"The night gave me black eyes, but I used it to find light" This is a poem written by the famous poet Gu Cheng, even if he has not heard of Gu Cheng, this poem is very familiar to everyone. There are many similar affectionate poems, and Gu Cheng's fans think that Gu Cheng must be an affectionate and mysterious man to write so many hazy and beautiful poems, which makes people think.
Then something happened that shocked everyone. In October 1993, Gu Cheng brutally murdered his wife with an axe on Waiheke Island in New Zealand, and then hanged himself at home.
This made people at home and abroad unbelievable, and for a while they thought it was a rumor. It wasn't until it was published in the newspapers that people believed it. Gu Cheng and his wife left their only child after they died, how are they doing now?
Early life
Gu Cheng was born in Beijing in 1956. Gu Cheng's father, Gu Gong, is a poet, so Gu Cheng's name is so poetic. Gu Gong is very talented, not only can write poetry, but also write novels and drama scripts, and his poems have been selected into textbooks, which shows the high level.
Gu Cheng has been familiar with poetry since childhood, and since childhood, he has been more sensitive to poetry than his peers, and he can also create his own works. Gu Cheng was a person with a mysterious temperament in his childhood, who did not like to play with other children and preferred to be alone.
Like to feel nature, but also have a purer imagination, Gu Cheng's world is beautiful, like a fairy tale kingdom, and he is the only king.
Such a character, coupled with the influence of the family cultural atmosphere, laid the foundation for Gu Cheng's style of poetry. Gu Cheng has an older sister named Gu Xiang, Gu Xiang has always felt that his younger brother is a person who does not like to make fun, when he was a child, Gu Cheng did not like to play with children but liked to look at ants on the ground.
Gu Cheng read a lot of stories and famous books, and all the children gathered around when telling stories in kindergarten, but Gu Cheng didn't like this feeling, and then never went to the kindergarten to tell stories, but wanted to express himself, so he told stories with his sister at home, and his sister didn't have time to be his audience, so he had to tell it alone to the wall at home.
In 1968, 12-year-old Gu Cheng stopped going to school for some reason and started raising pigs, and the activity hit him unprecedentedly, and he had to come out of the fairy tale kingdom he built to face reality.
These made Gu Cheng, who had been in a good situation and full of innocence since he was a child, be hit hard, and also made his heart extremely tormented. A year later, Gu Cheng and his father went to the countryside to a rural farm, where he stayed for five years, during which he came into contact with a lot of social reality, and Gu Cheng also realized that there was a very big gap between the real world and the world imagined in his head.
Since then, Gu Cheng's works have gradually entered the stage of social writing. In 1974, Gu Cheng returned to Beijing, where he did a lot of work, carpentry, porter, etc., and his works began to be published in some newspapers and periodicals.
In 1977, Gu Cheng finally had the freedom to write poetry again and do what he liked. As soon as Gu Cheng's "Dandelion" was published, it was immediately widely read and discussed by the society, and also gained the first batch of book fans. He became the main representative poet of the Obscure Poetry School.
Tragedy is born
In July 1979, on the train from Shanghai to Beijing, Gu Cheng met his future wife Xie Ye. The meeting between the two is also as romantic and beautiful as written in fairy tales, and the two fall in love at first sight. The two young men sat face to face, taking advantage of the clear night, and the two began to talk, from poetry to film music.
The two people seemed to have a lot of common interests and hobbies, and there were endless words, and soon the train arrived at the station, and Gu Cheng stuffed Xie Ye with a note written on it before getting off the train, with Gu Cheng's name and address written on it, and then Gu Cheng left in a hurry.
Xie Ye reacted to this, it turned out that the man who had a good conversation with her last night was the famous poet Gu Cheng, and she was also a fan of Gu Cheng as a girl, and when she got off the station, she decided to go to Gu Cheng's home to find Gu Cheng.
When the two met for the second time, they confirmed their relationship, and after four years of long-distance love, like many ordinary but happy little couples, the two became husband and wife with the blessing of family and friends.
The relationship between the two people is like glue, whenever Gu Cheng has an event, he will bring his wife to attend together, and in the eyes of others, the two are a pair made in heaven.
At the peak of Gu Cheng's career, Xie Ye gave birth to their son Xiao Mu'er. The birth of the child had an impact on Gu Cheng's life and work, and he didn't seem to like this child very much, because there was a daughter in his fairy tale kingdom, and he was the only king.
So, the couple sent the child fungus to other families, and the fungus, who has lived abroad since childhood, can only speak English, and the father and son cannot communicate in the back, and Gu Cheng has also regretted it.
Gradually, Gu Cheng gained a lot of fame and money at work, but he also began to get tired of these things, and after discussing with his wife, the two went into seclusion to live a self-sufficient life on Waiheke Island in New Zealand.
There are no fans who worship him on Waiheke Island, nor do they have the honor and money of the past, and the contradictions between the husband and wife are increasing. Not long after, Gu Cheng killed his wife with an axe, and immediately ended his life by hanging. Left behind the only child.
Fungus status
Before Gu Cheng committed suicide, he left a suicide note to Mu Er to express his reluctance to his son, and after their death, their only son Mu Er was raised in the hands of Gu Cheng's sister Gu Xiang, and settled in New Zealand until he grew up.
Gu Xiang has not told the children about the two, and has also hidden the traces of fungus from outsiders. Inheriting the excellent genes of his parents, Mu Er has a good academic performance, living abroad, he was admitted to the local University of Auckland in New Zealand after high school, became an engineering man, and did not know anything about poetry, and his lifestyle was closer to the West.
After growing up, in order to communicate with his grandfather, Fungus learned Chinese, and for this grandson who was both familiar and strange, his grandfather did not understand his true character.
After graduating from college, my aunt told Mu Er the truth. Mu Er decided to go to his mother's hometown to visit his grandmother, but in order to avoid unnecessary contradictions, let Gu Xiang stop it, after all, it was Gu Cheng who killed people's daughters back then, since many years have passed, don't tell the story again.
Nowadays, fungus has been living abroad, marrying wives and children and living an ordinary life. Having never read his parents' poems, Mu Er himself was not very interested.
Brief summary:
The ending of Gu Cheng and Xie Ye is not like the meeting at the beginning, like the plot in a fairy tale, and the world Gu Cheng lives in is not the fairy tale kingdom he conceived in his head. The famous fairy tale poet ended tragically in a tragic way, leaving behind a poor child.
The tragedy of the fairy tale poet may have a lot to do with the character of the extreme ego, and there is no way to balance the relationship between ideal and reality by returning to reality. Fortunately, Gu Cheng's children were well taken care of by Gu Xiang, married and had children like ordinary people, and lived happily.