Inspirational Story of Yu Xiuhua, a Cerebral Palsy Poet

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The inspirational story of Yu Xiuhua, a poet with cerebral palsy 1 Yu Xiuhua, female, 1976, born in Hengdian Village, Shipai Town, Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province. The cerebral palsy caused by abortion and lack of oxygen at birth made him inconvenient to move, and he did nothing at home after graduating from high school. In 2009, he began to write poems, such as Sleeping with You Across Half of China, Crossing the Graveyard, and The World of Surprise. After her works were published by the micro-signal of Poetry Magazine, her poems were enthusiastically forwarded, and people praised the words in her poems for their simplicity, enthusiasm and strength.

She is direct, reckless and full of pain in the real world. Yu Xiuhua didn't expect that what made him popular would be a poem about love and body. She is a woman, a farmer and a cerebral palsy patient. Of course, she is a healthy poet. She is somewhat resistant to the sudden enthusiasm for poetry from the outside world and the curiosity that accompanies this enthusiasm.

She will laugh at herself. "After the hype, fortunately, you found that cerebral palsy is not fake." In Yu Xiuhua's view, all the noise will pass. She will still say in the poem, "Sometimes I am the dog of life, and more often, life is my dog." And she "only when I write poetry, I am complete, quiet and happy".

An out-of-place farmer

Hengdian is an ordinary village in central Hubei.

Yu Xiuhua's works are full of poetry. She described the white clouds, afternoons and sparrows here. But when asked what her hometown means to her, she threw out a sentence "Damn it!"

Why does this name always appear in your poems?

Yu Xiuhua hardly paused, "because the word is simple and easy to use, just like' love' and' spring'".

Because of illness, Yu Xiuhua's speech is a little lisp, and the twitching of facial muscles makes her look a little exaggerated. But she thinks quickly and speaks directly and impulsively. Not only for others, but also for yourself. Someone asked cautiously, "What do you think of people always mentioning your physical illness?" She immediately interrupted, "cerebral palsy. Just say it, decorate or something. "

"She doesn't fit in here." Yu Xiuhua's aunt said. In her opinion, Yu Xiuhua is eccentric and has different thinking from others. She doesn't know anyone very well in the village and can't say anything. Mother said that Yu Xiuhua has a bad temper, likes to quarrel with others and has no friends in the village. Yu Xiuhua said that she was not satisfied with her fate, but all her struggles failed. "I want to curse this street. Of course, I am a peasant woman. " She told her friends that she likes swearing because she likes telling the truth.

Yu Xiuhua doesn't walk around much in the village. The peasant woman has no interest in the gossip of the villagers' parents. No one in the village has read her poems. When asked, they smiled and shook their heads. "I don't understand." Yu Xiuhua has the minimum living allowance of 60 yuan every month. Last January, my mother bought more than 20 rabbits for Yu Xiuhua to look after. These rabbits have become her treasures and can sell some money. Before getting up early for dinner every day, she mows the grass and feeds it to the rabbits.

Recently, rabbits died one after another, which made her very sad. Every morning is her reading time. Her favorite book is Les Miserables, and she likes everything about it-language, structure and ideas. "That kind of portrayal of human nature is really good!" She loves to read poetry, and almost every page in her poetry collection has her feelings and comments written down casually. In the afternoon, she will spend a lot of time writing. Her hands are not flexible, so she can only tap the keyboard with one finger and record every word of the poem into the computer.

After graduating from high school, her father opened a grocery store for her in the village. Mother Zhou Jinxiang felt that her daughter's mind was not at the grocery store at all. "She calls every day and doesn't know who to call. After talking for hours, she didn't care if someone came to buy things. " One month, telephone bill 174 yuan.

Besides reading, playing chess also makes Yu Xiuhua happy. She plays chess very well. She always laughs when she mentions playing chess with the villagers. "They always regret playing chess, but they don't let me regret it." . Xu Jianguo is a famous chess player in Jingzhou. In his view, Yu Xiuhua's chess level can rank among the top ten at the county level. He said that she is "sharp, flexible and powerful" at chess, likes to attack, and has an imposing manner that life is worse than death. "The style of chess is the same as her writing style."

Distance of cerebral palsy

"This body carries my 38 years on earth, living together and hating each other." She had to accept her physical defects.

