[Wenjing Book Review] In the depths of kung fu, I read Xingzhong Zhao's poetry collection The Catcher.

Thanks to the publication of Chongqing Machinist Magazine.

Life is full of countless

[Wenjing Book Review] In the depths of kung fu, I read Xingzhong Zhao's poetry collection The Catcher.

Thanks to the publication of Chongqing Machinist Magazine.

Life is full of countless seemingly coincidental acquaintances and encounters. This spring is really good! Because I met the overture written by teacher Gong Xuemin in Xingzhong Zhao's new collection of poems "The Watcher": "If this essay makes you want to see the beauty on your chest and know the Xingzhong Zhao brothers in Pakistan, I am quite satisfied. Stop. " Thanks to Mr. Gong, this spring, on the road of fate, I finally met this bearded poet who lives in the poetry town of Chongqing. Under the beautiful beard, Xingzhong Zhao's soul tentacles are more delicate and sensitive. This bearded poet with striking pictures is good at capturing details and likes cold lyricism. His poems are light outside and true inside, but elegant in vulgarity. Taking true feelings as poetry and lyricism as pleasure, five books of poetry have been collected and published so far.

With dreams, wings will grow. Form is usually externalized, and true faith should be approached with the simplest heart. Walking into the depths of time, I seem to see Xingzhong Zhao, an aesthetical rural poet, trudging on his own pursuit of poetry creation. Poetry practice began in the early 1980s, and he used his own poems to explore the meaning of life. For more than twenty years, he has created a lot of works. From 2002 to 2009, it was the mature period of his poetry creation, and he wrote more than 400 poems.

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? True poets love truth, goodness, beauty, nature and tomorrow. Xingzhong Zhao has little intention of writing grand narratives. In the book The Watcher's Tale, he adopted a slower rhythm, with two lines in each section and eight lines in each poem. He inserted poetic narrative fragments into his varied poems, and always regarded poetry as a position to interpret life, so that readers could feel the weight of the poet's feelings more strongly. Short poems pay attention to the tempering of language, the modification of images and the creation of artistic conception. Reading these casual short poems by Xingzhong Zhao makes people appreciate his ability to master words. Regarding the wind, we can easily capture her message in the classic poem of Pushkin, a famous writer and great poet and the founder of modern Russian literature: "The wind is white/the snow is loose/the wind becomes the power of snow, and the snow becomes the shape of the wind." The Wind Catcher is filled with the poet's inner peace, as if a beam of light penetrated his mind and entered our reading obliquely. Xingzhong Zhao likes to capture the inspiration of poetry from a quiet life. His observation and understanding of life, human feelings and human nature have their own uniqueness. His broad imagination, a kind of comfort and review from the soul of poetry, an understanding and practice of freedom, such as learning from the sea, calmly and calmly, focusing on quiet learning and creation, and not becoming a plagiarist of others' figures. What's interesting about Xingzhong Zhao's poems is the daily trifles and the aging years.

The broadness and kindness of the mind can dominate a poet's whole spiritual world and run through his personal writing experience. Xingzhong Zhao's love and sincerity for literature is very concrete. After reading the whole collection of poems, the central image of the works strongly attracted my reading desire. German philosopher Heidegger said: "The essence of life is poetic, and people live poetically on the earth." Maybe everyone can write poetry, but only those who are kind-hearted, love poetry and have enough literary self-restraint can become poets. From a poet to a real poet, you need more colorful experiences and more insight into life.

Xingzhong Zhao's poems seem to be open-minded, and rational elements inadvertently enter the poetic realm, trying to tell the secrets of secular life by relying on the rendering of personal feelings without hurting the meaning of words. He often uses irony and cold lyric to oppose the rudeness and incommensurability of life. He once admitted that his creation experienced a transition from early aestheticism writing to low civilian consciousness writing in the middle and late period. I like the spirit of literature and art in his poems, a kind of life rhythm injected between his lines, which comes from personality and cultivation.

Success usually has two basic elements, one is to set goals, and the other is to persist. Zhao Xingjian holds his persistent dream and continues on the road. For most young friends who dream of entering the road of literature, I think it should be of reference significance. I will convey it to readers, and maybe I can get some enlightenment from it.

