1923, Hu Shi, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu, Chen Yuan and others initiated the establishment of the Crescent Society. At first, it was a club-like group. * * *, later because of advocating modern metrical treatment, became an influential club in the poetry world. 1925 When Wen Yiduo returned to China, Xu Zhimo edited the Morning Supplement, and 1926 April/0/day founded Poetry Magazine, which united a large number of new poets of the "Crescent School" in the later period. Crescent School is a long-term active poetry school in the history of China's new poetry, and it has made great achievements in its creation. Crescent School puts forward the aesthetic principle of "rational control of emotion", advocates metrical poetry, advocates the beauty of color and artistic conception of poetry, pays attention to the modification of words and pursues the refinement of words and meanings. Its unique artistic program and systematic theory had a great influence on the development of China's new poetry. Xu Zhimo is a representative poet of Crescent School.
Representative writers: Xu Zhimo, Sun Dayu, Rao Mengkan, Lin, Yu Gengyu, Liu, Wen Yiduo, Zhu Xiang, Shao, Bian, Fang Lingru, Fang and Chen.