In the poem, she said, "To say that your body is incomplete is as redundant as to say that your teeth have a toothache." . Distance is very important to her. She once tried to leave this small village. In 20 12, Yu Xiuhua left his hometown for the first time to work in a disabled factory in Wenzhou. During that month, she was still writing poems and reading them to her colleagues at night. "But they are all wood," Yu Xiuhua said. Only a month later, she returned home. She said that because the people around her were too secular, her parents said that her daughter was clumsy and slow to work.

Zhou Jinxiang said that Xiuhua can't make any effort when tearing the edge of the leather bag on the assembly line. She blamed her partner for not trimming, which made it impossible for her to tear it off, and then she quarreled with others. The leader came out to mediate and said to change partners. She didn't want to live or die, saying, "This position is good, don't try to change me!" I didn't make any money by working, so I borrowed my way home 100. The only significance of that escape to Yu Xiuhua was to make Hengdian Village a distant "hometown" for the first time in her mind.

20 14 12 19 She went to Beijing accompanied by her mother. Later, she briefly described her trip to Beijing in her blog.

She mentioned taking care of her poetry friends and reciting her poems emotionally in the classroom of Renmin University: This is my extra gain, and I prefer to say that it is a beautiful thing for people to hug me with open arms. She is grateful for this honesty. But she still emphasizes her independence. "I hope my poems are only written by Yu Xiuhua, not by Yu Xiuhua, a cerebral palsy patient, or Yu Xiuhua, a farmer." In the days when it is impossible to travel far, Yu Xiuhua's "distance" is pinned on stationery and the Internet.

1995, her first contribution to Zhongxiang Daily was an instant hit.

Mom said that she had a pen pal from a distance since junior high school, and later she had many netizens. Many people came to see her from other places. She will also go to Zhongxiang or Jingmen to meet netizens. Zhong Xiang left many marks on the forum. Since 2009, she has published many poems. Since the earliest posting, her poems have received a lot of praise. In 2009, netizens of Zhongxiang Post Bar pooled their money to buy her a computer. Friends I met online understand, support and encourage each other. Speaking of which, Yu Xiuhua revealed a trace of sadness. "Time will change everything, not always." At one time, Yu Xiuhua withdrew his poetry group because he quarreled with others. "Because it is too heavy, it is easier to quarrel and feel sad."

Yu Xiuhua was hurt by netizens. Once a netizen asked her to meet, and the other party turned away when she saw her face to face. Lao Jing, a poet friend, recalled the first meeting with Yu Xiuhua. Although she knew she was a cerebral palsy patient before, she didn't think it over carefully. When she met him, Lao Jing was "shocked" by Yu Xiuhua's actions and language. Lao Jing said that Yu Xiuhua was a genius in bad karma. She is frank and rebellious and often offends people online. Some netizens attacked her works, and she likes to fight back. Lao Jing advised her to pretend not to see, but she couldn't. This is herself.

Yu Xiuhua said that there are distant places that can be reached and those that cannot be reached. Today, she is still in the village called Hengdian, mowing grass, feeding rabbits, playing chess, reading and writing.

Women's love

She didn't expect that a love poem made her popular.

Sleeping You Across Half China contains body, love and distance. She is not very satisfied with this poem. "Some words in that poem are too big to control. When writing poetry, you can't be intimate or self-sufficient. You should keep a certain distance from yourself. "

She seems to be more free with her husband. Her husband was described by her as "the evil given to her by youth". In her poem, she said that marriage was hopeless. When they got married, Yu Xiuhua 19 years old, and her husband Yin Shiping was older than him 12 years old. At that time, this Sichuanese was working in Jingmen, Hubei. Yu's family thinks Xiuhua is physically disabled, so it's good to find someone. Yin Shiping felt that she was old and had little choice in primary school education. When Yu Xiuhua was young, he was worried that her husband would run away. In Yu Xiuhua's mouth, her husband is hot and haggle over every ounce, and they often quarrel. After the quarrel, the husband ran away from home, and Yu Xiuhua chased him back.

"I really regret it now. Why did you chase him back? " Yu Xiuhua said that after 20 years, this marriage is too tiring. "love? Have a fart love! " Someone mentioned the word and she gave a crisp answer. Yu Xiuhua's mother, Zhou Jinxiang, said that after marriage, her son-in-law has been working as a construction worker in Jingmen City and occasionally goes home. After the child was two years old, the two began to quarrel.

