When did poems written specifically for children appear in China?

Children's literature became an independent literature category at the beginning of the 20th century and after the May 4th New Culture Movement. The foundation works of modern children's literature in China are the fairy tale Scarecrow written by Ye Shengtao and published in the early 1920s, and Bing Xin's epistolary children's prose for a young reader, which came out a few years later. Zhang Tianyi is a representative writer of children's literature in 1930s, and his long fairy tale Dalin and Kobayashi is a representative work of children's literature in China. Chen Bochui, He Yi, Yan Wenjing and Jin Jin made outstanding achievements in the 1940s. Most of their creative activities began in the 1920s and 1930s, and their representative works include Miss Alice (Chen Bochui), Wild Child (He Yi), Wind of the Four Seasons (Yan Wenjing) and A Red-faced Shell (Gold and Gold).