My poetic life
Author | Feng Enchang
I have been writing poetry since I was 20 years old, and I am still writing at the age of 86, which can be said to be a poetic life. In the long process of writing poetry, I first wrote folk songs, children's songs, and poems in ancient forms. In the early 1980s, he switched to writing new poems, which he has been insisting on until now. I don't do much research on the genre and format of poetry, and I think that writing poetry is not in the format of poetry. In writing poetry, I am mainly writing short poems, more than 20 sentences are very few, mostly five or six sentences and ten sentences, I think short poems are easy to grasp, inspiration comes quickly, revision is very convenient, and it is easy to publish. Because of this kind of thinking, I became a prolific author of writing poems, writing more than 10,000 poems in my lifetime, and publishing 8 poetry collections, which is not a minority. The soul of poetry, the soul of man, feels that they fit together, saying that I am a poet of the "peasant small courtyard school", but it is also realistic, and writing poetry in my life has indeed taken the road of small courtyard poetry and sunk into the school of local poetry.
I have been writing vernacular poems with rural themes all my life, following the development of the times, adhering to the party's literary and artistic line, under the gourd shed of the small courtyard of the farmhouse, which is my favorite garden for writing poetry, being in the simple life of the peasant family, on the round stone table, drinking cheap yellow tea, listening to the melodious grasshopper singing on the gourd shed, tasting the fragrance of the melon beans and cauliflower in the courtyard, very naturally generating poetry inspiration, and a small poem naturally flows out of the teapot. Among my poems, small courtyard poetry accounts for the largest proportion, accounting for more than 80%. It turns out that some poets said that Lao Feng's small courtyard poems are written a lot, and they can basically not repeat them, chasing the reasons, I think the small courtyard is the cell of society, it develops with the development of the times, and it will continue to undergo new changes, as long as the mind follows the trip, can find new discoveries in life, there are endless poems. There are too many things that can be written in the small courtyard of the farmhouse, one is the characters in the small courtyard, how many years and how many generations, people live in the small courtyard for generations, breed offspring, inherit the family style, cultivate the countryside, develop the cause, cultivate the offspring, how many stories and achievements need to be recorded and reflected, who can write it: second, the construction of the courtyard, the planting of melon and bean vegetables, the repair of the house, the tidbits of men and women living here, it is also impossible to write; the third is that the courtyard has close ties with the outside world, the contacts of relatives and friends, the involvement of marriage, and the study of children. The involvement of interpersonal relationships, etc., are all the sources of life for writing poetry. I write a lot of poems in the small courtyard, it is my life circumstances that cause most of my life to live in the small courtyard, and I especially love the small courtyard, and the waves of poetry are constantly born in my heart, and many living materials urge people to write, as a poet, this impulse cannot be hindered.
With the changes of the times, the small courtyard is my eternal source of life and theme for writing poetry. Every policy of the party to revitalize the rural areas can make the peasants raise their eyebrows, the spring tide rushes, and let me give birth to a fresh poetry of life; the implementation of the party's family contract system in the rural areas is an important turning point in my writing of poems, and I seized the opportunity to write a batch of poems, such as "Awake Mountain Village" (group poem) published in the "Star" poetry journal, "Calyx Mountain" and "Dusk in the Courtyard" published by Shandong's large-scale journal "Liuquan", all of which expressed the true feelings of supporting the party's policy and reflected the peasants' voices. In my lifetime of writing poems, I have written several fine works that reflect the times, as well as several poems that have won awards in the country, provinces and cities, all of which were born in small courtyards. A poem published in the People's Daily reads:
Summer
The gourd flowers bloomed
Shake the twinkling silver star
From the green clouds of the trellises
Jump down and hide in
In the old farmer's smoke pot
Taste the little song of the grasshopper
The vividness of the rhyme
In the night
Beautiful screen
The home of a bamboo hedge hut
A few pages of round plantain fans
Shake the warm cool breeze
The moon climbs up from the branches
Silver glow has a calm like water
The village was drowsy
The sound of insects near and far
Perspective on a happy life
As the party's new policies blossom, I write new discoveries, push forward period after period, new things emerge in an endless stream, and the more my little poems are written.
After the age of eighty, my enthusiasm for writing poetry has not diminished, but I have changed in operation, no longer working hard to tackle key problems, no longer demanding high standards in the grade of publication, but taking poetry writing as a means of health. With the change of lifestyle in later life, the way of writing has also come to be relaxed and pleasant. In the past five or six years, he often let his son drive and pull, walk into the southern mountains of the county, observe and experience life, tour scenic spots, see landscapes and rivers, browse the changes in village habitats, watch mountain scenery, etc., slowly wander, go deep into new life, discover new changes, generate new inspiration, return to the home of the county, write freely, do both fresh content, and carry out mental work, activate brain cells, turn writing into health exercise, with this way of writing in the later years, has been practiced for seven or eight years, and has also obtained some results. He has written 30 million words of works, published "Feng Weimin's Selected Poems", "Pastoral New Songs", "Landscape Pastoral New Songs", published "Landscape linqu travels", "ecological scattered songs", "green water and green mountains new rhymes", "poetry and heart language", "Feng Enchang autobiography " (upper and lower collections), a total of 7 books. There were no strange flowers, but they also filled the garden in their old age.
It is said that in the 80s, it is time to stop writing and leisure, but I can't stop now. It may be because of a lifetime of writing, not writing is irritable, emotionally abnormal, and uncomfortable. So I still insist on writing a little bit every day, at least a few small poems. Having developed a habit of health, at the beginning of the day, fidgeting and doing nothing has become a burden on the mind. As long as you brew a pot of tea, drink it unhurriedly, lay down the manuscript paper and start thinking about the verses, the waves in your heart will be calm, and you will be inspired in a moment, generate topics, jump verses, and naturally come out with a poem. The god of poetry has come, very spiritual, thinking into the vibrant world, all the bright spots in the heart can be mobilized, write the beauty of life. I have formed a habit that is difficult to change, not to write poetry, not to write, lazy on the body, eyelids fighting, just want to sleep, but the god of poetry came, picked up the pen, followed by the spirit of upliftment, there is no feeling of tiredness. The formation of this good habit is the result of years of writing. Many people in the creation, writing stop and stop, loosen this string, and then tighten it will be worried and headache. People who do not insist on writing all their lives, they are worried when they lift their pens, and they have to abandon their hobbies, and those who insist on writing all their lives will be happy when they lift their pens, they will enter the world of Elysium, and soon writing will become a blessing. Maybe this change in personality in life is the panacea for nurturing the heavens, I am a person in my eighties, the body is still tough, life can take care of itself, although there is an old dragon bell behavior, but as soon as you write the brain is sober, the thinking is also clear, write a few poems, a thousand words of articles, no fatigue. I said that my life has become a poetic life, not a bombshell, it is a real situation, maybe this health path is reasonable.
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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.