Three years ago, because he couldn't get a salary in Jingmen, he went to Beijing to work again and only came back for the New Year every year. "When you don't drink, people are very nice. When you drink, you are a little grumpy. If you talk too much, Xiuhua will be annoyed. " The two divorced several times, but were dissuaded by Yu Xiuhua's parents. "Death can't divorce them." In Zhou Jinxiang's eyes, the son-in-law is an honest man, willing to endure hardships and never dislikes her daughter's physical condition. Although I said some ugly things after the reception, it won't expose Yu Xiuhua's scar. "Life is very good, two people have children. It is Xiuhua who makes trouble. "

Yin Shiping has never read Yu Xiuhua's poems and has no interest in reading them. What he cares about is not Yu Xiuhua's spiritual world. "You hold her like this is temporary, and the past is over. Can you help her find a job in Beijing, as long as she can earn 1000 yuan a month? " Yu Xiuhua put his attitude and desire for love in his poems.

"She wanted to call him, talk about the sorghum wine in Hubei, talk about a peasant woman who pulled down her pants at the gate to relieve herself after being drunk, and said that her heart was full of blood, and that she prevented passers-by from calling his name." She said that she had forgotten whether the poem had any meaning. Yu Xiuhua is a bit evasive about love in real life. She admits that she has also experienced these processes in her love poems. But the specific "I can't tell you".

She just said that love is like faith, you can have it if you believe it, or you can have it if you don't believe it. In the next life, I hope that when 19 or 20 years old, someone will walk into her heart, because that age is like a flower.

Daughter and mother

Yu Xiuhua let his guard down at the mention of his father.

Yu Xiuhua and her father have deep feelings. She said that her father understands her best in the family. Because of birth defects, she didn't learn to walk until she was 6 years old. Before that, she was always crawling around the hospital gate. It was difficult for her to walk when she was a child. First, I made her a walker at home, then changed it into a crutch, and finally she was able to stagger away.

Her father loves her more than his brother. Yu Xiuhua didn't go to primary school until she was eight years old, with her younger brother, who is two years younger than her. At that time, after school, she was on her father's back During the break, he asked the teacher to arrange friends to accompany his daughter to the toilet in turn. When Yu Xiuhua was in junior high school, his younger brother always took his younger sister to school by car. She is out of tune, and she is always unstable in the back seat. His brother is particularly difficult to ride, and sometimes he is angry and impatient with her. Speaking of this, my father Yu Wenhai described it as dumbfounding, but he was "sad".

Yu Wenhai recalled the days when Yu Xiuhua lived in high school, and no one took care of her alone. Because of clumsy hands and feet and slow movements, I always can't grab others when eating, and sometimes I can't grab leftovers, so I can only eat one meal a day.

It took Yu Wenhai a long time to finish this passage, and he gave up eating several times because of choking. With that, he covered his face and cried. Yu Xiuhua lamented in his poem that his father was too old to have white hair because he had a disabled daughter and a grandson who had just grown up. Yu Xiuhua's son took the surname of the Yu family. The villagers always say that Yu Xiuhua's son is "really promising". The young man was admitted to Huazhong University of Science and Technology this year to study environmental engineering. Among the family members, the child is introverted and sensible, and has a particularly good relationship with his mother.

In Yu Xiuhua's world, the son is an important emotional pillar. She said more than once, "This is my son." In Yu Xiuhua's words, there are no big and small issues between their mother and son, and they talk about everything.

In addition to poetry, Yu Xiuhua's circle of friends occasionally records the interaction with his son. On New Year's Day this year, she gave her son an earthworm, and he was at a loss. She explained: "Earthworms are used for fishing. I gave you earthworms to catch mermaids! " "I don't know if my son has read my poem. If he does, he should be embarrassed. " Yu Xiuhua smiled.

In the poem, she wrote: I lived like this until my parents needed my help, until my son married a girl and went home.

Noise and silence

Yu Xiuhua was angry.

Almost overnight, Yu Xiuhua's song "Sleeping You Walked Half of China" was eagerly forwarded in the WeChat circle of friends, and she was also labeled as "a poet with cerebral palsy", "a peasant poet" and "a grassroots poet".

Yu Xiuhua doesn't like imposed labels. She wrote a paragraph in her blog: My identity is in this order: woman, farmer, poet. This order will never change, but if you forget all my identities when reading my poems, I will respect you.

