Snowflakes Fall on the Land of China has aroused strong repercussions in China literary and art circles (not just in poetry circles). At that time, the poems published in newspapers and periodicals praised the war of resistance, but most of them were high-profile and empty, lacking the true feelings and artistic strength that infected people.
This poem effectively broke through the mediocrity in the field of poetry creation in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. It's a call and a bell. What is commendable is that the poet not only deeply and extensively experienced the true and rich connotation of war, but also created real poems with his own aesthetic feelings, emotions and vivid language.
Obviously, the poet clearly thought and created the actual space of war on the basis of reality. Through the specific description of this poem, readers feel that the whole poem is saturated with angry feelings, which is also the main reason why this poem can fascinate readers.
All the details contain the pain and revenge of the awakened nation. I don't know how much pain the poet has to pay to write these trembling and crying words.
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Creation background
1937 12.28, Ai Qing came to Wuchang. After the July 7th Incident, the national people's anti-Japanese fighting spirit was unprecedentedly high. China's army is losing ground, and the land of great rivers and mountains is lost. At the critical juncture of this nation's life and death, on the one hand, people are looking for the right way to defeat the Japanese militarists, on the other hand, they have to face the grim reality and fall into deep thinking.
As a poet who is deeply concerned about the future of the motherland and the fate of the people, Ai Qing can't help but express her feelings. Snow Falls on China was written by the author in a cold room in Wuchang late at night at such an unprecedented national crisis.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Snow falls on China.