The July Poetry School was an influential poetry school that was formed in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War and disappeared in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The July Poetry School, with Ai Qing and Tian Jian as pioneer poets, and under the theoretical guidance and organization of Hu Feng, gathered a large number of "newcomers" in poetry writing, and gained fame through the magazine "July" name. Most of their poems have been collected in the first and second collections of "July Poetry Collection" and "July New Collection" and "July Wen Collection" edited by Hu Feng.
The characteristics and style of the July Poetry School
With the Anti-Japanese War as the background, describing the nation’s historical disasters, expressing patriotic passion and then expressing the indomitable will of the people became the creations of the July Poetry School important content.
Hu Feng's "Song for the Motherland" was written in August 1937. The poem first depicts "in the darkness/under heavy pressure/in humiliation/in pain/moaning/struggle/it's me My motherland/is my suffering motherland!" He then said that he would not hesitate to sing with "hot tears" and "blood" for the sake of the future of the motherland, which was passionate and solemn.