Cover news reporter Xue Weirui
On November 30, the first 2019 Tianfu Book Fair was grandly opened at the Chengdu Century City New Convention and Exhibition Center. Peng Zhiqiang, a contemporary poet, writer and vice chairman of the Chengdu Writers Association, brought his masterpiece "Autumn Wind Broken" in tribute to the poem Saint Du Fu. It is reported that after the book was published and distributed by the People's Daily Publishing House nationwide, it has won the third Li Du Poetry Award and the 2018 Beijing Literature Award Poetry Award, and the first 10,000 copies were quickly sold out, becoming a bestseller in the national poetry collection category. Peng Zhiqiang told reporters that paying tribute to Du Fu will be his life's work, in addition to continuing to preach Du Fu's poetics throughout the country, the future will also give birth to a long novel "Du Fu Biography" and a film work related to Du Fu.
Many monographs dig deep into Tianfu culture and leave Chengdu 'birthmark'
It is worth mentioning that from the Chengdu Cultural and Geographical Trilogy series such as "The Tale of Jinsha" and "The Tale of Caotang", to Du Fu's poetry biography "Autumn Wind Breaking", which has won many honors, to the long historical prose collection "Shudi Tangyin" and the brief history of Chinese musical instruments "Twenty-Four Tricks" that were also published and distributed nationwide by the People's Daily Publishing House this year, they are all rooted in the famous historical and cultural city of Chengdu and dig deep into the city's profound history and culture.
In fact, Peng Zhiqiang, a contemporary poet, writer and vice chairman of the Chengdu Writers Association, is not really from Chengdu, but from Nanchong, Sichuan. In this regard, Peng Zhiqiang said in an interview with reporters, "After living in Chengdu for 22 years, I have fallen in love with this city, especially this city with profound cultural heritage, which is near Zhu Zhichi. Every day is heard by the Tianfu culture of Chengdu, and it is also a matter of writing about Chengdu with a pen. ”
In Peng Zhiqiang's view, the Jinsha ruins representing the ancient Shu civilization, the Du Fu Caotang, which represents the poetry culture, the Wuhou Ancestral Hall representing the culture of the Three Kingdoms, and the Yongling Tomb that represents the music culture, are the most brilliant parts of Tianfu culture, and the reason why he pays attention to these historical themes one book after another is from the obsessive study of cultural archaeology and walking writing. "In college, although I was a student of Chinese, I was particularly obsessed with history and culture. At that time, I was sent to Sichuan Normal University from the Middle School, and I had no way to choose my own major, so I used my spare time to focus on studying the history and culture of Chengdu. My personal writing has therefore carried a strong imprint of Chengdu's history and culture, or my poetry and prose works have this distinct 'birthmark'. ”
Du Fu preached 40 lectures on poetics, and devoted his life to the study of poetry
If we want to talk about the obsession with the poetry of Saint Du Fu and his poetic culture, among the writers and poets in the country, Peng Zhiqiang is counted as the real "Du Obsession". From "The Tale of Caotang" to "Autumn Wind Breaking", Peng Zhiqiang spent five years walking to investigate the traces of Du Fu's life, and created more than 5,000 new poems to pay tribute to the poem Saint Du Fu. Not only that, Peng Zhiqiang was also invited to play Du Fu in CCTV's "Legendary China Festival, Dragon Boat Festival" last year, and this year he was hired by the Gongyi Municipal Party Committee and the Gongyi Municipal Government as the "Du Fu Cultural Promotion Ambassador", and so far he has preached Du Fu's poetics in dozens of schools such as Beijing October Literature College, Gansu Li Du Poetry Festival, Henan Du Fu Poetry Conference, Chengdu Jinsha Forum, Neijiang Daqian Forum, Chengdu Metro Television, Chengdu Seventh Middle School, Chengdu Jiaxiang Foreign Chinese School, ChengshiFu Primary School, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu University of Technology, etc.
"This is an inexplicable fate between me and Du Fu." Peng Zhiqiang told reporters that people's lives are actually very short, and he can do something in a limited time, especially in literary creation, he mainly chose Du Fu. "2022 is the 1310th anniversary of Du Fu's birth, and my next writing plan is even more difficult, expecting to write a biography of Du Fu in 300,000 words or even 500,000 words, either a long novel or a long non-fiction. In the future, it is not surprising that he will try to be a film screenwriter and write a movie related to Du Fu, which is recommended to more public readers. Peng Zhiqiang said that he will devote his life to the study of Du Fu, preach Du Fu's poetry, carry forward and inherit Du Fu's great realist spirit, and even if other subjects do not write About Du Fu, he will carry out cultural archaeology and walking writing to the end.
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