Chapter 18 Educated Youth's "Infant Illness" and Fairy Tale Poetry

After the "September 13th" incident in 1972, the "Cultural Revolution" entered a low period, and the salons in Beijing began to become active.New poems such as "The Golden Trumpet" and "Stars, Snowflakes, Smiles" were born during this period.The poems circulated in various salons converged into Zhao Yifan's salon through different channels.Most of the literary youths who come and go to Zhao Yifan's salon have started to learn to write poetry, and almost everyone is a poet.Xu Xiao also quietly wrote small poems in her notebook, which she called "nursery rhymes".

New poetry became a fashion at this time.These poems enter a kind of twilight state unconsciously.The common dreamy color and children's mentality that are divorced from real life have become the unique symbols of these poems.After Zhao Yifan's collection and preservation, most of these "game" works were published publicly after the "Cultural Revolution".It was such a group of poems that later influenced and changed the face of Chinese poetry after the "Cultural Revolution". take me away, wind to the edge of sea and sky To chase the dream-- "Take Me Away, Wind"

i see the floating moon that was my wish long ago suddenly awakened by the naughty wind It came to my mind again today— "Songs by the Sea" These poems have lost the index finger-like unreserved trust in the future.They are "fairy tales", illusory and immature, unable to withstand the sunshine of reality.Bitterly speaking, it is a desire to replay childhood roles, known in medical psychopathology as "infantile disease."Patients like to wear children's clothes, sing nursery rhymes, and play children's games.In the salons in Beijing, some educated youth poets accurately expressed their state of mind, or "dream state".This is a strong psychological need to stick to one's own wonderful "fairy tale world". The meeting of "dream state" and "modernism" is the creation of what later theorists called "misty poetry" of aestheticism.

The poet Gu Cheng once said: All things, life, and people have their own dreams, and every dream is a world.Deserts dream of cloud shadows, flowers dream of butterflies, dewdrops dream of oceans... "I also have my own dream, which is far away and clear. It is not just a world, it is a heaven above the world. It is beauty, the purest beauty. When I open Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, my shallow chest is filled with light .” "I walked towards it, and I gradually became transparent. Throwing away the shadow behind me, there is only the road, the road of freedom..."

Gu Cheng's passage is the best explanation for "fairy tale poetry". path a stray dandelion lead me to blue-gray lakes in the slightly swaying reflection i found you Those unfathomable eyes— "stray" Let me lie on the white clouds and have a dream I miss you-- "Dream Island" if the wind will show the way all birds can find that little room no house number foggy glass windows draw a heart mark watering can of the sun sprinkle dew on the steps Lilacs bloom on the table Joy Behind the Clock chirping at that time we are children or old people

it doesn't matter-- "residence" In 1972, in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, and the Great Northern Wilderness... the educated youth who went to the countryside were already in a very severe living situation.A large number of educated youths fled back to the city, or found their own way out.The educated youths have declared themselves a failure to combine with the poor and lower-middle peasants.The wind of returning to the city is blowing quietly.In the cities, the educated youth avoided the impact of political movements in the microclimate they created.At this time, the educated youths huddled in places where they could avoid the "wind" as much as possible, longing for a quiet and pure life.It is this desire that created this batch of "fairy tale poems".The harshness of reality is a sufficient reason for the existence of "fairy tales".

This is a real miracle. The purity of Guo Lusheng's signs has been inherited by a group of educated youth poets in another way.This shows that the educated youth has a common character bestowed by history: purity. a little vineyard, It is my sweet home. When the autumn wind suddenly enters the clanging door, My homes are grapes with tears— "vineyard" Of course, no one knows tomorrow tomorrow will start with another morning Then we fell into a deep sleep— This Andersen-style "fairy tale world" forms a sharp contrast with the class struggle and line struggle of the "Cultural Revolution" and the "magnificent" poetry in which workers, peasants and soldiers cooperate with the political situation.Under the feudal and fascist cultural dictatorship of the Jiang Qing Group, the cultural network is tightly woven.The living environment of literary youths is very dangerous, and their new poems will be subjected to literary prison at any time. In 1974, the political situation changed. When the "Counter Right Deviation and Overturning the Verdict" movement came, the "Children's Voice" chorus also disappeared quickly with the advent of political oppression.