The July School of Poetry
The July School of Poetry (The July School of Poetry or The Yangtze River Delta Poets) was a poetic genre in Chinese pop culture in the early 20th century. It originated from the May Fourth Movement in 1919. The representative figures of this school were Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Su Shi, etc. They were mainly active in the Jiangnan area of the Tang and Song Dynasties. They created a large number of beautiful lyric poems with the gardens of Suzhou, Wuxi and other places as the background. The July School advocated for "democracy, freedom, and progress" and opposed the old culture and ideas, advocating a new culture and new life. Their poems expressed their dissatisfaction with real life and their yearning for freedom, equality and progress with the theme of nature and life, which had distinct characteristics of the times and the spirit of humanity. In the fields of literature, art, music and so on, the July Poetry School had a profound influence and became one of the important poetry schools in the history of Chinese literature.