mother in the warm sun to make shoes / to step on the soft mountains" This life detail is written very deeply, the mother makes shoes in the warm sun, referring to the winter, the poor family can not afford the stove, so go to the front of the room to find a sun nest to work, to spring, maybe the Spring Festival will wear the new shoes made by the mother. The shoes I made myself, the soles of which are hard, to step on the fields that have been frozen and snowy in the spring, of course, are very soft. This is the absolutely innocent feelings of a young girl, and her experience is really home. "I saw that the thick willow on the side of the ditch / the fine leaves of the goose yellow were newly cut, and the peach on the side of the weir showed a shy smile", if I did not observe it personally, the willow leaves would be written as green, but here it is goose yellow, which is the bud that just emerged in early spring. I have also observed that it is indeed goose yellow. The peach blossom showed a shy smile, this was a flower bag that had just been born, perhaps it had revealed a little redness, so it was very appropriate to compare it to the shy cheeks of a young girl. The last verse: "Oh, Spring / You took the overture and composed it so eagerly". It is the sublimation of the whole poem in the artistic conception, expanding the meaning of welcoming spring to the whole spring, the glacier thaws, the mountains are dyed green, the birds are chirping, people change into spring clothes, they are going to be happy to make spring plowing, and the prologue of the new year is happily unveiled with the first spring thunder. This peasant spring poem, written in a picturesque mood and with far-reaching meaning, is a good poem that is readable and inexhaustible.
The clanging sound of mountain springs, the crisp singing of birds, the yellow of spring willow buds, the greenery of grass, the ethereal spirit of peaks and deep valleys, the fresh air of deep mountains and dense forests, and the affection of simple peasant families for their children are all naturally revealed. A good poem, especially its language, also flows naturally. The theme and artistic conception of the poem are naturally revealed, and they have the characteristics of love, sincerity and beauty. When I read Gao Lingyun's poems, I felt relaxed and my heart was a little fluttering, because almost every capital of her poems flowed naturally. From no shadow to shadow, from figurative to abstract, it all seems so natural and peaceful, and the natural flow of life mood provokes your thinking and makes you slowly understand the charm. "The Girl Sitting Alone" a song, the love and scenery, thoughts and intentions are mixed very accurately, "just like this, sit alone / Watch the wind and rain outside the window, listen to the birds and flowers in the small garden", look at these four sentences alone, feel that the heart is quiet and nothing, but the mood is very beautiful, the next section said: "The girl sitting alone, the closest to you at this moment, / is you, the sweetheart in the distance." The two sections are connected to see, this girl is not sitting idly, but missing her lover, the tranquility of the appearance masks the inner eagerness, how true is this love, how beautiful is this mood? The poetry was sublimated to its peak, and it became a beautiful poem in my heart. Good poetry is like this, making people realize the thrilling beauty of life in a relaxed way. "Looking forward to autumn" is a poem that writes about the mood of the peasant family after the autumn rain, looking forward to the presentation of a golden autumn, not sleeping at night, but "walking through the field with one head held high, kissing with the blue sky and white clouds / the wind fluttering, and playing the flute sound of ten thousand harvests". This mood is naturally revealed, and it is also true and reasonable, so the last sentence becomes the "poetic eye" of this poem, pushing the artistic conception of the poem to a high level.
The text is like its person, and the poetry is even more so. In 2007, Gao Lingyun published the book "Night Talk of the West Mountain". When I was writing the preface for her, I read some of her poems and felt that they were simple and new. But without careful study, in December 2012, the "Poetry Journal", with the title of "Yu Yin", published her 5 poems, reminding me to seriously re-read her poems, and I was very surprised to find that her poems were indeed well written. From the perspective of the life of a writer and poet, his character and personality determine the quality and influence of his works. Gao Lingyun is still young, and due to the lack of creative time, the number of poems is not very large. But in her existing poems, the power of personality is shown. The "Yu Yin" published in the poetry journal fully expresses her attitude towards being a person, and the Xiao Song of the hometown people, the longing caused by it, into the bag of the distant, this is the true feeling of being a person, the person who returns is gone, the sound is gone, and it turns into tears and rain, which is also the true feeling of being a person, and there is a frank and kind heart in the love. Another example is the poem "Feelings of Nostalgia", writing that her alma mater teacher, admiring and grateful to the teacher, the sentence reflects her respect for the teacher's morality, the poem said:
I admire
A poet wearing flower glasses
Sunset lakeside
Play the strong tone of youth
I appreciate
This "good pointer" teacher
Black Land
The expectation of sowing the "star"
Many years later
I will remember
Your frost-stained sideburns
Illuminate my first line of resume
How deep this teacher-student relationship is, it has been vividly expressed in the poem. We now respect teachers and re-teach, and what we need is this kind of truth. Students become poets, and with such true feelings, they can write such good poems that overflow with true feelings. The teacher did not read it wrong, and once gave her a poem with the title of "First Step":
All staring eyes
Stop at the branches of your first steps
Mature into a landscape of countless stars
Tomorrow that diary
Tidbits of your youth message
It was fragrant
The teacher saw it correctly, after the student went to society, he not only became a promising writer and poet, but also stood out on the road of career and did a beneficial career. The achievement of these achievements is inseparable from the noble personality she has forged since childhood. Her five nostalgic poems, after being published in the "Poetry Journal", were appreciated by many famous poets, and they were greatly shaken among the poets, and among the poets in my county, the poetry published in the poetry journal was one of the more prominent ones. I think she took up a leadership position, worked as a town mayor, a secretary, a propaganda director of the county party committee, a discipline inspection secretary, and now a position in the academy. Still insisting on creating in a busy schedule, in 2016, following the publication of the poetry collection "Xishan Night Talk", he published a poetry collection of more than 200,000 words, "Wangyue", which is a very valuable spirit and worth learning. As a poet of hers, I wish her poetry flowers a glorious future career.
Feng Enchang was born in 1937 in Linqu, Shandong. He once served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the county party committee and the chairman of the Literary Association, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Folk Artists Association, a director of the Shandong Prose Literature Association, a standing director of the China Vernacular Poets Association, a famous poet and writer of the National Pastoral School, a representative of the "Rural Small Courtyard School", and was known as the god of Oriental poetry. His works have won many awards at home and abroad, and have won the honorary title of lifetime achievement of the highest award of folk literature in the Asia-Pacific region, "Golden Flying Eagle Award", and have been named the title of world cultural celebrity and national first-class artist, the inheritor of the legend of Feng Weimin, and has published 23 literary monographs, "Sugar Gourd" and "Hometown Cicada Song", which have been selected to read textbooks in full-time middle schools nationwide.