The famous poet Ren Hongyuan died at the age of 83 and cultivated the "North Normal University Poetry Group"

At 21:49 on August 12, Mr. Ren Hongyuan, a famous scholar, poet and professor of the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University, passed away at the age of 83. Ren Hongyuan once said that he was a person who "walked sideways by the side of his contemporaries", and he was called by students before his death that he did not mix circles and did not bend over, "is the soul of poetry that lives and has been jumping at the famous poetry school of Beijing Normal University." ”

<h4>His lectures are fond memories of the students</h4>

Ren Hongyuan's daughter Ren Ting told reporters that her father was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer in early May this year, "He is a rational person, and he has always known the condition." He faced life and death calmly and peacefully. Ren Ting revealed that until last week, her father was still dictating his biography, and his greatest wish before his death was to publish this biography, as well as the complete collection of his personal works.

Ren Hongyuan was born in 1937 in Qionglai, Sichuan. Graduated from the Department of Chinese of Beijing Normal University in 1961. From 1983 to 1998, he taught at the Department of Chinese of Beijing Normal University. He is the author of the collection of poetry and poetics " The Language of Nüwa " , the Introduction to Chinese Cultural Poetics " The Yellow River Written in Ink " , the Multi-stylistic Chinese Cultural Philosophy " Chinese Red Shift " , and the poetry collection "Ren Hongyuan's Poems" in the collection of poems. Taiwan published a series of Selected Poems of Contemporary Mainland Poetry: Selected Poems of Ren Hongyuan. His works have been selected into various anthologies at home and abroad.

Ren Hongyuan is the founder of the modern poetry group of Beijing Normal University, and during his teaching at Beijing Normal University, he trained a large number of important poets such as Hou Ma, Shen Haobo, Sang Ke, Duo Yu, Yi Sha, Xu Jiang, Nanren, Song Xiaoxian and so on for the poetry circle. After Ren Hongyuan's death, the poets of the "North Normal University Poetry Group" expressed their nostalgia for the teacher in various ways.

Poet Isha Huai recalled the days when he entered the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University in 1985: "Teacher Ren was talking about contemporary literature at that time, his poetic lectures, the aesthetic content was very high, and his Mandarin with a bit of southern tone was a good memory of many students. ”

Last year, Isha invited Ren Hongyuan to Shaanxi to do a series of poetry activities, and also invited the teacher to live at home for 3 days, "In those days, he traveled all over Xi'an scenic spots, ate all the Xi'an snacks, he always talked about poetry, he said, that is the most beautiful." ”

"What does a poet look like?" His never-ending flow, never bowing his head, never bending over, this is the greatest wealth he left to his students. Poet Shen Haobo recalled that every time he met or talked on the phone with the teacher, everyone talked about poetry and laughed when they talked about happiness, "Teacher Ren has always been the same as when I was in college, keen and enthusiastic, flexible and jumpy." Every time I talk for an hour or two, I feel like I can't have fun. ”

In the depths of Shen Haobo's memory, "Ren Hongyuan is a symbol of the spirit of poetry, his unwillingness, indomitability, disobedience, uninhibited, free, arrogant, cold, warm... In my mind constituted a perfect image of the poet. He believes that Ren Hongyuan is a special being who has traveled through the centuries, and the pioneers and advances of his writing and thinking are rare.

Risuo will always remember the first meeting with the teacher. In the winter of 2010, when she was in graduate school at The Beijing Normal University, she read the teacher's poem "First Snow" that day, just in time for the first snow in 2010, and along the way she thought, "I blossomed / Is it a flower of water... I blossomed again/all the white flames that burned the winter", so I was extra happy. Li said that Teacher Ren is also a gourmet, loves to invite students to eat, Liso has eaten the crab powder cage invited by the teacher, and also eaten Sichuan cuisine at Emei Restaurant, which is the restaurant he went to eat when he was young.

<h4>Throughout his life, he kept his distance from the poetry world</h4>

"Shocked to hear that Mr. Ren Hongyuan passed away, many years ago I was asked to compile a contemporary poetry anthology, I chose his "Tomb of Zigui Quyuan", which is one of his best poems, and now, it can be used as the epitaph of Brother Hongyuan!" The poet Wang Jiaxin wrote such a text on his Weibo.

"He was an indisputable poet, he was independent, self-respecting, and he kept his distance from the poetry world." Wang Jiaxin believes that Ren Hongyuan is not using poetry as a means of hunting for personal merit, and his only hope is to write poems that he is satisfied with and find his own confidant.

In Shen Haobo's view, for a long time, Ren Hongyuan's creation has not been respected enough, he believes that this is not unrelated to his personality, "he is high and arrogant, but he has warned me no less than ten times not to be arrogant, he is worried that I will be hurt because of this." I was really impressed. ”

Shen Haobo said bluntly that Ren Hongyuan's poetry is difficult to enter, and it is difficult for others to write according to his way, he is a real academic poet, a real intellectual writing, "He is actually an aesthetician in the true sense." Shen Haobo even believes that Ren Hongyuan's aesthetic achievements are higher than poetic achievements, and his creations combine various elements such as oriental classical aesthetics, Russian literature, and postmodern philosophy.

"Mr. Ren said that he had never written a word in his life that made him blush." In Wang Shaoyong's view, what kind of language there is, there is what kind of life. "The value of Mr. Sir needs to give history some time to remember, and it needs to give the public some time to discover."

<h4>(Original title: The famous poet and scholar Ren Hongyuan passed away, and the people who cultivated the "North Normal University Poetry Group" are gone).</h4>

<h4>Source: Beijing Evening News Reporter: Lu Yanxia</h4>

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