For example, Guo Xiaochuan's three representative long narrative poems in 1957-Deep Valley, Ode to Snow, One and Eight, and "Hundred Flowers" poems in the mid-1950s, such as Vegetation in Liushahe, Flower Farmer's Dream by Ai Qing and Looking Up at the Starry Sky by Guo Xiaochuan.
Guo Xiaochuan is an outstanding contemporary poet. During his decades-long career, he shared weal and woe with the people and answered many important questions of the times. His poems recorded many important images of that era, which was of great significance and value in the history of China's poetry in the 20th century.