From "Guotai Stove" to "Inkstone Poetry Platform", Yuan Haowen had a group of "Poetry Farmers" in his hometown.

  Our reporter Wang Hao, Zhao Yang, Han Yige

  "The first half of the pot table stove, the second half of the lamp table and inkstone. I was able to be on the stage of poetry and won the medal. I was so happy that I was so happy that my head was crooked and my mouth was crooked. The new life was finely tailored and the sunset red rehearsal. . Where is the haze and haze?"

  This nonsense "[Nongyue Diao·Heima Ling] Nong Fu Yin" from the farmer poet Song Gaozhu won the first prize of the 7th China Poetry Award, which not only made the farmer "famous", but also let him be around A group of farmers' Sanqu enthusiasts are more confident.

  Sanqu is a kind of music literature that emerged after Tang poetry and Song poetry. It originated from the folk and flourished in the Yuan Dynasty.

In recent years, in Yuanping City, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, the country's first peasant Sanqu society has appeared, and this ancient literary genre has been picked up again in the fields.

  "'New life finely tailored, sunset red rehearsal' is the epitome and hope of each of our members." said Xing Chen, president of Yuanping City Farmers Sanqu Club.

 "Ms. Wang" and "President Xing": Our leaders

  The "Teacher Wang" whom everyone said was named Wang Wenkui. He was born in 1940 in Yongxing Village, Wangjiazhuang Township, Yuanping City. He was a rural teacher.

In August 2008, after retiring, Wang Wenkui established Yuanping Farmers Sanqu Society (originally called Yuanping Farmers Poetry Society) after several years of planning and served as a consultant.

In 2014, Wang Wenkui died of illness.

  Speaking of Teacher Wang Wenkui, every member of Sanqu Club has countless memories.

Song Gaozhu, a farmer in Xijie Village, only had a junior high school education. Before he met Wang Wenkui, he had almost "zero foundation" for Sanqu.

  "I usually like to read books and make up some rhetoric, and I don't understand the flatness and rhythm of Sanqu at all." Song Gaozhu said that he didn't have a smart phone at first, and he went to Teacher Wang for corrections after practicing. He didn't bother every time.

  Wang Wenkui was a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, a member of the Shanxi Provincial Writers Association, and a member of the Shanxi Yellow River Sanqu Club. Since his retirement in 2001, his poetry and poems have won nearly 100 awards, which were published in "Poetry Magazine", "Poetry Monthly" and "Changbai Mountain Poetry" Waiting for publications.

  In order to allow more farmers to join in, Wang Wenkui proposed the principle of "voluntary membership, freedom to withdraw from membership, and no membership fee". He also founded a tabloid at his own expense and selected everyone's work to encourage each member.

  Member Yang Suhua said that Mr. Wang broke down an electric bike for Sanqu Club.

To this end, she also wrote a poem: "Xia accompanies the road to the scorching sun, winter follows the cold road to see the moon. The night is accompanied by a lone lamp to change a poem, and the dawn of five years of hard work.

  The writer Huang Fuqi wrote after visiting Yuanping Farmers Sanqu Society in 2012, “Every time a poem contest or a poem meeting, he has to revise the entries. For this reason, he often works overtime and morning, working hard to write for peasant poets.” "Wedding Clothes", nearly 4,000 songs have been revised..."

  Xing Chen, who is in the same village as Wang Wenkui, had only a junior high school culture before serving as the president and did not know Sanqu.

Inspired by Wang Wenkui, Xing Chen studied basic knowledge hard, "Quan Yuan Qu" and "Contemporary Sanqu Series" became pillow books, and a dozen books were written in dense notebooks.

  Xing Chen said that after the death of Teacher Wang Wenkui, he continued to go to the village to organize gathering activities and poetry competitions, and brought a small blackboard to counsel Sanqu lovers.

He also organized online communication and learning through WeChat groups, and established a public account to collect outstanding works of members, which were regularly published in the "Yuanping Sanqu Micro Journal".

  In December 2016, Yuanping City was awarded the title of "Hometown of Chinese Sanqu" by the Chinese Poetry Society, which was also the first city in the country to receive this honor.

Li Yanhong, then president of the Shanxi Poetry Society, said that in Yuanping, new trends such as "husband and wife composing music, sisters on the same stage, mother and daughter chanting together, and father and son arena competition" have become popular in Yuanping.

