The story of Yu Guangzhong’s life:
1. Yu Guangzhong is a complex and changeable poet. His changing trajectory can basically be said to be the trend of Taiwan’s entire poetry world for more than thirty years. , that is, first westernize and then return. In the early poetry debates in Taiwan and the vernacular literature debate in the mid-1970s, Yu Guangzhong's poetic theories and works strongly showed the tendency to advocate Westernization, ignore readers, and be divorced from reality.
As he himself said, "When I was a boy, the tip of my pen was stained either by the aftermath of Seadon Clinging or by the water of the Thames. The wine industry was nothing more than the wine of 1842."?< /p>
2. After the 1980s, he began to realize the importance of the place where his nation lived in creation, and "stretched his poetry back to the continent" and wrote many emotional nostalgia poems, which paid tribute to local literature. His attitude also changed from opposition to kindness, showing a clear trajectory of returning from the West to the East. Therefore, he was called the "returning prodigal son" by Taiwanese poetry circles. From the perspective of poetry art, Yu Guangzhong is an artistic polygamist poet.
The style of his works is extremely inconsistent. Generally speaking, his poetic style varies depending on the subject matter. Poems that express will and ideals are generally grand and sonorous, while works that describe nostalgia and love are generally delicate and soft. His literary career is long, vast and profound. He is a master of contemporary poetry, an important prose writer, a famous critic and an excellent translator.
He has published 21 collections of poems; 11 collections of essays; 5 collections of reviews; 13 collections of translations; and more than 40 collections of poetry. He is the author of poetry collections "The Elegy of the Zhouzi" and "Blue Feathers" ", "Stalactite", "Halloween", "White Jade Bitter Melon" and more than ten kinds.
3. In 2010, he visited Jiangnan University with his wife and daughter and was appointed as a visiting professor at Jiangnan University. In the same year, Yu Guangzhong came to Zigui, Hubei Province, Qu Yuan's hometown, to participate in the first Qu Yuan's hometown Dragon Boat Festival Cultural Festival and the Cross-Strait Qu Yuan Cultural Forum, and specially composed a poem "Zigui Sacrifice to Qu Yuan" in memory of Qu Yuan.
On June 17, Yu Guangzhong participated in the Cross-Strait Qu Yuan Cultural Forum, was hired as a visiting professor at China Three Gorges University, and gave a report entitled "My Four-Dimensional Space" to the teachers and students of the school.
4. On March 24, 2011, National Sun Yat-sen University held a lecture on "Taiwanese Writing: The Symphony of Poetry and Musical Notes in the World's Glowing Afterglow" at the Yixian Hall of the school. It was given by Yu Guangzhong, Department of Foreign Languages ??and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University. Chen Fangming, a professor and director of the Institute of Taiwanese Literature at National Chengchi University, spoke to students in a conversational manner. In April, he was invited to serve as a visiting professor at Zhejiang University.
5. From February 27 to March 6, 2015, Professor Yu Guangzhong visited the Chinese University of Hong Kong and hosted the 65th Anniversary Academic Lecture of New Asia College and the 28th "Qian Bin Four" Academic and Cultural Lecture by Mr. During this period, Professor Yu gave three public lectures, exploring the characteristics, similarities and differences between Chinese and Western poets and poetry, and sharing his experience in appreciating poetry recitation.
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Commemoration for future generations:
Taiwanese poet Yu Guangzhong passed away suddenly in December 2017. On December 29, Yu Guangzhong’s farewell ceremony was held in Kaohsiung. Nearly a thousand people from cross-strait and overseas cultural circles, relatives, friends, and students gathered to bid farewell to him. Former Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou, his wife Zhou Meiqing, and Chinese Kuomintang Chairman Wu Dunyi attended the ceremony to pay their respects.
On February 2, 2018, his wife Fan Wocun went to Hong Kong to donate Yu Lao’s manuscripts, glasses, and personal collection of Qijia cultural jades to the Library and Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
On the morning of February 2, the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library held the “Donation Ceremony of Yu Guangzhong’s Manuscripts and Collections”. At the ceremony, guests and scholars including Mrs. Yu Kwong-chung and his two daughters gathered together to recall Yu Kwong-chung’s years in Hong Kong through a video.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yu Guangzhong