Gu Cheng

GuCheng is another emblematic Chinese writer who was born in 1956. During his childhood, GuCheng had a pleasant life with many privileges because his father was an important man at that time. However, when he was young, GuCheng spent more than 5 years in a desolate area of Shandong due to the Cultural Revolution. Even though this tragic experience was hard at first for him, the nature provided him another perspective to observe life differently.

In the last part of 1970 GuCheng became a honorable member of the journal “Today”, since that time his literary career took off and he has gained an international fame. Later, he traveled for many countries around the world and worked at the University of Auckland in New Zealand as a Chinese mandarin teacher. In 1993, this brilliant Chinese writer killed his wife and committed suicide. Some of his literary work was translated into English and now is available worldwide. For instance we can mention Nameless flowers, selected poems and Ying'er, The Kingdom of Daughters.

Gu Cheng Poems
返回不要去睡覺，不親愛的，路還長不走太近森林的誘惑，不要失去希望寫地址在融雪你的手或依靠我的肩膀因為我們通過朦朧的早晨解除透明風暴帷幕我們將到達那裡，我們是從綠色磁盤土地周圍的老寶塔有我會守護你疲倦的夢想並驅趕羊群夜只留下銅鼓，太陽如超出寶塔小浪悄然爬上海灘和退縮顫抖	The Return Don't go to sleep, don't Dear, the road is long yet don't go too near the forest's enticements, don't lose hope write the address in snowmelt on your hand or lean on my shoulder as we pass the hazy morning lifting the transparent storm curtain we'll arrive at where we are from a green disk of land around an old pagoda there I will guard your weary dreams and drive off the flocks of nights leaving only bronze drums, and the sun as beyond the pagoda tiny waves quietly crawl up the beach and draw back trembling
熟睡在白天人們在黑暗中輕輕入睡的夜晚在白天和寐眼瞼下垂他們微笑把他們的臉和去陽傘又太鮮花盛開的裙子寬鬆的戀人躺在沙發上的綠色在發呆脂肪嬰兒和母親睡在石頭塵土飛揚的男孩吸引了他們的腿喃喃自語，他們要去看的黑熊老男人鉸煙斗打開自己的嘴巴痛苦地寬太陽太熟睡淡藍色的火焰呼吸之間一動不動，因為他們閃爍雲是石棉鉛是全新的銀扭曲疼痛閃耀在每個糧食沙而晚上也沒有提出在影樓風冷冷地吹微笑背後的每一個層面風冷冷地吹灰塵是越來越困相機的雜誌是空的空	Sleeping Soundly in Daytime People sleep lightly in the dark of night and sleep soundly in daytime lids drooping they smile turn their faces and go parasols turn too flowers bloom skirts lax lovers lie on green sofas in a daze fat babies and mothers sleep on stones dusty boys draw up their legs mumbling that they want to go see the black bear old men ream tobacco pipes opening their mouths painfully wide the sun too sleeps soundly breathing among pale blue flames motionless as they flicker the clouds are asbestos the lead is brand new silver distorted pain glitters in each grain of sand and the night hasn't moved in the photo studio a wind coolly blows behind smiles of every dimension a wind coolly blows the dust is getting sleepy the camera's empty magazine is empty

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