It is characterized by writing in vernacular Chinese, expressing the new contents of the era of science and democracy, breaking the shackles of the old rhyme of old poems and being flexible and free in form.
New poetry was born in the May 4th New Culture Movement. The magazine that first tried and advocated new poetry was New Youth, followed by New Trends, China Youth and Weekly Review. Its advocates and early writers mainly include Hu Shi, Liu Bannong, Shen, Zhou Zuoren, Yu Pingbo and Liu Dabai.
Major poets and works (poems)
Hu Shi's Trial Collection is the first new vernacular poetry collection during the May 4th New Culture Movement. Hu Shi believes that the revolutionary movement of ancient and modern literature always begins with the great liberation of style, so he puts forward: "To have new content and new spirit, we must first break the shackles of the spirit" (on new poetry). As the first person who advocated writing poems in vernacular Chinese, he advocated that the style of new poetry was free and informal, which was of positive significance to the creation of new poetry and directly led to the formation of the original free poetry school in the May Fourth Movement. Liu Bannong's "Resentment with Disciples through a Layer of Paper"; Liu Dabai's "Selling Cloth Ballads"; Guo Moruo's Goddess is a symbol of the establishment of new poetry. Jiang Guangci, Feng Zhi etc. Their works reflect the thoughts and feelings of young people who are pursuing bright progress. Qu Qiubai and Jiang Guangci also wrote some political lyrics. Wen Yiduo's Red Candle and Still Water, Xu Zhimo's Zhimo Poetry; Li Jinfa's Light Rain and Singing for Happiness; Mu, Feng Naichao and others. , with a similar poetic style to Li Jinfa; Dai Wangshu's Rain Lane; Writers such as Feng Naichao, Hu Yepin, Hong, Yin Fu and Pu Feng enthusiastically eulogized the proletariat and its struggle. Cang Kejia's Branded Wife and Some People; The field "To the Warrior"; Ai Qing's Dayan River-My Nanny; The poems of He Qifang, Bian, Ke, Yuan Shuipai, Guang and others show the seriousness, strength and sincerity of anti-Japanese war poems. Li Ji's Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang, Ruan's Biography of Driving (I), Zhang Jing's Trap, Zhang Zhimin's Death, etc.