The poet, however, claims that it is not his representative work. Musicians compose songs and CCTV hosts recite them, with over 6 million views. Author | Li Yuansheng | Poet
In 2014, a poem "I Want to Spend Time with You" recited by CCTV host Ren Luyu received over 6 million views; In August, the author of this poem, Chongqing poet Li Yuansheng, won the Poetry Award at the 6th Lu Xun Literature Award. The following year, musicians Cheng Bi and Mo Xizi composed the song "I Want to Spend Time with You" and released the album with the same name. On social media platforms that young people are passionate about, many netizens can spontaneously recite and share this poem, saying, "I want to waste time with you, such as looking down at the fish, leaving tea cups on the table, leaving them behind, wasting their beautiful shadows, and even wasting the sunset, such as taking a walk, spending time until the stars fill the sky... I still want to do this tomorrow, wasting it..."
"If I had known beforehand that this poem would be so popular, I would have written it more seriously," said Li Yuansheng at the Jiantou Bookstore on the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai. "I quite resist using this poem as a representative work." On this trip to Shanghai, he brought a new book titled "Time Difference between Me and Everything - Selected Poems of Li Yuansheng in 40 Years" published by Guangxi Normal University Press.
Li Yuansheng was born in 1963. He studied science and engineering in university and graduated from Chongqing University with a major in electrical engineering. Currently, he is a professional writer at Chongqing University of Literature, Vice Chairman of Chongqing Writers Association, and member of the Poetry Committee of China Writers Association. In addition to the Lu Xun Literature Award, he has also won the Poet of the Year Award, the People's Literature Award, the October Literature Award, and other awards in the Poetry Journal.
Li Yuansheng's own interpretation of the poem "I Want to Spend Time with You" that went viral in the poetry circle is that it touched a certain point in the era and people's hearts. "Under the pressure of success and efficiency, 'wasting time' resonated with many people."
Li Yuansheng's literary enlightenment came from his childhood exposure to Tang and Song poetry. During his college years, he met the works of German poet Rilke. Reading Rilke's "Autumn", there is a life experience that has never been experienced before, clear, full, and full of visual sense. Li Yuansheng described it as a derailment in reading, with a sense of weightlessness similar to when a train takes off, and when it falls off, the wheels are already in contact with a new track.
However, at the beginning of writing poetry, it was just imitation. Li Yuansheng was very frank: "At that time, I wrote whatever topic was easy to publish."
In addition to writing poetry, Li Yuansheng also has an identity - an ecological photographer, or a museum traveler. Searching for his recent news is not about publishing poetry collections, but about discovering a new butterfly - the Tibetan butterfly - at Guanshan Forest Farm in Yintiaoling National Nature Reserve, Chongqing last month, which has increased the number of butterfly species in Chongqing to three.
Before the sharing session at Jiantou Bookstore began, Li Yuansheng saw a huge floor to ceiling glass window facing the Huangpu River. He couldn't help but leave his seat and took out several photos with his phone, saying, "How beautiful it is.".
Li Yuansheng said that he was a first generation digital camera enthusiast in China. Initially, he suffered from myocarditis and was advised by his friends to "buy a camera and go for a walk.". In the days when digital cameras were still rare, he bought a memory card that could only store two photos. He deleted and deleted the photos, and later spent a lot of money to buy a 16GB storage card. The first time I went up the mountain to shoot with a photography team, the group members were all quite old. In order to shoot the sunrise, they walked briskly. I was not in good health, so I dropped out of the team and took photos of flowers and plants on the mountainside. When I went back and exported the photo, I didn't take a good photo of the flower. I focused on a bee and took a very clear picture. I proudly posted this photo on the forum, and most of the followers praised it. Only one person pointed out that it was not a bee, but a aphid eating fly. Surprised, Li Yuansheng opened a new door and plunged into the world of nature.
In 2011, Li Yuansheng wrote a poem "The Twilight of Qinglong Lake" at Bishan Qinglong Lake. Prior to this, 90% of his poems were created in the study. Starting from "The Twilight of Qinglong Lake", Li Yuansheng's two clues - writing clues and natural exploration clues - have undergone interesting intersections. At this time, he has been walking in the wilderness for 11 years. "In the wilderness, coexisting with nature, standing at the intersection of natural and social systems, and re examining human activities, including myself, has had a great impact on my writing. When I see a butterfly every 10 meters that I have never seen before, even though my heart is crazy, I still try my best to stay calm to avoid disturbing the beauty of this moment. When encountering a snake falling on me, do not shout, jump, or try to catch it..." Now, Li Yuansheng spends more than half of the year in the wilderness. He said, "The longer I walk in the wilderness, the more passionate my attachment to life and writing becomes."
In the eyes of Hu Sang, a poet and translator who teaches at Tongji University, Li Yuansheng not only loves natural things, but also has a power to invite things into literature. In his poetry, there is a friendly relationship between things and people, and the poet has always maintained the ability to marvel at things - "some small things make up the living me./And the houses and people of the past are already in the middle of some kind of glass, where reality flows./I pay tribute to all living creatures./Wherever I stay, flowers, the sun, and small boats washed away by the river reach me calmly./There is a joyful and upward thing in our depths./It makes everything that surrounds life always surprising. This poem is called" Surprise ".
Hu Sang also likes a poem called "Nanshan". "In Li Yuansheng's poetry, Nanshan becomes an emotional old friend. Not only can people go up the mountain, but the mountain itself can also come down, and then it does not return to its original position. The poet is someone who can capture this' subtle deviation '."
Hu Sang described Li Yuansheng's poetry as "friendly poetry", which is very friendly to the world, things, and readers. Li Yuansheng said that what is needed to write poetry is not talent, but understanding. "I hope to faithfully record the original poetic meaning and do subtraction.".
At the beginning of this year, poet Yu Xiuhua wrote a series of poems, "This Evening, To Li Yuansheng" and "Thinking of Li Yuansheng from a Butterfly". She said that Li Yuansheng "wrote poetry for half his life, still in the ocean of words, combining shining words into silver fish, allowing them to swim non-stop on the water surface in the moonlight.".
"The Time Difference between Me and Everything" was selected and edited by Li Yuansheng himself. "I chose it for young people and future readers, hoping that they can see a poet's growth history and key turning points one by one."
