China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter only Hengwen
Li Songshan, Bai Qingguo, Li Mingliang, Lei Wen, Liang Wenqi, Wang Dexi, Liu Yonggang, Duan Xinqiang, Chen Chuangui, Zhang Yuxuan, they are the inductees of the second "National Top Ten Peasant Poets". They have a common name: the "son" of the farmer. Their poems grew out of the land and were harvested in autumn.
The unprecedented great battle and comprehensive victory in poverty alleviation have provided peasant poets with abundant writing resources, stimulated their creative enthusiasm, and tested their skills and ideas. How deeply they love the earth under their feet, how much they think, feel and express the creation of rural poetry in the new era, let's look at the "poetic view" of the four peasant poets.
Duan Xinqiang: The closer you are to the homeland, the more vitality it will have
Duan Xinqiang
"I want to send countless betrayals, endless demands, back to / the pain of the first birth / In Luanchuan, I just want to follow behind a clean rain / As a small grass, a lifetime / Even if I am humble / I only live in this green mountains and green waters ..." This is the countryside written by Duan Xinqiang, a poet in Luoyang, Henan Province, depicting the landscape and scenery of the land of Heluo, expressing his yearning for a better home.
Duan Xinqiang was born in 1973 in Xianchi Village, Miaozi Town, Luanchuan County. Because he lives and works in the mountains all year round, he deeply loves the landscape and water under his feet. The great changes that have taken place in the land of Heluo have constantly evoked Duan Xinqiang's memories of the old years, giving birth to infinite nostalgia, and at the same time stimulating his more expectations for a better life in the future, and the continuous accumulation and sublimation of this multiple emotions prompted Duan Xinqiang to write poems full of praise for the new countryside.
Has the development of the economy and the advancement of urbanization changed the vernacular nature of Chinese society? In Duan Xinqiang's eyes, the great China has a nostalgic sound everywhere, and there is nostalgia every step. Rural revitalization has put China's rural areas on the fast track of development, and new farmers are no longer confined to the land, but also show their talents in many social fields.
"The sharp contradiction between 'sticking to the land' and 'leaving the land' that used to be formed in the countryside is now disappearing. Many farmers have begun to return to their hometowns to start their own businesses, and the 'migrant work tide' that was once spectacular in the 1980s and 1990s has now become a 'homecoming wave'. The land is still that land, but the peasants see new hope in the land. The key is that the 'human' factor has undergone tremendous changes, and the new type of farmers who stand out from the farming tradition will become the future masters and souls of China's rural areas. Duan Xinqiang told the reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network.
"The closer I get to the countryside, the more vitality I have, and I am willing to be a sticker of local literature." This is a new and strong poetic and literary attitude, "words such as mud, wind and frost, barrenness and so on have slowly decreased or disappeared in the current rural poetry." Ten years ago, the first ten peasant poets were selected, and the articles that reported on those poets at that time were titled "Life is the Heaviest Psalms" and so on. Ten years later, today's rural poetry will no longer be 'heavy', a new era has arrived, in the face of the unprecedented prosperity of urban culture, the gradual decline of local culture of the literary status quo, I want to let the beautiful emotions in 'nostalgia' be passed on forever. ”
Wang Dexi: Poetry returns me to the essence of life
Wang Dexi
Dirt, insects, ants, grass, rivers, wheat fields and villages, Wang Dexi's poems from Feicheng, Shandong Province, contain the great love contained in every grain of dust, and the sun contained in every grass seed.
"When writing poetry, only by digging a well can we draw water, and where the water flows, the wheat will be green." ——This is Wang Dexi's creative experience.
