Meet the God of Poetry - Mr. Nenubasi Author: Li Haiyu

The poetry god, sounding holy, is also very distant.

Is the name "Nenubasi" strange? Today I tell you about my meeting with the god of poetry and some of the past events that guided me on the road of writing.

Mr. Nenubasi, whose real name is Li Zhili, was born in 1941 in Baohua, Honghe County, in a beautiful Yi family cottage. In 1960, he joined the work and went from a mountain village teacher to the literary world. He has successively served as the director of the Yuanyang County Cultural Bureau, the chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the chairman of the Honghe Prefecture Folk Writers Association, and the vice chairman of the State Federation of Literature and Literature. He is currently a member of the Chinese Ethnic Minority Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Folk Writers Association, a special writer of the Cultural Development Department of Beijing Yantulian, and a visiting professor of the College of Literature of Sun Yat-sen University in Nanjing, and has won the title of "Contemporary Chinese Poetry God". He has worked hard in the literary world for many years, publishing 21 long narrative poems of thousands of lines in Beijing, Sichuan and Yunnan publishing houses, which are included in five collections of poems, including his self-selected long poems "Selected Narrative Long Poems of the Yi Nationality", "Selected Long Poems of the Yi (Nisu People)", "Palace Lamps of the Nanzhao Kingdom", "Mourning Eagle", and "Dosha Apo". "The Palace Lamp of the Nanzhao Kingdom" was translated and published in the United States. His literary achievements have been compiled into the Dictionary of Chinese Folk Writers, the Biography of Chinese Writers and Artists, the Dictionary of Chinese Experts, and the Who's Who of Chinese Literature and Art in the World, and have been introduced in newspapers and periodicals in the United States, Japan, Singapore and other countries.

Such a brilliant resume, fruitful writing, well-known writer at home and abroad, and highly known writer has become one of the most important instructors in my literary career, which is almost unimaginable.

The first time I met Mr. Nenubasi was when I was a sophomore in high school at MotoyoIchi Junior High School. On that day, the reading room of Yuanyang No.1 Middle School was full, and the outdoor doors and windows were also plastered with people. Fortunately, I arrived at the reading room early, and I sat not far from the writer's lecture position, and I heard it most clearly.

Mr. Nenubasi was squeezed in by a trail surrounded by several language teachers. His first impression on me was of an artist, wearing a felt hat, wearing casual clothes, with piercing eyes and an extraordinary appearance at first glance. My Chinese teacher gave a brief introduction to Mr. Brazil's writing and fame resume, followed by Mr. Brazil's incessant talking to his classmates about how to write, how to write his own characteristics, and his personal experience of how to write. Mr. Brazil's talk is crazy, and we listen to it like crazy... I saw the principal point to his watch many times to remind Mr. Brazil, but Mr. Brazil still went his own way, from the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China, from the Republic of China to the modern era.

Mr. Brazil described the oil poem of selling fritters on Yuanyang Street: "Yuanyang soybean milk is as clear as water, and fritters are as fine as grasshopper legs." Joke language "Dongfang Hong Hotel sells steamed rice noodles, the cinema puts the old feelings". The more people who drank at the table, the more they talked, and someone quipped, "The jug has begun to sing." "People who can obey naturally understand what it means, people who can't listen are inexplicable, how can the wine pot sing?" Also, "The article is picked out by wine, and the chamois is picked out by the dog." "So people who can write articles must drink a little wine, otherwise where is the "Li Baidou wine poem three hundred"? "Someone joked to the old man at the mahjong table: 'Why don't you old man not die?' The old man said, 'When the wind blows, the green leaves and yellow leaves will fall.' These are the materials for writing, and the writing materials are everywhere, and you can find them as long as you pay attention to them." Mr. Brazil's words caused a burst of laughter and unfinished thought.

Mr. Brazil's fascinating explanation unconsciously brought me into the temple of literature, in the past I have traveled many roads, but I have always just wandered outside the door of the temple of literature, and that literary lecture introduced me to the temple of literature, which had a particularly great impact on me.

The second time I met Mr. Brazil was in a cannery restaurant on the outskirts of my father's county. My father told Mr. Brazil that my daughter also loves literature. Mr. Brazil nodded appreciatively at me and asked me a lot of questions about writing. Mr. Brazil handed me a copy of a book he had written for my father that day, "The Eagle of Sorrows," and I was very excited to receive it. That's when I learned that Mr. Brazil and my father had been close friends for many years.

The third time I met Mr. Brazil, it was on my way to work, and Mr. Brazil stopped me. He asked me how many articles I had written, had I ever been in a newspaper or magazine? I said I've done some. Mr. Brazil told me to edit and tidy it up and show it to him. When I got back, I edited the articles I had published in various magazines and newspapers over the past three years, pasted them on A4 paper, and ordered them into a book for him.

Mr. Brazil was very happy after reading the article I wrote. He told me that every article published in the future should be edited and summarized, and the articles written should also be collected. Be sure to keep writing this hobby. He also told me a lot about the ways and methods of writing, especially the writing of biographies should pay attention to details, and write the personality of the characters, so that the articles can be vivid and touching. He also gave me the personality of the character in the TV series "Bright Sword", and he said that Li Yunlong is a special person, so the work can make people deeply impressed.

