1999 At the Pan Feng Poetry Meeting held in Pinggu County, a suburb of Beijing, the conflict between intellectual writing and folk writing was an important reason for the formation of the third way writing. 12 years, Murphy, Shu Cai and Ji Damo put forward the concept of poetry writing in the third way, and The Selected Poems of Nine People was published. The first edition of Time Writer, edited by Lin Tong, published a lot of works and comments on the third way. The third way tries to intervene in the differences of poetry writing positions with a new theory, emphasizing the poet's individual position and basic sense of responsibility, and establishing a writing position that transcends the group and is opposite. The third way is to oppose a kind of cultural hegemonism and cultural absolutism, and try to establish a free writing style directed at human nature. The third way tries to accommodate writers from various value positions and their ideological tendencies ideologically, so that they can collide with each other and communicate equally in the same poetic atmosphere. "The third way is countless ways, that is, each poet chooses and finds the best writing method that suits him best." Aesthetically, it accommodates different artistic ideas, and enriches the internal quality of contemporary China's poetry with different poetic techniques, speech styles and rhetorical strategies. With more and more poets and works in the third way, the diversity of creative methods and styles is increasingly presented in their creative practice. In 2002, The Third Way Poetry was published, and then the Third Way Poetry Forum and the Third Way Poetry Database were established, which marked the third way writing entered a new stage.
Representative poets: Ji Damo, Murphy, Shu Cai, Lin Tong, Liu Wenxuan, Ma Yongbo, Lu Weiping, Jianning, Na Ye, Yin Longlong, lair, tsunami, Lu Ye, Nan Li, Liu Chuan, Bowa, Yang Tuo, Mu Cao, Zhang Er, Xi Qiu Jun, Qiu Yong, Lu Su and Yan Yang.