The road to creation is hard
Author | Feng Enchang
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Hometown poetry gathering
It was very difficult for the children of the zhuang family to learn to create, it was in the fifties and sixties and seventies, it was also difficult to go out to visit the teacher, I went from my hometown to the city for more than 30 miles, often have to take the next step. No way, a few of our close poet friends solved the problem by meeting frequently. Chen Zuoshi of Guanzhuang Village, Lu Changsong and Feng Shuzhu of Hongxin Village are all three or five miles away from my house, and the way to gather is to gather at my house on Sundays. When we talk about poetry, we have a common theme, how to write good vernacular poems. We were all born in the countryside, the peasant life is thick, and each person has a smooth writing foundation, so there is still something to say when studying and discussing. Brainstorming is powerful, we all write poems well on weekdays, come here alone to read and listen, listen to opinions, and collectively revise them. In this way, the quality of the poems has been greatly improved, and many of them have been posted and used.
In those years, I worked outside the home, and my family life had many difficulties, and my relatives and friends were sad to entertain, but I had a full enthusiasm for creation, and I was willing to approach writers and poets from the heart, and guide my creation through them to improve my writing level. I heard that the Shandong Literature Society helped Yeyuan Feng Rusong set up the Yeyuan Poetry Society, and set up the "Linqu Amateur Editorial Department" in the journal, and each issue produced a poem page, and a few of us gathered at Feng Rusong's place, handed over the written poems to him, and sent them to "Shandong Literature" for publication. In the July issue of "Shandong Literature" in 1960, I once published 3 songs of "Water, Fertilizer and Soil" for me, and received the publication and made me jump up happily. In the same year, Zhang Shengming, the editor of Shandong Literature, came to Yeyuan and brought back a group of my poems "Digging Bay Mud", "Embroidery", "Competition", "Grandpa Dancing", and "Ballad of Pouring Wheat", which was published in the headlines of the "Poetry Painting" Shandong Literature Magazine, making my poems famous in the province and having a great impact. The works of several of their poet friends have been published in the provincial main journal "Shandong Literature" through this channel. I think that although it takes some effort and effort to make poetry friends, it is indeed beneficial to my own creation. At that time, there was a young Wang De'an (pen name Wang Yaodong) who was a soldier in Zhufeng Village, south of the city, who had become a poet in the army, and after I contacted him, he took advantage of the opportunity to visit my home to attend a gathering of poets and exchange experiences in writing vernacular poems, which made us gain a lot. Slowly, a few of our poet friends became the poetry group in the county who wrote vernacular poems, and began to inherit the poetry, poetic style, and poetry of Feng Weimin, a member of the late Ming Dynasty, so that my hometown Yeyuan became one of the origins of vernacular poetry, and Later Wang Yaodong's vernacular poetry was launched in the whole country and became the forerunner of national vernacular poetry.
Poets gathered in their hometowns to study the creation of local poems, which improved the level of poets and gradually became famous, which played a great role. The peasant poet Chen Zuoshi, with a low level of education, had worked as a brigade accountant, but his local poems were written quite well, including "The Second Aunt Moved", and two poems were published in poetry journals. The vernacular poems I wrote have been published dozens of poems by "Stars", and some of them have won awards in the country and provinces. To embark on the road of lifelong creation, we must dare to endure hardships and hardships, make poetry friends, learn from teachers, and persist in taking a tortuous road forward. Individuals have geniuses and extremely high talents, and despite their hard work, they must also humbly accept the cultivation of the party and the help of teachers and friends, otherwise they will take a detour and may be difficult to write good works.
Feng Enchang was born in 1937 in Linqu, Shandong. He once served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the county party committee and the chairman of the Literary Association, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Folk Artists Association, a director of the Shandong Prose Literature Association, a standing director of the China Vernacular Poets Association, a famous poet and writer of the National Pastoral School, a representative of the "Rural Small Courtyard School", and was known as the god of Oriental poetry. His works have won many awards at home and abroad, and have won the honorary title of lifetime achievement of the highest award of folk literature in the Asia-Pacific region, "Golden Flying Eagle Award", and have been named the title of world cultural celebrity and national first-class artist, the inheritor of the legend of Feng Weimin, and has published 23 literary monographs, "Sugar Gourd" and "Hometown Cicada Song", which have been selected to read textbooks in full-time middle schools nationwide.