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= Yu Xiuhua = Yu Xiuhua (simplified Chinese: 余秀华; traditional Chinese: 余秀華; pinyin: yú xiùhuá), born in 1976, is a Chinese poet. She lives in a closed village, and it is hard for her to speak clearly and moves nimbly because of cerebral palsy. But she still writes poetry, and she had written over two thousand poems up to January 2015. In 2014, her poem named “I Crossed Half of China to Sleep with You （《穿过大半个中国去睡你》）” was reposted frequently in Wechat, and this was the first time that her name came into the public eye. In the same year, the poem magazine, a national magazine of China, published her poetry, which made her well-known for the public.

Life in Hengdian village
In 1976, Yu Xiuhua was born in Hengdian village, Shipai town, Zhongxiang City, Hubei province, China. Due to footling presentation and hypoxia when she was born, she suffered from cerebral palsy, so she cannot speak articulately and her mobility is inconvenient. When Yu Xiuhua grew up, she could neither do farm work nor attend university because of her disability. In her second year of high school, she gave up her study and stayed at home out of work. After that, poetry became her best friend.

Before 2015, Yu Xiuhua still lived in Hengdian village with her parents, leading a simple life. At home, she always did some housework, fed the rabbits and wrote her poetry. In Hengdian village, Yu Xiuhua didn’t have audiences.

Family
In 1995, when Yu Xiuhua was 19, she got married arranged by her mother. She thinks her marriage is unbearable. Her husband, Yin Shiping, is 12 years older than her, and he hardly stayed at home. When they got together, they always quarreled. They have a son who has already entered university. Yu Xiuhua and Yin Shiping divorced in September 2015.

Yu Xiuhua lived with her parents in Hengdian village. Her parents are both farmers working in the land. Because Yu Xiuhua doesn’t have the ability to earn money and do farm work, her parents provided for her until her anthology published.

In 2016, Yu Xiuhua’s mother died because of lung cancer.

Writing experience
In 1998, Yu Xiuhua wrote her first poem "Imprinting （《印痕》）".

In 2009, Yu Xiuhua started to write poetry regularly. Her poetry includes the theme of her love, affection, life sentiment, her disability and the closed village she cannot escape. [9]

In November 2014, the poem magazine published her poems.

In January 2015, Yu Xiuhua’s first anthology of poems “The moonlight fells on my left-hand（《月光落在左手上》）” was published by Guangxi Normal University Press.

On January 28, Yu Xiuhua was elected vice chairman of Zhongxiang City Writers Association of Hubei Province. In February of the same year, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House published her poetry "Still Tomorrow（《摇摇晃晃的人间》）".

On May 15, 2016, Yu Xiuhua's third book "We loved and then forgot（《我们爱过又忘记》）" was published in Beijing.

On November 1, 2016, in the third Chinese "Peasant Literature Award" ceremony, Yu Xiuhua won the special award of "Peasant Literature Award", and received 100,000 yuan bonus.

Works
Anthology of poems
 * The moonlight fells on my left-hand（《月光落在左手上》）2015
 * Still tomorrow（《摇摇晃晃的人间》）2015
 * We loved and then forgot（《我们爱过又忘记》）2016

Characteristics of her poetry
Yu Xiuhua’s poetry includes the theme of her love, affection, life sentiment, her disability and the closed village she cannot escape.

She wrote many love poems. As a woman living in the bottom of society and with a defective body, she has a very deep experience of the lack of love. She is not satisfied with the poetic desire of love, but strongly shows the complex and distinctive female subject image.

Her poems are filled with the complex meaning of love and the calling, the disillusionment of love and the realization. Love is what makes the poet question on the existence, truth, death and other metaphysical problems and ontological subject.