No matter what profession can maintain a "poetic heart"

Jiang Zhen was on the scene of the show.　Courtesy of respondents

Jiang Zhen, the annual champion of the 2022 Chinese Poetry Conference, weibo, almost every article is related to books. In an interview with Nandu and N video reporters, he quoted a poem by Song Ren Weng Sen to describe this feeling: "The joy of reading is endless, and the Yaoqin comes to the wind." The joy of reading is like bathing in the gentle wind and playing a song with a yaoqin.

In the middle of March this year, the 10th simulcast of the 2022 Chinese Poetry Conference, the appearance of Jiang Zhen made many viewers refreshed. The boy who can chant "flower" and recite "moon" in the Super Flying Flower Order is a post-00s "police second generation" who is currently in his junior year in the Department of Public Security of the Railway Police College. Despite receiving a lot of attention through the show, Jiang Zhen still feels that he is "more suitable for ordinary work close to the people." He firmly believes that poetry books are imperceptible for the nourishment of life, and no matter what profession they are engaged in, they can maintain a "poetic heart".

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The interest in poetry stemmed from the father's enlightenment

After the 2022 Chinese Poetry Conference Finals aired, the good news of Jiang Zhen's victory spread among his teachers and classmates. "I know him better, and I don't think it's a surprise." Yang Hailong, Jiang Zhen's squadron leader at the Railway Police Academy (equivalent to a counselor at an ordinary university), said, "Jiang Zhen's love for poetry is indeed different from ordinary people. At our weekly squadron meeting, as long as he went up to speak, he would quote ancient poems to express his meaning; our school has held many competitions, such as book review competitions and theme essay contests, and students generally write modern texts, but Jiang Zhen almost all write poems or literary texts. ”

As a police cadet who loves traditional culture, Jiang Zhen seems to have "got used to" this surprised look. He laughed, "Probably many people think that the people who go to military schools and police academies, boys are 'simple in mind and developed in limbs', and girls are all 'not fond of red clothes and love arms'." In fact, although our school implements police management, police cadets also have their own lives and hobbies, and in their spare time, they can also participate in interest clubs such as the Literary Club, the Hanfu Club, and the Animation Club. ”

Jiang Zhen's strong interest in poetry comes largely from the demonstration and enlightenment of his father Jiang's equations. After graduating from the Zhengzhou Public Security Cadre College of the Ministry of Railways (now the Railway Police College), jiang fangcheng became a railway public security grassroots policeman, but poetry and classical literature were hobbies he had since his youth, and he deeply infected his son. When Jiang Zhen was very young, his father began to teach him from the point of recognition and led him into the world of poetry.

Today, the father and son are the envy of many. Jiang Zhen proudly said to the Nandu reporter, "Usually we all use poetry to play games, for example, when we go out to play, the road is farther, my father and I may play Flying Flower Order, poetry solitaire, or simply more than who memorizes the poems, so to pass the time, but also to communicate with each other." ”

During the New Year's Festival, the passenger flow increased sharply, and the father often had to guard the safety of passengers at his post and could not be reunited with his family. At this time, Jiang Zhen would pay tribute to him by sending letters and poems. For example, during this year's Spring Festival, he wrote to his father: "The golden river is full of jade passes, and the dynasty is ma ce and the sword ring." And Jiang Equation's handwritten book gave back the next link of this poem: "Three springs of white snow return to Qingzuka, and the Yellow River circumnavigates the Black Mountains." Sign the name "Dad" to express the desire to protect the mountains and rivers.

A journey to fulfill your dreams

Co-opted for the "Family Group" with his father

Appearing on CCTV's Chinese Poetry Conference is a "dream journey" for Jiang Zhen. Jiang Zhen began to watch this show very early, and the gripping competition mechanism made Jiang Zhen in front of the TV set have some "technical itching". In 2018, as a senior in high school, he signed up for the audition of the fourth season of the Chinese Poetry Conference with tens of thousands of poetry lovers, and made a special trip from Jiaozhou, Shandong Province, to Jinan, one of the "offline sub-competition points". "At that time, I remember that it was a lottery group, 5 people in a group of 1, facing 3 examiners together." He remembered Nandu. After completing the self-introduction, the contestants need to answer some poetry common sense questions, followed by the competition "Flying Flower Order". In that audition, Jiang Zhen was not shortlisted for the "Hundred People Group" in the fourth season, but this small defeat did not weaken his interest in poetry culture in the slightest.

