From a cerebral palsy poet to a poisonous weed in the same age population! Why did Yu Xiuhua say that his fault was only the bottom peasant woman?

"Babbling to live every day, fetching water to cook, taking medicine on time, chopping wood and burning fire, and catching chickens on the threshing floor" is a farmer's life, chanting I love you, watching the moonlight fall on his left hand and thinking about this rickety life. This is the poet's song. But no one stipulates that a farmer can't be an excellent poet. We all live in the gutter, but there are always people looking up at the stars, just like Yu Xiuhua.

20 15 entered the public's field of vision and won unprecedented honor in China's poetry circles for decades. Yu Xiuhua's fame and success have always been controversial. With the label of cerebral palsy, she became a poet, and this sense of conflict made her quickly popular. Some people evaluate her as a first-class poet, while others accuse her of being just a poisonous weed in the history of vernacular poetry. But she bluntly said, "My fault is that I am arrogant at the bottom."

Baba is alive, singing the sad song of life.

Her birth was bumpy. 1976, the baby girl of an ordinary family in Hengdian Village became cerebral palsy due to lack of oxygen. Unfortunately, she has the disadvantages of inconvenient movement and ugly appearance: she walks with a limp, can only tilt her head, and doesn't look as good as other ordinary girls when she smiles.

Fortunately, cerebral palsy didn't take away her thinking ability. Being different means being lonely. She has been lonely and thinking. When the weather is just right, I read poems in the yard and tan myself like a piece of dried tangerine peel. When the flowers bloom, she thinks about the future love in fear and how to tell her lover about the spring of barnyard grass. She pleases the world with pain and longs for the sky to take back her wings of sadness and reverie.

Because no matter how talented she is, she is only a rural girl with physical defects. She has been staying at home since she graduated from high school. Then, like other rural girls, at the age of 19, she was forced to fall in love and get married. Years later, she still hates this marriage: "Marriage ruined me, but poetry saved me." "He grabbed my hair and hit my head against the wall, and the little witch (puppy) kept wagging her tail," she wrote in a poem for the puppy, "but he could do nothing about a person who was not afraid of pain."

In 2009, she officially began to write poetry. Only in poetry can she escape from the painful marriage and fly out of this small village where she is imprisoned. She has a keen perception of life, and those little daily blessings are enough to take her on a warm road. She longed for love and wrote a woman's longing for love. 20 12 She boarded the train to work in Wenzhou. Poetry at this time can only be regarded as a hobby rather than a career, until she met Bole in life.

From wandering alone to being discovered by the whole world

Only Bole can make a swift horse. Without the excavation of Liu Nian, editor-in-chief of Poetry Magazine, Yu Xiuhua's poems might have been dusty in the notebook. 20 14 After reading Yu Xiuhua's poems on the blog, Liu Nian felt a shocking wild force between the lines, and immediately left her a message saying that she wanted to know her. Then, Yu Xiuhua's nine poems were published in Poetry magazine with the main title of "Catching Chickens on the threshing floor", which suddenly caught people's attention.

By the end of 20 15, Yu Xiuhua had written more than 2,000 poems. These thoughts from the lowest peasant women touched many people's numb souls. She has no high education, no professional guidance and no rich and wonderful life background. She doesn't understand the universe and history, and she doesn't like to talk about statesmanship. She only talks about her life and meditation. She wrote a woman's life with novel imagination, simple language and ups and downs in her heart.

Her poems appeal to both refined and popular tastes. No matter the ordinary people struggling at the bottom or the glamorous upper-class people, they can find their own shadow and see their struggle with life. This is rare in the history of poetry that is gradually marginalized and only knows the packaging of words.

The harder you work, the luckier you are. After decades of struggle, Yu Xiuhua has finally embarked on a smooth road. 20 16 won the special prize of "Farmers' Literature Award" and published his own poetry collection. She is the first poetess who has sold more than 654.38 million copies of her poems since the 1990s.

What's wrong with poisonous weeds in the eyes of peers?

While she was successfully attacked, it was accompanied by many negative voices. The most controversial is her "Sleeping You Across Half China", in which she said that "sleeping with you is almost the same as sleeping with you", which is a flower pushed away by the collision of two bodies. Many people are ashamed of the words "I ran through bullets and wanted to sleep with you", thinking that it was only written by a vulgar person. Yu Xiuhua said: That's because you don't understand women's strong desire for love.

Love is a major part of Yu Xiuhua's creation, and her creation also has the characteristics of "gender poetry". She won't pretend to be reserved or pretentious. Poetry is beautiful in conveying the truest feelings, and not talking about sex does not mean that it is innocent. Furthermore, why do male poets or writers describe lust as art, while women describe Minions? Yu Xiuhua dares to break the rules. She doesn't think that men are the most dominant party in love, and both men and women should have the right to enjoy love.

It is understandable that public comments may be imprisoned by traditional ideas, but peer criticism is somewhat poisonous. At a press conference, the forefinger of the older generation of poets criticized: "Her ideal is to drink coffee, read books and have sex, and she doesn't care about the fate of the country. As a poet from the countryside, she forgot all about the painful life in the countryside and never mentioned the peasants' yearning for a well-off life. What do you mean by holding her so red now? Poetry should be serious, otherwise it will only become a joke of history. "

Yu Xiuhua is an extremely real person. She won't indulge in praise from the outside world, but she likes to argue with critical voices. She responded to the index finger's criticism and said, "Why must rural life be painful? My mistake was to be cocky at the bottom. " With her unique success, she dared to say what the poet dared not say, which aroused the dissatisfaction of scholars and literati.

She knows how to love life and is a real person in life. She can't write words that others want to see or make sounds that others want to hear. She was just being herself. Once in a talk show, the host came on stage and said, "I asked Yu Xiuhua a few questions I asked, but she refused." .

"Because I don't want others to tell me how inspirational I am. Since there are no student poets and no teacher poets, why should I be crowned as a poet of cerebral palsy and a poet of farmers? Poetry is a hobby without boundaries. " "I don't care about other people's comments, because the height of poetry is related to the level of readers, and I don't need official affirmation."