Lin Geng

Lin Geng

Lin Geng (February 22, 1910 - October 4, 2006), whose name is Jingxi, was born in Beijing. Modern poets, ancient literary scholars and literary historians. Professor of Peking University. He graduated from the middle school affiliated to Beijing Normal University in 1928 and was admitted to the Department of physics of Tsinghua University.

brief account of the author's life

Lin Geng (1910-2006), the word Jingxi. The son of Lin Zhijun. Poet, modern poet, ancient literature scholar, literature historian. He is a member of China Writers Association. Professor of Chinese Department of Peking University, doctoral supervisor of Chinese ancient literature. He was born in Beijing on February 22, 1910.

He graduated from the middle school affiliated to Beijing Normal University in 1928 and was admitted to the Department of physics of Tsinghua University in 1928. In 1930, he transferred to the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University and participated in the founding of Literature Monthly. After graduating in 1933, he stayed in school and served as the editorial board member of literature quarterly. Since 1934, he has taught the history of Chinese literature in Peking University. In the autumn of 1933, he published the first free style poetry collection night. After 1934, as a new poet of free style, he tried new metrical style and successively published Beiping love song, hibernation song and others. After the July 7th incident, he went to Xiamen University to teach. In 1947, he returned to Beijing and became a professor of Chinese Department of Yanjing University. In 1952, he was changed to a professor of Peking University. He is the author of six poetry collections, such as chunye and the window, the collection of asking the way, the Chixiang of space, and eleven collections, such as the history of Chinese literature, the study of poet Qu Yuan and his works, Tianwen Lun Jian, poet Li Bai, a comprehensive review of Tang Poetry, and the poetic style and language of new poetry. He died in Beijing on October 4, 2006 at the age of 97.

Lin Geng's father is Lin Zaiping, a professor in the Department of philosophy at Tsinghua University. Shen Congwen said that he has great attainments in literature, law and politics, philosophy, Buddhism, poetry, calligraphy and painting. Jin Yuelin, Zhang Zhongxing and Wu Xiaoru were all his disciples.

Activity chronology

1. Born in Beijing on February 221910.

2. He graduated from the high school attached to Beijing Normal University in 1928 and was admitted to the Physics Department of Tsinghua University in the same year.

3. In 1930, he transferred to the Chinese department and participated in the establishment of the monthly literature.

4. In 1933, he graduated and stayed in school. As a teaching assistant of Zhu Ziqing, he published the first free style poetry collection night. Wen Yiduo designed the cover and Yu Pingbo wrote the preface, which won high praise.

5. In 1934, he resigned and went to Shanghai. He wanted to live by writing poems. In the autumn of that year, he returned to Peking and taught in Peking National College, women's College of Arts and Sciences of Peking University and Peking Normal University.

6. In 1935, he began to rewrite the metrical poetry and published two metrical poetry collections: Beiping love song and hibernation song and others.

7. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he went to Xiamen University as a professor.

8. He was a professor of Yanjing University in 1947.

9. In 1952, he became a professor in Chinese Department of Peking University.

10. From 1954 to 1963, the supplement of Guangming Daily literary heritage was published. He has participated in the first and second National Congress of Chinese literary and artistic workers and the Fourth National Congress of Chinese literary and artistic workers.

11. In 1956, he was the director of the ancient literature teaching and research section of the Chinese Department of Peking University. Until 1986, he retired and was still the doctoral supervisor of the Chinese Department of Peking University.

12. In 2004, he was director of the Poetry Center of Peking University.

13. He died in Beijing on October 4, 2006 at the age of 97.

Personal achievement

Lin Geng's life is full of poetry. When he was studying in the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University, his graduation thesis was his first new poetry collection night, which was designed by Mr. Wen Yiduo and written by Mr. Yu Pingbo. Since then, he has created a series of poems, such as the window of chunye, the love song of Beiping, the hibernation song and others, which are praised as bringing "a beauty of the late Tang Dynasty" to the poetic world. Fei Ming, a modern poet, once said, "in the new poetry, Lin Geng's weight may be heavier than anyone else..." At the age of 90, he published a new collection of poems. In 2004, he also led the establishment of the Poetry Center of Peking University and served as the director.

