In Snow on the Land of China, I chose the homeless farmers in the north, myself, unkempt young women who lost their families and husbands, elderly mothers and settlers who lost their livestock and fields to show the sufferings of the people in China.
This poem shows Ai Qing's ability to exert his rich imagination. Although he has never been to the north of China before, the image of a China farmer wearing a fur hat and driving a carriage in the snow is intimate and familiar.
Snow on the Land of China was written by Ai Qing, a modern poet.
By describing the images of farmers, young women and mothers under heavy snow, this poem shows the sufferings and disasters of the Chinese nation, the picture of old China, the poet's deep patriotic enthusiasm, and the poet's deep sense of hardship and childlike innocence.
The whole poem uses the language of prose culture, and there is no trace of carving and showing off. The strong elasticity and tension of its language expand the situation of the poem and make it profound and broad.
In the poet's imagination, a series of life pictures that happened on the land of China constituted a heartbreaking tragic scene. The "unkempt young woman", the "old mother" and the "cultivator" who lost livestock and fields are all crowded in the dirty alleys that despair of life, and the hungry earth faces the dark sky.
Admittedly, this image in Ai Qing's works may be too sad and miserable. However, if we consider history realistically, we have to admit that all these are "cruel facts".
Moreover, the atmosphere of this poem and the tragic scene it depicts are exactly what the author feels and experiences in reality, which makes him feel sad and worried. Expressing all this by artistic means shows the poet's concern for the fate of the times and his empathy for the people's sufferings.
About the author: Ai Qing (19 10- 1996), formerly known as Jiang Zhenghan, was named Haicheng, and used his pen names A Jia, Ke Ye, Lin Bi, etc. , from Jinhua, Zhejiang. China's modern poet. He is regarded as one of the representative poets of China's modern poetry. His main works are Dayan River-My Nanny and Selected Poems of Ai Qing.