Gu Cheng

[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.

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".

[4] The two-line poem titled "A Generation" ("一代人") was perhaps Gu Cheng's most famous contribution to contemporary Chinese literature.

It had been considered an accurate representation of the younger generation during the Chinese Cultural Revolution seeking knowledge and future.

黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛 我却用它寻找光明 Gu Cheng's life was dramatised in the 1998 film The Poet (Chinese: 顧城別戀; pinyin: gùchéng bié liàn), which focussed on his recurrent depression and the murder of his wife.