Liu Yunhe
"there is a river in the west of the village, the father of the village said that it was the sea, and now I think so." This is him and the attitude of his life. As for what the river in the village is like, Fan Dongming, 40 years old, has not seen it yet. He did not like others to call him a poet with cerebral palsy, because his poems were pure, healthy and bright. Fan Dongming is a native of Dongying who suffers from congenital cerebral palsy and can not take care of himself at all. From the age of 13, Fan Dongming completed his primary and university courses on his own. Because the condition is too heavy, his hands can not write, can only write with his right foot, his poem is also written with his right foot. Fan Dongming prefers others to call him "right foot poet".
Fan Dongming's right foot typing
Fan Dongming is introducing his poems
soil Kang and the world
several square meters of Kang, almost carrying the whole world of Fan Dongming.
in 1978, he was born in the village of fan Jia Village in the town of Dongying. He was diagnosed as congenital cerebral palsy when he was born. Life was completely unable to take care of himself. Until now, parents are still required to eat, walk, and stool.
Fan Dongming's bedroom is very small, and a few square meters of Kang have accounted for more than a half. There is a table on the bed with a computer on the table. Because of his inconvenient legs, he spent almost all his time on the Kang. He could say that a few square meters of earth Kang carried Fan Dongming's whole world. When
in order to greet the guests, he moved from the Kang to the living room, breaking away from his father's hand and sticking to the edge of the Kang side of the bedroom, moving step by step. He leaned back to the Kang and bent his legs, his feet were not completely fitted to the ground, his left hand was attached to the face, and his right hand was in the waist, because his fingers were uncontrolled and all opened in different directions.
normal people can walk to the living room in a few paces. He takes a few minutes and gets a sweat.
always stayed on the Kang. Sometimes the parents would hold him out, but they were worried about the bump and stacked up two tires and put Fan Dongming in the middle. No matter which way he goes, he will not knock. At the age of 13, Fan Dongming sat on the tyres on the doorway, and saw the doorway passing by many schoolbags. This was the first time he had a desire to learn.
right foot and poetry
Fan Dongming, before reading and writing, the only hobby is painting, because the hands can not hold a pen, only with his right toe with a pen. At first, when his father, Dongming, wrote to write, he could write slowly with his feet, but he was able to write more and more words, and it was more and more flexible to write with his right foot.
father was busy with the farm work, and after about half of it, he couldn't get more free time to teach, so he bought a Chinese dictionary for Fan Dongming. From then on, fan Dongming began to study himself. Every time he meets a dictionary that he does not understand, he looks up the dictionary, so that he completes the whole primary school curriculum. Later, at his request, his father bought textbooks for junior high school, high school and University, and Fan Dongming finished all of these courses in nine years. "Only learning literature and history, other mathematics and physics, no one can teach himself how to learn." Father said, during this period, Fan Dongming also read many Chinese and foreign masterpieces. He did not read two times, and he read all the books he read at least two or three times.
when it comes to how to start writing poetry, Fan Dongming sits in the sitting room chair and laughs, and the thin face can see the twitching of the muscles on one side because of the excitement. "It's hard for me to write a single word. When does a novel cost hundreds of thousands of words? There are few poems. " Fan Dongming spit out this word difficultly, because the expression is not clear, after the father translates, the audience here smiles.
actually he read a lot of poems and liked poetry, and gradually he had the inspiration to write poetry. He writes flowers, writes grass, writes spring, writes water, and writes smoke. His poems are fresh and simple and straightforward. In Fan Dongming's own words, he is back to his ears.
Fan Dongming gets up at 5 in the morning and wears earphones to listen to books in his quilt. After breakfast, his parents went out to do farm work and went to his own creative time. His inspiration comes from the dripping of life, the wind outside, the rain, the sunlight coming from the windows, the chicken calls, or the father, mother, etc.
crazy and paranoid
in 2005, father borrowed money to buy a computer for him, and opened the door to another world for him. He began typing with his right foot, and each time he was inspired, he typed it down.
however, a computer accident left Fan Dongming almost mad.
father remember, a rainy day in 2012, probably because of the thunder, the computer broke down at once. Hundreds of poems written by Fan Dongming for many years also vanished. At that time, he felt that the whole man was evacuated at once, and his efforts were wasted for years. At that time he did not sleep for three days or three nights, but he did not enter the water. His father persuaded him to write again when he lost his poem, but when he broke down, he could not come back again. But Fan Dongming felt that poetry could not be duplicated, and inspiration could not be duplicated.
three days later, fan Dongming did a crazy thing. He learned how to fix a computer for half a year. "He is now a half computer maintenance expert, some of the village people do not understand the computer, or the problem will come to find him, he is still online remote control to help people repair computers." The father said.
it seems to others because he was crazy about poetry, and Fan Dongming himself thought it was a bigotry, a dead heart, and he thought it was his own weakness. Because of the Internet, he will discuss with other local poetry friends, and there will often be disagreements. Fan Dongming will stick to his views and principles and argue with others.
after writing a lot of poems, Fan Dongming had the desire to publish books. At first, his parents thought he was only joking. Later, when he knew he was serious, he borrowed money to help him out. Three years ago, his first collection of poems, "the shellfish on the left bank" was published, and was loved by many love poets. This year, he used his first collection of poems to collect second poems.
body and soul
he does not like being called a poet of cerebral palsy, because his poetry is healthy, the soul is healthy, and the soul is free from the night.
Fan Dongming's favorite book is "the ordinary world" and likes the male master Shao Ping. He feels that he has a lot of similarities with Sun Shaoping, the baptism of life, the sense of life in reality, and the strong and self - respecting life.
he also had his own desire for love. Fan Dongming listens to radio programs and contributes to his free time. A presenter often reads his poems. He thinks that the host can read himself, two people have known for more than ten years, and also communicate about the content of poetry through the Internet, but never saw it, and Fan Dongming has never said the export.
as he wrote in his love poem "to the other half of life", "you have not yet flew over the sky in my vision, but I have finished your statue in my heart." Now, he is relieved, and his love ends here.
he likes a poem of his own, "I take off the cotton padded jacket" in the spring. Part of it is "I stand in the field of spring, take off the desperate cotton padded jacket, run with a group of innocent children, and let every stranger envy my smile." Fan Dongming said that this poem encourages people in pain and despair, reclaiming pain and harnessing Cheng Liangtian.
Fan Dongming said that at the time of adolescence, it was also very distressing, why fate would be so unfair to itself. "Now I want to open up. I want to accept the body I have." He joked, "look at Hawking, people are worse than me, but life is gorgeous." Recently, there are always people who come to buy poetry collections, but the villagers do not read his poems, nor do they understand them. But every time he sees his parents, he always says, "it's a miracle that you are tired of two years." Fan Dongming does not consider himself a genius or a miracle. As the poem says, "being alive is your greatest miracle." this sentence is suitable for everyone.