【Huang Mang】Famous contemporary poet, writer, music singer-songwriter, publisher, landscape enlightenment, breeze resident. He is the former president of the Chinese Poetry Association and the president of the Chinese Poetry Association Research Association.
Ascending to the heights knows the distance, and the heavens and the earth are in mind
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It has been two years since I received Mr. Huang Mang's book "Buddha's Heart Dao: Appreciation of Poetry in Landscape Enlightenment". During this time, I read this book on and off, benefited a lot, and always wanted to write a few words of testimonial, but I was slow to write. The main reason is that I have been too busy with work over the years, and Huang Mang has experienced a lot, his talent is high, his involvement is wide, and his achievements are so rich, if he rushes to write, I am afraid that he will not be able to say anything.
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Born in the 80s, Huang Mang has been writing traditional poetry since he was 11 years old, and has been a young "old poet" for 30 years. By the time I knew him, he was already well known in poetry. In 2016, in response to the strange status quo and some problems in contemporary poetry creation, I improvised a review article and predicted that on the way to the Chinese dream, Chinese literature and art will usher in a magnificent era of blowout!
This article caused heated discussions in the circle, and Huang Mang left me a message: "This article has made many contemporary poets shame, and my generation should work hard to create good works to set the record straight." "From this, we can get to know.
In the field of contemporary poetry, Huang Mang is a legend. He is grassroots, positive, and has a rich sense of life, and his poetry represents a new style of development in ancient poetry today. His works involve genres such as five-word ancient poems, five-word quasi-sentences, seven-word new poems, seven-word quasi-sentences, and seven-word rhythm poems. In recent years, he has published more than ten personal monographs such as "Qiankun of Poetry", "Buddha Heart Daowei", "Buddha Heart Daowei: Appreciation of Poetry of Landscape Enlightenment", "Huang Mang's Poems", "Collection of High Mountains and Flowing Waters", etc.
This book "Buddha's Heart Daowei: Appreciation of Poetry of Landscape Enlightenment" is one of his representative works. In the book, he collects a selection of original poems. Under each poem, appreciation and commentary are written by famous artists. At the back of the book are also attached teaching articles such as "Several Keys to Writing Good Old Style Poems", "Correspondence Table of Poetry Rhythms", "One Day to Learn Grammatical Poems" and other teaching articles, which are very instructive and practical.
This is not only a book that allows readers to improve their knowledge of poetry grammar and improve their aesthetic ability to appreciate poetry. At the same time, it is also a tool book to guide poetry lovers to cross the threshold of ancient poetry and enter professional poetry creation.
Huang Mang's poems are full of justice and compassion, and are infectious. His poetry is steady, his sentences are flexible, his ancient style is arbitrary, his good sentences are one after another, his language is natural, he often wins with imagery, and he contains philosophy. The artistic conception and rhythm are beautiful. In the poem, there is his sincere understanding of life, his sober observation of society, his deep thinking about life, and his personal experience of emotions.
In the poem "Climbing the Hanging Sword Mountain in the Morning", "Climbing high and knowing the distance, heaven and earth are in the heart." "The mountains go to the clouds, and the clouds come from the sky." "The building is like a mountain undulating, and the fog is hidden immortals" in "Late Autumn into Yue West". In "Sentences with Brothers in Sun Shu", "A flute blows horizontally through the ages, awakening the souls of the three and five emperors." "In "Swimming in Qinghai Lake", "the sword travels for three thousand miles, and a pot of wine for the gods." "Long live the wind of the geese crossing the mountains, and the guests come to Xiangshui to swing the clouds." And so on, these poems, the intention is far-reaching, the atmosphere is vivid, the freedom is free, and the reading makes people feel that the sky is wide and the heart is uplifted.
On September 19, 2022, People's Daily published a long commentary article signed by Zhong Hua on "Doing a Good Job in Development and Security", in which it used the verse "Ascending to the top to know the far, and heaven and earth are in the heart", citing high-level strategic decisions and great changes in development since the new era. Seeing this sentence again, I congratulate Huang Mang, the original author of this poem, once again. He said modestly: "Ashamed, ashamed! ”
This poem is excerpted from the poem "Hanging Sword Mountain" written by Huang Mang in 2013:
Covered by clouds and mist, leisurely wild trails.
The cliffs are white, and the birds are in the forest.
Who has to really go? The empty sword groaned.
Ascending to the top knows the distance, and heaven and earth are in mind.
