Since the May 4th Movement, quite a few poets and schools of new poetry have "disappeared" from the poetry circle since the 1950s. The direct reasons for this situation are as follows: first, the choice of "tradition" in new poetry leads to the narrowing of "mainstream" and excludes a number of poets, such as nine-leaf poets; On the other hand, the conflict between the established creative personality and artistic experience of poets and the established writing norms at this time led some poets to fall into creative difficulties, such as Feng Zhi, Bing Xin, Wang Jingzhi, Yu Pingbo, and the first generation poets in the May 4th Movement, such as Rao Mengkan, Sun Dayu, Chen, Bian, Li Guangtian and He. Their cultural undertakings after liberation were all very bad, and the poets in the 1950s included Gu Gong, Gong Liu and Ai Qing.
During the Cultural Revolution, the culture and literature basically stayed in model operas, and the poems were basically far-left revolutionary poems with no artistic value. Only some privately circulated poems appeared in the late 1970s. They are the mainstream of poetry in the 1980s, mainly represented by Bei Dao and Gu Cheng.