At the beginning of December 1923, Xu Zhimo sent a draft of the Crescent Society from Beiping.

This was discussed between him and Lin Zixuan, and he first founded a literary magazine to promote the literary concept of the Crescent Society.

Just as the Literary Research Society has the "Novel Monthly" and the Creation Society has the "Creation Weekly", the Crescent Society must also have its own propaganda position, that is, the "New Moon Magazine".

Published once a month, the magazine mainly contains poetry and prose, but also literary criticism and foreign translations, and is considered a purely literary magazine, generally speaking, not dealing with sensitive political topics.

Xu Zhimo was responsible for the manuscript and editing in Beiping, and then sent it to Shanghai to be distributed by Vientiane Books.

This model is similar to the "Novel Monthly" of the Literary Research Society, where Zheng Zhenduo also asked for manuscripts from new literary writers in Beiping, but the "Novel Monthly" mainly published novels and literary criticism.

Since the enlightenment of new literature, there have not been many new literary magazines founded, and Peking University's "New Wave", "Novel Monthly" and "Creation Weekly" are more famous.

Most writers of new literature still use the supplements of major newspapers as their first choice for publishing.

In the early days, the magazine called for the "Renaissance" and published many essays advocating the literary revolution, novels, poems, and other vernacular literary works.

Lin Zixuan's poems were published in the magazine "New Wave" and became famous.

But from the very beginning, there was a tendency to deny all traditions, to "worship foreigners to the extreme" and to "Europeanize in all directions".

With the gradual differentiation of the new cultural united front, the magazine "New Wave" successively published many essays on Western bourgeois philosophy after Vol. 2, No. 1, and ceased publication in March 1922 from Vol. 3 No. 2.

It played a positive role in the promotion of new literature.

"Novel Monthly" was snatched from the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly faction by the Literary Research Society. Shen Yanbing made bold innovations, thus becoming the main front for attacking the old literature.

Guo Moruo's Creation Society is in an embarrassing situation. However, he was ahead of many literary groups, and founded magazines and newspapers to promote them. A group of young new literary writers gathered.

Objectively speaking, they have a certain influence in the field of new literature, and of course, this has something to do with the fact that they are looking for people to argue with.

In any era, if you want to have the right to speak, you need to promote it through the media.

In later generations, television and the Internet were the main propaganda tools, while during the Republican period, paper media such as newspapers and magazines were the focus.

Divisions within the new literature were inevitable, and the civil war had already begun. Then it is particularly important to promote one's own literary claims, which is to compete for the right to speak.

Both Lu Xun and Hu Shi were aware of this problem, and the next period was the prosperity of new literary journals.

In order to get a head start, the magazine "New Moon" was only published at the end of the year.

Lin Zixuan flipped through this batch of manuscripts, and it could be seen that Xu Zhimo had put a lot of thought into it, and the inaugural issue must be famous, so it needs a weighty manuscript.

This weight refers both to the quality of the manuscript and to the prestige of the person who wrote it.

The first is Hu Shi's manuscript, which is his study of ancient poetry. Finally, it is inevitable to mention the inheritance of traditional culture, which is also the central idea of his "sorting out the national history".

Originally, such manuscripts would be published in the "Sinology Quarterly" of Peking University.

Sinology Quarterly is an academic journal published by Peking University in 1923 to study Sinology.

"In our eyes, 'Chinese Studies' is just an abbreviation of 'National Studies'. All the past cultural history of China is our 'national history', and the study of all this past history and culture is the study of all this. It is 'national history', and the province is called 'national learning'. ”

This is Hu Shi's interpretation of "Chinese Studies".

The second is Wen Yiduo's manuscript, which is a poetry review. It is about "The Study of Rhythmic Poetry".

This is one of the development directions of the poetry of the Crescent Society, that is, to advocate the rhythmization of new poetry.

It advocates "rational moderation of emotions". Opposing abusive sentimentalism and the prose culture tendency of poetry, he seriously explored the rhythmization of new poetry from theory to practice.

Since the development of new poetry. Many poets wrote "free verse".

The so-called free verse style is similar to the saliva poems of later generations, which are too casual and do not have the beauty that poetry should have.

Wen Yiduo proposed the musical beauty and pictorial beauty of poetry in "The Study of Rhythmic Poetry".

At this time, Wen Yiduo was still studying in the United States, and he went to the United States in July 1922 to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Colorado in Kequan, and the Art Institute in New York.

While specializing in fine arts and achieving outstanding results, he showed a great interest in literature, especially a love for poetry.

The third is Lin Zixuan's poem, which is the poem "Goodbye, Kangqiao".

Xu Zhimo felt that this poem could best show the poetic proposition of the Crescent Society, that is, the beauty of music and painting.

The whole poem has a soft and resentful artistic conception, a fresh and elegant style, and combines the forms of rhythmic poetry and free verse, skillfully integrating the atmosphere, feelings, and scenes into the artistic conception, so as to achieve the love in the scene and the scene in the love.

Moreover, the poem has not yet been published in domestic literary journals.

After soliciting the opinions of Lin Zixuan and Lin Huiyin, he put the poem in the inaugural issue of "New Moon" magazine.

The fourth is two poems written by Xu Zhimo himself, which is his area of expertise, and the poems are very romantic.

Next up is Wen Yiduo's "Red Candle", a poem from his collection of poems, Red Candle, published in September 1923.

There is also a literary review by Chen Yuan, who studied in England in 1912, studied political economy at the University of Edinburgh and the University of London, and returned to China in 1922 as a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Peking University.

He and Hu Shi are characters in the same camp.

Lin Zixuan finally saw a poem by Lin Huiyin, writing about a girl's reverie in autumn, which is a bit imitating Western poetry, with sadness and sorrow.

This is definitely the result of Xu Zhimo's favoritism in order to curry favor with Lin Huiyin.

However, Lin Zixuan didn't say anything, a pure literary magazine has a female poet who can attract the attention of male readers, and the sales will be much better, and he even has a plan to promote Lin Huiyin.

Just like Lu Yin and Xie Bingxin of the Literary Research Association.

Although Lu Yin is a member of the Literary Research Society, her novel style is close to that of the Creation Society, and she is good at writing lyrical novels with strong emotional colors.

The Literary Research Society emphasizes realism, while the Creation Society advocates romanticism.

Bing Xin is also a member of the Literary Research Society, and has published many poems and novels in the "Morning Post" and "Novel Monthly", which have attracted the attention of the literary world.

There were not many female writers in this era, and these three were all from Fujian, so they were called "the three talented women of Fujian". (To be continued.) )