The emergence and development of Shitun farmers' poems have rich cultural and historical connotations and accumulation. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been nearly 100 well-documented local poets who have written hundreds of poems praising their hometown landscapes, chanting folk customs and vulgarity, and attacking evil rule. After the founding of New China, especially in the 1970s, with a large number of educated youth jumping in line, local high school graduates returned to their hometowns to farm, and a new generation of educated youth grew rapidly, which provided objective conditions for developing farmers' poetry creation activities.
1In the summer of 984, seven people, including Huang Yunfeng, a farmer's poetry lover in Shitun Town, spontaneously set up the "Farmers' Poetry Society" and founded the mimeographed poem magazine of Shitun Literature and Art. In the same year, the first "Shitun Farmers' Poetry Competition" was held in Lunatone Town, with more than 600 participants and achieved good results. 199 1 In the spring of, according to the development trend of folk poetry in Shitun, the town party committee and government decided to edit the original Shitun literature and art into a poetry magazine "Little Poem Pile" and named the "Farmers' Poetry Society" as "Farmers' Poetry Culture Festival" in order to enliven the cultural life of rural people and promote the construction of two civilizations.
After more than ten years of development, the scale and influence of the "Peasant Poetry Culture Festival" are expanding day by day, and the creative team is also growing day by day. In the early 1980s, there were only more than 20 poets, and now there are more than 240 backbone folk poems. Poetry interest groups or branches of folk poetry associations have been set up in all villages and primary and secondary schools, attracting more than 3,000 poetry lovers, setting up Shitun Town Folk Poetry Association, setting up Shitun Town Folk Poetry Workshop and Exhibition Hall, and often holding poetry salons and exhibitions. The quantity and quality of his works have improved. Nowadays, the number of poems written in this town is more than 1000 every year, and the quality has been greatly improved, full of strong local flavor and characteristics of the times. Up to now, more than 600 poems have been selected into the magazine "Poetry of Little Poetry Team", more than 60 poems have been published in national journals, more than 90 provincial newspapers have been developed, and more than 200 poems have been published in municipal newspapers. Liu Liquan, a farmer poet in Songyuan Village of this town, won a prize for his poems, and he was honored to attend the commendation meeting held by China Prose Poetry Association.
Over the past ten years, the Shitun Town Cultural Festival has become more and more prosperous. Activities such as dragon dance, puppet show, literary evening, art, calligraphy, photography exhibition, colorful streets, lantern riddles, and the creation and posting of couplets by every household were carried out. Rich in content and diverse in forms. The cultural festival has penetrated into thousands of households and spread all over Bamin.