  Today, Yuanping Peasant Sanqu Society has spread across 18 towns and villages in the city, and has established more than 20 branches with more than 300 members.

"Mr. Wang and President Xing are the leaders of ours. Without their selfless dedication, there would be no Sanqu Society today." Said Yang Suhua, the first batch of members to join the society.

"Naoyanghan" Song Gaozhu: Both civil and military can "win the card"

  Before seeing Song Gaozhu, Xing Chen told reporters that Lao Song was a very contagious "legendary."

  With a hearty laughter, a burly figure, and a coarse cloth covered with yellow soil, when I first saw Song Gaozhu, no one would have guessed that this was a "poet" who won many awards.

  In 2018, he won the first prize of the 7th China Poetry Award for "[Nongyue Tune·Black Ma Ling] Nongfu Yin"; the following year, in the "Zhang Yanghao Cup" National Sanqu Competition in Tongguan County, Shaanxi Province, his work "[ Nanlu Yizhihua] You Tongguan Talking Ancient and Modern" won the third prize; during the epidemic last year, Song Gaozhu's "[Nanlu Yizhihua] Village Officials and Village Doctors War Epidemic Praise" won the second prize in a national poetry competition .

  He is such an excellent creator of peasant Sanqu. When he was young, he turned out to be a well-known wrestling champion, and he was commonly known as "Naoyang Han".

  Raising sheep is a traditional folk sports event in the original (Ping) area of ​​Ding (Xiang) in Xin (Zhou), Shanxi. Whenever there is a temple fair or a big show, a wrestling competition will be held in the local area.

"Twist" means "carry, lift" in the local dialect. A contestant who can fall down 6 people in a row is the winner, and the prize is a big sheep.

  "Wrestling is famous. At that time, I almost joined the provincial wrestling team and became an athlete." Song Gaozhu said with a smile. Others said that he was both a "Wu champion" and a "Wen champion".

Ask him to say that he is "abandoning martial arts and subscribing to literature."

  In 2008, 66-year-old Song Gaozhu wrote a little poem entitled "Twilight Love" at a cultural event held in the village, which happened to be seen by Wang Wenkui and invited him to join the Sanqu Club.

  "I don't know Sanqu, so I would write a jingle, isn't that okay?" Song Gaozhu was a little puzzled.

  "Sanqu is a high-level jingle, coupled with the requirements of the metric, it is a very good work, and your language is humorous, which can add points." Wang Wenkui's words made him suddenly open up.

  From "Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty" and "General Knowledge of Poetry, Lyrics, and Fu" to "Music Scores of the Yuan Dynasty" and "Three Hundred Songs of the Yuan Dynasty", the bookshelves in Song Gaozhu's bedroom were filled with various learning materials.

"Slowly I got a feeling of writing, and I also appeared in the local newspapers. Later, journals such as "Chinese Poetry" and "Contemporary Sanqu" selected my manuscripts, and the more I wrote, the more I became interested." He said.

  Song Gaozhu planted more than ten acres of corn. In his words, writing poetry and farming can complement each other. "When you are tired from work, you can lie down and think about finding inspiration. When you are tired from writing, you will come out to work and sweat. ."

  When the farming is busy, I don’t care about writing during the day, and I get under the covers at night to make ideas.

He said, "Sometimes one sentence or one word can stay up all night. The ancients said,'Yin'an one word, twist and break the stems and beards', probably this is the feeling."

  Song Gaozhu said that now that the Internet and communication tools are developed, "poet friends" all over the country have become good friends on WeChat, and they can exchange and study anytime, anywhere.

  In the village where Song Gaozhu is located, the reporter saw that many of the villagers’ old houses have been reinforced and renovated, and many have built new houses. Public toilets, sports fields, and fitness equipment are also readily available.

  “The changes in the countryside have been so great in recent years. Farming and harvesting are all mechanized. The roads in the village have hardened, pipelines have been renovated, running water is available, and various infrastructures are quite complete.” Song Gaozhu said frankly that the material life of farmers has improved. Only then can I have time and energy to create poetry and enrich my spiritual life.

"The lowest degree" Yang Suhua: Learn Pinyin even after 60 years of age

  [Zhenggong·Talking Order] Self-deprecating

  In the first half of my life, the tailor's dough was not pretty, but in the second half of my life, we met Sunshine Dao.

For more than ten years, he has been diligent in studying and practicing the palace tune, and for a few years he secretly laughed.

Hey, my brother.