Later, Mr. Brazil took me to know some writers in Yuanyang County, as well as some of his writer friends in Honghe Prefecture and Yunnan Province. In this way, I stepped into the circle of writers in Yuanyang County and also joined the Yuanyang County Writers Association. Mr. Brazil told me: "You have a great talent for writing, your hobbies, your enthusiasm for writing, your hard work is your ladder to enter the door of writing".

At that time, Mr. Brazil retired, but he was in good spirits, still reading and writing every day, and often meeting with writers and friends to talk about the world. Mr. Brazil does not use the computer to type, he has always used the habit of writing on checkered letterhead, so he often brings my handwritten articles to me to print, and I become the first reader of his articles. Mr. Brazil's writing is clean, serious, beautiful, powerful, worthy of the older generation of writers, doing everything so seriously. It didn't take much effort to read what he wrote, and I was able to print it out in a very short time. Mr. Brazil is still writing poetry, most of which are translated from mountain songs sung by folk artists in the counties of the Red River State. Sometimes the poems he writes have spaces, or maybe he can't remember which word or word to use instead of empty ones when he writes. In this case, I would figure out the structure, meaning, and storyline of the whole poem, then add the word or word, and finally tell Mr. Brazil when I gave the whole manuscript which word or word I filled in, and listen to his opinion. At this time, Mr. Brazil seems to be satisfied and has no objection to the words or phrases I have filled in.

In order to let me read a lot of folk poetry, Mr. Brazil introduced me a collection of poems, "The Complete Collection of Narrative Long Poems of Ethnic Minorities in Yunnan", which has three books, each of which has more than 1100 pages. This collection of poems is all folk poems written, translated and edited by poets in various regions of Yunnan Province since liberation, as well as "Ashima", which has been adapted and organized into a movie, which is a collection of folk poetry with very high gold content. I saw that there were a lot of folk poems in it that the teacher had told as a child, and I had a feeling of reunion after a long time. Mr. Brazil also gave me a copy of his collection of poems "Palace Lamps of the Nanzhao State" that he had just won the first prize in Yunnan Province, and it was the publication of this book that made Mr. Brazil receive the title of "Chinese Poetry God". Later, he gave me his own "Dragon Toast and His Descendants", "The Legend and Story of Red River Toast", "Seven Hundred Years of Red River Toast", "Spring and Autumn of Yuanyang Characters", "Dosha Apo", etc., as well as many books given to him by his writer friends for many years, such as "King Hanimili", "Norma Ami", "Peace Soldier", "Red River Starlight", "Castration Valley" and so on. I held these books, and I had mixed feelings and loved them. In the past, I liked to write, I didn't know where the road was, I wanted to see articles written by local writers, and I couldn't find them for many years, but now, these books actually belong to me, I really can't imagine. I really can't put into words the excitement and gratitude in my heart. Through reading these books, I have a deeper understanding of the history, culture and customs of Honghe Prefecture and Yuanyang County. I read some of the poetry books written by Mr. Brazil. I often think that after all, there are very few people who like to read poetry, and if these poems are adapted into story novels or screenplays, there may be more people who like to read them. I had this plan, but because I was too busy with my work and couldn't calm down to read and write, I have been delayed until now and have not done it. Sometimes I think about it, I'm sorry for my mentor Mr. Brazil.

In the blink of an eye, Mr. Brazil is more than 80 years old, because of cerebral infarction and other diseases, he can't walk around and collect wind like in the past, he can only lie on the sofa at home, and all his diet and living can only rely on his master and mother to take care of him. Maybe it was because of the inconvenience of mobility, can not go out to see friends, his temper seems to be getting more and more grumpy, often scolding the master and mother, the master and mother can only swallow the breath, but still take good care of him. Sometimes when I visit Mr. Brazil's house, he will reminisce about the past, and whenever he recalls the glory of the past, he is happy like a child.

Mr. Brazil wrote many books and biographies, but he did not write about himself. I once jokingly asked him, Mr. Brazil, have you not written a biography of your own experience or something? He regrets that he did not write it. Later, when I visited him again, he actually said to me, "You can help me write about my experience." Then he told me stories about his father, grandfather, and big daddy, as well as his own past experiences. He seems to have a hard time speaking, and the storytelling is only a few words, intermittent. This task is really difficult, I am worried that I will not be able to complete this task, after all, my writing ability is limited.

For a while, I often dreamed, I dreamed that Mr. Brazil was by the well in the village, on the high hillside, in the lively farmers' market, looking at me anxiously, and warned me, you have to hurry up and write, your main task is to write! Don't let your hobbies and dreams be lost! I suddenly woke up from my dream, I was anxious and guilty. I wanted to start sorting out the articles I've been writing over the years, but I was still busy and delayed.

At the beginning of 2020, I formulated a detailed plan for reading and writing outside of work, time is controlled by myself, opportunities are seized by myself, I must only race against the clock, not to live up to Shaohua to do this thing, this matter can not be delayed, I think I can no longer let my mentor down.

January 2020 Nansha

(Author Affilications:Yuanyang County Power Supply Bureau)

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