Junior high school diploma, but full of poetry. Zhu Yanjun, a 50-year-old migrant worker, won the runner-up in the final of the 2023 Chinese Poetry Conference. From the small mountain village on the loess plateau to the big stage of meeting friends with poetry, poetry flowing in the long river of history has built a "rainbow bridge" for Zhu Yanjun to cross his dreams. Poetic teenagers on the loess plateau "like to watch the sunset while grazing sheep. I sit on the hillside and read poetry. It's beautiful!" Zhu Yanjun was born in Weigou Village, Jingning County, Pingliang City, Gansu Province. His childhood life is outlined by the crisscross loess plateau, scattered sheep and crops planted on time. His first contact with poetry was "Compassion for the Farmers" in the first grade Chinese class. "It's easy to read and easy to remember," he said. At a young age, he was intoxicated with the rhyme of tone in poetry. After his father discovered his hobby, he bought him a lot of poetry and newspapers. His father's silent support made him form the habit of regularly excerpting poems and repeating them. In the classroom after class, on the hillside when herding sheep, and on the crop field when helping workers... As long as he is free, he will hold a book of poems in his hand. "After reading more, I found that the poem 'can't be entered without intention, can't be said without anything', and can always recite everything in a concise and comprehensive way," he said. The condensed verses are like kaleidoscopes. Through them, the youth can see the infinite poetry rising on the loess slope. After entering junior high school, many students choose to drop out of school and go out to work. On New Year's Day, Zhu Yanjun always listened to his peers talk about the outside world: "At that time, he longed for life in big cities and wanted to go out." After graduating from junior high school, he carried several treasured poems and began to travel around and work outside. Zhu Yanjun's choice when he was young also became a regret that he could not forget. Because of his lack of literacy, he often encountered "obstacles" when reading poems and had to look up the dictionary casually. Wherever he went, he always carried a "Xinhua Dictionary" with him. After more than 20 years of companionship, the dictionary had been torn down by him and was barely stuck with adhesive tape. For nearly 40 years, Zhu Yanjun has filled six or seven notebooks with poems and verses, recording the original texts, translations and allusions of poems and verses in different categories, all of which he regards as treasures. Zhu Yanjun, who enjoys loneliness, "What is the use of migrant workers reading poetry?". Among the workmates who swipe their mobile phones and chat and play cards in their spare time, he often seems out of place. "I don't mind these things. When I read poetry, I feel that 'the book is sentimental like an old friend', and it will soon be integrated into the artistic conception, which is very beautiful." He said, "Xin Qiji's" Xijiangyue · Qixing "said that 'drunk and greedy for laughter, you have to worry about the time.' For me, it is' in poetry and greedy for laughter '. Once you sink in, everything around you will be fine." In the view of his junior high school Chinese teacher Li Shulin, Zhu Yanjun, a student, is somewhat free and easy to "walk alone": "He likes literature and enjoys loneliness. He can always stick to what he loves and harvest spiritual wealth." Every time he goes to a city, Zhu Yanjun will go to the bookstore and library first. He was busy with his work during the day, so he copied and recited poems at noon and at night. He likes rainy days best. At this time, the construction site will be shut down, so he can spend a day in the bookstore. Sometimes, the nearest bookstore
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