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Chapter 19 The Day of the Rise of New Poems

Lu Xun naturally became a reader of "Thunderstorm".

"What a big thunderstorm, washing away all ugliness and all hope. It's really clean after falling white earth. This is a great tragedy in life." He commented.

He decided to write a literary review to recommend Thunderstorm and mail it together to the supplement of Morning Post.

With Luxun’s recommendation, Morning Post will not refuse.

As for the sixteen new poems, due to the large number of newspapers and not poetry magazines, Zhou Zuoren decided to publish them in the "New Trend" literary magazine.

"Xinchao" is equivalent to a publication within Peking University. It is edited by the Xinchao Society of Peking University, and Zhou Zuoren is the chief editor.

When Zhou Zuoren brought the new poem manuscript to the editorial department of "New Trend", the editorial department was in full swing.

At this time, the magazine "New Trend" was an important base for the publication of new poetry, and published works of new poetry including Kang Baiqing, Yu Pingbo, Ye Shaojun, Zhu Ziqing, Liu Bannong and others.

Most of the debates about new poetry are going on here.

Lin Zixuan's new poetry styles are diverse, and each article is a mature work, not a deliberate imitation.

This is exactly what surprised them. While they were still arguing about how to write new poems, some people had already written classic poems in vernacular.

There is romanticism, realism, and symbolism.

How can a poet's style be so varied?

They even suspected that this was created by many poets.

Zhou Zuoren told the story again. This is just a game for the author to pursue girls, so the style changes are not difficult to understand. No one stipulates that the poet can only write a kind of poetry style.

The difference in life!

They expressed the same emotion as peace and forbidden Asia, but these people were excited.

These poems have opened up the road and pointed out the direction for new poetry.

New poetry is not difficult to write or has no value, but to break through the shackles of old-style poetry and find new ways out.

"New Trend" magazine is a monthly magazine, but a group of editors were eager to publish these new poems and share them with readers, so they decided to print a poetry supplement.

The supplement not only needs to publish these poems, but also invite professors from Peking University to comment and write articles to discuss the future of new poetry.

More than a dozen famous professors participated in it and discussed the development of new poetry together, which is a grand event in the poetry world.

Lu Xun made an in-depth comment on "A Generation", Zhou Zuoren analyzed the aesthetic connotation of "Rain Alley", and Gu Jiegang explained the deep meaning of "Out of Context"...

This temporary poetry supplement was later called the Bible of the New Poetry, which established the position of new poetry in new literature and played an extremely important role in the development of new poetry.

It influenced many new poetry schools such as the Lakeside School, Crescent School, Symbol School, Modern School and other later.

Fortunately, Lin Zixuan's new poems were published within this period, otherwise they would not have had such great influence.

This year is a year of rapid progress in new poetry.

On June 8, 1921, at Yu Dafu's residence, the Second Gaisheng Pavilion of Tokyo Imperial University in Japan, the Creation Society was officially established, with members including Guo Moruo, Cheng Fangwu, Zhang Ziping and others.

When Creation Society is in autumn, the Creation Society will publish the "Creation Society Series" in Shanghai, including Guo Moruo's collection of poems "Goddess".

"The Goddess" is a representative work of free verse and can be called a pioneering and monumental work of the New Poetry Revolution.

The imagination of "The Goddess" is so rich and unique, and the lyrical and bold and enthusiastic that it is a masterpiece of poetry.

The romantic spirit, the expression of eruption-style catharsis, strange imagination and exaggeration, personal heroism, etc., all influenced a generation of young people.

There is a kind of courage to compete with the Goddess as soon as the Goddess is released.

The "Hui's Wind" by Wang Jingzhi, the representative poet of the Lakeside School, will also be published soon.

Among them, the value of life, the exploration and pursuit of nature, the desire for love, etc. have also opened a door and window for the new poetry.

There is also Lin Zixuan's good roommate Xu Zhimo, who also joined the ranks of creating new poems this year, and the Crescent School was born from this.

In other words, even without Lin Zixuan, new poetry will continue to develop as usual.

However, now Lin Zixuan has taken the advantage of time and has become the founder of new poetry. Although he only took a few months in advance, this is the difference between a pioneer and a follower.

If Hu Shi's "Test Collection" separates the boundaries between old-style poetry and new poetry, then Lin Zixuan's poetry has laid a solid foundation for new poetry and pointed out the direction of the future.

As soon as the poetry supplement of "New Trend" was released, the Peking poetry world became noisy in an instant.

The students were talking about these new poems, arguing enthusiastically, and the professors were also communicating, and the new poems became a trend.

This also solved the dilemma of writing vernacular Chinese. As it turns out, beautiful poems can be written in vernacular Chinese, adding evidence to the debate between classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese.

Among these readers, there is a girl who is more special.

She was Lin Huiyin who went to middle school in Peking. She saw the poems in "New Trend" magazine, the name, and her memory went back to her last winter, in London, England.

She took out the article "Goodbye, Cambridge" from her diary and read it silently.

This poem is no worse than the poems in the magazine "New Trend" and is more beautiful. This is what he gave to her.

Looking at the interpretation and praise of Lin Zixuan's poems by the literary world, the girl couldn't help but smile. She was not going to take out "Goodbye, Cambridge", which was a little secret of her.

Some secrets need to be shared, while some secrets can only be collected by yourself.

Also in Peiping, Feng Chengcheng was surprised.

She didn't expect that Lin Zixuan's poems caused such a big response. Looking at the comments of those great writers, it seemed that Lin Zixuan saved the new poem alone.

Is he that powerful?

Although Feng Chengcheng is an activist in literature and art, he does not have much literary talent, unlike Lin Huiyin who has family influence.

Although she was still a little resistant, her impression of Lin Zixuan was changing unknowingly. Her classmate Wang Yueqi, who changed this way, felt the most.

When talking about Lin Zixuan, Feng Chengcheng's face was serious. Now when talking about Lin Zixuan, Feng Chengcheng's face was gentle.

Women are fickle.

Wang Yueqi couldn't help but shake her head.

On the other hand, Thunderstorm is published in the Morning Post.

Although there are Luxun’s recommendations, "Thunderstorm" does not cause a sensation like "New Trend" magazine. After all, new poetry is easy to be sung, while drama scripts are mainly dialogue, and the way of writing is different from novels.

Some people see it as a drama, but they skip it.

Especially when I saw Luxun’s comments, a tragic story with a realistic theme, it was even more unpleasant.

Dramas need to be performed on stage to be infectious, otherwise they will not be easily spread.

One day in early June, Nantong Ling Guoxue Society.

This is a school that trains Peking Opera actors. After graduation in seven years, all the students' expenses are borne by the society, with Ouyang Yuqian as the director of the society.

His purpose was to create a new type of opera school and create a group of professional actors with high cultural knowledge.

In the evening, Ouyang Yuqian came out of the classroom and came to the office of the school.
Chapter completed!
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