Ai Qing wrote about the painful groans of the ravaged land and the boiling heat that he wandered in the center of the earth all his life. He described the miserable days of farmers in cold and arid land, and eagerly cheered the dawn and sun that brought light and warmth to the earth.
As a poet, he always "looks for a way out in the crowd", and "* * * breathes with them, * * * joys and sorrows, * * * life and death make his songs the most authentic voices from human beings." It can be said that the poet's melancholy in his poems is for the suffering of the poor peasants, his excitement is because of the awakening of the land, and his joy comes from the liberation of the nation.
Because of this, the combination of the theme of the times and the poet's personality and psychological temperament constitutes the different poetic beauty styles of Ai Qing's poems in the early and late periods. The famous work Dayan River-My Nanny is the condensation of poetic beauty in this period. His melancholy poems have accumulated the frustrations and misfortunes of his early life, and are also his heartfelt painful life feelings about the dark land.
The apathy and sadness caused by the lack of parents' affection in childhood, the bitterness and loneliness of wandering in a foreign land as a teenager, the sadness of prisoners' life for three years, and the deep concern for the suffering of the world and the survival crisis of the Chinese nation naturally flowed between his blood and tears, forming the gloomy background of many of his poems. In this long poem with autobiographical nature.
Ai Qing described his life experience sadly with rich feelings, simple spoken language, a lot of parallelism, exquisite brushwork and vivid language. With pious and deep feelings, he recalled his beloved wet nurse's research, bitterness before his death and sadness after his death. Ai Qing became a traitor to his family and the times.