The main contents of July

From the beginning, in July, reportage was strongly advocated to reflect the reality of the Anti-Japanese War. For a time, such works occupied the most space. Representative writers who published reportage in July were Qiu Dongping, A Long and Bai Cao. From the end of 1937 to the beginning of 1938, Qiu Dongping wrote "The Seventh Company, where we lost the battle, I know such enemies" and so on, which showed the scene of the Shanghai-Soviet War in a timely and concrete manner. Long's "Zhabei Battle" and "From Attacking to Defending" also left a relatively complete literary record for the Battle of Songhu. Bai Cao's "Here, Life is Breathing" and Yang Kezhong's works reflect the scene of refugee shelters, while his "Dusk by the River Fuman" describes the activities of anti-Japanese guerrillas. Their works are different from many works that only showed superficial excitement and optimism at that time. While praising the anti-Japanese struggle of soldiers and the masses, they all described the incompetence, self-reliance and graft of some Kuomintang and its military leaders to varying degrees, showing the depth of the author's observation and entry into life. July provided the first batch of reportage full of flesh and blood and feelings in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression era, which was consistent with the efforts of many other publications and a large number of writers at that time, making reportage a new and energetic literary form in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

Poetry writing has always been the most representative and successful field in July. Most of Ai Qing's poems "North" and long poem "Towards the Sun" were first published here. These two poems have become a new peak in the development of modern poetry of Ai Qing himself and even China. The best works of "To the Fighter", an important poetry collection in this field, were also published on July 1 day. It was from this time that he became a poet with a unique style. Many famous poets, as well as a group of young writers influenced by Ai Qing's poems and Tian Tian's poems, have contributed to the enrichment and development of July's poetry creation. The ranks of poets are constantly changing and growing, including, S.M., Hu Feng, Zou Difan, Ji, Peng Yanjiao, (He Jingzhi), and Zhuang Yong. Like the reportage above, there are some similarities in July's poetry creation. In terms of content, the author is faced with a broad social reality, even a major war theme, not limited to personal life circles; Most of their poems are combined with the fate of the whole motherland and nation, and less stay in expressing personal feelings. These poems all show an upward spirit. Formally, because they emphasize that poets must participate in the life of struggle, feel poetry and create images from it, and advocate the consistency of content and form, they oppose the fixed framework and adopt the form of free poetry almost without exception. These poets, represented by Ai Qing and Tian Tian, with their vivid creative vitality, formed obvious contrast with some poetic styles at that time, which were far away from life and struggle and paid more attention to formal beauty such as rhetoric and meter, and were loved by people and had a positive impact. Together with many contemporary poets who wrote free poems, they pushed the development of China's free poems to a climax.