Eight-No Doctrine
Hu Shih proposed in "A Preliminary Discussion on Literary Reform" that literary reform "must start from eight things": "The first is: what is said must be meaningful. The second is: do not imitate The ancients. The third one is to pay attention to grammar. The fourth one is to avoid making unnecessary clichés. The seventh one is not to avoid using common words. p>
In 1925, Xu Zhimo edited the "Morning Post Supplement". In 1926, Xu Zhimo and Wen Yiduo edited the weekly "Shi Ji" on the "Morning Post Supplement", advocating new metrical poetry. Wen Yiduo published a theoretical article "The Rhythm of Poetry" and proposed the idea of ??"three beauties" of poetry, namely the beauty of music (syllables), the beauty of painting (words), and the beauty of architecture (symmetry of stanzas and evenness of sentences). .