Great Poetry Movement / World Poetry Movement
The Ukrainian War clouds over the Earth, and COVID-19 spread all over the world. It is time that Chinese poets and World poets are ready to act. You could write peace and anti-war poems in Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and Arabic, write Human Destiny Community with Great Poetry, and build Great Wall of peace with poems!
In response to the initiative of the World Poetry Movement "Earth Is Our Home", China's Great Poetry Movement launches the initiative of "The Great Poetry Of Destiny And The Great Wall Of Peace". It is also in response to France's "Worldwide Chain Of Poems For Peace" and Africa's "Manifesto for Peace and Concord". Now it has received the response of World Poetry magazine and World Poet magazine in China. The magazines will make a special issue of peace and anti-war poetry in the future. It is also hoped that more and more poets will create, publish, read and comment on peace and anti-war poetry.
The Great Poetry Movement or Great Poeticism Movement originated in the Manifesto Of Great Poeticism written by Cao Shui in 2007. It advocates "Integration Of Western And Eastern Cultures", "Integration Of Ancient And Modern Cultures" and "Integration Of Mysterious And Secular Cultures". It traces back to the epic spirit of Babylon, India, Canaan, China,and Greece. The concept is developed by of Chinese great poet Hai Zi's Great Poetry, which is poetry "integrating nationality and mankind, integrating poetry and ideal". We hope to create Great Poetry for all mankind.
The times are calling for Great Poetry! Today's world civilization is not just Chinese civilization, but the vast world civilization. The current era is also very short. Mankind has a history of 5000 years of poetry. The world we know is very limited, and more secrets are mysterious. Therefore, we need to "Integrate Western And Eastern Cultures", "Integrate Ancient And Modern Cultures" and "Integrate Mysterious And Secular Cultures".
In the era of Internet and globalization, the "World Literature" put forward by the great German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1827 is accelerating. Poets all over the world are becoming a whole. In reality, the performance is the "World Poetry Movement". It was founded by Fernando Rendon, an outstanding Colombian poet and President of Medellin International Poetry Festival, and poets from all over the world at Medellin poetry festival in 2011. They issued the Manifesto Of the World Poetry Movement, which aims to make the world a whole through poetry.
Today's world is not China in the Han and Tang Dynasties, but the Earth in the era of globalization. Chinese culture is only an integral part of world civilization, which we have to accept and deal with. Today's civilization is developed from the seven civilizations that used to lie across the Eurasian continent, from Babylon to Persia, India, China to the East, and Canaan, Egypt, Greece to the West. Only by tracing back to this root vein can we integrate into the whole world civilization, then integrate ancient and modern civilizations, integrate occidental and oriental civilizations, integrate mysterious and secular civilizations, create a unique civilization, and re-lead the world civilization. Eastern and Western civilizations are like seesaws. Chinese civilization once led the world civilization in the feudal era, but we have to admit that now western civilization has become the mainstream of global civilization. Chinese poets should be able to write the whole world, so that we can press the seesaw of world civilization to the East again. At present, western centralism is widely distributed in the world, and some people in China want to counter with Oriental centralism. In fact, it is a diversified world. We prefer the cosmopolitanism of eastern and Western polycentrism.
Finally, we revisit the story of the Tower of Babel. At first, mankind wanted to build a tower to Heaven. After God knew it, he was afraid to affect his authority, so he disturbed human language. Therefore, people stopped construction because they could not communicate, and fled to all parts of the world to form a nation. This is a metaphor, which comes from the Bible. There are similar myths in China's Taiping Guangji. The human dream is the Human Destiny Community or Dreamland. The biggest revelation of this metaphor is that when we open the gap between languages, the Tower of Babel will naturally form. If we can communicate ideologically with English, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish and Arabic, the Tower of Babel will be rebuilt and the Human Destiny Community will be built.
The Ukrainian War clouds over the Earth, and COVID-19 spread all over the world. It is time that Chinese poets and World poets are ready to act. You could write peace and anti-war poems in Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and Arabic, write Human Destiny Community with Great Poetry, and build Great Wall of peace with poems!
By Cao Shui
2022.4.5 China
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