"I am poetry, poetry is me, and poetry is my life"
——Enlightenment from Liu Zhang's creation
On February 20, the poet Liu Zhang died of illness in Shijiazhuang, causing deep affection for the literary world, especially the poetry world. This can't help thinking: what kind of revelation left by his creation?
Liu Zhang is a farmer. After graduating from high school, he returned to work in agriculture in the countryside. He took classes in elementary school, and released sheep on the mountain. He also served as the accountant and deputy captain of the brigade. He spared no effort in his spare time. He published a large number of poems in the "Poetry" and other publications, and published more than 40 poetry collections. His "Beijing Love" has won the first national poetry award, and the poem "On the Ranch" has been widely chanted. It is such a true peasant, why can it occupy a prominent position in the Xinxiang poet group?
Liu Zhang's creative process profoundly proves the principle that "life is the source of creation". Shangzhuang where he lives is a remote mountain village in the depths of Yanshan Mountain. Here, he worked hard, "weeding the fields, hitting the Chaishanwa, and not sweating at home in the day and night." Even in his sleep at night, he "remembered the good crops poured by sweat", so in his poem "There are from Those elements of his bones and flesh. " With the background of Shan Xiang as his creative background, he digs out the true, the good and the beautiful from the mountains, and writes a lot of poems full of rich life. After he gained fame, he did not leave the mountain township. Instead, he listened to the opinions of the fields and stayed in the countryside for decades. He believes that "the spring water in my hometown is the milk that nourishes me". To make the work "without losing the earthy smell and not losing the sound of mountains and stones", it is necessary to go deep into and integrate into life. Therefore, his poems are like the flowing spring water in the mountains, bright and sweet, and carry the essence of the mountains; like the flowers and vanilla green in the mountains, they are beautiful and elegant, with a fresh rural atmosphere. It can be said that Liu Zhang's poems are given by life.
Liu Zhang's creation shows that love is the driving force of creation. A poet must have love, and love can make poetry have temperature, heat, strength, and height. Now some poems are not close to human feelings or warmth, because the poet lacks love for life and love for the people. Liu Zhang is a poet who loves his hometown. He has a strong love complex and nostalgia. His love for his hometown and his love for the folks formed his strong mentality and aesthetic structure. The natural scenery and customs of the mountains and rivers, assimilated and emotionally perfused by him, became swaying, magical, transfigured into poems praising folks, or beautified into poems praising the mountains. Although he entered the city after middle age, his aesthetic vision has always been bet on the mountain village. He is still nostalgic and obsessed with it because it is the home of his life and the paradise of spirit. But in Liu Zhang's poems, his hometown is not only a small village hidden in the hinterland of the mountains, but also a living space with considerable cultural heritage and aesthetic style. The folks are not only the parents who feed and support him, but also the symbol of national spirit. In this way, his love is not limited to a narrow personal feeling, but rises to a broad and deep love. He has always loved to sing for the people and praise the motherland with the country tone, "The country tone will not change, my poetry will never fade / sing mountains and rivers, and go to all directions."
Zhang Zhang communicates from ancient times to modern times, and has been influenced and nourished by Chinese poetry art. He has maintained a vigorous creative life in the practice of writing for nearly 70 years. The main reason lies in his constant pursuit and innovation. He pursues the popularization and nationalization of poetry, and the combination of new poetry and old poetry. He absorbed nutrients from various poetic styles, learned from others, was inclusive, and created a new way for poetry to enter the people, flourish and develop. He has long been committed to the combination of new and old poetry, that is, to develop new poetry on the basis of classical and folk songs. He absorbed modern and lively language into poetry, and used the antithesis and rhythm of old-style poems, such as "Yanshan Song" and "On the Pasture" to inherit the characteristics of short, lively folk songs, fun, and concise; "New Juequan Selected" is a successful use of five-character and seven-character quatrains; "Huguang" is of varying lengths and intricate, borrowing from the changes in the length and length of Song Ci's Yuanqu, and the fluctuating beauty of the language; "Pastoral Pastoral" introduces Yuanqu into the poem , Concise and lively, restraining the frustration; "Ancient New Questions" integrates the characteristics of various classical poems and integrates the beauty and deliciousness of new poems, becoming widely chanted poems. His writing broadened the path of poetry, added charm to poetry, and made his poetry self-contained, establishing his place in contemporary poetry.
Liu Zhang, an 80-year-old gentleman, has left us, but his poetry can last. His creative attitude of "I am poetry, poetry is me, and poetry is his life" is even more a model for later generations to learn. .
(Author: Yang Yang Yang Liyuan unit: Tangshan Normal College)