Let's savor his voice -
"The nostalgia for my hometown is like my sweaty shadow turning the pages of the book of the earth, and the poem allows me to return to the essence of life and taste the tranquility of taking refuge in nature." In my village where I am not rich, I work, walk, love, think, face reality with sincere feelings to send out their own voices, with conscience to understand all the sorrows and joys, joys and sorrows, bittersweet and sweet of the people around me, and use poetry to prolong their lives, leaving behind the changes of the times and the roots and blood of historical culture and human civilization - poetry is longer than life, poetry is a rose that will never wither. ”
"Traditional villages are shrinking, farther and farther away from rivers, forests, mountains, and those lovely livestock... Some are far away from the taste of the countryside. In the evening, you can't hear a few dog barks, you can only hear the cuckoo sound in the distance; in the early morning, you can't hear a few chicken cries, only hear the gentle and pleasant birdsong flying hastily, and man and nature are full of interdependent exploration, confusion, and longing... I often have a worry in my heart that the beautiful and tranquil countryside will be destroyed along with nature with the progress and development of society. Dear earth, lovely quaint villages, that kind of quaint style, only in my dreams give me some comfort. In fact, my worries are superfluous, ignorant, and unreasonable nostalgic ideas, because the idea that green mountains and rivers are golden mountains and silver mountains is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it also makes me love my hometown more persistently. ”
"Back to the countryside, back to nature" - this is Wang Dexi's poetic view, "In this great era, rural poetry let us spit out our own hearts, let you hear the fiery voice of the laborers, let you hear the spring thunder of the countryside." ”
Zhang Yuxuan: Use poetry to talk to every tiny "life"
Zhang Yuxuan
Zhang Yuxuan is a village doctor from Yangdian Village, Feidong County, Hefei, Anhui Province. Every day, he enters the village and enters the household to conduct follow-up visits for the chronic diseases of the elderly living alone and left behind. When treating many elderly people with chronic diseases, he often talked to them about life and death, and from the conversation, he also got inspiration to write poetry.
Everyday life is poetry, and poetry is Zhang Yuxuan's life. Zhang Yuxuan has been living in the countryside of northern Hefei with his old mother for many years. Before the land was transferred, the family had grown rice, corn, rapeseed, peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans, and even sugar cane and watermelon. Seasonal vegetables needed for daily life are also self-sufficient. More often, Zhang Yuxuan is like a wanderer who has returned home from a lost journey, every day along the small river water, the small forest, the land temple, along the sunset and birdsong, and again and again to meet the dawn of the morning sun, the warm south wind, the pants are stained with dew and grass leaves.
Zhang Yuxuan said that he likes to use poetry to talk to every tiny "life" - "After the land is transferred, the garden company plants flower seedlings here." As a bystander, I often return to the fertile fields that nurtured me, deep into the crisscrossing paths and seas of flowers, like going deep into its predicament, its transformation. Again and again I tried to use language, to translate their conversations with me in my inner world. ”
Zhang Yuxuan has been writing poetry for more than ten years, "Rural themes may be my life's work. Because what you see is poetry. I know very well that every sentence must be precise in black and white, and it must be able to go out and come back. Writing poetry is certainly a compensation for real life. ”
"It's important that you have the determination, courage and ability to dare to write something new. Context, tone and sense of language, as well as linguistic innovation, just like our rural construction, will face different situations, opportunities and challenges in different eras. Cultural revitalization is the spiritual driving force for rural revitalization. Language and reality are connected to history. The poet has never been an island, and only by going deep into life can he reflect on his own heart and try to read and write about the world. This is Zhang Yuxuan's poetic view.
Raven: Conveying unique echoes of the experience of life
Raven
Born in 1967 in Hulu Village, Huacong Town, Enyang District, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province, Raven was paraplegic in 2010 by an accident, but he firmly believes that he will use the lever of self-confidence to pry open the hard stone of fate, and poetry is the echo of his life. His poems, written with a clear imprint of personal growth, convey his unique echoes of the experience of life and the meaning of life. We can't shout back to yesterday, but we can "slowly melt into the silence surrounded by mountains"—a tough and unyielding poet's worldview.