Huang Mang was born in Jinzhai County, Anhui Province, and Hanging Sword Mountain is one of the attractions in Jinzhai County. He returned to his hometown that year, and during the tour, he gave a poem, praised the mountain, and expressed his feelings for climbing high. This poem has become one of the "classic poems of ancient and modern climbing high and far" on the Internet. The sentence in this poem, "Ascending to the heights to know the distance, heaven and earth in the heart" has been widely sung and quoted, becoming a golden sentence, entering the middle school and university examination papers, and Baidu search related results have exceeded 20 million.
From ancient times to the present, as a cultural person, it is not easy to leave an article, or a few sentences. Especially in today's Internet era with vast information, Huang Mang only relies on the phrase "climbing high to know the far, heaven and earth in the heart", which is enough to comfort his life.
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As an influential figure in the poetry world, Huang Mang established the cultural media of the Chinese Poetry Association, the official website of the Chinese Poetry Association, the Research Association of the Chinese Poetry Association, the Music Committee of the Chinese Poetry Association and other institutions (hereinafter referred to as the "Chinese Poetry Association") on the basis of the former China Poetry Association, realizing the transformation and upgrading from "poetry hobby" to "literary and artistic career", driving poetry lovers and fans as a whole, carrying forward the Chinese spirit, rallying Chinese strength, and prospering and developing socialist culture and art with Chinese characteristics.
The book "Buddha's Heart Tao: Appreciation of Poetry in the Landscape and Enlightenment" includes some poetry events such as Mr. Huang Mang's attendance at the China Poetry Summit Forum, the gift of poems invited to participate in tourism and cultural exchange activities across the country, and the poems of poets and famous artists, etc., which not only have the beauty of ancient Chinese words, but also have a vigorous and innovative atmosphere, presenting a clear spring of contemporary traditional poetry creation.
For example, the book includes the poem he wrote in 2017 at the invitation of the Art Committee of the China Yinglian Society to explain poetry for the "Lianmo Double Training" backbone training course, and the poem "Peach blossoms contain Xiaolu, willows drag the spring breeze" in the recess homework entitled "Peach blossoms contain Xiaolu, willows drag spring breeze." Thousands of miles of nesting swallows, a thousand mountains are picturesque". This poem is fresh and delicious, the language is simple, and the words and sentences are refined in ordinary language, smooth and natural, and the whole poem is presented in front of you like a picture.
Of course, Mr. Huang Mang wrote poetry only one of his hobbies, he knew that poetry did not make a living, and true poets were poor nine out of ten. He told poets, "If you can't survive by writing poetry, then let's make money to raise poetry!" "Over the years, in addition to poetry creation, he has invested a lot of money in the cultural and publishing industry, and has done a lot of work for the poetry industry. Basically, the hard-earned money earned from cultural publishing is used in public welfare services to promote the development of Chinese poetry culture and prosper Chinese traditional culture.
He organized and implemented the compilation of poetry of previous dynasties with high quality, especially the editing and publication of excellent poetry collections such as "Tang Ren Rhythm Poems and Sentences Jinghua", and carried out a number of large-scale collections of contemporary poetry works across the country. So far, he has edited and curated thousands of books such as "300 Contemporary Poems", "Selected Contemporary Chinese Poetry", and "Selected Works of Contemporary Chinese Poets". It has successively held dozens of poetry and painting art salons, poetry and painting collection, etc., and launched a large number of poetry, calligraphy and painting, music and art talents and excellent works.
I have visited Mr. Huang Mang's studio twice to communicate, and a couplet hanging in his study, "Flowers in the busy city with wine, jade plate cooking sea smoke", these two lines are from his poem "New Year Mail", which is a true portrayal of his life and work in the midst of noise and inaction.
Many of his original poetry works are not created specifically for time, but are made in addition to busy publishing and editing, and using fragmentary time, which is not easy. The whole process of planning, editing, publishing, and distributing each book from the "Chinese Poetry Association" can be said to be mainly completed by him, and the labors and labors during this period are indescribable. As he laughed at himself in "Will Enter Wine and Oil": "The codeword compilation book is silver sea astringent, and Yulou is sore and ischic." ”
At the beginning of 2022, the book "Hu Huanyuan's Poetry Collection" was published by Huang Mang's main review. This book is the book that Huang Mang has put the most effort into, put the most effort and time into. Hu Huyuan was a county governor in the 52nd year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1787), and served as a county in Shangshui, Kaocheng, Xinzheng and other places in Henan for eight years. He was a clean official, able to write poetry and good at books, worked tirelessly throughout his life, and wrote a lot of books, and his colleagues praised him as "another literary hero after Ou (Yang Xiu) and Huang (Tingjian)".
