Gu Cheng is the main author of the misty poetry school, and he has written poems such as Moon in the daytime, Selected Lyrics of Shu Ting Gu Cheng, Lonely Song of the North, Iron Bell, Black Eyes, Poems of Gu Cheng in the North Island, Poems of Fairy Tales and Fables of Gu Cheng, and New Poems of Gu Cheng, etc. After his death, his father Gu Gong edited and published The Complete Works of Gu Cheng.
In addition, People's Literature Publishing House published Gu Cheng's poems in 1998.
1956 was born in Beijing.
He began to write poetry at the age of 10.
1969, released with his father to the barren beach on the bank of Weihe River in Shandong Province. Drop out of school and release pigs.
1973 began to learn painting.
1974 returned to Beijing to work as a carpenter in Changqiao Street.
1977 began to publish his works in newspapers and periodicals.
1979 The Unknown Flowers was published in a Beijing tabloid, which immediately attracted the attention of the poetry circle and became one of the main representative poets of the misty poetry school.
1980, his unit disintegrated, lost his job and lived a wandering life from then on.
65438-0985 Join the Chinese Writers Association.
1987 was invited to visit Europe and America for cultural exchanges and lectures.
1988 went to New Zealand to teach China classical literature, and was employed as a researcher in the Department of Asian Languages, University of Auckland. After his resignation, he lived in seclusion on Rapids Island.
1992 revisited Europe and America to create. Received German DAAD creative annuity and wrote in Germany.
1993 10 died in an apartment in new Zealand on 10. Leave a lot of poems, essays, calligraphy, paintings and other works.
About suicide: 1.
The death of a poet is usually a mystery. Let alone commit suicide. And many years later, people are still discussing the cause of death of the deceased. If life is just a game, and a game is a dream, then when you are tired of this game, quitting automatically is a choice. Qu Yuan and Lu in ancient times, Wang Guowei and Zhu Xiang in modern times ... all found a desolate beauty and unforgettable poetry in the rivers and lakes, and also added some sighs and sighs to the ancient Chinese nation.
Since the end of19th century, the poet's suicide has become a constant theme in the history of western thought. Whether it is Trakel or Jack London, whether it is Ye Saining or Mayakovski, the destruction of individual life of every poet will bring great and lasting shock to the western ideological circle, forcing people to re-examine the established order and significance of existence and rethink the ultimate value of individual life. Besides poets, many literary masters at home and abroad also committed suicide: Ryunosuke Akutagawa, a famous Japanese novelist, committed suicide by taking sleeping pills in 1927, Zweig, a famous Austrian writer, committed suicide in Brazil with his wife in 1942, Hemingway, a modern American novelist, committed suicide with a shotgun in19/kloc, and Yukio Mishima, a famous Japanese writer, committed suicide in/kloc.
Since 1980s, several young poets in China have died abnormally, among which Gu Cheng, Haizi, Gomel and Tadpole are the most famous. All four people chose a cruel way to commit suicide. Tadpole, the beautiful poetess among the four of them, committed suicide for the first time: she cut the vein on her thigh with a delicate and sharp scalpel.
Two years after tadpoles committed suicide, three young poets committed suicide in Our Times. A Haizi lies on the track, a Gomez throws water, and a Gu Cheng hangs a tree. These three gestures are so similar to a poetic summary in the fourth part of Haizi's long poem Legend of China Zen Buddhism:
"Three siamese animals were born today/on the wings of heaven/in the spirit of water/at the roots of the earth"
In this situation full of survival crisis, the poet has always been a special existence. What is a poet? Heidegger once tortured the historical mission entrusted by poets to all mankind. He believes that when the world is in a crisis of poverty, only real poets are thinking about the essence and significance of existence. Poets, with their extraordinary sensitivity, compassion for others, metaphysical perception of existence and pursuit of poetry, contain the ultimate concern for all mankind. In this declining era, they inject meditation and care into each individual's life to gain insight into the meaning and scale of existence. Only a real poet can think about time, death, existence and the way out for mankind without considering the gain and loss of secular utility. They should be pioneers of thought, guides of thought and strong people in life. Why did they choose to commit suicide?
Second,
Look at me forever.
Instead of watching me for a while and watching the clouds for a while
-Focus on the city.
For the time being, let's not sort out the remnants of history, turn off the lamp of rational exploration, and fix time and space on Gu Cheng, Gu Cheng's wife and his lover.