From a poet to a scholar, Lin Geng's research on the history of Chinese literature is unique, in which the study of Chu Ci and Tang poetry are his "double talents". He made a classic summary of Tang poetry, such as "the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty" and "the spirit of youth", which was widely accepted by the academic circles. He Zhizhang's famous poem "Yong Liu" was selected into the primary school textbook because of his excavation, and finally became a household name. "When Tang poetry reaches its climax, everything will be cheerful and liberated. In fact, the life of Tang people is based on the mood of young people." Lin Geng said, "isn't the youth depressed? Is spring not sad? But it's juvenile, it's spring. "

Since the 1940s, he has written the history of Chinese literature three times, among which a brief history of Chinese literature has been handed down as a college textbook. In his research, he attaches great importance to creativity and focuses on finding materials that can explain creativity. "If literature is not creative, strictly speaking, it is not literature and has no value," he said Only in this way can we see the ups and downs of the history of Chinese literature and the context of its development

He said that he was "teaching as a profession, heart in creation", first a poet, then a professor. He has been teaching in the Chinese Department of Peking University since the adjustment of the Department in the early 1950s. For the students, he is an excellent poetry enlightener and Literature Guide. He often recites poems and writes beautiful calligraphy on the blackboard. Ren Jiyu, Wu Xiaoru, Fu xuancong, Yuan Xingkai, Xie Mian and other scholars all benefited from his words and deeds.

In the aspect of Tang poetry research, its achievements are collected in a comprehensive review of Tang poetry. Research on poet Qu Yuan and his works is a collection of papers on his research of Chu Ci for many years. Most of them are about Qu Yuan's life and the problems of characters and geography in his works. There are also some articles on Qu Yuan's personality, artistic achievements and characteristics of his works. Professor Lin Geng also paid close attention to the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and put forward many brilliant ideas. Mr. Lin Geng has been a professor in the Chinese Department of Xiamen University, Yanjing University and Peking University. He has published six new poetry collections, such as chunye and the window, a collection of asking the way, and classical literature monographs, such as poet Li Bai and a brief history of Chinese literature. His literary history is recognized as a masterpiece.

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Modern Chinese

Poetry——

Wang Guangming

Modern Chinese poetry has been looking for new language and form to accept and integrate complex and changing modern experience since Hu Shi "tried" vernacular poetry. This is a kind of difficult search which has not yet been completed and carried out in many contradictions. It has always been practical and experimental. It is reflected in many poets, but the focus is different. Facing the contradiction between experience and language, content and form, the mainstream poetry pays attention to the innovation of content, tries to follow the times in theme and theme, or changes the blood of Chinese poetry in poetry and taste. Their great efforts and achievements are obvious to all: both the persistent concern of Realistic Poetry for Chinese reality and the repeated exploration of modern poetry quality by modernist poets have written a moving chapter in the history of poetry in the 20th century.

However, only emphasizing the content and ignoring the form, only valuing the "poetic" and ignoring the cohesion, only considering the novelty and difference without thinking about the law, will also bring negative impact on the development of poetry. Since the 1930s, the exploration of the order of poetry form has been marginalized. Now it seems that it has not strengthened the freedom and liberation of poetry, but increased the suffering of poets; it has not made poetry close to readers, but alienated readers; it has not become more conscious, but a little blind.

There are only a few poets who are highly conscious of the common requirements of the content and form, poetic quality and form of poetry, among which Lin Geng is one of the most important poets.

Like many poets in the 20th century, Lin Geng began to write free verse. In the early 1930s, he published the free poetry anthology of chunye and Chuang, among which the Breaking Dawn and other poems can be regarded as the excellent texts of Chinese poetry in the 20th century. These poems are highly praised for bringing "a beauty of the late Tang Dynasty" to the poetic world. Fei Ming (Feng Wenbing) even thinks in "on New Poetry" that "in the new poetry, Lin Geng's weight may be heavier than anyone else." But the difference between Lin Geng and many new poets lies in that although he also cherishes free verse and "pursues some feelings and moods that are not easy to grasp before", he also thinks it is a sharp and extreme way, "if he goes on, he will be trapped in a" narrow "trend" (rhythm of poetry). Therefore, he raised the question of "re liberation" of New Poetry: "since the language of new poetry has been free in the tide of prose liberation, does it need to be re liberated? Poetry is different from prose, it always has a different form from prose, free poetry must be divided, which is at least different from the form of prose; but this is not enough. In order to help poetic language get rid of the inherent logical habits in prose, we still need to find a more perfect form of our own. "

Lin Geng is a scholar poet who combines knowledge with action. After realizing the problem of free poetry, he has been devoted to the experiment of rhythm and form of poetry since 1934. In 1936, he published his "Beiping love song", which was highly praised. Some people thought: "this is the return to simplicity after thousands of rivers. Here, for the first time, the tone of the new poetry breaks away from the confinement of tonality and tone, and subdues the method of word formation, making it the servant of the tone,

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