It has contributed to the breakthrough of modern new poetry in the narrow realm of plain and diluted early new poetry.
"New Metric Poetry" is a kind of poetry advocated by Crescent Poetry School in the 1920s. It advocates the aesthetic principle of "rational control of emotions" and advocates meter, and its theoretical core is the "three beauties" proposed by Wen Yiduo, namely, the beauty of music, color and architecture. His theory and creation had a great influence on the development of China's new poetry, and formed a school called "New Metric Poetry School".
Wen Yiduo, the earliest poet in China, advocated that new metrical poems should have three beauties.
The beauty of music mainly refers to syllables Listening requirements. Wen Yiduo emphasized rhythm and thought that "rhythm is meter". He asked that the number of syllables in each poem should be equal (music is also a ruler, a voice or a pause).
The beauty of painting mainly refers to the requirements of words and vision. He believes that a good poem must have "rich, dense and concrete images", and he demands that colorful words be used to create "rich" images to increase the vividness of the picture.
The beauty of architecture mainly refers to the symmetry of joints and the uniformity of sentences. Visual requirements, that is, beauty should be based on a certain proportion between syllables and sentences.