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Chapter 22 The end of the golden age - the cold snap hits

After 1973, there were many people who wrote poetry in salons.There are Shi Baojia, Ma Jia, Yang Hua, Lu Yansheng, Peng Gang, Lu Shuangqin, Yan Li, etc.Most of their poems are lost.The only remaining manuscripts are as follows: Margaret: my poem has no banner issued a than girl's breasts more naked sunshine I am like a wild fruit in autumn so heavy I have everything, everything for October... Lu Shuangqin (female): life is not mean But to the past, we're not holy for a minute My life is like a plowed field Take it, go away, I have nothing more to say... Li Zhilin: everything

so mediocre so reasonable I can't stand that along the invisible road I'm walking, walking Vaguely i feel A touch of pleasant sadness... Peng Gang: Sunshine at first sight my heart just melted comfortably dripping everywhere Ah! dad Mother i'm like a child while walking, throwing everything away from me... Yang Hua: British trouser line and style I'm a beautiful man with fragrance My song used to come from behind the fence... Poets who used modernist techniques to explore and try to write poetry during the "Cultural Revolution" include: Lin Mang, formerly known as Zhang Jianzhong, (winter 1949-) started poetry creation in 1969 in Baiyangdian Water Town.

Tian Xiaoqing, pen name Xiaoqing, (1953.4-) Beijinger, originally from Li County, Hebei. He joined the army during the "Cultural Revolution", and returned to the city as a worker after demobilization in 1973. Yan Li (1954.8-) was born in Beijing, originally from Ninghai, and began to write poetry in 1974. Yang Lian (1955-) was born in Bern, Switzerland, and a native of Beijing. After finishing high school in 1974, he went to Changping County, Beijing to join the queue. During the queue, he began to write poetry. These young poets emerged as the main force of the "avant-garde" in the creation of new poetry after the "Cultural Revolution" and achieved remarkable results.They have all been exposed to the rain and dew of the "underground poetry circle", and their creations began during the "Cultural Revolution".

By 1974, when "criticizing Lin Piao and Confucianism" and "counteracting the Rightist style of overturning verdicts", everyone felt the change in political pressure.In the autumn of this year, the Jiang Qing Group began to search and suppress the underground literary world.Under political pressure the larger poetic activities had come to an end, the great salons had begun to disintegrate, leaving scattered cliques confined among the closest friends. After that, Munk and Peng Gang organized the earliest "avant-garde", with La Duoduo participating, in an attempt to carry out more modernist experiments.In fact, there were only two people in this circle, Mang Ke and Peng Gang, and they lasted for less than two months.

In 1974, Duoduo took out his third collection of poems, and Munk exchanged them with him as promised.This is a personal duel. With the disintegration of large and small art salons and the passage of time, the demeanor of Xu Haoyuan and the wise words of Peng Gang and others have gone with the wind, and those who know it. The poems of the "Baiyangdian School" poets have survived, and they will dominate the new era.
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