Gender: Male
Date of birth: 1931
Nationality: Dong nationality
A native of Xinhuang, Hunan. He graduated from the First Department of North China University in 1949, joined the army in 1949, and served as accountant, clerk, leader of the third brigade of the first sub-division of the Southward Working Regiment of the Fourth Field Army, deputy director and director of the Literature and Art Department of the Culture Department of the Guangzhou Military Region, researcher of the Political Department of the Guangzhou Military Region, and a cadre at the division level. He is a member of the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literature and Art, a member of the third, fourth and fifth sessions of the Guangdong Provincial Writers' Association, the second, third and fourth sessions of the President of the Chinese Prose Poetry Association, and a member of the World Association of Chinese Poets, who began to publish his works in 1946 and joined the Chinese Writers' Association in 1962.
He is the author of the poetry collections Camping Song, A Handful of Fried Noodles, A Handful of Snow, Snow Lotus, Coral, and Years, Song of the Peach in Lingnan, Songs in the Depths of the White Clouds, Island of the Waves, Collection of Acacia Willows, Sending You a Wisdom of Moonlight, Love in the Golden Triangle, Modern Seekers, Sonata of the South China Sea, Love in the Maple Leafs, The Maiden and the Snowy Season, Selected Poems of Ke Yuan, Selected Works of Ke Yuan, Selected Works of Ke Yuan, Selected Works of Ke Yuan, Selected Works of Ko Yuan, Selected Works of Ke Yuan, and Selected Works of Ke Yuan, and Selected Works of Ke Yuan. Selected Works of Ke Yuan", and prose poetry collections "Land of Love", "Wild Roses", "Love in the South", and "Smiling Career".
The collection of poems "Coconut Village Song" won the 1962 Guangzhou Military Region Political Department Award for Outstanding Work, the 1980 Military Region Essay First Prize, and his work was also awarded the 1980 General Political Department Essay Prize for Self-Defense Return, and the 1988 Silver Sail Prize of the CCTV.
If Ke Yuan is a Dong poet, some people may ask why the name "Ke Yuan" can not be found in the "History of Dong Literature" published in December 1988? The reason for this can only be attributed to the poet's difficult experience and some misunderstandings in history. Therefore, less than a year after the publication of the History of Dong Literature, in the fall of 1989, Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County of Hunan Province held the "Ke Yuan Poetry Symposium", where many famous poets, experts and scholars from home and abroad gathered, and all of them unanimously agreed that, although the name of Ke Yuan was left behind by the History of Dong Literature, his poems were not forgotten by the readers and poets. He has not been forgotten by the majority of readers and poetry lovers. His works are not only widely circulated in China, but also published in Chinese newspapers in the United States, France, Canada, the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong and other places, and some of them have been translated into English and French and introduced to foreign countries. Finally, the organizer of "Ke Yuan Poetry Seminar" officially announced: "Ke Yuan, as a bright star of Dong poetry, will be included in the history of Dong literature." Originally, Ke Yuan's real name was Zhang Hengshou, born in 1931 in Jing County, Hebei Province. His father was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, a tributary student in the Qing Dynasty, who came to the north from the south to make ends meet. His mother was a native of Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County in Hunan Province and was of Dong ethnicity. Ke Yuan would like to rely on his mother's nationality, so in the starry sky of Dong literature, there is another bright poetry star.
On October 14, 1946, his first poem, "O Motherland, Arise! published in the weekly literary magazine Ta Kung Pao, the poem reads:
Let the sorrows clean up the joyful mood,
The beautiful fields are only an ethereal dream.
Motherland, for the sake of the destiny of our children and grandchildren,
Stand up, open your tired eyes.
......