She said she was not a genius. Why can you write such a poem? She doesn't want to answer either. In the face of mixed comments, Yu Xiuhua said "Never mind" the most. She doesn't expect everyone to appreciate it. "If everyone understands, it is not understanding. I don't need to look for understanding anywhere. I can't write for anyone. I can only write for myself. "

But her feelings about poetry are not only intuitive, but also systematic reflection. She often revises her poems. "Shen Haobo may be right, my artistry is not enough." She feels that writing and sentence-making need to be constantly cultivated and improved, and she should constantly break through herself. When she reads poetry, she doesn't just read it by feeling. She will read through every poem, read it carefully, think about it seriously, and integrate her thoughts into the image of the poem. In her mouth, all her poems come from "self", based on her own life experience and personal experience, as well as the imagination born from it.

Haizi used to make her unable to extricate herself, but now she can look at it critically. She once posted a set of poems dedicated to Haizi in the post bar, named "Crying for Haizi", which wrote "I met you with long hair/I met you with fire". Now, she can read Haizi's poems more critically. "Not so good, sometimes too lyrical."

In the days after Yu Xiuhua became popular, her yard was crowded with reporters, photographers, editors of publishing houses and condolence leaders. In the face of the hustle and bustle, she said in a circle of friends, "For poetry, such attention should not be true, and it is dangerous to surpass the thing itself. Regardless of the wind in the southeast and northwest, no matter what others say, my aunt just writes her own poems, and I try my best to write them well. Hehe, fortunately, the wind won't blow for long. "

She mentioned to reporters several times that "poetry is very quiet and private. It should not be subject to such hype. " She is full of respect for poetry. "Staggering in the World" is almost her confession of poetry. She said that it appeared in a nude posture, but it acted as a crutch when a person stumbled in a rickety world.

Poetry has been washing me and pitying me.

The inspirational story of Yu Xiuhua, a poet with cerebral palsy, 2 Yu Xiuhua, whose poems, like Van Gogh's poems, can reflect the splendor of the sunflower of life, and like the haystacks in the wasteland written by Monet, shine in different mornings and evenings in four seasons. Judging from the characteristics of his poems, the painful gaze seems to be the source of his poems. Maybe for her, life doesn't need to return, because her poems represent the true colors of life.

First, the characteristics of pain are transformed into beauty.

Yu Xiuhua writes with his left hand pressing his right hand, and every word in the poem is permeated with pain. She can't stand her body. She always swings and leans. Her voice is not gorgeous, but it is more beautiful than gorgeous, even like crying. It is this kind of pain that brings her the beauty of poetry. Her eyes not only explore the inner world, but also look at the outside world. I hope that through the long journey of poetry, I can end the suffering and endless loneliness of my soul. Her poems were written in a state of inner pain and contradiction. Characterized by symbolic aesthetics. The poet hinted at the subtle world inside with various images. Material images are expressed in her channels of suggestion, contrast, rendering and association. In the description of poetry, she is always in winter, although poetry often takes her to the road of spring. Her cloud-like years may collapse at any time, and her dew-like heart can only be in a daze under the breeze. She is a grass that has been dazed in the wind for a long time, twisting her body occasionally. She is also a ship with a leaky bottom on the deserted shore, which is both wood and water. Her pain is covered up, buried and exposed naked, as vast as the earth, and she is pleasing the world with pain. Love is like a snow in her heart, because it is too white and close to spring, so she holds the snow in her heart again and again, longing for the next heavy snow. For her, love is not a poem, but more like a heart of fear, or love just passes by, like the autumn wind turning around in the yard and passing by.

Second, the wilderness village fills the poetic background.

Yu Xiuhua's poems have their own unique scenery. Riverside, yard, threshing floor, orchard, wheat field, etc. have all become the scenery she pursues. Love in poetry, she hides herself and exposes herself. Her life track is monotonous and poor, and the environment is simple and closed, but she has created a grand and rich poetic background with nature as the background. She put her thoughts under this background and devoted herself to casting the art of poetry. In a limited space, get the freedom of mind and create your own paradise.

Third, the poetic heart is full and lacking.

Yu Xiuhua's creative enthusiasm and inspiration are abundant. She loves the romance that she can't cry. Yu Xiuhua's most valuable thing is that her understanding and expression of poetry is straightforward. Her view on poetry: all the confession about poetry is redundant and is my deepest need. The poet Liu Nian once commented that everyone else was dressed neatly, painted with powder and sprayed with perfume, and there was no sweat in black and white, while she was smoky and confused, and there was obvious blood between her words. Her poems are not whitewashed, not carved, not a living room full of gorgeous decorations, but as simple as the faint lights in the village at midnight. Her poetry represents the development of new poetry, and it is also a scarce product of an era.