Ai Qing's works from the early 1930s to the mid-1930s are full of symbolism and criticism, whether they are about exotic modern cities or the reality of semi-colonial China. Dayan River-My Nanny is the most famous one. This poem takes the relationship between the lyric hero "I" and the wet nurse Dayan River and his family as the main line, and the tragic experience of Dayan River as the secondary line, which profoundly shows the scene of rural decline in old China and the miserable life of hardworking and kind farmers in China, and also expresses the poet's sincere feelings for Dayan River. This poem was written during the poet's imprisonment, in the early days of snow. The poet remembered the "grass-covered grave under the snow" of the Dayan River in his difficulties and wrote this poem with tears in his eyes. There is no doubt that he got the strength to resist fate from the farmer's mother.
1937 after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Ai Qing immediately devoted himself to the national liberation war, a great country. With his own works, he complained bitterly about the sufferings of the nation: "Snow has fallen on the land of China/the cold is blocking China"; At the same time, he also poured out his love for the motherland with a sincere voice. The poet compares himself to a bird. Even though his voice is hoarse, he will sing "This Land Attacked by Storm". Even if he dies, "even his feathers will rot in the land." The poet loudly praised the soldiers who stood up for the motherland and the nation. His Second Death and The Trumpet are representative poems of this kind. It can be said that Ai Qing himself is a brave "trumpeter", and he blew the battle horn of the national liberation war with his own poems.
From flute playing to horn playing, the evolution of Ai Qing's poetic creation track is of great significance in the history of China's new poetry. Ai Qing's poems are closely related to modernist poets such as Apollinaire and Fairharn. However, Ai Qing combined the modernist poetic art with the content of shouting for the nation and the people, thus connecting the fighting tradition initiated by Goddess and other works during the May 4th Movement, and providing useful enlightenment for later young poets. Lv Yuan, a poet of "July School", once said: "China's new poems originated in the May 4th Movement and went through a tortuous exploration process. It was not until the 1930 s that it was developed into a magnificent river by the poet Ai Qing and others. " The evaluation of preface to glistening flowers is very accurate.
In the early forties, Ai Qing moved from Kuomintang-controlled areas to Yan 'an, living and writing in the new world in the liberated areas. Until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War 1945, the poet took an active part in the War of Liberation. In the early days of the founding of New China, he served as some administrative leaders in the literary and art circles. However, no matter in the days of bullets or busy administrative affairs, the poet insisted on writing, and even 1957 was wrongly classified as "Rightist", and his poetic heart was still beating in the days when he was decentralized. 1976 After the downfall of the Gang of Four, the poet's injustice was rehabilitated, his creation was full of youth, and he wrote and published excellent works such as Fish Fossil. 1976, the poet himself compiled Ai Qing's Poems and submitted them to People's Literature Publishing House for publication. This collection of poems contains the poet's major works from 1930s to the end of 1970s, which basically reflects the poet's creative process and style characteristics. His works have a strong sense of the times, express profound ideological content in a deep and melancholy style, keep pace with the times and reflect the truth of history. His poems enriched and developed the realistic spirit of new poetry, and it can be said that he embarked on a solid road of revolutionary realism from the beginning.