The middle generation is a group of poets born in the 1960s. They neither participated in the third generation poetry movement nor had the opportunity to participate in the early Internet poetry movement. Their unique poetry writing and brilliant poetry texts constitute the spiritual high ground of Chinese poetry from the 1990s to the present. The emergence of the middle generation is a relatively independent classification from the poetry movement. The middle generation is not a new round of poetry movement. It is the "experience" and "self-proof" of a generation of poets about their own poetry writing. It is a broad intergenerational concept. The so-called "middle", in addition to generational identification, also means the spirit of poetry writing that adheres to a middle position outside of the poetry movement. The poets of the middle generation are the generation of poets who consciously defend the independent writing and authentic writing of poetry, and oppose the "poetry movement" and conceptual writing. The pioneers of the concept of the middle generation are An Qi, Yuan Cun, Huang Lihai and others. They have written the "Complete Collection of Poems of the Middle Generation" with more than 2,000 pages.
Representative poets: An Qi, Zhao Lihua, Ma Ce, Ge Ge, Huang Fan, Han Yan, Tan Yantong, Xiaoyin, Wang Mingyun, Zhu Fengming, Lanlan, Xidu, Xiaoyun, Yanying, Senzi, etc. .