Chapter 19 Chapter Four: The Golden Age and the Birthplace of the "Baiyangdian Poetry Group"

After the "September 13 Incident" in 1972, in the campaign to criticize Lin Biao's anti-Party clique, under the auspices of Zhou Enlai, the central government carried out rectification of "Left", and the "Cultural Revolution" entered a trough period.From 1972 to 1974, the Beijing Literature and Art Salon entered its golden season. In a short period of two years, a relatively large-scale modernist poetry movement was formed, and this exploration reached its climax in 1973. In the summer of 1972, there was a small salon in the dormitory of the State Council and the Ministry of Railways in Beijing, with Xu Haoyuan as the host.She is a senior high school student at the High School Attached to the National People's University, a prominent figure in the "Cultural Revolution" and a representative of the old Red Guards. She was arrested for alluding to Jiang Qing in the poem "Man Jiangqing" and was imprisoned for two years.After she was released from prison, she actively introduced Western culture.The main members of this salon are mostly amateur painters and educated youth poets, and the main characters are painter Peng Gang, Tan Xiaochun, Lu Yansheng, Lu Shuangqin and others.Later, they became the leading figures of the "Baiyangdian Poetry Group": Yue Zhong and Li Shizheng participated in this salon as singers at that time.Yiqun, who was well-known at the time, also entered and exited this salon.Later, this salon became the birthplace of the "Baiyangdian Poetry Group".

At that time, the life of the salon was that everyone gathered together to sing songs, watch art exhibitions, exchange books and albums, celebrate a certain member's birthday, go out and so on.The core figure of Sharon is Peng Gang, but the "soul" of Sharon is Xu Haoyuan.Peng Gang was one of the earliest modern painters after Dong Shabei, Zhou Youyou and other painters. He was just 17 years old at the time, and he shocked the salon with his brutal artistic power.Xu Haoyuan made people say that she was the daughter of Xu Maijin, a half-Bolshevik among the "28 and a half Bolsheviks" at the Moscow University of the Soviet Communist Party.At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", she disguised herself as a beggar to investigate the folks in northern Shaanxi, and wrote the "Report on the Investigation of the Rural Areas in Northern Shaanxi".