Peking University Love Poem

Author: Zhu Jiaxiong, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Centennial Love Poems, Enduring Romantic Love, by the side of Weiming Lake, scholars and beauties, longing. Peking University is not only the birthplace of modern Chinese literature but also the cradle of modern poetry. In this cradle, modern poetry was born and grew. The people of Peking University have created and nurtured poetry with their own hearts, and poetry, in turn, conveys and highlights the profound and vast emotional world of Peking University, its deep reflections and cries. Professor of the Department of Chinese, renowned scholar, and literary critic Xie Mian’s years of modern poetry and youth, love poems and the vibrant campus of youth, the inseparable connection they form has almost become a shining bright spot in the unique artistic and life-related tradition of modern poetry itself. In the beautiful campus and surroundings of Peking University, more young people are expected to pause at this page of history depicting the beauty of human emotions, to listen to the colorful voices left behind by the artistic explorations of the predecessors who have passed away and the current students.
Professor of the Department of Chinese, renowned scholar, and poet critic Sun Yushi The reason why the scholars of Peking University over the generations have been able to contribute such a wonderful collection of love poems is naturally due to certain factors. Peking University is a campus rich in cultural resources, containing an immense poetic heritage from ancient to modern times, both within China and abroad. Throughout its own development, Peking University has produced a large number of outstanding poets, forming a remarkable poetic tradition. Without a doubt, Peking University’s excellent poets still exist and will continue to emerge, and its poetic tradition will continue to develop and perfect. Such a campus naturally has a wealth of great poems for us to select from. Love is one of the eternal themes of poetry, and it is also a major challenge that young people are destined to encounter. How could the poets of Peking University, generation after generation, not write numerous love poems that stand out in the world?
Young poet, writer, and editor-in-chief of this collection, Zhu Jiaxiong This collection of love poems gathers the abundant talent of many poets from Peking University, their surging youth, their longing for beauty, and their pursuit of happiness, all presented within these pages. In a sense, this collection of love poems is a poetic representation of the romantic journeys of the vibrant, talented students of Peking University; these poems range from sincere and passionate to subtle and reserved, from joyful and bright to sorrowful and graceful, and so on. Who can say that there are no other kinds of romance in the world that cannot be found within them?