The poem "South China Tiger" was written in June 1973, showing the specific time and space of "ten years of turmoil". This is an era that imprisons life and stifles animal spirits. With a sensitive heart, the poet strongly felt this kind of sadness and suffering, and at the same time felt the unyielding soul and tenacious struggle spirit of every warm-blooded China people to break away from imprisonment and yearn for freedom. In his poems, the poet endowed this kind of pain and blood to a living body-the imprisoned South China Tiger.
Han Niu is good at writing unyielding soul in a twisted life. South China Tiger is made for South China Tiger, and it is also a distorted living environment. It belongs to the mountains and the natural sons of liberty, but it is imprisoned in an iron cage for people to watch, scold and play tricks on. This is both a realistic description and a surreal metaphor. Poets typify the environment and turn tigers into people in order to write unyielding lives and express persistent souls. The tiger has become a symbol of life and soul here, and the iron cage is just a symbol of evil and distress, distorting the life that originally belonged to the wilderness, Shan Ye and the wild; It is also in this distortion that this life generate has greater energy, showing stronger will and higher soul. The fire of life shows more brilliant brilliance in the dark night; The light of the soul has been surprisingly sublimated in suffering. With philosophical thinking and passionate imagination, the poet copied his life experience to the South China Tiger in distress, accused the vigorous movement that achieved the history of suffering for ten years, mocked the indifferent "bystander", praised his tenacious life, and at the same time poured out his passionate feelings.