In the 1990s, Professors Wang Yichuan and Zhang Tongdao of Beijing Normal University edited a set of "20th Century Chinese Literature Masters Library", which rearranged the seats of the chinese literary giants of the last century, the first in the modern poets was called Mu Dan, and the fourth place in the novelist ranking was Jin Yong. Interestingly, Mu Dan and Jin Yong, who feel that the eight rods can't hit the CP, are actually solid cousins, and their ancestors are from the Cha family in Yuan Hua Town, Haining, Zhejiang.
Mu Dan's name is Zha Liangzheng, and Jin Yong's name is Zha Liangyong. Zha Liangzheng split the "Cha" surname into "Mu" and "Dan" and took the pen name Mu Dan. Zha Liangyong split the name "Yong" into "Jin" and "Yong" and took the pen name Jin Yong. In a similar and bizarre way, the two Cha descendants left their names in the history of Chinese literature.
Online transmission of Jin Yong character relationship map
The Haining Cha clan has always been a family with poetry and talents, and during the Kangxi Dynasty, it was called "a seven-door scholar, uncle and nephew five Hanlin". A poet named Cha Shenxing wrote a famous poem:
Seen in the Boat Night Book Moon dark to see the fishing lights, lonely light a little fireflies. The breeze is slight, scattered with river stars
Perhaps more familiar is his brother Zha Siting's "Kechang Examination Question Case", because of a "Uighur stopped" topic, he was sent to prison by the Yongzheng Emperor and later died in prison.
Adhering to the excellent literary genes, the two brothers, Mu Dan Jin Yong, shined on the chinese literary map of the 20th century. Today I will only talk about Mudan.
Mudan was also one of the poets of the Nine Leaf School, but the genius poet generally had a unique temperament, talent, and extraordinary poetry, and could not be bound by the narrative of literary historians. Mr. Lying Bed, especially like this "Farewell":
Farewell/Mudan 1 How many people's youth is enchanted here, And then walk on the bustling road, Hazy is your sluggishness, clouds and water, Their own loss is forgotten with them, == How many times have your garden gates opened, Your beauty is complex, your heart becomes cold, Despite how well the four seasons sing the song, When the wingless night dew is solemn—— When you are old, alone against the fire, You will know that there is a soul also quietly, He once loved you for endless changes, Travel dreams are shattered, and he loves you with sorrow. 2 Every time we see you flash a reflection Ten million chances and your fire condensed, Something that has been done for every minute and every second Crushed in my heart invisible, Your throbbing ripples, your ethereal Laughter, I long in vain to have, They come and go in the wisdom of God, All that remains is my twisted feelings, Watch you go, in the hopeless pursuit, That's why I'm often silent: Until you come again, with a new fire Block the dark shadow of the time I am jealous of. June 1944
Compared with his extremely rational and speculative poems, this can be said to be the most emotional one, from which we can feel the author's sincere and deep feelings.
Fire and love are the two inseparable images in MuDan's poem "Farewell". Even if love is changeable and elusive, even if it is clear that it is a dream after all, but in old age, staying by the fire and counting the past will still make people full of attachment. The poet associates love with unattainable factors such as youth, time, and destiny, showing us the fragility of love while also showing its warmth and strength, giving this poem a unique charm and brilliance.
Mudan may have been an important poet ignored by literary historians and the mass media, and although he was popular in the 1940s, it was a time of many calamities, and no amount of good writing would help the state. We look at his experience for the rest of his life, and it is difficult to say a word. But high-quality works are more able to stand the test of time, and I believe that history and readers will not forget the chapters he has written. Mudan and his poetry will be paid more and more attention.
Praise/Mudan Walk through the undulating hills, rivers and grasslands, Countless dense villages, chickens chirping and dog barking, Successively in the land of the original desolate Asia, In the vast expanse of weeds whistled dry wind, Singing under the dark clouds of low pressure the monotonous flow of water, In the melancholy forest there are countless buried years They hugged me quietly: The inexhaustible story is an inexhaustible disaster, silent It's love, it's the eagles flying in the sky, It is the dry eyes that look forward to the fountain of tears, When the unmoving gray rows crawl in the distant skyline; I have too many words, too long feelings, I will take the desolate desert, the bumpy paths, the mule carts, I will take the slot boat, the wildflowers of the mountains, the rainy weather, I will embrace you with everything, you, O people whom I see everywhere, The people who live in shame, the people who are rickety, I will hug you one by one with bloody hands. Because a nation has risen. ……
The profound observation made Mu Dan always keep a clear mind at all times, even for the call of the national spirit, he was full of worry and vigilance. The famous poem "Praise" is often mentioned by us, because it constantly repeats the sonorous confession that "a nation has risen", but we cannot reduce "Praise" to such an impassioned statement, because, while repeating the statement, the poet continues to tell the sadness, humiliation and helplessness of the nation that is far from over, that is, the excitement here is not exactly equal to the optimism of those simple patriotism, it may represent the poet's "life to death" and the spiritual struggle against despair.
Mu Dan (1918-1977), whose original name was Zha Liangzheng, used the pen name Liang Zhen. A native of Haining, Zhejiang, he was born in Tianjin. One of the nine-leaf poets and translators.
As a teenager, Mu Dan had a strong interest in literature when he was a student at Nankai Middle School and began to write poetry. In 1935, he was admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University in Beiping, and after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he went with the school to Changsha, Kunming and other places, and published a large number of poems in the supplement of The Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao and the Kunming Wenju, becoming a famous young poet. After graduating from Southwest United University in 1940, he stayed on to teach. After graduating from Southwest United University in 1940, he stayed on to teach. He served in the Chinese Expeditionary Force as an interpreter. In 1949, he went to the United States to study and entered the Department of English Literature at the University of Chicago. He received a Master of Arts degree in 1952. After returning to China in 1953, he became an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Nankai University. In 1958, he transferred to the library and stopped writing poetry. He resumed poetry in 1976 and died of a heart attack in 1977.
In the 1940s, Mudan published three collections of poems, The Explorer, Mudan Poetry Collection (1939-1945) and Qi, and was a representative poet of the "Nine Leaf Poetry School". From the 1950s onwards, Mudan began to translate foreign poetry, mainly including the Russian Pushkin's works "Poltava", "The Bronze Knight", "Pushkin Lyrics", "Pushkin Lyrics II", "Eugen Onegin", "The Prisoner of the Caucasus", "Ode to Gavelli", as well as "Shelley's LyricAlth", "Don Juan", "Byron's Selected Poems", "Black's Selected Poems", "Keats's Selected Poems". His translations of literary and artistic theoretical works include Timofiev's Introduction to Literature (Part I of The Principles of Literature), Principles of Literature (The Scientific Basis of Literature), The Process of Literary Development, How to Analyze Literary Works, and Belinsky Thesis.