What is Ai Qing's masterpiece?

Ai Qing's famous work is Dayan River-My Nanny. Ai Qing is regarded as one of the representative poets of China's modern poetry. His works have been translated into dozens of languages, including Dayan River, North, Towards the Sun, Dawn Notice, Zhanjiang, Oleander and other poems. Among them, the famous work Dayan River-My Nanny was published in 1933, which laid the basic artistic characteristics of his poems and played an important role in the history of modern literature.

Characteristics of Ai Qing's Works

Ai Qing's works generally describe symbolic things such as the sun, torches and dawn, showing Ai Qing's hatred of darkness and terror in the old society and his yearning and pursuit of dawn, light and hope. Ai Qing, starting from his love for rural working people and approaching their demands, has been presenting his most authentic poems to them for more than ten years.

Ai Qing's poetry inherits the fine tradition of the May 4th New Literature with its close combination with reality and full of fighting spirit, and has become an important achievement in the development of new poetry with its exquisite and innovative artistic style. In his poems, the full enterprising spirit and rich life experience bring something different. Ai Qing's poetry has a vivid and profound image, and with the end of the poem, this image is completed. Image refers not only to people, but also to the visualization of things and ideas.