The second is to write poems with Zen. From 65438 to 0922, Fei Ming came to Beijing with great longing, but he soon faced the division and controversy of the new literature camp, and fell into extreme depression. Then 1927, Zhang led the army into Beijing, and the literati in Peiping went south in succession. The northern literary world is particularly deserted and lonely, and Fei Ming can't "face the bleak life". His psychology changed from depression to isolation, his personality became more introverted, and his way of thinking focused on introspection. In the ever-changing torrent of the times, Fei Ming couldn't find a clear direction to guide himself, so he hid in the western hills and realized the Tao. Both Wang Zengqi and Bian once created an image of "seclusion in the mountains" based on Fei Ming at this time. At this time, the change of Fei Ming's thought and art was so obvious in his novels Bridge and Biography of Mr. Xu You that his friend Professor Wen suspected that he was influenced by English novelists such as James Joyce. However, this change not only appeared in novels, but also appeared in poems of this period. At this point, Fei Ming's poetic style has changed greatly, and the content is quite expensive for readers to guess. Fei Ming wrote poems with Zen, and readers should read poems with Zen. Su Shi said, "Let's borrow night snack's poems for the time being, and then go to meditation when there is a good place." Yan Yu also said in Cang Shi Lang Dialect: "Generally speaking, Zen is only in wonderful enlightenment, and poetry is also in wonderful enlightenment." Many of Fei Ming's poems seem half illogical and half illogical. In fact, his poems, like gentle words, are not completely literal on the surface, but the realm in his bones is gaudy, such as "the sound of the air, the color in the phase, the moon in the water, the image in the mirror", such as "the mermaid is weeping for the green sea next month, the Lantian is spitting jade at the sun" and "the mountains overlap with gold, and the clouds on her temples want to smell the snow". Fei Ming may be the first poet to introduce Zen into new poetry. In About Fei Ming 1947, Huang pointed out: "I am interested in Fei Ming's achievements in China's new poems. He opened up a new road ... this is the way China's new poems approach Zen. " Most of Fei Ming's poems were written in a short period of time, "very easy to get", and some of them were written as games, which should not be taken seriously or let go easily, because "there is really deep power in them, and its power can be said to be thunderous and elegant." For example, "I miss the day and night/I want to draw a picture/this picture has not been written for a long time/so bees are putting people to sleep/peony bars have nothing to do with people's dreams/idle flowers are in the leaves/scarlet is light red." Fei Ming's poems, like those in the late Tang Dynasty, have the spirit of "forbearance (loneliness)" and "detachment from beauty" (Fei Ming: a chapter about himself).
The third is the interweaving of beauty and astringency. Fei Ming's poetic beauty is natural, and his poetic sentiment is classical, which often makes readers feel the beauty of two monks scratching their heads and feel that they are sure to win. This is the obscure expression of Fei Ming's poems. Fei Ming's poetry combines Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and has a modernist style, which makes Fei Ming's poetry a unique existence. Fei Ming once took "flower picking" as an example, saying that it was "an example that new poetry can accommodate several cultures" (Fei Ming: Preface to Small Garden Collection). Some of Fei Ming's poems are really hard to understand, such as "Willow trees in the street at dusk/mirrors in the air/electric lights in the opposite shop/lonely dust/what will the evening breeze say to me/are you talking about stars in the distant sky?" Is the poet really going to talk nonsense? Is it a poem?
After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Fei Ming experienced great changes in his thoughts again. Although there were only four short poems in this period, they should not be underestimated. After nine years of rebellion and refuge, Fei Ming began to sympathize with "human disaster", hate "human cruelty", call for peace, curse war and pursue truth.