He was 15 years old that year. His poetry gushed inexorably. He participated in the student movement and wrote poetry at the same time. He contributed to Yishi, Minsheng Herald, and New Life Evening Post in Tianjin, Jingshi Daily and Pingming Daily in Peking, Renaissance and Poetry Creation in Shanghai, New Poetry in Hong Kong, and other newspapers and magazines. He was highly visible in the press, publishing more than 200 poems in just over two years from 1946 to 1948. Once he published a long poem, "Lu Xun, You've Come Back to Life" in Renaissance, which was organized by Zheng Zhenduo and Li Jianwu, which attracted a lot of attention, but no one would have guessed that the author of the long poem was a young man of 16 or 7 years old. Mr. Shen Congwen, the editor-in-chief of the literary weekly Yishi Newspaper, noticed this young man and, in addition to publishing his poem, wrote letters of encouragement and guidance. At this time, the young man's father died of illness, and the family life was in a difficult situation. Because of his father's illness during the treatment, the family incurred a debt. In distress, young people think of Mr. Shen Congwen, they hold the mood to try to write to Mr. Shen, hoping that Mr. Shen can advance a sum of money to solve the urgent need. After receiving the letter, Mr. Shen expressed deep sympathy, but the fee is not advance, then offered to sell words to help the young man through the difficult times. He posted an announcement in the weekly literary magazine "Yishi Newspaper":
There is a young writer whom I have not met, and his family is in a difficult situation because of the funeral. I would like to make a "begging acyl" act, who is willing to give this promising young writer a little relief from friendship, and have the spare capacity to do this, I can sell twenty banners for this writer, as a thank you for this kind of goodwill. This kind of character is tentatively set at least 100,000 yuan a piece, my way is that anyone who wants my character can write to me, and when I send the character, I will tell him how to send the money directly to the poor writer. This society is too unreasonable, let us do our best to break the custom to do a little, do our duty, for the country to stay a little vitality.
......
Mr. Shen is a well-known writer, his calligraphy is also very accomplished. Mr. Shen body of that kind of strong Chinese literati intellectual pride and self-esteem, is also well known, before this, he has never sold his own words, but in order to help a difficult young people out of the difficult situation and willing to make the "beggar's" move, it is really compelled, because Mr. Shen himself is not rich, and had to rely on the sale of words to raise this relief money. The first time I saw this, I was able to get the money to pay for it.
The young man helped by Mr. Shen is Ke Yuan. He has received more than 20 copies of the mail, each received a heart is hot. As a result of this payment, the family's debt can be paid off, but he and Mr. Shen has never met, they are only in the darkness of the mind. 1948 August, the Kuomintang reactionaries in Pingjin area raids on progressive students, Ke Yuan and Mr. Shen lost contact. Soon after, Ke Yuan crossed the blockade line of the Kuomintang army in the south road of Tianjin to reach the liberated area, enrolled in North China University, joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the spring of 1949 and went south to work. In the following years, due to busy work, busy ideological reform, due to political movements, due to well-known reasons, Ke Yuan has not been able to contact Mr. Shen. But he never forgot Mr. Shen. After many inquiries, he intermittently learned some of Mr. Shen's situation. 20 years, due to the influence of the "left" line of literature and art, Shen Congwen and his works have been unfairly evaluated, he was subjected to a lot of misunderstanding and reproach. At the same time, Ke Yuan himself was also caught up in the historical injustice of the so-called "Xing Shi Incident". This case was like a sword of Damocles hanging over his head, accompanying him in every step of his life, from the purges and anti-rightist campaigns to the "Cultural Revolution". Ten years of catastrophe, Ke Yuan became one of the earliest cadres to be dismissed from the Guangzhou Military Region (Deputy Director of the Literature and Art Section of the Political Department), armed guardianship, large and small meetings to criticize and fight. He was sent to the Tianhe Ranch in Guangzhou and the Dongtinghu Farm in Hunan Province for labor reform. The ensuing disasters were destined to make him carry a heavy cross.
History finally turned to the 1980s. Newspapers and magazines have introduced the foreign research on Shen Congwen's works, so that readers understand that the foreign works of the Shen old man to give a very high evaluation. Several domestic publishers, also published Shen's anthology or anthology.
A spring day, the rehabilitation of Ke Yuan wrote a letter to Shen Lao. Since then, Ke Yuan looked up at the northern sky every day.
One day. It seems to have a premonition, Ke Yuan with trembling hands to open the mailbox, ah! This is the familiar font that has haunted him for so long.
Kohara received a long letter from Shen. Ke Yuan read Shen's letter, mixed feelings, tears on the lapel. Yes! More than 30 years of life fault finally come to an end, feelings of the stream convergence of the moment has come. 1980 summer, Ke Yuan went to Beijing to visit the long missed Shen Lao. One is a literary veteran who has made outstanding achievements in modern Chinese literature, and the other is a talented contemporary poet. The two knew each other in times of crisis, but after more than 30 years, they met for the first time and shook hands for the first time, and the situation made people speechless!
Ke Yuan's poem "Burning Manuscripts"
In front of me, I opened two packets of "materials",
but they were my handwritten notes, the manuscripts of my poems,
When the matches burned, the flames rose, and
my voice and strings were burned together.
......
