Ai Qing (19 10- 1996), formerly known as Jiang Haicheng, was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang. In 1930s, Dayan River-My Nanny attracted the attention of the poetry circle, and was known as the "piper poet". Ai Qing's poetry creation has been integrated into the world modern poetry trend from the beginning, and at the same time, it also shows independent will and conscious self-consciousness. It can be said that the convergence of world trends, national traditions and personal temperament in Ai Qing's early poems shows the inevitable historical trend of China's new poetry after nearly 20 years of development. When War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, Ai Qing started a new life and creative path. He traveled halfway through China, broadening his horizons, and the spirit of national anti-Japanese war inspired his creative enthusiasm and belief. 1939, he published his second collection of poems, The North. Among them, snow falls on the land of China, North China, Beggar, Handcart and so on. Full of fighting passion, it tells the story of the pain and misfortune brought by the war to the people of China, and shows the enthusiasm and confidence of the nation to stand up against the enemy. Since then, Ai Qing has published poems such as Towards the Sun, His Second Death, Wilderness, Dawn Notice, Torch, Collapse, Country Poetry, Anti-Fascism, and Drilling for Snow. He expressed his love for the motherland and people and his persistent pursuit of ideals. Ai Qing's poems are always full of melancholy. But that's not cold sadness, but eager yearning, budding in desolation and showing light in darkness. Images such as sun, land, light, spring, dawn, life and flame appear in many of his poems, and even become the themes of many of his poems, which makes his poems rooted in the realistic soil and full of vigorous romantic feelings. Ai Qing is also an innovative poet in the development of poetic forms. His poems emphasize the capture of instant impressions and the infiltration of subjective feelings, and take the road of integration of Chinese and western poetics.
In a word, Ai Qing's poems adhered to and developed the tradition of "being faithful to reality and fighting" in China Poetry Society, overcame its weakness of "childish cry", absorbed some beneficial achievements of modernist poets in the discussion of new poetry art, further enriched and developed the art of new poetry, and became the most influential representative poet of new poetry in the 1940s.