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Written by: Huang Weilun
2021-05-09 21:42
The last update date: 2021-05-09 21:42
Hong Kong poet Dai Tian, formerly known as Dai Chengyi, died in Toronto, Canada on Saturday (8th) at the age of 86.
During Dai Tian University, he founded "Modern Literature" with Bai Xianyong, Li Oufan and others. After graduation, he went to Hong Kong to engage in publishing work and published a collection of essays for Zhang Ailing. The letters between the two of them accidentally flowed out and were sent to the auction house. Ten thousand yuan transaction.
Dai Tian was once the editor-in-chief of "Chinese Economic Journal" and moved to Canada in his later years. In recent years, he has returned to Hong Kong to attend events at university.
Regarding the meaning of the pseudonym, he once said in an interview that it was taken from "the servants think that wearing a basin can look up to the sky", that is, if the action is contrary to the purpose, the wish cannot be achieved.
Dai Tian was born in Guangdong in 1935. He moved to Mauritius when he was elementary school. After that, he studied at the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University. In 1960, he founded Modern Literature with his classmates Bai Xianyong, Li Oufan, Wang Wenxing, Liu Shaoming and others.
After graduating, he went to work in a publishing house in Hong Kong. He once wrote film reviews under another pseudonym Tian Ge. In 1967, he participated in the establishment of the "Pangu" monthly magazine and participated in the "International Writing Project" of the University of Iowa in the United States. He was the first Hong Kong participant.
After returning to Hong Kong, Dai Tian served as the editor of "World Today Publishing House", and later founded the "Eight Side Literature and Art Series", and in 1983 he served as the editor of "Reader's Digest".
In addition, Dai Tian served as the editor-in-chief of "Chinese Economic Journal" from 1992 to 2001.
He later moved to Canada, but has also returned to Hong Kong in recent years. For example, he visited Chinese University and Shue Yan University in 2016, and attended the 50th anniversary event of Ming Pao Monthly.
According to past interviews, Dai Tian and his friends founded the "Cultural Life" publishing house. In 1976, he published a collection of essays "Zhang Kan" for Zhang Ailing. Later, Zhang and Dai's correspondence about publishing matters accidentally flowed out. One of them appeared in The auction market finally sold for more than 50,000 yuan, and Dai Tian felt helpless.
Speaking of the meaning of the pen name, Dai Tian pointed out in an interview that the original intention was not "to wear the sky together", but was taken from Sima Qian's "Report to Ren Anshu": "The servant thinks that wearing a pen can look at the sky", that is, if the action is contrary to the purpose, The wish can never be achieved.
Dai Tianzhu has many works. The collection of essays includes "An Anthology of Anonymous", "The Bird of Dodo", and the anthologies of the former 1997 Chronicle series "Dwarves Watching", "Philosophy of Humans and Birds", "Ghosts Jumping Over the Wall", " Lao Li Li La; Poems include "The Debate on Mao's Mountain", "Study of Stones", and "The Moan of Bone".
Shen Xicheng published an article in memory of Dai Tian (Shen Xicheng Facebook)
Hong Kong writer Shen Xicheng recalled in an article that he worked with Dai Tian and others in publishing houses in the mid-1970s, but unfortunately everyone passed away or emigrated. Even though he was the youngest, his body was not as good as before. He lamented: "Can you say that the past is not as good as smoke? ?"
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