Le Sha, my brother, this is called the old pig go into the carrot cellar.

  Yang Suhua is 69 years old this year. She said that this Sanqu is a "self-portrait", but she did not expect her childhood "dream" to come true now.

  Speaking of childhood, Yang Suhua has something to say.

When the family was poor when he was young, his mother had to work in the field to earn work points. Yang Suhua, who was 8 years old, took care of his younger brother who was more than one year old.

She was just in first grade and had to drop out of school.

  She said that she liked studying since she was a child, and she was a top student and was liked by her teacher.

"I like the Chinese class the most. I imagine that one day I can become a writer and poet."

  Although the reality is cruel, Yang Suhua is "unwilling to give up."

So, she sneaked into the school with her younger brother and squatted outside the classroom to "eavesdrop" on the teacher's lecture.

This is the result of her later limericks: "When I was a child, my family was poor, and I had to work hard to study. The teacher lectured in class and listened to the outside of the window."

  At the age of 12, with the help of the school, Yang Suhua walked into the campus again.

But the good times didn't last long. After just one semester, my father passed away due to illness.

"The pillars of the house are gone, I can only work in the ground, and the dream of reading is getting farther and farther away from me."

  Later, Yang Suhua learned sewing, shoe soles, and making buns, and made a living from this.

Until the summer of 2008, a friend introduced her to join a poetry club. She thought to herself that she had only studied for a year and a half. She was almost illiterate. She couldn't even write her name well. Can she write poems?

  When I first participated in the activity, I was next to a reservoir and I heard that it was called "Caifeng".

Seeing the breeze blowing on the lake surface, rippled circles, she thought it was very beautiful.

So I wrote a song: "The wind is blowing and the waves are flashing, fishing and sitting on the watch. The first time I participated in the conference, the meaning is in it."

  "Unexpectedly, I was affirmed by Teacher Wang Wenkui and my friends, which gave me confidence. Since then, I have seen what to write about, writing about rural life, writing about flower buns, and writing about embroidery." Yang Suhua seems to have found the child. The feeling of reading at a time.

  Later, with a mobile phone, Yang Suhua began to learn the Pinyin alphabet in order to search for information on the Internet and write on the mobile phone.

"Others encountered a word that they didn't know when they were studying. The word I didn't know was called'Stopping Sheep', because there was a group of them." She teased.

  Yang Suhua said that in the past, I always wanted to play mahjong in my spare time. Since I started to write poetry and Sanqu, I have never played a mahjong field.

Later, she became the head of the Sanqu Society branch, and "coupled" more than 20 villagers in the village to engage in creation.

Now, Yang Suhua is the deputy director of Yuanping Farmers' Sanqu Society.

  "Twelve years of hard work has been recognized, from being'illiterate' to'literati'." Yang Suhua said, as the "lowest degree" in the society, he is really content to have today's results.

  Peasants write and write about peasants: worries and hopes of "poetry farmers"

  After more than ten years of development, Yuanping Peasant Sanqu Society has made great progress.

Xing Chen said that now there are more people who like Sanqu, the team is gradually growing, and the quality of creation is getting higher and higher.

  "But with the passage of time, the age of the members is increasing, and the current main creative team is too old." Xing Chen said, hoping that more young people can join the Sanqu club.

  Many years ago, Wang Wenkui once wrote in a piece of work: "Poetry farmers come together, pass and help each other, we farmers are determined to repay the poetry debt."

  An industry insider said that now that farmers' food and clothing are solved and their lives are prosperous, Sanqu naturally enters the countryside and is welcomed by farmers.

In the past, it was only known that there were fruit farmers, vegetable farmers, and cotton farmers. Now there are "poetry farmers". This is a testament to the progress of the times in the countryside.

  Historically, Xinzhou, Shanxi has a deep connection with Sanqu.

The writer Yuan Haowen, known as the "originator of Sanqu" and "a generation of Wenzong", was born in Xinzhou and is known as Mr. Yishan in the world; Bai Pu, one of the "Four Masters of Yuanqu", has his ancestral home in Xinzhou.

  Yuanping Peasant Sanqu Society also visited Hanyan Village in Xinzhou City many times to visit Mr. Yishan's hometown and pay homage to the tomb of Yuan Haowen.

Many Sanqu club members expressed the hope that the local government can use relevant historical relics and historical materials to further explore the Sanqu culture, and farmers write and write about farmers to show the new style of the countryside.