Wang Guozhen, a modern poet from mainland China. Originally from Xiamen, he was born in Beijing on June 22, 1956. After graduating from high school, he worked as a worker at the Beijing Third Optical Instrument Factory. Graduated from the Chinese Department of Jinan University in 1982. When he was in school, he loved reading and writing poetry. Since 1985, he focused his spare time on poetry creation. During this period, a limerick "One Day at School" was published in the China Youth Daily. . Wang Guozhen claimed that his creations benefited from four people: Li Shangyin, Li Qingzhao, Pushkin, and Dickinson (USA). Pursue Pu's lyricism, Di's condensation, Li's vigilance, and Qing's elegance. After graduation, he was assigned to the China Academy of Art and later served as deputy director of the editorial department of the "Chinese Literature and Art Yearbook". Since 1990, Wang Guozhen has served as a columnist for "Liaoning Youth", "China Youth", and "Girlfriend". In 1985, he began to write poetry. In 1990, he began publishing poetry collections. The first collection of poems was "The Tide of Youth", and many other collections of poems were published later. There was a wave of "Wang Guozhen craze" in the 1990s.
Wang Guozhen's first influential poem is "I Smiling towards Life", which was published in the 10th issue of Hunan magazine "Young People" in 1984, and was later published by "Youth Expo" and "Youth Digest" 》Reprinted successively.
Wang's poems first caused a certain response among middle school students in Beijing, and were circulated among students in the form of handwritten copies. A female teacher informed her husband, who was the editorial director of a publishing house, of this information, triggering its publication. The company is commercially sensitive and quickly contacts authors to publish their works. On April 20, 1990, Wang Guozhen's first poetry collection "Youth Tide" was submitted and published by Beijing Xueyuan Press on May 21.
"Wang Guozhen Hot" appeared after the publication of this collection of poems. The book was printed five times in a row during loading and unloading, with a print run of 150,000 copies. Then he published poetry collections such as "Young Wind" (Huacheng Press in October 1990), "Young Thoughts" (as of early 1991, three printings totaling 140,000 copies), "Young Chic and Unrestrained", etc., published by China Friendship Publishing House. The China Women's Publishing House has published nine types of "Wang Guozhen's Poetry Series", and the China Women's Publishing House has published "Wang Guozhen's Love Poetry Cards" and "Wang Guozhen's Lyrical Poetry Appreciation". Conversations. In response, a critical review titled "Youthful Style—Exclusive Interview with Wang Guozhen" appeared on the market. In February 1991, the Chinese music scene released the cassette tape "Youth Season - One of Wang Guozhen's Lyrical Song Series", which was listed as third among the ten best-selling tapes of that month by China Youth Daily.
On July 4, 1990, his poetry collection was listed as one of the top ten best-sellers by the "News and Publishing News", the only one in the literature and art category.
In October 1990, there was a craze for Wang Guozhen’s poetry lectures in Beijing universities.
1990 is known as the "Year of Wang Guozhen" in the publishing industry.
In Shanghai, this craze came a little later. In October 1990, Shanghai Xujiahui Bookstore purchased 20 copies of Wang Guozhen's poetry collection "Young Thoughts", which had become popular in Beijing, but it was sold out two months later. In the spring of 1991, Shanghai's "Literary Newspaper" published a feature article "The Conquest of Beauty Begins with "Manuscripts"" to report on Wang Guozhen's situation. This was the first time he was fully introduced to Shanghai. In order to highlight Wang Guozhen's works at the "Wenhui Book Fair", "Wenhui Po" successively introduced and praised Wang Guozhen in "Wenhui Reading Weekly", calling Wang Guozhen the "Prince of Poetry", which caused a public opinion offensive, which led to March 1991. There was a boom in sales of Wang's poems at the "Wenhui Book Fair" on March 27.
Wang Guozhen’s poetry is positive, high-spirited and detached in theme. A feature of the works is often to raise questions, and this question is often encountered in everyone's life. The focus is on the guiding practice of life, and it is slightly deepened and comes up with some well-known philosophies. . This kind of quantitative philosophy is very suitable for the thinking characteristics of middle school students. Middle school students have less life experience and are often at a loss for the life problems they face. Wang Guozhen provides middle school students with a way to solve life problems in the form of poetry, which is very fresh for these young children. And simple and practical.
For example, one of his poems "To Friends" wrote:
"If you don't stand up
you won't fall
And what's more
We want to wander around the world
Falling is a memorial
Memorial is a warm flower"
This poem is short but has a clear meaning. It is very It is suitable for copying and giving away. Even for reading, it is also most suitable for the public to effortlessly get the pleasure of feeling comfortable in a small and leisure time.
Another example:
“It’s not that there are too many worries
It’s that our minds are not broad enough
It’s not that there is too little happiness
But we don’t know how to live yet
When we are sad, we write a poem
When we are happy, we sing a song
No matter in the sky What is falling?
Life is always beautiful"
("Life is always beautiful")
There are not only young people in Wang Guozhen's poems The life and the clear way of expression, and more importantly, a detached, open-minded, plain and indifferent attitude towards life. This "Wang Guozhen-style attitude towards life" in which he looks down on everything in reality from a higher level of life cannot but be said to be the reason why Wang Guozhen's poems are so popular among young readers. The so-called attitude towards life is actually a creative transformation of the open-minded, elegant, unrestrained and detached life philosophy of traditional Chinese poetry since the Song and Yuan Dynasties.
According to the "Southern Metropolis Daily" "Poetry's "Golden" Age": At that time, Luo Pai's poetry collections, together with Xi Murong's and Wang Guozhen's poetry collections, swept the country with sales of 100,000 copies. . Yang Guangzhi, who single-handedly promoted the "popular poetry" of Xi Murong, Wang Guozhen and Luo Pai, even wrote a book about it, titled "From Xi Murong, Wang Guozhen to Luo Pai".