The Development of the Third Generation Poetry

The initial formulation of "the third generation of poetry" began in 1982, which was put forward by college students from several universities in Sichuan, including Hu Dong, Zhao Ye and Tang Yaping from Sichuan University, Liao Xi from Southwest Normal University and Wan Xia and Zhu Zhiyong from Nanchong Normal University, at a poetry debate in Beibei, Chongqing in June 1982. At that time, the students of Southwest Normal University borrowed Mao Zedong's famous formulation: Imperial capitalism pinned the dream of restoration on our third and fourth generations. However, after this concept was put forward, no specific poetry genre and text appeared. Until 1983, at that time, (He), Deng Xiang and Niu Huang of Chengdu University of Technology, Tang Yaping and Hu Xiaobo of Sichuan University established the "Chengdu College Students' Poetry Alliance", and then edited and published the third generation of poetry collections, including Zhao Ye's collection of poems "Random Thoughts", and Deng Xiang's poems "One Man" and "One Man" had a wide influence.

As a concerned poetic phenomenon, "the third generation of poetry" will be published in 1984. However, before this, people have noticed the emergence of Han Dong and other works different from "misty poetry". After 1984, the activities and writing of "the third generation poetry" reached a certain scale. Experimental poetry societies and "self-run" poetry publications have appeared one after another. Of course, there are also many writers who don't associate with each other. Famous poetry clubs (or poetry clubs) include their literary club in Nanjing, Hai Poetry Club in Shanghai, and New Traditionalism, Holism, Right and Wrong and Vulgarity in Sichuan. Besides, in the 1980s after "misty poetry", "campus poetry" in universities was also an important part of the poetic world. Women's poetry, which expresses women's gender consciousness and unique experience, has also attracted wide attention because of its novel theme, consciousness and expression techniques. For the "grand occasion" of the "third generation poetry", there was a reference description at that time: "1986-In this irresistible era, more than 2,000 poetry clubs and self-proclaimed poets in China broke away from the tradition with thousands of poems and newspapers ... +0986 7. [Note:1986. The "informal distribution" of self-printed poetry periodicals certainly has the intention of keeping a distance between the "third generation poetry" and the "formal" poetry circles, and it is more out of the suspicion and rejection of the "formal" poetry periodicals. However, in the mid-1980s, some publications began to publish their works, and several of their poems appeared one after another (note: The second volume of Poems of New Poetry Tide edited and published by Peking University May 4th Literature Society 1985, and Seventy-five Contemporary Poems of China edited and published by Belling and Menglang 1987, Selected Contemporary Experimental Poems of China edited by Tang Xiaodu and Wang Jiaxin (Feng Chun Literature and Art Publishing House 1987), Oriental Pyramid-13, Young Poets of China edited by Han Niu and Cai Qijiao (Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House 199 1), etc. )。 In view of the strong sense of repression of poetry experimenters, they feel it necessary to take some forms to show their existence. Therefore, in the period of 1986, China Modern Poetry Group Exhibition 1986 was jointly held by Poetry Magazine and Shenzhen Youth Daily, and a "poetry school" consisting of more than 60 self-proclaimed 100 "up-coming" poets was launched. [Note: Shenzhen Youth Daily1September 30, 986. Two years later, Xu Jingya and Cao Changqing, who participated in the exhibition planning, compiled the exhibition materials into a book "Grand View of Modern Poetry Groups in China 1986- 1988", which was published by Tongji University Press (Shanghai). ]