Poetics of Beijing School and Construction of the Legitimacy Theory of Modern Chinese Poetry

In the late 1920s and 1930s, after more than 10 years of development, Chinese new poems also accumulated a lot of deep-rooted contradiction and theoretical confusion, which not only restricted the future direction of new poems, but also formed the legality of new poems severe challenges. Therefore, many researchers of new poems began to explore and reflect on the history and future of new poems. Among them, the reflections and discussions of Beijing school critics are particularly in-depth and specific.They have a clear understanding of the difficulties and crises new poems facing, and they put forward a lot of valuable views on the modernity of new poems and classical poems. They have also put forward concrete and feasible proposals for the technical route and break through ways of new poems. When new poems faced many challenges, Beijing school critics were not absent. On the one hand, their criticism theory of new poems was quite problematic and dared to face the crisis of survival of new poems. On the other hand, they also showed the professionalism and depth of academic criticism which give the new poetry theory a stronger academic taste, and it also become an indispensable heritage of the poetry theory of the 20th century.