The land under the feet of peasant poets is vast and boundless, and the key to whether their rural poetry works are excellent or not lies in whether they can give people spiritual guidance, aesthetic enlightenment and ideological discovery. As Raven said, "At the moment when the state proposes rural revitalization, poets must not only deeply understand the new formats, new methods and new means of rural areas and agriculture, be familiar with the cultural customs of each rural area, but also adapt to the aesthetic needs and appreciation habits of new farmers under the Internet, in order to write good verses worthy of this era, so that the topic of the era of rural revitalization can resonate in the hearts of young people." For peasant poets, only by creating poetry works that have the commonality of China's rural areas and can show the characteristics of their respective regional cultures can they stitch together a complete poetry map of the theme of China's rural revitalization. ”
【Famous People Say】
Gong Xuemin, vice chairman of the Sichuan Writers Association and editor-in-chief of the poetry journal "Stars":
Discover the poetic imagery of the new Chinese countryside
The "Stars" Poetry Journal hosted the second "National Top Ten Peasant Poets" selection activity, hoping to use the name of poetry to bless poets, poetry lovers, and peasant friends with future days as sweet as honey and as beautiful as poetry.
The poetry of the peasant poets has the same pure emotion as the land. In the creation of rural poetry in the new era, first, we must use a new poetic vision to examine the Chinese countryside after the comprehensive completion of the task of poverty alleviation; second, we must use the continuous development of a new poetic language to express the rural revitalization in the context of the new era; and the third is to use the poetic imagery of the new Chinese countryside from a different perspective from the past.
Li Ziguo, vice president of the Sichuan Poetry Society and famous poet:
The key to a breakthrough in rural poetry creation is innovation
At present, the key to the breakthrough in the creation of rural poetry is innovation, not only the breakthrough and expansion of the boundaries and boundaries of rural themes, but also the uniqueness and innovation in the aesthetic concept, artistic innovation, personalized language and the way of creating artistic imagery of rural poetry itself, etc., which need to be considered from the overall pattern of rural poetry and thousands of meteorological aspects.
The creation of vernacular poetry should write about the pain of the countryside, write about the depth and difficulty of the countryside, cannot repeat the single-line lyrical way of the past, imitate each other and follow each other, and superficial praise or singing of the representation of the countryside and pastoral pastoral style, that is the mentality of pseudo-peasants and the writing of pseudo-rural poetry. It is necessary to truly go deep into the countryside, feel the rich and complex emotions of the times from the local people, and touch the agitated pulse of this era in the revitalization of the countryside.
Today's rural agricultural work has become vivid and powerful, becoming familiar and unfamiliar, and our rural poetry creation should undoubtedly write about its vast mountains and rivers, the winds and clouds, write about its rural destiny and the hearts of the people in the world, open up the channel between the new and the old, tradition and modernity, history and reality, and boldly express the many propositions of the times brought to us by the Chinese countryside in the great changes in history.
Liu Xiangdong, Vice President of the Chinese Poetry Society and Vice Chairman of the Hebei Provincial Writers Association:
Awaken the responsibility and mission of literature and awaken new expressions
How can we get our readers out of their impatience with general rural themes and enrich their reading experience of rural poetry step by step? This is worth thinking about – I mean that every poet should think independently, different from what has been done before and what others have thought.
How to not only adhere to the laws of art, explore the value of the eternal proposition of literature, but also adapt to the transformation of the main contradictions in our society, and tell Chinese stories and rural stories well is a severe test. To that end, we do need to think about and rebuild our spiritual world.
Throughout human history, all great times and great changes and major events are opportunities for the rebirth of literature, and every time they reawaken the responsibility and mission of literature and awaken new expressions. Why is that? For in all the great times, great changes, and great events, the fundamental propositions that literature focuses on are more prominent than ever. Survival and development, soul and body, time and space, the ethics of man and nature, confrontation and communication, inheritance and innovation, material and spirituality, etc., all eternal themes and propositions of the times, will be activated by a new force, rediscovered, re-integrated and reinterpreted by the writer.
Source: China Youth Daily client