Representatives of the Crescent Poetry School: Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Hu Shi, Liang Shiqiu
The Crescent Society was founded in 1928 and is an important cultural group after the May 4th Movement. , the main members include Hu Shi and Liang Shiqiu. Because it has a large number of talented and accomplished poets such as Wen Yiduo and Xu Zhimo, and is unique in advocating metrical poetry, it has formed an important poetry school in the history of modern poetry, known as the "Crescent Poetry School" or "Metrical Poetry School" group".
Crescent School: An important poetry school in the history of modern new poetry. This poetry school is generally divided into two periods with 1927 as the boundary. The early stage started in the spring of 1926, based on Beijing's "Morning Post Supplement Shiji". The main members included Wen Yiduo, Xu Zhimo, Zhu Xiang, Rao Mengkan, Sun Dayu, Liu Mengwei, etc. They were dissatisfied with the style of "free poets" who ignored poetic art after the "May 4th Movement", advocated new metrical poetry, advocated "rational restraint of emotion", opposed sentimentalism and the prose tendency of poetry, and questioned the rhythm of new poetry from theory to practice. have been carefully explored. Wen Yiduo put forward the famous idea of ??"three beauties" in "The Rhythm of Poetry", namely "the beauty of music, the beauty of painting, and the beauty of architecture." Therefore, the Crescent School is also called the "New Metrical Poetry School". The New Moon School corrected the weakness of excessive prose in early new poetry creation, and also brought new poetry into a period of conscious creation. In the spring of 1927, Hu Shi, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu and others founded the Crescent Bookstore, and the following year founded the monthly magazine "Crescent". The main activities of the "Crescent School" moved to Shanghai, which was the later period of the Crescent School. It takes the "New Moon" monthly magazine and the "Poetry Magazine" quarterly magazine founded in 1930 as its main positions. New members include Chen Mengjia, Fang Weide, Bian Zhilin, etc. The late Crescent School put forward the principles of "health" and "dignity", and still adhered to the position of "pure poetry" that is ultra-utilitarian, self-expressive, and aristocratic, and emphasized "the mellowness of essence, the meticulousness of technique, and the rhythm of rhythm." Rigorous", but the artistic expression and lyrical style of poetry are close to those of modernism.