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Chinese poet (1956–1993)

This article is about the 20th-century Chinese writer. For the Eastern Wu general of the Three Kingdoms period, see Gu Cheng (Three Kingdoms).

Gu Cheng (simplified Chinese: 顾城; traditional Chinese: 顧城; September 24, 1956 – October 8, 1993) was a famous Chinese modern poet, essayist and novelist. He was a prominent member of the "Misty Poets", a group of Chinese modernist poets.

Biography

Gu Cheng was born in Beijing on 24 September 1956.^[1] He was the son of a prominent party member and the army poet Gu Gong.^[1] At the age of twelve, his family was sent to rural Shandong because of the Cultural Revolution (as means of re-education) where they bred pigs. There, he claimed to have learned poetry directly from nature.

In the late 1970s, Gu became associated with the journal Today (Jintian) which began a movement in poetry known as "menglong" 朦胧 meaning "hazy", "obscure". He became an international c