There is no need to ask why Yu Xiuhua became famous overnight, and there is no need to rush to install various poet laurels on her. The reporter went to Hengdian Village, Shipai Town, Zhongxiang City, Jingmen, Hubei Province. In just two days of interviews, it is difficult to fully understand her 39 years of "shaky life." Through her more than 2,000 poems, one can feel the warm soil in central Hubei, and Yu Xiuhua's uneasy heart. The heart grows tenaciously and dwells poetically!

"Poetry is a crutch for my shaky life"

Highlighted in the September issue of "Poetry Magazine" in 2014! Yu Xiuhua's poems attracted widespread attention in the poetry world. Liu Nian, the editor of "Poetry Magazine", solemnly recommended Yu Xiuhua to readers. Subsequently, Yu Xiuhua's poems were published through blogs and WeChat, arousing waves of reading and forwarding, and the number of clicks continued to soar. This "lone ranger" who used poetry as a crutch became famous overnight.

In an ordinary farmyard in Hengdian Village, Yu Xiuhua had stared at the sky and the wilderness for countless days and nights, and now she was talking to reporters. Hugging warmly, chatting and laughing, talking about her cerebral palsy, her love, and her poetry. There is no high wall in her heart, not even a fence.

She walks "wobbly" and struggles to balance. She held her body and spoke as if she was holding it back, trying to make you hear her more clearly. She was born with a miscarriage and suffered from cerebral palsy due to lack of oxygen in her brain. She dropped out of high school and stayed at home. She could not do heavy work, so she usually cleaned the yard. During busy farming days, she helps with cooking and washing, and also picks cotton. Her favorite thing is to feed rabbits, and she has dozens of them at home.

She spends more time alone, which prompts her to meditate and write poetry. I am not a quiet person and I am not willing to accept this fate. "She said, "Only when I am writing poetry, I am complete, quiet and happy. "It took her a full 2 ??minutes to sign her name and write her phone number to the reporter. For her, every word she wrote was very difficult, and poetry is the genre with the smallest number of words.

"Wind, Water, sky and clouds are all touchable, they come down from the tip of the pen. "Morning glories, dogtail grass, threshing floor...everything in life has turned into poetry. When she showed the poem in a diary to the teacher, the teacher praised her, "What a lovely little girl. "The simple sentence moved her very much.

In 2012, she ran to Wenzhou to find a job to support herself, but could not find a suitable one. Writing poetry became the main content of her life. Yu Xiuhua mourned A diary entry by poet friend Li Xiaoxu expresses his feelings: “Without poetry, what would we do? ”

Li Shide, vice chairman of Jingmen Federation of Literary and Art Circles, believes that Yu Xiuhua’s writing once again proves the power of poetry on life. Yu Xiuhua said that poetry is just a person walking precariously in the shaky world. At that time, it served as a crutch.

“Poetry connects all the emotions in my life”

When Yu Xiuhua’s poems were forwarded like crazy, it attracted a large number of readers and netizens. There was a strong response, and people exclaimed, "What is poetry?" This is real poetry. "Some scholars hailed her as "China's Emily Dickinson", while others commented that she resembled the French country poet James. Yu Xiuhua told reporters that she has never read the poems of these two poets. Maybe this is just the origin. Because of the connection between souls, she likes Haizi.

“Poetry is the natural expression of the soul. "This is Yu Xiuhua's understanding of poetry. Her poems have a profound life experience and a sense of pain in life. People are amazed by her poetry that directly touches people's hearts and is shocking; they are fascinated by the simplicity, hotness, freshness and purity of her poems, without any pretense. Congenital defects, marriage, and deep love for her family... made her feel a kind of destiny that she could not let go of. "I love, hurt, chase, and rejoice in poetry, and there are also many losses. Poetry brings me to it." All the emotions of life are connected. "She said.

"Yu Xiuhua's poetry is pure poetry, the poetry of life, not a feast or family banquet filled with decorations, but a meteor shower of language. "Some scholars commented like this. Liu Nian commented on Yu Xiuhua that, looking at her poems, there is no blame, no self-abasement, not gloomy, but full of sunshine.

"Treat praise as spring, live well and write well. "Poetry"

She started writing poetry in 1998 and has written more than 2,000 poems. She took out more than a dozen notebooks with more than 1,000 poems written on them. 2014 was the year when her poetry boom exploded. *** wrote more than 400 poems. This was also the most memorable year. "Poetry Magazine" focused on her poems, and she was invited to recite her poems at Renmin University of China. Villagers all know that Yu Xiuhua writes poetry, but they rarely read it. Some say they can't read it. Her mother, Zhou Jinxiang, said that some poems can still read the meaning and have some flavor, such as the poem about Yu Xiuhua's father in "A Bag of Wheat". "I don't dare to give birth to white hair", which means that he has a heavy responsibility, because he has a disabled daughter and a grandson who needs to take the college entrance examination.

Yu Xiuhua believes that the best reward for writing poetry is for her to marry Liu.

Jorge Luis Borges's works, "When the Dust Has Settled" and "Norwegian Wood"... She is reading these literary works. Her son is now studying in Wuhan, and his married life has become calmer. A collection will also be published. She just wants to read quietly and write poems.

People ask her what her ideal is, "Treat some praise as spring, live a good life, and write poems well." Yu Xiuhua answered this way. The poems she hopes to write are only those of Yu Xiuhua, not those of cerebral palsy Yu Xiuhua or farmer Yu Xiuhua.