After the pioneering stage, new poetry has formed a relatively perfect form, mainly free poetry, both new metrical poetry and symbolic poetry. In the second half of the 1940s, new poems, which were later called folk songs, matured in the rural areas of the liberated areas. The narrative poems of Li Ji and Ruan embody the outstanding achievements of new poetry.
1949 after the founding of new China, poetry entered a new stage of development, and new themes and themes emerged with the new life. The poet wrote an ode to the new era with passion. At the same time, the new society has also created a group of new people and brand-new poetry works. Since the new era, the poetry circle, which has been silent for ten years, has shown a new scene of a hundred flowers blooming. Poetry can be widely used for reference in expression, but its form tends to be loose and free, with diverse styles. In the early days of the new period, the poems cheering for victory and reflecting on history inherited the tradition of realism and made it continue to develop. At the same time, a group of young poets, such as Shu Ting, Gu Cheng and He Jiang, grew up rapidly in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Their poems usually show an obscure and unusual complex emotion, which is called "misty poetry". After the middle and late 1980s, the modernist trend of thought called "the third generation poet" appeared in the poetry circle.