Poetry is divided into years

The first stage is the "poetry revolution" in the late Qing Dynasty, and the "new poetry" movement around the May 4th Movement is called the stage of destruction of the classical poetry system. It is characterized by bringing poetry into the vision of world modernization and transforming poetry into an organic part of building a modern nation-state. Representative figures: Huang Zunxian and Liang Qichao

The main function of the destruction period is to open the language of poetry and accept the artistic spirit of western poetry, but its attention is mainly focused on the form of poetry rather than the artistic law of poetry. Thus, from the 1920s to the 1940s, the two-way search for "the form of poetry" and "the quality of poetry" began, which not only inherited the rebellion of the previous stage, but also had its own characteristics. This period can be called the construction period of China's modern poetry, namely the second stage. Representative: Xu Zhimo

From 1950s to 1980s, China's modern poetry entered the third stage, with different developments in Chinese mainland, Hongkong and Taiwan Province. There is an obvious trend of thought, which is related to the ideology in the era of "division" and "cold war" after World War II. Its characteristics are: the mainland is dominated by poetry and ideology, Taiwan Province Province is in the tension field between modernism and nativism, while Hong Kong pays attention to the writing and imagination of cities.