If sadness is the poet's life background, then Xingzhong Zhao's memory of his youth is always as hard and profound as a wooden cart running on soft soil. At the age of thirteen, my mother died young, and Zhaoxing Center always had too much debt. It has always been thought that his mother unfortunately suffered from this disease after giving birth to him. He deeply felt that how many people in the world have changed, may disappear at any time, or be deeply alienated. This incident became a possible way for him to be loyal to poetry and indulge in rural customs for his loving mother. I know it from the preface of his poetry collection "The Book of a Small Town". I understand that the "source of living water" for him to study poetry is tied to his mother, and his thoughts and pursuits are written into his poems, so that he can find the beauty of life with his ideals and beliefs and gain the courage and strength of life. His mother told him to take good care of his brother's last words, which he firmly remembered. After graduating from normal school at the age of 20, he resolutely chose to go back to his hometown as a teacher to take care of his elderly father and young brother. Every footprint in his life journey is engraved with his extraordinary tenacity and hardship. Fortunately, he studied hard that year and laid a deep foundation for his later poetry creation.

Water is impermanent, and poetry has no definite method. An excellent literary work, the most important thing is that it has feelings that touch the softest part of people's hearts. Poets, like painters, present aesthetic things to readers, so that readers can observe life, existence and even life itself through aesthetic attitude and know what is pure and what is beautiful. The poet devoted his fiery life and his true self to the work "Spring is Coming": "Learn from the sea and make a complete reconciliation with life with broad tears/The sea is a little saltier than tears, and everything is just right."

? I can't be separated from the poet's poems. This "I" is both a ego and a ego. The theme or thought expressed conforms to the personal life experience and the surrounding social, cultural and historical background. "To balance the world, there must be love and the ability to love with hatred/just like the cherry blossoms in Japan, love the mountains of Fukushima in the storm." Nuclear Radiation shows the poet's calm critical consciousness and sharp edge. We can see his inner brilliance and ardent humanistic feelings, and his works suddenly sublimate because of his kind spiritual strength.

The words "sensitive" and "delicate" are incompatible with the photos I saw in Xingzhong Zhao's poetry collection "The Watcher", but when I entered his poetry world, I found an unexpected imagination space as a reader and internalized this image into many of his works, such as "Reading and reciting, like a classic fairy tale, I can't put it down/wither/clouds will slowly close her handsome. White is the measure of beauty/loneliness. I am silent for my dream and continue to sing the song of despair in my lost way. "If you fall in love with the night, a lonely, kind and eager soul is so implicitly and euphemistically presented in a calm poetic narrative, which makes me deeply feel that the loneliness of urbanites is everywhere in the poet's simple narrative and refined description." Returning to the poet's dilapidated old identity, not to mention despair/people who run with their lives have a decadent ambition/if the director allows me, I can also play a good play/the protagonist in the play/the first party in life "("A letter from home is worth a ton of gold "). The poet has a little black humor and indescribable sadness, so I have to admire his profound revelation of the nature of the relationship between society and people, which is above human nature. Happiness is to regard nightlife as writing poems/climbing mountains and dreaming, which can enhance talents. The poem "The distant mountains are as small as toys" sings the poet's spiritual voice openly and heartily. I like the poems covered in these years, and feel that the moving temperature of poetry can be found in the trajectory of this expression.

? "Kung Fu is flat in the depths" is a famous saying in previous poems. I borrowed it as the title of this article, and I don't know if the words written can match it. "Really decided to write an interesting poem for life. Resolutely carry out the revolutionary work of writing poetry to the end! " This is Xingzhong Zhao, a poet in ordinary life, with lofty expectations in his heart and devoted his life to it. An excellent work, The Catcher, can stand reading and rereading.

Yangcheng, the capital of hot springs, is beside the Liuxi River.

February 27th Rainy Night Draft

About the author: Xingzhong Zhao is a member of Chongqing Writers Association and Chinese Writers Association. His works have been published in People's Literature, Poetry Magazine, Star Poetry Magazine, Poetry Newspaper Monthly, Poetry Tide, Poetry Selected Magazine, Young Writers, Hongyan and Chongqing Daily. He is the author of a collection of poems, Pure Loneliness (1992), Secrets in Puppet's Heart (2003), Ten Years Night Rain Lamp (2004) and Small Town Book (2008).

