What is street poetry?

Street poems are also called flyer poems, swing poems, rock poems and so on. As the name implies, after these poems were written, they were posted on the streets and rocks, or printed as leaflets for distribution, which was a form of poetry fighting that closely cooperated with the struggle at that time and played a more direct role in publicity and education. Therefore, as a sport, it is bound to encounter all kinds of resistance in the political environment of the Kuomintang-ruled areas and cannot be widely used.

Take your time. Street poetry movement is mainly popular in anti-Japanese democratic base areas. 1August 7th, 938 was called "Street Poetry Movement Day" by poets in Yan 'an at that time, and street poems were posted on the streets, city walls and city walls of Yan 'an. The Manifesto of the Street Poetry Movement calls on people not to leave a wall in the countryside and a stone on the roadside empty, and thinks that the street poetry movement is "an avenue to make poetry serve the Anti-Japanese War and create popular poetry".

From Yan 'an to Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, the field has always been an active promoter of street poetry movement. The street poems he wrote during this period, such as "If we don't go to war, Comrade Mao Zedong, volunteers, ah, guerrilla commander, to the breeder, we are farmers' children", are short and meaningful. In simple poems, they are full of fiery times and strong love and hate. Shao Zinan, Shi Lun, etc. He is an active author of street poems and flyer poems. The authors of street poems are not limited to poets. In some areas of central Hebei, street poems created by the masses themselves have appeared.