Spring has arrived.
The peach blossoms in Longhua are in bloom.
It's open on those nights.
On those bloody nights.
There were no stars in those nights.
It was windy those nights.
Those nights listening to widows sobbing
This ancient land
Like a hungry beast at any time
Lick the blood of young people.
The blood of a tenacious man's son
So after a long winter.
After the ice and snow season
After infinite drowsiness and expectation.
These bloodstains. Blood.
On a mysterious night
In the dark of the east
Burst countless buds.
Spring is everywhere in Jiangnan.
People ask: Where does spring come from?
I said: from the tomb hole in the suburbs.
Spring is written in April 1937.
Ai Qing said: "This is written to commemorate the five martyrs of the Left Alliance. Hu Feng took it and published it in Life and Learning. "
Rou Shi, Yin Fu, Hu Yepin, Li Weisen and Feng Keng, five young revolutionaries, writers and poets, were brutally killed by Kuomintang reactionaries in Longhua. This important event in history shocked the whole country at that time.
Faced with this cruel and serious incident, revolutionary poets and writers are filled with indignation. As a young poet at that time, Ai Qing was also furious.
How can we express our feelings, expose the evils of the Kuomintang reactionaries, eulogize the revolutionary spirit of the five martyrs and arouse the people?
In order to reflect this event, the poet could have had many choices. You can express your mind directly, gush out like a dagger, directly and concretely describe the scene of the heroic sacrifice of five martyrs, or write a long poem about the revolution of five martyrs. However, the poet has no such choice. Perhaps the poet thinks that this writing will become a pure generalization, which is not enough to shake people's hearts. Therefore, the poet finally chose spring.