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When those red berries come in spring, they flush on your southern branches.

-send a remote letter to Lingnan Wenyou Wenjing.

Xingzhong Zhao

? "When those red berries come in spring, they flush on your southern branches. Take them home for my sake as a symbol of our love." This is a poem by Wang Wei. When I first read this poem, I was an ignorant teenager. A young heart is also soft, and I can always remember those casual details. Oh, where is the south of China? Many years later, I almost knew my destiny, and my friends recited Dongpo's "300 lychees a day, and I will grow up to be a Lingnan person" by the West Lake in Huizhou. I suddenly realized that in my life, I was almost at a loss about the geographical location, latitude and longitude, and even the scale on the map of South China and Lingnan. Hehe, life sometimes seems to be linked by many jokes.

? A few weeks ago, a literary friend named Wenjing entered my blog for some unknown reason. At this time, my blog is introducing a new book, a series of urban writers published by Chongqing Writers Association. It is also a coincidence that I am fortunate to be included in it. In Chongqing, a major town of poetry, my little-known poems are unbearable to examine. I want this book to be published in a series of urban writers. Wenjing left a message on my blog to congratulate the publication of this book. I returned a gift and replied with six words: leave an address so that I can send the book. Sure enough, I received the quiet address the next day. In the afternoon, I distributed Wen Jing's poetry collection "The Watchman's Tale" in the first batch of books sent to literary friends.

? Perhaps the cover design and binding of this thin collection of poems are quite exquisite. Wenjing volunteered to write a review for my poetry collection. I never refuse the written communication between literary friends. Although I have only been online for a few days, I saw that Wenjing is a very attentive person and promised her a whimsical meeting. Accurately speaking, I didn't know that Wen Jing was a woman at this time, or when she offered to interview me through blog and QQ, I abruptly asked her gender. It doesn't matter. What's important is that Wen Jing read what I wrote day and night, trying to search for clues about me after learning about my hard journey from a young literary artist to a middle literary artist. In order to complete her comment that "Kung Fu is flat in the depths", she really forgot to eat and sleep. It's really hard for her. Here, I really love poetry all my life.

? Someone asked me how I made good friends. This is almost as profound a proposition as life and philosophy. Take the South China or Lingnan where Wenjing is located as an example. I flew from Chongqing to Shenzhen a few years ago and traveled to Guangzhou, Huizhou, Hong Kong and Macao. I visited Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Huanghuagang Martyrs Cemetery, Whampoa Military Academy and Huizhou West Lake, and also had extensive exchanges with literary friends of Huizhou Writers Association. Due to the tight time and hasty schedule, I still didn't escape the sightseeing tour and the end of this tour. However, the communication with Wen Jing made me feel more intimate among my literary friends in my heart. Although I haven't met each other, the thoughts and feelings between the lines seem to go straight to my heart, thus stripping people's sincerity to secular life.

Because of this literary friendship, Wen Jing also comes to my blog when she is free. At the same time, we also chat with QQ, literature and life when we are online. I also browsed her blog, and found that she communicated with many literary friends all over the country. Her upcoming second collection of works concentrated on articles written by some literary friends, so I wrote this short article to ask her for advice. Unexpectedly, she wondered if I would write an article to congratulate her and support her. It seems that this is how good friends make friends, what friends think, what friends think and what friends yearn for. Scholars in the old days don't have to haggle over every ounce. Modern society is rich in material enjoyment. How to sublimate spiritual life from humble to sublime is still a problem that everyone with ideals in life must face. Life experience tells me that friends are the starting point of learning, support, help and happiness!

Sitting in front of the computer, I silently read this poem of old Wang Wei again: "When those red berries come in spring, they bloom in your southern branches. Take them home for me as a symbol of our love." How extravagant it is! Looking back at that time, the girl's Chun Qing, the boy's affection, feelings, mood, brilliance, elegance, peace and dilution were not as bright as today's secular life and passion. A person is eager to be understood, accepted and loved by a person or a group of people, which is the real appeal of the soul. Only a person with a free and pure mind can convey this desire and longing to the mind of a person or a group of people.

? On March 8th, 2065438+02, I was in Chongqing Xiaoyitongzhai.