Water·Paint·Immoral Companion

Bo Hua is regarded as a unique poet in the new period of poetry. Since1981fromnow, his writing poetry goes through three stages: white heat, calm and restraint, andrational game. However, he always adheres to personal writing, pursues the expression ofpoetic aesthetics and poetic romance under the influence of symbolism. No matter in themulti-tone of1980s or the marginalized contemporary poetry, he all keeps independentand awake.<ShuiHui Xian Lv>is a very special work when BaiHua returns to poetry in the newcentury. It continues his attention on self emotional experience, the specificity ofaesthetics and the passion of exploring poetry craft. It uses the beautiful love storybetween Mao Xiang and Dong Xiaowan in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty as thesubject matter. Both the magnificent language and careful revision show the divergence ofemphasizing public, political ethics and grand words, which abandons the traditionalpoetry concept and returns to poetry ontology. He processes a lot of poetry technologytests, including the mixture of voice over, the daringly quotation of classical Chineseparagraph and divergent system of comments. It not only proves the interconnectedpossibility between post-modernity and Chinese classical tradition from language andstructure, but also certifies the possibility between the West and the East.Apart from poetry concept and technical test, the important meaning of<ShuiHuiXian Lv> is the confirmation and admiration of comfort and pleasure, delicate andbeautiful life. The connotation of this kind of life concept is optimistic and leisured lifeattitude, calmly mind and the aesthetic pursuit, which is reflected through the life ofpeople in the Ming and Qing Dynasties represented by Mao Xiang, Jiang Nan literati andHu Lancheng highly recommended by Bo Hua. The geographical and natural scienceshave a significant effect on Bo Hua’s life philosophy. He explicitly promotes the height of“comfort and pleasure” to the same as “shout”. On one hand, it lets “aesthetics” get rid of the constraint of moral imperative from life values; on the other hand, it combinespersonalized writing with aesthetic pursuits closely from poetry concepts.