From the late 1920s to 1930s, the literary center moved south to Shanghai and stayed in Beijing, Tianjin or other northern cities as a free group of writers, which was also called "Northern Writers" school at that time. "Beijing School" has no formal organization, just a name. The novels created by "Beijing School" writers are called "Beijing School Novels". Beijing school novels are simple in style, close to the life of the bottom people, and integrate romanticism and subjectivism into realistic creation. The main representative writers are Shen Congwen, Fei Ming and Lu Shao. Shen Congwen's novels Border Town, Sasha Vujacic and Long River are among the outstanding works.
Neo-sensory novels
The novel of "New Sensation School", which appeared in the early 1930s, is an integral part of China's modern literary creation. The basic feature of "New Sensation School" novels is to emphasize the writer's subjective feelings, rather than the real description of objective life. Liu Naou is the first experimenter in the novel of "New Sensation School". 1September, 928, he founded the semimonthly "Trolley Train", which marked the beginning of China's "New Sensation School" novel. His collection of short stories, Urban Scenery, is the first collection of neo-sensualism novels in modern China. Mu Shiying and Shi Zhecun pushed the "New Sensation School" novels to maturity, and they used montage and psychological analysis of characters to highlight their feelings and impressions of real life. Shanghai Foxtrot Dance and Night of Plum Rain are their representative works.
"Three Beauties" in Poetry
Wen Yiduo's "three beauties" of poetry, namely "architectural beauty, musical beauty and painting beauty", and its contribution to the theory of new poetry. The theory of "three beauties" advocates that poetry creation should have architectural beauty, musical beauty and painting beauty. It was put forward in view of the scattered form of new poetry at that time. This proposition laid the theoretical foundation of the new metrical school and made some contributions to the development of new poetry.
Modernist poetry
Modernist poetry produced by China in 1930s was generally inspired and influenced by French symbolism poetry. At the same time, he inherited some artistic pursuits of China symbolist poetry represented by Li Jinfa in the 1920s. In 1930s, China's modernist poetry especially pursued the hazy beauty produced by poetry creation as a whole, and pursued the connection between fantastic ideas and complex images, so as to construct the connotation of poetry. Modernist poets often sigh with their unique youthful morbid heart, express their dissatisfaction and struggle with society, and also reveal their deep loneliness and melancholy about life. Dai Wangshu was a "representative of modernist poetry" in 1930s.
"Island" literature
"Isolated Island" refers to the Shanghai Concession which was surrounded by occupied areas from June 1937+0 1 Sunday to June 1942. "Island" literature is literature that happened in this specific region in a specific period. It closely matched the current situation, reflected the reality in time, cleverly exposed the enemy's crimes, satirized the colonial urban life and the stale knowledge society, and showed the national spirit and social silence at that time. Yu Ling's and A Ying's plays, Qian Zhongshu's novels, Zhang Ailing's essays, and Tang Tao's and Ling Ke's essays are all outstanding representatives. Gudao also published a large number of literary publications such as The Complete Works of Lu Xun and Red Star over China. As an important page of China literature during the Anti-Japanese War, island literature has been recorded in history.
Literature in enemy-occupied areas
Literature in enemy-occupied areas is an integral part of literary creation during the Anti-Japanese War. 194 1 when Shanghai was completely occupied, Vientiane, the most influential literary magazine, United a large number of progressive writers in Shanghai and published a large number of works with patriotic ideals to expose the dark and decadent life of the old society, such as Master of the Hopeless Village by Shi Tuo, A Drama on Earth (a script) and Novels by Zhang Ailing. Because of the occupied area of Beiping, Zhou Zuoren's leisure sketches are the most prominent. His prose collections, Quotations from the Drug Party and Collection of Medicinal Flavors, typically show the contradictory mentality of a national apostate in a dilemma.