Who would have thought that years of hard work
would be turned into a butterfly.
No, the soul of the poem danced in the flame,
To be tomorrow, is still the pen like a sword song like tide!
Excuse me, hearing such words, reading such a poem, who is not touched by people with hot blood? "The first is that it is not possible to get the best out of the world, but it is possible to get the best out of the world, and it is possible to get the best out of the world. This is the Chinese humanities intellectuals continue thousands of years of unswerving patriotic feelings.
Ke Yuan has been writing poetry since the 1940s, spanning more than half a century. He has published 37 collections of poems, an average of less than two years, and can be considered a prolific poet. Ke Yuan joined the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1949 and retired from the army in 1987, and has written a lot of military poems in his decades of military career, which account for most of his works. Looking at Ke Yuan's works, I think that his early period of creation should be emphasized. During this period, he was studying in Tianjin and had the opportunity to read new poems since May Fourth. He read a lot of poems by Ai Qing, Tianmai, Green Plains, Lu Qui, Li Ji, Zang Kejia, He Qifang, Red Poplar Tree (Wei Wei), and Factory Min (Yan Chen), etc., and he was greatly influenced by them. In addition to the enthusiastic guidance of the famous writer Mr. Shen Congwen, he was also cultivated by Mr. Li Guangtian, a professor of the Chinese Department of Nankai University in Tianjin, who edited the weekly Literature and Arts of the Minsheng Herald. He wrote poetry while participating in the student movement. "Often after returning from a march or a meeting, he would write poems late at night under a vegetable oil lamp, and then take them to student gatherings to recite them and publish them in the school's poetry magazine. The poems were very closely linked to the struggles of the time." Resistance to corruption, longing for light, and the pursuit of the future were the ideological tones of his poems during this period. Among them, "O Motherland, Arise," "My Song," "Lu Xun, You Have Resurrected," and "On the Land of North China" are his representative works of this period. Famous writers Shao Yanxiang and Zhou Liangpei also paid attention to his early poems, and believed that "his poems in this period have reached a certain height."
The study of Ke Yuan's military poetry should grasp a few highlights:
First, Ke Yuan went to the front line of North Korea in 1951 to learn about the wartime youth work of the volunteer army, which lasted a month and a half, running all over the east and west coasts, visiting the headquarters of the volunteer army and several armies such as the 38th, 39th, and 42nd armies, and interviewing a number of heroic figures of the volunteer army. After his return, he published three anthologies of poems about the volunteer army, and all of the editing fees from the manuscripts were donated to buy the airplane "Lu Xun" to support the front line. This period was an active period of his creative work. His representative works are "The Volunteer Army's Fast Poems" published in 1953 and "A Handful of Fried Noodles and a Handful of Snow" published by Writers' Publishing House in 1958.
Secondly, from the 1950s to the mid-1960s, Ke Yuan took the opportunity of working in the army and serving as a soldier in a decentralized unit to travel all over the coastal islands of Guangdong and Guangxi, such as Hainan Island, Xisha Islands, Wanshan Islands, and Nan'ao Island, and created a batch of poems. He tried to adopt the free style semi-metrical style. He consciously rubbed in the charming southern scenery and mood while forcing the troops to wither away, injecting his military poems of this period with colorful southern flavors and forming his own unique style of military poems. His representative works include Xisha Islands Poems, Hainan Landscapes, and Tears in the Pool. When Zang Kejia discussed the Xisha Islands Poems, he thought, "Ke Yuan has a meticulous observation and experience of the life and scenery of the islands. Whether he writes about the fishing team or the girl who picks the red beans, or the night scene of Yongxing Island or the small children of the 'Xisha Homeland', he writes in a very fine and poetic manner. It is true that the lives and wishes of the people engaged in socialist labor on the island are written, and the scenery of the island is also characteristic." Xie Coronation that "Hainan Landscape" is "magnificent", he pointed out: "Hainan Landscape" is also like Ke Yuan's other Hainan works, pay close attention to the color contrast and rendering, not only a certain line of a paragraph so, often throughout the pearl light, like a fairy scattering flowers, full of heavenly embroidery. ...... Ke Yuan's poems, from the form of the school folk songs are many, he is five or seven words of single-word end of the sentence, the use of pure, has reached a comfortable position. In terms of rhyme, his poems are based on the classical school of poetry, which is very colorful and florid. But there is no disease of eating the past, he has his own characteristics." Admittedly, Zang Kejia and Xie Lang's evaluation is objective and pertinent.