In 2021, when the 2022 Chinese Poetry Conference launched the audition, Jiang Zhen was already a junior. After obtaining the consent of the school, he participated in the audition again, entered the "Hundred People's League" as he wished, and was selected into the "Family Group" together with his father. Many parts of the show have a countdown to answer questions, and Jiang Zhen has always behaved very calmly and calmly. In the second game of the team's poetry solitaire, several consecutive teammates failed to answer the poem that began with the word "fire", and it was Jiang Zhen's turn, he thought about it a little, and said "the fire companions are busy", which attracted the applause of the audience.

However, in the final game, Jiang Zhen still encountered difficulties: at that time, Yang Huishan, a non-hereditary heir, while demonstrating glass firing, gave them a question and asked them to guess a poem containing the word "虬" describing pine trees. At that time, including Jiang Zhen, the top four players on the field all handed in white papers.

"When I saw the keyword '虬', I thought, as if I had lived for 20 years, and I had never memorized a poem with this word in it, could it be an unnamed poem written by a particularly unknown poet?" Jiang Zhen recalled. The final answer was revealed, and the poem was "In the empty mountain where the ghost people live, the old pines are all dragons", and the author is Zeng Ji, a famous poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. "Zeng Ji was Lu You's teacher, and he had a seven-sentence poem called "Three Qu Dao Zhong" that was included in the primary school textbook. So after the answer was announced, I had a sense of sudden enlightenment, and at the same time I couldn't help but sigh that our Chinese poetry is indeed a vast sea, and I just explored the tip of its iceberg. ”

For Jiang Zhen, he never expected him to win the championship. On March 31 this year, Jiang Zhen wrote on Weibo: "In the seventh year of the Chinese Poetry Conference, I was lucky enough to be the winner, and perhaps this is what Bai Juyi said, 'Identification of materials must wait for seven years.'"

Poetry is the same

Create grammatical poems with flat water rhymes

After winning the championship, Jiang Zhen felt that his life had not changed much, and he would not shake his original career choice. When filling in the college entrance examination, he chose his father Jiang Equation's alma mater, the Railway Police Academy, hoping to become an excellent railway policeman. "Because my father was a railway policeman and my mother was a lawyer, I was very eager to work in the law since I was a child."

As for whether he wants to engage in literary or cultural research, Jiang Zhen modestly said, "I think the treasure house of literature needs to be explored with sincerity, and I may not be able to reach this level myself." Top intellectuals can find pleasure in academic research, and I may be more suitable for ordinary work close to the people. ”

For him, ancient poetry and literary reading are more like opening up a new dimension to daily life, where there is a enjoyment of nothing about matter, only about spirit, and is the "habitat of the soul."

On personal Weibo, Jiang Zhen often participates in the lottery activities held by major libraries and museums in China, occasionally forwarding book lists and book profiles, and occasionally publishing short book reviews. His squadron leader Yang Hailong also told Nandu reporters that Jiang Zhen's borrowing volume at school is very rich, "What impressed him most is that he really loves to read and is a studious child." ”

Usually, in addition to reading and memorizing poems, Jiang Zhen will also create his own Gelug poems, using the Pingshui rhyme inherited from the Song Dynasty. In addition, he also likes traditional music and art, especially some of the literary passages in cross-talk, such as "Article Society" - "the so-called 'Wen is afraid of the Article Society", and Wu is afraid of "The Great Bodyguard".' In fact, the classic cross-talk passage is not only a window for our contemporaries to understand ancient society, but also reflects the ingenuity of the older generation of artists. Talking about his hobbies, Jiang Zhen said that he is not a person who is "mud and ancient", and usually writes simplified characters, but when visiting the museum, he will deliberately leave a message in traditional characters, "because I think that cultural relics and ancient books are the channels for the 'dialogue' between modern people and the ancients, so in that scene, it is appropriate to use traditional characters." ”

In Jiang Zhen's view, ancient poetry has never been a strange word in the pile of old paper, but the soul and indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation that have been passed down for thousands of years. He told reporters in Nandu: "I have always felt that poetry is contained in our souls, in our genes, and in our blood."

Producer: Nandu Instant Writing: Nandu reporter Hou Jingjing Intern Zhang Chunchun