China News Service, Beijing, August 8 (Reporter Gao Kai) The award ceremony of the 3rd "Love in Lijiang · Chinese Qixi Love Poetry Festival" love poetry relay competition was held in Lijiang a few days ago.

Wu Xiaochong's "Love or God" (series of poems) won the annual award, Hainan's "Love Journey through Lijiang (Selected Chapters)", Xia Hua's "How Many Little Loves, Dedicated to the Great Landscape" (series of poems), Xiaocong's "Lijiang, I am for you" Love Comes" (poems) won the special award.

　　According to Kang Wei, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Beijing Publishing Group, the "Love in Lijiang·China Qixi Love Poetry Festival" love poetry relay competition has been held twice since 2018, and the two previous events have collected nearly 200,000 works of various types. First, 3 winners of the annual award, 8 winners of the special award, and more than 100 winners of the monthly award and the weekly award were selected, and a total of more than 2,700 outstanding poetry works were awarded.

Holding the "Love in Lijiang·China Qixi Festival Love Poetry Festival" love poetry relay competition is a successful attempt for the publication and locality to join hands and innovate cultural development ideas.

　　Jidi Majia, the vice chairman of the 9th China Writers Association and a famous poet, said in his speech that Lijiang is a holy land of love.

No matter in the history of Chinese and foreign poetry, poetry with the theme of love can traverse history.

From ancient Greek poetry to China's "Book of Songs", love poetry runs through the history of Chinese and foreign poetry.

This relay race is to pay tribute to the great love poetry classics in history and to the great poets.

　　According to reports, the 3rd "Love in Lijiang·China Qixi Festival Love Poetry Festival" is hosted by Beijing Publishing Group and the Propaganda Department of the Lijiang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and jointly organized by October Magazine, the World Cultural Heritage Lijiang Old Town Protection Administration, and Lijiang Old Town Management Co., Ltd. "Love Poetry Relay Contest launched the call for essays for poetry lovers at home and abroad in September 2020. After 9 months of extensive collection, a total of ent There were nearly 20,000 contributions and more than 80,000 poems (articles). The competition selected 10 monthly award-winning poets and 50 works; 45 poets and 220 works were awarded the weekly award; more than 186 outstanding poets were shortlisted with more than 900 works. head.

Participating authors are from many countries and regions around the world, among which Eva da Mandragor, a post-95 poetess from Russia, also entered the competition for the annual award.

Affected by the new crown epidemic, the awards ceremony originally scheduled to be held last year was postponed to the Chinese Valentine's Day in 2022.

　　The winners of this special award are Hai Nan's "Love Journey through Lijiang (Selected Chapters)", Xia Hua's "How Much Love, Dedicated to the Great Landscape" (a group of poems) and Xiao Cong's "Lijiang, I Came for Love" ( group of poems).

　　The work that won the annual award is Wu Xiaochong's "Love or God" (a group of poems).

The jury believes that Wu Xiaochong's "Love and God" (a group of poems) incorporates more modern concepts on the basis of physical perception and aesthetic experience, and has the power of belief and the scale of enlightenment.

He allowed love to lead to the creation of rhetoric and at the same time obtained the extension of thought.

This new change in writing is not only a poetic echo of contemporary people's view of love, but also a methodological practice of how poetry connects to love.

"Love and God" resorts to a restrained and different language form, constructs a heterogeneous poetic order, and expands more aspects and dimensions for love poetry.

　　When Wu Xiaochong delivered his acceptance speech, he said that love has always been the motif for our survival and poetry writing.

Whether it's "Guan Guan Jujiu, in the River Continent. A beautiful dancing lady, a gentleman is a good man" in the Book of Songs, or the love sonnets of Western Shakespeare, as well as the outstanding love poems of all dynasties, they are all showing us. A happy life, a meeting of soul and soul.

I think that love is not only between men and women, but love can also be family, friendship, and morality.

That is to say, a poet's years of practice and exploration are nothing more than to achieve a freedom that includes love, family, friendship, and morality.

This is also Auden's "The More Loved One," the great "human love."

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