Su Xuelin saw Zhou Hexuan in a trance, and her thoughts drifted somewhere, she asked curiously: "Mr. Zhou, are you conceiving a work?" ”

"Huh?" Zhou Hexuan was interrupted from thinking, came back to his senses and said casually, "Yes." ”

Although he had just been perfunctory by Zhou Hexuan, Su Xuelin was still a fan after all, and immediately said happily: "What is Mr. Zhou going to write?" Poetry, essays, or essays? ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "I just saw farmers farming, and I just felt a little touched. ”

"Is it about farmers?" Su Xuelin asked.

"Hmm." Zhou Hexuan responded, still perfunctory.

"I'll get you pen and paper!" After Su Xuelin finished speaking, he immediately ran inside.

Zhou Hexuan was speechless for an instant, feeling that this woman had a brain disease.

It only took two minutes for Su Xuelin to take the lattice book and pen, handed it to Zhou Hexuan and said, "Mr. Zhou, write quickly, I can't wait to read the masterpiece!" ”

Do you want to copy that poem?

Zhou Hexuan, who has already copied several poems, actually twisted it this time, because Mu Dan is his favorite poet of the Republic of China.

If you think about it carefully, it doesn't matter if you copy it, because there are too many excellent works by Mu Dan, and they are not bad for these two songs. Not only that, but Mudan also translated entire collections of foreign poetry, and his translation of "Jin Huang" has always been considered not inferior to Byron's original.

In the entire 100 years of the 20th century, if you want to rank Chinese poets, Zhou Hexuan will definitely not hesitate to rank Mu Dan at the top of the list.

In fact, in the late 90s, in the "Twentieth Century Chinese Literature Masters Library and Poetry", Mu Dan was ranked first, beating Guo Moruo, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Ai Qing and many other poets. At the time, there were many people who questioned the ranking, but many more were in favor because the eyes of the crowd were clear.

If given the chance, Zhou Hexuan hopes to be friends with Mu Dan and dissuade him from returning to the mainland in the 50s. However, it is estimated that Mu Dan himself will not be willing, and it is very likely that he still chooses to return to China and silently stick to it in humiliation.

For Mudan, it was a kind of suffering.

But for poetry love, it's an asset.

If Mudan had stayed in the United States, the more than a dozen poetry collections he had translated would have basically not appeared, especially Pushkin's poems, which Mudan did not know Russian at all before returning to China.

Zhou Hexuan spread out the lattice book and began to write the song "Praise" silently.

Su Xuelin came to the front, and saw lines of poetry flowing from the tip of the pen-

"The undulating hills, rivers and grasslands that cannot be walked into,

Countless dense villages, roosters and dogs barking,

One after another in the land of Asia, which was once desolate,

In the vast expanse of weeds, the dry wind whistles,

Singing the monotonous eastward flow of water under the dark clouds of low pressure,

In the melancholy forest, there are countless buried years

……

I'm going to hug you with everything, you

O people whom I see everywhere,

The people who live in shame, the rickety people,

I will hug you with bloody hands,

For a nation has risen. ”

Su Xuelin has written a lot of modern poems, and often comments on the poems of famous artists, and has a deep theoretical study of modern poetry. At this moment, her eyes were shining, and she already knew that this was a great work from the time Zhou Hexuan wrote the first verse of the poem.

When he saw the second verse of the poem, Su Xuelin's pupils shrank sharply, staring at the scribbled handwriting, and his breathing became short.

"A farmer, his rough body moving through the field,

He was the child of a woman, the father of many children,

How many dynasties have risen and fallen beside him,

And put hope and disappointment on him,

And he forever wordlessly whirls after the plow,

Stir up the same dirt that dissolved his ancestors,

It is the same image of the crucifixion that freezes on the side of the road

……

But he didn't, he only laid down the ancient hoe,

Once again, I believe in the noun and dissolve into the love of the public,

Steadfastly, he watched himself dissolve into death,

And such a road is infinitely long,

And he can't shed tears,

He did not shed tears, for a nation had risen. ”

Linking the content of the first and second verses of the poem, Su Xuelin knew that Zhou Hexuan was not writing about farmers, but about the ancient Chinese nation.

"It's the same as the wind of this long age,

The same is the endless groaning and cold that spreads out from under the eaves of this clumping roof,

……

When I walked by, standing on the road and hesitating,

I hesitate for years of shameful history and still wait in this vast mountain river, waiting,

Our unspoken pain is too much,

But a nation has risen,

Yet a nation has risen. ”

This is a long poem of nearly 60 lines, and it took Zhou Hexuan more than ten minutes to write. When he drew the last stop, Su Xuelin beside him was already moist in his eyes, and he was choked with something in his throat that was difficult to pour.

Read the poems, see the cry!

Ling Shuhua saw that Su Xuelin was wiping away her tears, and walked over and asked, "Xiaomei, what's wrong with you?" ”

Su Xuelin pointed to the poem in Zhou Hexuan's hand, eased his emotions and said, "Look at it yourself." ”

Ling Shuhua buried her head in it, recited the poem silently several times, and said in a heavy tone: "I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart. ”

One person after another came, one person after another pondered, and one person after another was silent.

There are so many things that this poem expresses, and through dense hazy imagery, it presents new and strange obscure feelings. Perhaps every reader has a different understanding, but its core meaning is very clear, this is a hymn to the ancient Chinese nation.

After a long time, Xu Zhimo spoke: "Everyone, let's discuss it." ”

Chen Mengjia thought for a while and said, "There are some shadows of Elliot. ”

"The style is biased towards Oden." Zhang Jiazhu said.

"The imagery is powerful and the impact is full." Liu Haisu said.

Hu Shi said: "This is the most valuable of all the poems written by Ming Cheng. ”

Chen Xiying, a rationalist, suddenly asked: "Mr. Zhou, why do you say in your poem that a nation has risen?" ”

"Because I saw it." Zhou Hexuan said.

"See?" Chen Xiying smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I didn't see it, I only saw that the four northeastern provinces fell one after another, and even Chahar was invaded by the Japanese invaders." This nation is entering a trough, where is the slightest rise? ”

"The government and the warlords are still the same, but the people have begun to wake up. Countless athletes rushed to the Northeast from all over the country to resist the Japanese; Countless people with lofty ideals have called for democratic politics; Hundreds of people enthusiastically donated money for the anti-Japanese war on the front line. The literacy rate is constantly improving, and the concept of the state and the nation is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and such a China will not be defeated. ”

In fact, the poem was more appropriate to write after the all-out war of resistance.

In his poems, Mu Dan repeatedly said that "a nation has risen", which is to see the enthusiasm of the whole people for the war of resistance.

But writing this poem now, and understanding it from elsewhere, is a classic poem that embodies its power at all times.

Xu Zhimo said: "I think there is no doubt that "Praise" should take the first place in this writing activity. In the rest of the time, we will devote ourselves to this poem. ”

"I'm for it!"

"I'm for it too!"

The crowd chimed in.