Third, in the late 80s and early 90s, Ke Yuan went to the South Sea Fleet many times during this period to experience life and interviews. Had with the formation of the sea through the Xisha Islands, Sumhang Island to visit the Spratly Islands, boarded the Yongshu Reef and Chigua Reef. Spent New Year's Day 1993 on the South China Sea, anchored near Dongmen Reef, Huayang Reef and Zhubi Reef, and finally returned to Zhanjiang via Yongxing Island in the Xisha Islands. This period of experience at sea was very different from his coastal experience and life at sea in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, he created a large number of poems about the sea and islands. He stopped at the azure land of the South China Sea, cut into the theme of his marine poems from the perspective of human peace, and eulogized the tropical character of the Chinese blue sailors in the 80s with the melody composed of the winds of the sky and the waves of the sea. If it is said that the 60's "Xisha Islands group poem", "Hainan landscape" marks the formation of the unique style of Ke Yuan's military poetry, then his representative works of this period, "Ocean Music", "South China Sea Sonata", is glowing with the spirit of the times and the spirit of the spirit of the Chinese sea in the 80's, and once again to the poet in the Chinese poetry world has won a great reputation.
In front of the new life, the poet's sense of touch is sharp.
In the 1980s, China entered a new period of reform and opening up. The special zones of Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Xiamen, Shantou and so on were like a pearl of the Orient, glittering. Ke Yuan paid attention to the changes in the special economic zones from the very beginning, and went to Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Xiamen, and Shantou many times to conduct interviews, and created a large number of colorful and passionate poems in praise of them. He believed: "Poetry should serve the construction of the Four Harmonizations, get closer to the business world, and eulogize the new construction, new pioneering, new concepts, and new characters. This will also inject new voices and colors, new blood and vitality into poetry." His masterpieces in this period include the two series of "Xiamen Style" and "Journey to the Special Administrative Region" in the Acacia Willow Collection, "Love in the Golden Triangle," "Modern Seekers," "Scenic Route of the Special Administrative Region" in Love in the South, and "Wild Rose in the Fifty-three-story Building" in Wild Roses. Ke Yuan's hymns, which are in the same lineage with his military poems, contain a heavy sense of historical responsibility and vicissitudes, but also show the romantic color of a realist poet, becoming the gorgeous music in all his works. Mr. Huang Jisheng said about Ke Yuan's poetry: "As a veteran, Ke Yuan suffered in old China, participated in the late liberation war, and witnessed the construction of the people's country. Forty years of stormy times have given him a wealth of feelings. Therefore, when he praises the new life, he often can't help remembering the past. Climbing Humen, looking forward to the rise of factories, the new port, he remembered the Opium War in the national heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country; tour Guishan Island, from the skyscrapers and martyrs monument to the associations, but also evoked his liberation of Guishan Island, the martyrs sacrificed in nostalgia. Strolling through the Heroes' Square, the poet unfolds a broader and more distant association. From the Sanyuanli Resistance against the British to the Guangzhou Uprising, to the defense of Fakashan, the storm clouds of history roil, and the poet's warrior sentiments are sublimated in his thoughts." Mr. Huang's comment is a perfect illustration of the relationship between Ke Yuan's poetry and his unique life experience. Let's take a look at Ke Yuan's poignant "Dialogue between a Mansion and a Dwarf House":
A newly built mansion and a few dwarf houses;
they are having a dialogue in the morning light--
Dwarf House: I wish for you to be born, great and handsome,
People have been calling you out for a long time,
may you give them peace and warmth,
and I hope you will give them a good life. peace and warmth,
I will leave, I will leave,
With people's cold old dreams ......
Mansion, I understand well, your old burden,
Shady and damp, but also once sheltered from the wind and rain.
People think and aspire in your arms,
Finish the Mansion in gloom,
They do not forget yesterday, so they will not forget you.
Dwarf House: they went away, discarding the shabby clutter,
taking with them the Ming and Qing landscapes, the Song and Yuan celadon,
as well as the photos of the old days with their relatives across the sea.
There are all the nostalgic memories of Shenzhou on it,
and I wish to give them to you to be loved and cherished.
Mansion: the river of history, flowing through you and me,
forever swirling with the green of the ancient earth.
I will accompany the old man's memories, the child's dreams
The young man's flying fantasies, followed by you,
and then send a journey of life's long walk ......
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A hundred smart people,
can not answer
A question asked by a fool;
A stick,
but can answer
the question asked by a hundred wise men.