In the 1920s, a group of young writers close to the countryside appeared in China's modern literary world. Influenced by Lu Xun, their works take rural life as the theme and farmers' sufferings as the main content, forming the so-called "local literature". Local literature appeared under the influence and development of the literary proposition "for life". In the process of exploring the true meaning of life and pursuing an ideal society, the writer pays attention to the most oppressed farmers. The bankruptcy of peasants, the tragic fate of rural women, the bad habits of feudal countryside and the numbness of peasants' thoughts, as well as the decline of small and medium-sized landlords and petty bourgeoisie, are all deeply manifested. Representative writers' works are: Wang's Tired. Xu's Crazy Woman, Snuff, Tian by Tai Jingnong, etc.
□ Yusi recreation and sports
Named after the essays with the same characteristics created by members of the Silk Society. The Silk Society, named Silk Weekly, was founded in Beijing in June 1924 1 1. It is composed of the main writers of Yusi, and the main representatives are Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun, Lin Yutang, Qian, Sun Fuyuan, Yu Pingbo and Liu Bannong. The publication of Yu Si is mainly prose. In terms of creation, although the ideas and artistic opinions of colleagues in Threads Society are not consistent, they have formed a consistent style in criticizing the disadvantages of the times: innovating from the old, discussing the ancient and the modern, combining the ancient and the modern, combining the Zhuang and the harmonic, being concise and bright, and eclectic-this is the distinctive feature of Threads style. There are two main aspects of representative prose creation: one is the essays represented by Lu Xun, and the other is the essays represented by Zhou Zuoren.
□ Mei Wen
192 1 Zhou Zuoren published the article "Beautiful Writing" and advocated writing more "narrative" and "artistic" beautiful writing. Wang Tongzhao, Hu Shi and others responded, and Bing Xin, Zhu Ziqing, Yu Dafu and Yu Pingbo carried out creative practice. As an independent style, American writing has been established in literature.
□ Poetry
From 192 1 to 1924, Bing Xin, Zong Baihua and others began to write short poems under the influence of Tagore's Birds and Japanese Haiku. The so-called short poems mostly express personal instant feelings in short style, or express feelings with metaphors or scenery, and often use philosophical reasoning to express the writer's "fragmentary thoughts".
□ Beijing novels
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.
□ "New Sensation School" Novel
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 Beauty" Poems
Wen Yiduo's "Three Beauties" of Poetry 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 the Complete Works of Lu Xun, Red Star over China and other important works and a large number of literary publications. 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.
□ Late Romantic School
Late Romantic Novels Represented by Xu Yuan and Anonymous during the Anti-Japanese War. Their novels are romantic and lyrical, but different from the early romantic novels represented by Yu Dafu, they are more mysterious and absurd. The masterpiece is Xu Luan's The Wind Is Rainy.
□ "Novel Revolution"
"Novel Revolution" is a literary proposition put forward during the Reform Period in the late Qing Dynasty, represented by Liang Qichao. Emphasizing the political function of novels and establishing new novel concepts promoted the prosperity of novel creation in the late Qing Dynasty. Although most of them are political novels, which are not successful in art, they reflect an important direction and value: they try to set out from a serious social purpose and oppose the creation of separate entertainment works with a game attitude, that is, they are pioneers advocated by later literary research associations.