In the poet's imagination, a series of life pictures that happened on the land of China constituted a heartbreaking tragic scene.
The tragic scene described in this poem is exactly what the author feels and experiences in reality, which makes him feel sad and worried. Expressing all this by artistic means shows the poet's concern for the fate of the times and his empathy for the people's sufferings.
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The Creative Background of Snowflakes Falling on the Land of China
1937 12.28, Ai Qing came to Wuchang. After the July 7th Incident, the national people's anti-Japanese fighting spirit was unprecedentedly high. China's army is losing ground, and the land of great rivers and mountains is lost.
At the critical juncture of this nation's life and death, on the one hand, people are looking for the right way to defeat the Japanese militarists, on the other hand, they have to face the grim reality and fall into deep thinking.
As a poet who is deeply concerned about the future of the motherland and the fate of the people, Ai Qing can't help but express her feelings. Snow Falls on China was written by the author in a cold room in Wuchang late at night at such an unprecedented national crisis.
References:
Snow falls on the land of China-Baidu Encyclopedia