In the early stage, from the spring of 1926, Zhu Xiang, Rao Mengkan, Sun Dayu and Wen Yiduo, Xu Zhimo were the main members.
In the spring of p>1927, Hu Shi, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu and others founded Crescent Bookstore, and in the following year, they founded Crescent Monthly. The main activities of the "Crescent School" moved to Shanghai, which was the late Crescent School. Its main positions are Crescent Monthly and Poetry Magazine, which was founded in 193. The new members are Chen Mengjia, Fang Weide and Bian Zhilin.
They are dissatisfied with the style that "free poets" ignored the poetic art after the May 4th Movement, and advocated the new metrical poetry, and advocated the aesthetic principle of "rational emotion control" and the formal metrical poetry. In order to realize this theoretical principle, the crescent poets made a useful attempt in the poetic art. First, they created objective lyric poems, that is, they changed the lyric way of "expressing their feelings directly" into subjective feelings.
Then use imagination to pretend to be the outline of the blurred image, and turn subjective emotions into concrete images. Opposing promiscuity and the prosaic tendency of poetry, this paper makes a serious exploration of the metricalization of new poetry from theory to practice. Wen Yiduo put forward the famous idea of "three beauties" in "The Metre of Poetry", that is, "the beauty of music (syllables), painting (rhetoric) and architecture (the symmetry of sections and the uniformity of sentences)".
it was put forward in view of the over-dispersion of the form of new poetry at that time. This proposition laid the theoretical foundation of the new metrical school and made a certain contribution to the development of new poetry. Therefore, Crescent School is also called "New Metric Poetry School". The crescent school corrected the weakness of the early poetry creation, and also made the new poetry enter the period of independent creation.