Entrusted by Hu Huyuan's descendants, Huang Mang worked hard and selflessly, and with the non-utilitarian mentality of paying tribute to the ancients, he went into the ancient collection library many times, hooked historical materials, studied and scrutinized, added sentence reading, annotations, commentaries, etc., and used modern publishing technology to convert photocopied manuscripts into e-book manuscripts, and vertical manuscripts into horizontal manuscripts. After its publication, the book enriched the collection of Qing people's poems, which was well received by Hu Huyuan's descendants and hometown, and was collected by many libraries in China.
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In his long-term traditional cultural practice, Huang Mang has integrated traditional cultural and artistic forms such as poetry, books, paintings, and music to form a unique style and charm. The book "Buddha's Heart Dao: Appreciation of Poetry in the Landscape and Enlightenment" is accompanied by calligraphy and paintings by him and other famous calligraphers. In 2013, he was invited to become a tutor and teach students at the "All-Army Calligraphy Backbone Poetry Training Course" by the General Political and Art Bureau. In order to better report and display the achievements of poetry learning and creation, we organized the editing and publication of "Poetry and Ink Rhyme - A Collection of Poetry Works of the All-Army Calligraphy Backbone Poetry Training Course", and held a special poetry book touring exhibition, which immersed the passion and sonorous heroism of military culture.
As a young junior, Huang Mang's works were exhibited with calligraphers such as Li Duo and all the members of the training course. Close contact with senior teachers and peers, their broad and profound artistic attainments, creative spirit of excellence, and tireless artistic pursuit have given Huang Mang more creative motivation and ideological enlightenment. This can be seen in poems such as "The Gift of the All-Army Calligraphy Backbone Poetry Training Course" and "The Gift of the All-Army Calligraphy Backbone Poetry Training Course to Chen Joint Teacher".
Music is not only a way to express the excellent traditional Chinese culture, but also an important way to inherit and carry forward the traditional culture. Through music, you can better understand and feel the charm and value of traditional Chinese culture. In his spare time, Huang Mang also often sings poetry on the piano to enjoy his speech. In the book "Buddha's Heart Dao: Appreciation of Poetry of Landscape Enlightenment", there are poems with the title of the piano such as "I Have a Piano", "Autumn Night Piano Chanting", "Qin Friend Wang Fei" and so on.
In 2015, when singing and poems with the first sentence "I have a jug of wine" swept the country, Huang Mang took this opportunity to write "I have a piano" and wrote "I have a piano, always comfort my heart." Gao Shanjun did not know, flowing water to this day", did not expect to arouse the interest and participation of poets in the circle, and in a very short time and hundreds of poems.
Huang Mang, as a director and consultant of the China Music Producers Association, and a judge of the Douyin Music Law Project, believes that poetry is the soul and music is the spirit. Over the years, he has also been fascinated by ancient rhyme, devoted himself to creation, promotion and dissemination, personally composed lyrics and music and sang many songs such as "Qingping Leyou Yangzhou", "Phoenix Luyou and Tang Wan", "Houde Jinzhai", "Yangxin Jinzhai", "Book Saint Wang Xizhi", "Flying Flowers and Flowing Moon", "Heroic Youth Huo Qubing", "Acquaintance Mo Ask Dao's Whereabouts", "Hanfu Song" and many other songs, and also created and customized many musical works for some singers and enterprises, which were widely sung on the Internet.
In April 2021, Huang Mang's new album "Looking for You, Poetry is Music" was officially launched on major music platforms. This new album includes a total of 8 songs composed by him, such as "Great Times", "Chinese Legend", "Children of the Stars" and "Looking for You", which are based on Chinese style, with love as the theme, and the heart of a fist and a child, full of family and country feelings.
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Huang Mang is actually a "bitter child" with an unhappy family and a tragic childhood, which is unbearable to elaborate. In order to survive, at the age of 13, he was forced to go out to work. He has worked in more than 20 provinces and cities including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Guangdong, and has worked as a painter, carpenter, hotel waiter, hotel doorman, advertising salesman, network administrator, hairdresser, insurance salesman and so on.
When I first arrived in Beijing, I lived in a barbershop owned by my fellow villagers. It took 3 months to find a job in the publishing industry, but the salary was very small, and he could only live in the office around the clock. After 9 months of staying up with the curtains of the office as a quilt, I finally rented a room of only 8 square meters in a semi-basement at a rent of 600 yuan per month.
