Jimu News Reporter Xia Yu
On April 10, a seminar on Zhang Leiyong's poetry collection "The Great River Goes East" was held in Han. More than 20 writers and critics made wonderful speeches, leading readers on the spot, 10 literature-related students from 5 schools such as Wuhan University and Central China Normal University, walked into Zhang Leiyong's poetry space together, and his life journey of "why fear snow and frost gel wrap, shake against the wind and do not bow your head". The seminar was moderated by writer and poet Yi Fei.
See Philosophy in small places
"Mud wrapped in feet and bent over anxiously", remember the fun of catching fish in the creek ditch; "There seems to be red clothes under the moon, and the lotus should be a boat moving", writing about the small scene of life in the lotus pond drinking; "tourists like to see pastoral paintings, a few tables of tea and chess to send the sunset", painting the silhouette of rural poverty alleviation; "fighting the new crown and going out again, the Long Causeway millions of soldiers", praising the heroic ambition of the heroic city in the year of Gengzi.
Published by the China Book Publishing House and collected by the National Library of China in January this year, the poetry collection "The Great River Goes East" contains more than 200 poems and works created by Hubei poet Zhang Leiyong in the past ten years, divided into three series of poems and words, covering a wide range of subjects.
Zhang Leiyong not only restores many life scenes, but also meticulously outlines and intertwines his mother, naughty children, neighbors, and the farming and festivals of his hometown, rivers, cicadas, breezes, and clouds, and injects his observation and reflection on reality into the pen.
"Whether it is "Three Great Sufferings of Life" or "Mother", we can see the background of the poem, the color of the poet, and the poetic flow out of the cultural inheritance of the ancient countryside and the enterprising spirit of the people who live a hard life." Cai Shiping, former vice president of the Chinese Poetry Research Institute, said in the preface. He also mentioned that Zhang Leiyong's attention and depiction of small things and the philosopher's thoughts that arise from ordinary places are deeply impressive. "Sugarcane, this sugar crop, most people probably only know its 'sweetness', but few people know the 'bitterness' of the cane growers. The harvesting period of sugarcane in the Two Lakes region is in winter, it is a cold winter waxing moon, the north wind is biting, and the cane farmers have to harvest and bundle it, and then transport it to the sugar factory, and its labor intensity is not something that those who have experienced it cannot understand. The poet personally experienced the situation, and only then did he have the deep experience of 'the cold current is stronger, and the residual snow melts more strongly'. He commented that Zhang Leiyong's poems left the vital signs of this era.
Zhang Leiyong introduced to the Jimu News reporter that there are many poems in the poetry collection that are portrayals of his life journey and pursuits. "I use the words and language of the poems to express the passion in my heart: among the poems are the pioneering cattle and cattle I most want to do, the Wing Niu; there is the poem that I have been writing for the longest time and have not yet been written- the poem of wine, drinking for thirty years, drunk for thirty years, still searching for the true meaning of wine. These are indeed the accumulation of my life, the bitterness, the burst of emotions, and the externalization of infatuation. How many nights I can't sleep, how many times I wake up after getting drunk, it is these verses that accompany me, torture me, and wild me. ”
The collection of poems has three "qi"
At the seminar, more than 20 writers, critics and experts in related fields such as Sannong gave speeches on "The Great River Goes East".
Liu Yishan, former vice chairman of the Hubei Provincial Writers Association, introduced that Chinese contemporary poetry can be divided into three types: a group of poets at the forefront of pioneering modernity, showing the inner discoveries and feelings of poets, paying attention to the natural rhythmic beauty of verses, and connecting with the international community; a group of non-avant-garde poets after the 40s and 50s and 60s, who have both traditional realist characteristics and learn from the literary concepts of postmodernism; a group of people who inherit the techniques and traditions of Chinese poetry and write old-style poets. "Zhang Leiyong's poems belong to the third type, summarized in 16 words, easy to understand, clear and clear, close to the masses, and express feelings."
Gao Xiaohui, former vice chairman of the Hubei Provincial Writers Association, summed up his strongest feelings after reading "The Great River Goes East" with "fireworks," "literary popularity," and "heroic spirit." "The so-called fireworks are poetry grounded and have a strong sense of life scene. There are regional flavors, local customs, and nostalgia complexes. There is the true presentation of the state of life, there is the temperature of life. There is a warmth of human nature that 'talks about wine and mulberry'. For example, "Fishing Wong" "Fishing for fresh rivers under the moon, willow smoke on the embankment." Smile and welcome the morning trainers, and enjoy the carp and the koan'; the so-called literary popularity is the cultural heritage contained in the poems. It is expressed as an in-depth interpretation of history and culture, the speculation and excavation of the philosophy contained in natural objects, and the imitation of the interests of the literati. For example, "Reading Du Fu's Poems" "A song of sorrow is a song that has been discussed for eternity, and the earth is shaking and weeping"; the so-called heroic spirit is the ideal of a bold and majestic life contained in the poem. It is a tribute to the fearless pursuit of life. For example, "Bamboo" "Why fear the snow frost gel wrap, shake against the wind and do not bow your head". ”
In Gao Xiaohui's view, the pyrotechnic atmosphere makes the poems lively and the local interest; the popularity of the poems makes the poems have the spiritual atmosphere of the inheritance of the context and the unique charm of the Chinese culture; and the heroic spirit makes the poems have a heroic and majestic rhythm and a high and indomitable soul.
For the speeches of the guests, Zhang Leiyong lamented, "This is a spur and promotion of the poetry collection, and a guide to my poetry creation." He recalled that at the end of December 2021, the premiere ceremony of "The Great River Goes East" was held in Beijing's Yonghe Book Garden, and he also had a spiritual exchange with relevant experts. Time and space have changed, but the mood of anxiety is still the same. As "Mr. Cai Shiping said in the preface that I am a poet who seeks the value and eternity of life through poetry." This evaluation makes me very nervous, it is a false praise and love for me, and it is also an inspiration to me. ”