Sun Zeng, a professor in Peking University, once said: "Tan Shi has become an important document in the history of modern poetry theory in China with its novel topic selection and incisive opinions. Because of this paper and other words of the author at that time, Mu also deserved to be the founder of China's symbolism poetry theory. "
Xing Fujun: "It can be said that he was the only representative of Northeast writers in the ten years before Xinwen. Among the earliest generation of northeast literary youth aroused by the May 4th Spring Festival, Mu's creation is the most prominent.