During the long part-time work, Huang Mang often worked all day, all day, consuming almost all his physical strength. It can be said that growing up has been tempered by life.
In the difficult situation, he discovered the power of China's excellent traditional culture, often used poetry to express his inner joys, sorrows and sorrows, and also used the classic works of ancient sages to comfort his lonely soul.
Once he had free time, he insisted on learning, tirelessly absorbed the excellent traditional Chinese cultural nutrients, and cultivated unceasingly in his spiritual field until the young shoots turned green and the small trees towered, and finally became a phenomenal cultural master.
Tang Dynasty poet Jia Daoyun: "Two sentences in three years, one groan and two tears." "When we appreciate Huang Mang's beautiful poetry, it is difficult to imagine what kind of tribulations and setbacks he has gone through behind him, and every poem has an unforgettable story.
The couplet written by the famous modern scholar Gao Er Shi once wrote: "Reading books in many sections, nourishing qi is groaning". Mr. Gao said that his life was "only for poetry". I think that Huang Mang is also a cultural scholar with such temperament and characteristics.
Huang Mang's hometown of Jinzhai County, Anhui, is an old revolutionary area, an important source of the Chinese revolution, an important birthplace of the people's army, the second largest general county in China, and known as the "cradle of the Red Army and the hometown of the generals". Perhaps immersed in this, his body is more full of family and country feelings, vast righteousness, and great love in the world, and he cannot see the shadow engraved by the hardships of the years, but often gives people strength and inspiration.
He generously donated the income he had obtained from painstakingly operating in the cultural undertaking over the years, as well as his own remuneration and copyright income, and did his best to repair some of the undeserved fragments in the world. He also often spends energy and intelligence, enthusiastically supports and helps poets, grows together, and strives to become a "circle of friends" that practices the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Huang Mang encouraged himself with the trumpet of "Buddha's heart path", and took "not asking what the country gives, but asking oneself for social geometry" as his life creed, and doing things in the world. On Valentine's Day in 2015, Huang Mang sang for the new era of the motherland and wrote a poem called "Chinese Dream":
He once looked at the front river several times, and corruption was rampant with justice.
The sword dance buried the rising sun, and Yunfei broke the strings.
The slim side hat is thousands of miles, hitting the water and climbing the mountain for another year.
The new dream Shenzhou arouses together, and the spring breeze is the first to believe.
With a heroic spirit, vigorous strength, and free writing, this poem borrows the elegance of ancient rhyme, the beauty of rivers and mountains, the lyricism of faith, the dream of rejuvenation, and the quality of reading, urging people to forge ahead.
In the contemporary fast-paced society, Huang Mang has been able to meditate on the creation and development of ancient poetry in the busy city of Beijing for a long time, which is invaluable. Of course, the effort also gave him full real-world recognition.
In 2011, Huang Mang won the "Most Loved Traditional Poetry Award" and "World Model of Chinese Virtue" in the "Confucius Birthday Event" of the world's Chinese brand. In 2011, he won the "Special Contribution Award for the Promotion of Contemporary Traditional Poetry". In 2013, he won the title of "Inheritor of Chinese Poetry Culture".
It is particularly worth mentioning that at the beginning of 2015, Huang Mang was invited to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala "Blessing to Ten Thousand Homes" series of activities, and walked to the Spring Festival Gala with several other calligraphers, which was reported by CCTV's "News Network"; In December of the same year, at the launching ceremony of the third "Poetry China" and the release of influential poets, Huang Mang was named "2015 Most Influential Poet", which was once again reported by CCTV's "News Network".
Today's Huang Mang, who has written, edited and participated in books alone, has long exceeded his height, and his artistic achievements in poetry, calligraphy, music and other aspects have exceeded his dreams in his youth.
Various societies, associations and units have given Huang Mang various honorary titles, frequently invited him to participate in excellent traditional Chinese cultural activities, and served as judges, guests, keynote speakers, singers, etc. The mainstream media has also reported and interviewed him a lot over the years, but he is more quiet and far-reaching. As he realized in the poem "Yunshui Zen Heart": "Three thousand flowing waters rush to the sea, and the soul is washed with peace", and the detachment in the poem "Untitled": "A thousand years of meteor showers, a prosperous wind and dew."
Huang Mang, a rural teenager who came through miserable circumstances, eventually grew up to become a famous contemporary poet. He undoubtedly used his inspirational experience to tell those who are in adversity and are not willing to be bound by fate: no matter how difficult life is, as long as you bravely face challenges and firmly pursue your dreams, it is very likely to write your own legendary life!
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