What does the Aiqing torch symbolize?

Ai Qing's "The Torch Selection" mainly reflects the feelings that the revolution is as bright as the torch, the bright revolution warns people, advocates China people to join in the light, and despises betrayal. The historical background of the torch is the Anti-Japanese National Liberation War around 1940. There was a serious crisis in the anti-Japanese camp, and the Kuomintang reactionaries headed by Wang Jingwei openly defected to the enemy and became traitors. Torch vividly describes the different performances and psychological states of two young women, Downey and Li Yin, in the torch parade, and Downey's final transformation.