"The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to find the light. These two poems are the two most widely circulated lines in Gu Cheng, and they have given countless people encouragement and hope.
In 1988, Gu Cheng and his wife Xie Ye settled in New Zealand, and a few years later, they lived with their lover Yingzi. A few months later, Yingzi took advantage of the fact that Gu Cheng and his wife were out to give lectures and left Waiheke Island with the money.
Gu Cheng's spirit was greatly stimulated, and he brutally killed his wife after domestic violence, and finally hanged himself from the tree at the door. Twenty-one years later, Yingzi died in Sydney, and on her deathbed she said, "I feel fine, there is no pain".
So far, the three people in this relationship have passed away, and whoever is right and wrong has been taken to the grave.
Poet of the 80s
The 80s were the golden age of Chinese literature and culture, and after more than ten years of silence, people's cultural enthusiasm erupted. Gu Cheng, Shu Ting, Bei Dao, and Hai Zi are called the "four great poets" of that era, and they are idols in the minds of literary and artistic youth.
In the 80s, poets were the most romantic profession, with a high social status, countless fans, fame all over the world, and countless fans everywhere they went.
Gu Cheng, born in 1956, his father is a poet Gu Gong, he has loved reading since he was a child, but he is introverted and likes to tell stories against the wall.
Gu Cheng is like a child who refuses to grow up, withdrawn and sensitive, extremely narcissistic, and has no ability to take care of himself. He has a harmless and innocent face, and calls himself a fairy tale poet who "doesn't grow up a child".
Gu Cheng's poems are concise and to the point, using very simple language and metaphors, like telling a fairy tale, ethereal and pure, he is a genius poet.
Gu Cheng and his wife Xie Ye
In 1979, on a train from Beijing to Shanghai, 23-year-old Gu Cheng met Xie Ye, a young man of literature and art, on the train. Xie Ye is a lover of literature, likes poetry and prose, and the two have endless words along the way, and Xie Ye left him his home address before parting.
Two young men who love literature are full of passion and soon fall in love. Xie Ye is a very capable girl, versatile, and has a strong ability to live. Gu Cheng is a boy who doesn't know anything but poetry.
When Gu Cheng went to Xie's house to propose, Xie Ye's parents only knew about their relationship, and the proposal process was not smooth. Gu Cheng is a poet with no fixed income, although he is talented, he can't let a family live a stable life, Xie Ye's parents disagree.
The stubborn Gu Cheng brought a coffin and put it at the door of Xie's house, lay down in it himself, and let out his words, if the Xie family did not agree, he would keep lying down.
The fierce girl was afraid of pestering Lang, Xie Ye was moved by Gu Cheng, but her parents were even more worried and felt that Gu Cheng had a mental problem. So Gu Cheng issued a psychiatrist's report to prove that there was no problem with him. Xie Ye's parents finally couldn't resist their daughter and agreed to their marriage.
After four years of love, they finally got married, and although life was hard, the two were quite sweet. A happy life is always short-lived, and because of the appearance of a woman, a crack appears in the marriage.
Yingzi is a student of the Chinese Department of Peking University, loves poetry and literature, wrote a paper on North Island poetry and was appreciated by her tutor, and took her to the poetry club, where she met Xie Ye and Gu Cheng.
Yingzi's article is a response to the hazy poetry school in society, and her move also attracted Gu Cheng's attention, and talented women like Yingzi were also very popular in the circle, and also attracted the attention of the poet Liu Zhanqiu.
The deformed relationship of the three
In 1988, Gu Cheng was hired as a researcher by the Department of Asian Languages at the University of Auckland, and brought his wife Xie Ye to New Zealand, where he found a small island, which he named "Waiheke Island".
He decided to live here for the rest of his life, so he became a New Zealander citizen and bought land to live here in seclusion.
The so-called pastoral life is to rely on oneself, live a primitive life, build a wooden house by oneself, grow vegetables by oneself, raise chickens and ducks. Gu Cheng couldn't live without Xie Ye's care, and spiritually longed for his confidante Yingzi, and the two sent each other heartfelt hearts.
The poet is still a machismo in his bones, Gu Cheng, who wants to hug left and right, wants both red roses and white roses, and under his constant brainwashing, Xie Ye actually agreed to live with the three of them.
In this deformed relationship, the tragedy has a great relationship with Xie Ye's compromise and connivance.
There is no paradise written by Tao Yuanming in the world, and the life of a civilized society and the life of a savage can only be short-term, and any civilized person can't stand it for a long time.
Yingzi soon became disgusted with life here, and took advantage of the fact that Gu Cheng and Xie Ye went to Germany to give lectures, swept away all the family's belongings, found a foreigner to marry, and obtained a green card.
Yingzi and Liu Zhanqiu were underground lovers before, and Liu also made it clear at that time that he would not divorce and marry her. At the same time, Yingzi maintains a spiritual confidant relationship with Gu Cheng, and she enjoys the superiority of the two poets bowing down under her pomegranate skirt.
Gu Cheng didn't like children, he forced his wife to have a fetus before, and finally under Xie Ye's persuasion, he agreed to give birth to a son, Xiao Mufu, but Gu Cheng had no feelings for the child at all, and finally forced Xie Ye to send the child away, and in the end, the child lived with Gu Cheng's sister and did not witness the tragedy.
Because Yingzi said goodbye without saying goodbye, Gu Cheng went crazy, and he began to be violent against Xie Ye. Her son was sent away, and he was treated like this by his lover, so that Xie Ye, who was obedient, couldn't bear it anymore, she filed for divorce and wanted to leave this Waiheke Island and go to Germany to start her new life.
Gu Cheng clashed with Xie Ye, who was packing his luggage, and picked up an axe and hacked her to death, bleeding more than once. Gu Cheng left four strange suicide notes, came to a big tree at the door, and hung on it, this time no one came to clean up the mess for him.
Ying'er lived in Sydney after that, and wrote several books about the relationship between her and Gu Cheng, which can be regarded as a hot spot and made a lot of money, after all, Siren has passed away, and no one can tell what the truth is.
21 years later, Yingzi suffered from cancer and sent Liu Zhanqiu one last message: "I feel okay, there is no pain."
Brief summary:
Gu Cheng, a poet of the hazy school, is essentially a selfish man who only wants to bring together the well-being of others and does not want to take any responsibility for his actions. Yingzi and Xie Ye both have their own problems, after all, everyone is responsible for such a deformed tragedy in modern society.
"Li Ying lost his personality, Xie Ye lost his life, and Gu Cheng lost his life", it is true that every party involved has lost completely.