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Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang, a long poem, is a masterpiece of Li Ji's poetry and narrative poetry in Yan 'an period. Its original title was Will the sun rise in the west? -The story of the trilateral folk revolution was published in the trilateral newspaper in the summer of 1946. In September of the same year, Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang was serialized in Yan 'an Liberation Daily. As soon as it appeared, it won the general attention and love of the soldiers and civilians in the liberated areas, and was hailed as "the victory of the new-democratic literary movement over the feudal comprador literary movement." Since the spread of long poems to the Kuomintang-controlled areas, they have also been widely praised by literary and art workers. Mao Dun thinks that the long poem is "an outstanding creation, so it seems too much to say that it is an epic of' national form'". Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang has its significance in the development of China's new poetry.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang