In October 2008, Meng Hui wrote the article "Tian Xuan Di Huang: The Arrival of the "Post-80s" Poetry Era" and presided over the launch of the "Second Post-80s Poetry Movement" (along with Dong Fei, Li Lang and other poets ), causing huge and explosive debates in some online poetry forums. Subsequently, this incident triggered a new generation of poets to criticize and attack the "old post-80s" poets who occupied the mainstream discourse. People have mixed opinions about this poetry movement, but there is no doubt that this movement provided a powerful protest for poets who lost their positions and marked the forced entry of poets born between 1985 and 1989.
At the end of 2008, Meng Hui was selected into the "2008 2008" program sponsored by Sina Reading, Sohu Reading, Tianya Community, Jingchu.com, Bailu Academy, China Young Writers Network, Post-80s Window, Star Writers Network and other media. List of Poets born in the 1980s in "China's Post-80s Literature Ranking".
On January 2, 2009, at the "China Summit Poetry Forum" meeting in Foshan, Meng Hui and several poets made strong criticisms against the verbal writing of contemporary Chinese poetry. The poem "Tradition" recited in a blur at the meeting is considered to be a declaration of the new generation of poets challenging the power of old poetry: "When you wrote poetry/I was still a primary school student/When I wrote poetry/you were already buried." Afterwards, Menghui completed tens of thousands of words of critical articles focusing on the ugly side of Chinese poetry, including "Tongue Pulling Hell, or the Night of Resurrection of Poetry" and "The Ethics of the Muse" (lecture manuscript).
In May 2009, he won the Weiming Poetry Award of Peking University.