"The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to find the light." This is a verse from Gu Cheng's "Black Eyes". Gu Cheng is a writer, but on October 8, 1993, he created a major news that shocked China, that is, Gu Cheng killed his wife with an axe, and then chose to commit suicide. After this news was broadcast, it triggered a long discussion in public opinion. In the photo is Gu Cheng when he was a child.
Gu Cheng, a native of Shanghai, was born on September 24, 1956 in Beijing to a family of poets. In 1968, 12-year-old Gu Cheng dropped out of school to raise pigs at home, Gu Cheng was an introvert, he always liked to be alone, not to play with others, but to bow his head and write his inner thoughts. The biggest feature of Gu Cheng's impression of his sister Gu Xiang is that he "does not like to join in the fun", and when he goes to kindergarten, he often looks at trees and ants alone on the side. In the photo is Gu Cheng in his youth.
Gu Cheng, because he received a good education and cultural influence from his father from an early age, began his writing career at the age of 17 and submitted articles to various newspapers and magazines. In 1974, after Returning to Beijing, Gu Cheng worked as a porter, sawmiller, and seconded editor in Changqiao Street. During this period, Gu Cheng sporadically published newspaper and periodical works such as "Beijing Literature and Art", "Shandong Literature and Art", and "Youth Literature and Art". In 1977, Gu Cheng resumed writing, and after publishing his poems in the dandelion tabloid, he caused strong repercussions and great controversies in the poetry circles, and became the main representative poet of the obscure poetry school, and received the attention of many people. In the photo is a photo of Gu Cheng and Xie Yegang meeting.
Gu Cheng's poems are small and pure, full of freshness and ethereality, hazy and full of beauty, and there is a beautiful love in the poems - "Alleys, curved and long, no doors and no windows, I hold an old key, knocking on the thick wall..." Gu Cheng's poems outline the perfect world he longs for on the one hand, and express the melancholy in his heart on the other, which is essentially a true portrayal of his torn personality. In July 1979, Gu Cheng met Xie Ye on the train from Shanghai to Beijing and fell in love. In the photo are Gu Cheng, dressed in Zhongshan clothes, and Xie Ye, who is wearing minority clothes.
Gu Cheng has no ability to live, his personality is uncertain, he is often angry, and even throws his face on Xie Ye's mother, whose family strongly opposes them being together. However, Xie Ye, who was in love, was completely attracted by Gu Cheng's talent and enthusiasm and sincerity, and finally chose to marry him. Because Gu Cheng has no ability to take care of himself, and is very attached to Xie Ye. Therefore, after marriage, Xie Ye gave up his studies, work and communication in order to take care of Gu Cheng wholeheartedly. At this time, Xie Ye became Gu Cheng's lover, secretary and nanny. A few years after their marriage, the two of them were very affectionate, and were once regarded as the envy of the loving couple. In the photo are Gu Cheng and his wife Xie Ye.
Their relationship became complicated after Ying'er intervened. Ying Er is a girl who looks particularly simple and cute, and she once flaunted herself as like Lin Daiyu. It is such a person who has been involved in Gu cheng Xie Ye's marriage for many years, and also publicly got along with Gu Cheng as a lover in New Zealand, and got Xie Ye's acquiescence. The three of them have been living together for a long time under this "triangular love" relationship, and Gu Cheng and Xie Ye even co-wrote a long novel that reflects the love life of this trio, "Ying'er". In the photo are (from left) Gu Cheng (first from left), Xie Ye (second from left), Li Ying (second from right), and Wen Xin.
In May 1987, Gu Cheng was invited to Germany to participate in the "International Poetry Festival" in Münster, and then began to travel around Western europe and Northern Europe, carrying out cultural exchanges and lecturing activities, and then settled in New Zealand. Later, Gu Cheng became a New Zealand citizen, and later because he did not like the noise of the city and the tedious things brought by work, he lived in seclusion on Waihelian Island and lived a self-sufficient life of raising chickens on Wailiu Island. In the photo, Gu Cheng (the middleman) is chatting with a friend.
After 1987, it was the late stage of his poetry. After going abroad, Gu Cheng almost stopped any copying of his own poetry. In 1992, when Gu Cheng was in Germany, he said: "I write very well on the island, I can write when I have time, and I always have feelings", "But it doesn't matter if I keep it, there is no place to put it." He also said that nine times out of ten his poems were "written and gone.". As an adult, Gu Cheng is still looking at the world with the eyes of a child, and his pursuit of the beauty of fairy tales has never changed, and even after adulthood, he is still obsessed with going to a small island to establish his own utopia. The photo shows Gu Cheng in Berlin in 1992.
On October 8, 1993, Xie Ye returned to Wailiu Island to divorce Gu Cheng on Wailiu Island, and the crazy Gu Cheng refused to fulfill the woman who had given him everything, so Gu Cheng raised his axe and smashed it at Xie Ye, who was seriously injured, and Died, while Gu Cheng was hanged on a tree in front of the door. Before Gu Cheng committed suicide, he said to his sister, "I beat Xie Ye", which meant asking his sister to save Xie Ye. But Xie Ye eventually died of his injuries. After their deaths, the story of Gu Cheng and Xie Ye was made into a movie called "Gu Cheng Don't Fall in Love". In the photo are Gu Cheng and his son Mu Er (Miki Sam).