Gu Cheng, born in Beijing from 65438 to 0956, was sent to Shandong with his parents and spent his childhood in Jiaodong Peninsula. Later, he became the representative poet of the "misty poetry school". I fell in love with Xie Ye when I met her on the 1979 Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train. Soon, he couldn't help himself and rushed to Shanghai to propose to Xie Ye. After four years of enthusiastic pursuit of Xie Ye, he finally got what he wanted. Married on August 5th 1983. Later, after roaming abroad in Sweden, Britain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia and other countries, he settled in Rapids Island in Oceania and lived a self-sufficient life in Taohuayuan, which should be said to be a good destination for a fairy tale poet.
Xie Ye was born in Beijing on 1958. She loves literature, writes prose and also writes poetry. Some of her poems were also included in Selected Misty Poems published by Liaoning Feng Chun Literature and Art Publishing House 1986. "When I leave/we believe that you can smile/look at pigeons with happy eyes/dance on that path/dream/design the future/I believe that I am happy/even too happy to breathe/unable to answer your question/I have stayed too long/turned into a valley/turned into the song of spring and larks in the valley." I don't believe it, I do.
In another poem, there are some strange imagination. Today, there seems to be an unfortunate premonition. This poem is called "I finally turned and left": "I finally turned and left/followed by a strange smile." Attend to city is unimaginable Xie Ye left him. But this time, will Xie Ye really "turn back"?
But just because Gu Cheng is so naive and fairy tale, the perfection he pursues has become another utopia that can never be realized in reality. Gu Cheng is a grown-up but unwilling child. He is destined to drift sadly and anxiously on the river of time. Living on a poor island, Gu Cheng's life is very poor. Coupled with his wife's pursuit, he felt that his perfect dream was broken; Therefore, his beloved lover "Ying Er"-Maggie, who is well-known in domestic poetry circles, eloped with an old man who practiced Qigong and left him, resulting in the tragic ending that his wife was hacked to death with an axe and then hanged herself because of a small quarrel between husband and wife.
Three.
I just opened my eyes.
The autumn wind blows from nowhere.
I just closed my eyes.
The autumn wind has become a shadow.
-Focus on the city.
1993,10,18. This day has no special significance for us, but it is a very important day for Gu Cheng. On this day, he and his wife both died.
Hong Kong director Casey Chan turned the love process between Gu Cheng and Xie Ye and Eiko into a film Farewell to Gu Cheng, which was released on June 65438+ 10/8, 20065438, the same day as Gu Cheng's death. I don't know if this can comfort the spirits of the deceased and whether it can be a box office success. Or both.
This film is basically realistic. Of course, the meeting between Gu Cheng and Xie Ye and the communication with Eiko have certain scenes and imagination. Xie Ye played by Li Qihong and Eiko played by Ayako Morino are very beautiful. It is often difficult for me to tell which is Xie Ye and which is Eiko. In the face of the wife of an innocent girl, it is a big violation to abandon it; In the face of lovers' amorous feelings, it is also difficult to give up. The film well grasps the feelings of Gu Cheng and these two people.
White clouds are low and foggy, green grass is swaying in the wind, and leisurely cattle and sheep on Rapids Island in New Zealand. In such a relaxed and happy place, Gu Cheng and Eiko meet naked and have sex. There is no exposed sex scene, only a youthful body. Casey Chan is very concerned about the film "Mei Wei" and wants to turn it into a Hong Kong version of "Wild Roses in Paris". However, there is a lack of in-depth excavation of Gu Cheng's thought and a superficial reflection of the inner activities of the characters. The director dressed Gu Cheng as a neurotic child, which shows that his skill is insufficient.
Four.
Gu Cheng is a child who doesn't grow up. He likes to build his own utopia. In life, his "Utopia" is similar to Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Garden": the voices of chickens and dogs hear each other, but I don't know that there are Qin and Han Dynasties outside. Concentrate on writing poetry, regardless of daily necessities. Emotionally, his "Utopia" is similar to the two men and one woman in Jules and Kim, regardless of his wife's feelings and lover's future. His two "Utopias" collapsed one after another: life was tight, and even buying daily necessities became a problem; The lover eloped with an old man and went to New Zealand. Gu Cheng's carefully constructed "Utopia" disappeared in an instant, and he blamed all this on his wife. He raised his axe when he was helpless, which became a human tragedy.
I want to die once.
Want to find on the edge of life
Take a look at the withered roses.
The night gave Gu Cheng black eyes, but it was useless for him to find the light. He only saw withered roses.