Recently searched for books on the Internet, saw a book called "White Dove Mulan", the author is called Li Li, suddenly remembered a female poet named Li Li decades ago, and then looked at it, it was the same person. I wanted to find her poems on the Internet, but I didn't find them. Think about a poem that I read when I was young, called "Song of the Earth", decades later, it still remains in the memory, and if you touch it a little, you will clearly recall it.
Anyway, I couldn't find her poems on the Internet, I flipped through the bookcase, and actually found it, the book has been a bit rotten, but the content inside is still clearly visible. It was a book published in 1980, and when Li Li was introduced, she was also said to be a young female poet, and there was no photograph. The poem was also very simple and easy to understand, but it hit me so deeply that I remembered this author for so many years.
I searched the internet for the author's photos and introduced them in more detail, but I still left my previous memories here.
Song of the Earth
Author Li Li
Here's what's in the 1980 book:
【About the Author】
Li Li, a young female writer, her real name is Bao Lili, originally from Anhui and Hexian County. Born in 1948 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, he moved to Taiwan in 1949, graduated from the Department of History of National Taiwan University in 1969, and went to the United States to study in 1970. He currently lives in California, USA, works for a social science journal press, and is an advisor to the Hong Kong magazine Bafang. His major works include "Night Tree", "Professor Tan's Day", "The Wind Blows", "Xijiang Yue" (novel), "Fire, to be Passed On" (poem), "Oriental Desire to Know", "Celebrating Reunion" (script), etc., and translated into "Beautiful New World".
【Reading Tips】
Song of the Earth is a four-part group of poems. The author has left her hometown to live overseas since she was a child, and this time she stepped on the Luohu Bridge from Hong Kong, crossed the Shenzhen River, and returned to the embrace of the motherland, ecstatic and emotional. She toured Dianchi Lake in Kunming and met with the West Lake in Hangzhou, expressing her love for the motherland affectionately. When she waved goodbye to the earth, she saw the motherland in the sunshine and couldn't help but sing the motherland's "Song of the Earth" from her heart. The author's imagination is rich and his feelings are fierce. The parts of the group poem are relatively independent in form, closely related in content, echoing at the beginning and end, and complete in structure.
Song of the Earth
One
A small river
I heard about it a long time ago, a small river
A small town on the other side of the river
A point on the map
A distant dream in my heart
It is the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year
I came to the island beyond the river
Wait for the moon to set, wait for the sunrise
Waiting to catch one
Train going north
Wait to cross the bridge over the river step by step
With a thousand arms and a thousand eyes
Embrace the mighty earth
Can't sleep on the Mid-Autumn Festival
Imagine the melancholy moonlight
A small river flowing quietly
Whispers of the sound of water
Call me over the mountains of the world
Step on the hills of your heart
Thousands of miles to cross my little river
Before sunrise, pack your bags
Shake off a ten-year journey
Clouds and moons, dust and ess
Shenzhen River, Luohu Bridge
Just one step, nine days to turn one by one
Dreams gallop in the desert
Ecstatic heart, resting by the river
【Notes】
(1) (A small river) refers to the Zhen River in Shenzhen.
(2) (Town) refers to Shenzhen.
(3) (Island) means Hong Kong
Reading impressions
The feeling of reading decades ago is still there, but the world is changing too fast, and the author's Shenzhen and Luohu Bridge have changed drastically. At that time, we did not expect that Shenzhen would develop to a prosperous and modern that we could not imagine at that time, and we in China have become so prosperous and powerful, especially since the epidemic last year, we can appreciate the meaning of a strong China for each of us.
From the annotations at that time, it can be seen that Shenzhen was still an unfamiliar name to the majority of readers at that time, and there was also a pinyin to annotate.
