Liu reciting Hai Zi from birthday wish poetry Watch Video
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Description: Hai Zi (1964– 1989) is a popular poet right now in China. Everybody seems to love him. He was unknown at the time of his death when he lay down in the path of a train in Shanhaiguan on his 25th birthday with a copy of Walden, Kon Tiki, the Bible, and some short stories by Joseph Conrad by his side. The poem recited by Liu, On Facing the Sea with Spring Blossoms, is one of his most popular. It is said the Chinese see in his death the sacrifice of agricultural life for the industrial that foll