Why is Ai Qing's poem called the sun?
In the history of the development of China's new poetry, Ai Qing is another world-renowned poet who has promoted the poetic style of a generation, exerted an important influence after Guo Moruo and Wen Yiduo. 1985, France awarded Ai Qing the highest literary medal. Sun and land are the two concepts that can best summarize the characteristics of Ai Qing's poems. Poets' eager pursuit of light, ideals and a better life is often expressed through the image of the sun. Ai Qing seems to be a Kuafu, pursuing sunshine, light and ideals until his death. On the other hand, the land connected with the poet's blood is also his lifelong attachment. He once said: "This infinitely vast country and infinitely rich rural life-old or new-need its important space in new poetry." ("Poetry dedicated to the countryside? Ai Qing's concern for land is his love for farmers, nationalities and the motherland. I love this land, written in 1938 after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, which is the representative work of Ai Qing's unique land complex. At the critical moment of the country's decline and national peril, Ai Qing extended a childlike innocence to the motherland, expressed his patriotic feelings, ups and downs, and pushed forward layer by layer.