How many floors does a bag of rice have to carry?

This collection of poems won the first prize of the 6th Zhou Mengdie Poetry Award. The poem of the same name in the book "How many floors does a bag of rice have to carry?" is also the work that Hong Wanda won the first prize of modern poetry at the 24th Taipei Literature Award in 2022. The title of the poem is From the empty line of the villain "Pein" in the famous Japanese anime "Naruto": "Itami o kanjiro" (Itami o kanjiro), the original meaning is "Feel the pain."

After winning the award, it aroused heated discussion on the Internet, and the number of views in the single hour after the poem was released exceeded 100,000. The author Hong Wanda appeared on PTT, personally responded and expressed some of her own views on the poem: "How many floors does a bag of rice need to be carried? It's just Sisyphus (the punished person in Greek mythology) of difference. When will one day be able to carry it? Does the world feel the pain? When Pein detonated the world, he also freed himself from his mission." "How many floors does a bag of rice have to carry? A funny mathematician said that the 57th floor is a climbing process, and such a void, the void of life. , the emptiness of Taipei. We are living in pain, and we still don’t know when we will be happy.”

The entire collection of poems uses the concept of a three-act drama of "appearance, conflict, and suspense" to reclassify the poems and divide them into four volumes:

A compilation of notes: debuting with many dazzling poems, this is the beginning of a young man writing poetry. It is also like the program introduction that the audience receives first when they go to the theater: everything is brewing, and the audience can enter at any time with their tickets/poems.

No One Announces Part Two: The black curtain rises, and the boy's inner world is filled with conflicts that turn out to be the adult world. Poems with tragic elements such as horror, death, and incest are lined up and performed in turn, and the world on and off the stage is revealed. Split in two, the audience just "watches" and the young man's pain is vented wantonly, but there is no solution.

Collection of Three Pop Seats: Various "streets" with changing lights and shadows, scenery extending on their own, towering buildings arranged in rows, the audience suddenly realizes that they have been trapped in a different space created by the boy, and there is almost no difference between your seat and mine. You can't escape, you can only immerse yourself in it. The style of poetry has also entered a period of steady growth and rapid change. The young man has gone through a heroic trial, finally received a reward, and met Taichung Qingqi, which initiates the climax of the script.

The fourth series of the three-act play "Taichung Qingqi": The title of this series "Three Acts" once again gives a hint for the naming of the first three series, and the play "Taichung Qingqi" itself includes "Sign Language", "A Bag of Rice" "How Many Floors Should I Carry" and "Flamingo Dances Solo" also respond to the needs of the three-act play in sequence, with Qingqi appearing on the stage, going through hardships in Taipei, and finally comprehending the beautiful dance steps of one's life, making an astonishing conclusion to the entire collection of poems. The "sublimation of pain".

The style-level works remind me of the outstanding young students Luo, Yang and Qingqiu.

──Tang Zan