The story about Gu Cheng’s love

In 1974, Gu Cheng’s family returned to Beijing to study and learn painting. During this period, he worked in many temporary jobs such as painter, carpenter, fondant worker, film advertising painter, store salesperson, and seconded me. . In the next five years, his poems were obviously wandering and mixed... In those years, Gu Cheng seemed to have become another mediocre poet. The cycle of time finally reached 1979, which was the most important year in Gu Cheng's life. He was 23 years old that year. His creation "Generation" caused a sensation.

Since March 1979, "Dandelion" has serialized Gu Cheng's poems from his teenage years under the title "The Little Nameless Flower". "At midnight in April 1979," Gu Cheng wrote the eternal quatrain "A Generation" of our country's modern new poetry: The night gave me black eyes/but I used them to find light. In the winter of the same year, Gu Cheng joined the "Today" poetry school and became an early representative figure of Misty Poetry. At that time, Gu Cheng's poetry became famous.

In July of that year, Gu Cheng met the most important person in his life - Xie Ye during his journey.

Gu Cheng fell madly in love with this Shanghai girl. According to the memory written by my friend Yiwei in "Today" magazine, for Xie Ye, Gu Cheng chose Wuyi Road near Xie Ye's home, bought a very simple house, and lived here. "Now that I think about it, Gu Cheng's This move is of course an act of love, but it is also the beginning of vicissitudes of life."

During the process of falling in love with Xie Ye and pursuing marriage, Gu Cheng's lack of a fixed job was always questioned, which gave him a lot of trouble. Gu Cheng was under great pressure. Another question that Gu Cheng has received is that some people think that Gu Cheng is mentally abnormal and needs to go to the hospital for examination. Gu Cheng was very unhappy. He firmly believed that he was not sick. He believed that he and those people lived in two worlds. However, he said calmly that in order to marry Xie Ye, he was willing to go to the hospital for a check-up.

Gu Cheng bravely went to the mental hospital. Yiwei remembered that it was an afternoon, and it was Xie Ye who accompanied Gu Cheng. “When Gu Cheng and Xie Ye saw me, they said, today in the hospital, Gu Cheng talked to the doctor about Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, and The doctor fainted. The doctor said that your thoughts and expressions were normal. The doctor even said that Gu Cheng knew more about Freud than he did. After the doctor's detailed diagnostic examination, the doctor concluded that Gu Cheng did not have mental illness. I deeply feel the difficulty of Gu Cheng and the pent-up tolerance in his heart. Will this pent-up tolerance burst out? This makes me very uneasy."

Gu Cheng finally married Xie Ye. The year was 1983. In 1987, Gu Cheng and his wife left Beijing and were invited to Germany to participate in the Münster "International Poetry Festival". They then began to travel around Western and Northern Europe. In March, Xie Ye gave birth to her son Fungus in Auckland, New Zealand. In June, he was allowed to reside permanently in New Zealand as a skilled immigrant.

At the same time, Gu Cheng bought a house on Waiheke Island (Wasiki Island) in Auckland Bay and began to live in seclusion. In 1989, he resigned from the University of Auckland and concentrated on raising chickens, growing vegetables, painting and writing on the island. The New Zealand government officially signed the permanent residence documents for Gu Cheng and his wife. Talking about this experience, Shu Ting recalled, "Although they have been abroad for many years, buying land and houses, settling down and having children, I still feel like they are not full."

She also thought about going to the United States to meet them in 1992 A little story about Gu Cheng and Xie Ye, "After dinner that day, we went shopping and walked into a small store. Xie Ye selected a small toy on the shelf for a long time and showed it to me with a smile. It was a little frog. , pinch it and make a squeaking sound. The bottom is printed with "Made in China" and the price is US$1.99. Xie Ye said: Buy something from my country for my son. When I was about to pay, I found that Gu Cheng had been standing at the door with a sullen expression. When Xie Ye paid. , Gu Cheng suddenly slid to the ground, which shocked me greatly. I thought he was ill, so I rushed to pull him away. Look at Xie Ye. There are already tears in her eyes: He behaves like this when I spend money!"

In 1992, writer Wang Anyi met Gu Cheng and Xie Ye in Berlin and was fascinated by their stories. , "I was young at that time, and I felt the burden of reality, but I didn't have the courage and ability to escape, and because - this is the decisive factor that divides us and them into two species, that is, normal desire, therefore, No matter how attractive their stories are, we can only watch the fire from the other side." She wrote in the article "Gu Cheng on the Island", "During this period, Gu Cheng was always walking around in the forest, tasting various plants. Looking for food that could satisfy his hunger, his lips were stained with various grass juices. Someone pointed to a tree and told him that it was edible, so he started to taste it from the roots of the tree. On October 8, when the tragic news came, the whole world was shocked. "Such a landing place, if it did not end in such a tragic accident, would have been a beautiful fairy tale, especially suitable for a black-eyed Peter Pan wearing a shepherd's hat. But the fairy tale died midway, which is sad. At the same time I also felt that it was destined to be a crisis from the beginning.

Twenty years later, there are still some scattered legends. One is that people who have heard it say that Waiheke Island is actually not as imagined. The wilderness and isolation of the world, on the contrary, are still very lively and are a tourist attraction; the second story says that Xie Ye's wooden house in Gucheng is uninhabited, and the surrounding woods are getting longer and denser.

It sounds like the wooden house has become a little bug, swallowed up by plants. Didn't Gu Cheng write such a sentence: "We write like bugs, finding their way in pine cones." Yes, it's the pine cones that eat bugs. In this way, the fairy tale ends.