Qiu Jin was engaged in creative writing before the Gengzi Incident, and mostly expressed personal grievances in five- and seven-character rhymed poems and quatrains. Poems such as "Plum Blossoms" and "Orchid Flowers" are very talented in expressing their feelings with objects in mind. The eight poems in "Ti Zhi Ni Ji" express her heroic ambition to serve the country through praising Hua Mulan and Qin Liangyu. The second part of "Ti Guo Bai Xiang Shang Ti Jin Ji Ji Yong Zhen Du Gong Ting Yun" also expresses her ambition to dance upon hearing the chicken and make contributions to the frontier. During the Gengzi Incident, "Qi Ren Worry" "The lacquered room is filled with worries about the country's hatred, and it is difficult to change the heroine into a wolf", and "Sense of Things" "Confucian scholars think about writing, but the lady wants to betray the enemy". It has been seen that the poet regards the rise and fall of the world as his Her sense of responsibility also indicates that she is about to break through barriers and move toward revolution.
After the Gengzi Incident, especially after the 29th year of Guangxu (1903), the ideological content and artistic style of Qiu Jin's poems have undergone significant changes. Dedicating herself to the revolution and seeking national liberation and women's liberation became the keynote of her poetry. Most of the poems are filled with patriotic passion and the passion to save the country from danger and revitalize the motherland. "He didn't care about success or failure in his youth, but he relied on iron-bloodedism to serve the motherland" in "Song of Swords", "Rousseau wrote with Polish blood, risking his head for a song of victory" in "The Diao Wu Martyrs", etc., which are tantamount to the poet dedicating himself to the revolution. oath. He sang harmonious poems with his girlfriends such as Xu Jichen, singing the ideal of women's liberation. She hopes that women will break the bad habit of sitting on the sidelines, fulfill their national responsibilities, take off their women's clothes and change into military uniforms, save the motherland from danger, create heroic careers, and create "daughter civilization." In addition to five- and seven-character rhymed poems and quatrains, the poems of this period also adopted longer song lines. The style of the poem also obviously presents two different characteristics. A style that focuses on expressing revolutionary ideals and expressing the belief that the revolution will win. Although there are occasionally sad sentences, it is characterized by optimism, boldness, and enthusiasm, such as "Song of the Sword", "Song of the Sword", "Autumn Wind", "Song of the Sword", "Pan Donghai Song", "Diao Wu Martyr Yue", "Gift to Mr. Jiang Lushan", etc. Another type of poetry focuses on criticizing reality, lamenting the insensitivity of the world and its inability to save the country, such as "Feelings of Time", "Feelings of Things", "Feelings of a Certain King in Cambodia", etc. Although there are touching and inspiring poems, they are The tone is tragic and desolate.
Qiu Jin’s lyrics are roughly like his poems. In the early stage, he mostly wrote about the melancholy in the boudoir, while in the later stage, he wrote more about the revolutionary ambitions. [Manjianghong] "Little Living in Beijing" expresses the passionate feeling of awakening and about to break away from the family and move toward revolution. "Man Jiang Hong" "Dirty World" and "Wang Hai Chao" "Send Sisters Chen Yanan and Sun Duokun Back to China" express and arouse the masses' ambition to create a new world.
Qiu Jin’s revolutionary character and poetry have always been praised. Shao Yuanchong said: "The heroine of Jianhu is benevolent and righteous, and her righteousness is shining. She does not need to be immortalized in words. However, even in terms of words, they are bright and high-pitched, but they also have the wind of gradually leaving and building; and they sigh three times once they go there. , the syllables are bright, and like Lady Gongsun dancing with her sword, the light is so bright that it cannot be watched closely. "("Preface to the Collected Works of the Female Heroes of Qiu Jin")
In order to arouse the masses, Qiu Jin wrote vernacular prose and lyrics, Composed music. She also created the Tanci "Jingwei Stone" which is easy to understand and can be sung in response to the fact that women are less literate. The article describes the deeds of Huang Jurui and other women who broke through family constraints, went to Japan to study, joined the revolutionary party, and finally overthrew the Qing government and established the Republic of Korea. It quite profoundly exposes the oppression of women by the feudal system and feudal ethics, and points out the way for women to seek their own liberation in the social revolution. Its subject matter has certain pioneering significance. There are 20 chapters in the catalog of "Jingweishi", 6 of which are extant.
Since the 33rd year of Guangxu (1907), various collections of Qiu Jin's works have been published, such as "Qiu Jin's Poems" compiled by Wang Zhifu, "Ms. Qiu's Posthumous Manuscripts" compiled by Gong Baoquan, and the Changsha Qiu Female Martyrs Memorial Service Compiled "Posthumous Manuscripts of Qiu Nu Martyrs", "Collection of Poems and Manuscripts of Qiu Nu Martyrs" compiled by Qiushe, "Collected Posthumous Works of Qiu Jin" compiled by Wang Shaoji, "Collected Posthumous Works of Qiu Jin" edited by Wang Canzhi, "Collected Works of Qiu Jin" compiled by the Shanghai Editor of Zhonghua Book Company 》. Among them, "Qiu Jin Collection" contains more than 180 poems and 38 lyrics. Qiu Jin's lost poems outside the collection have been discovered from time to time in recent years. See "Social Science Front" Issue 4, 1981, Guo Changhai's "Collection of Qiu Jin's Poems", etc.
(Zhao Shenxiu)