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Intelligent youths who participated in People’s Commune’s production in Baiyangdian area from Beijing started to create poems in Cultural Revolution. Some researchers consider it as Preparation of ‘Mongrongsi Movement’ in 1980s and others emphasize its independent meaning regarding the creation of Baiyangdian poets during the Cultural Revolution. It is because some of the trends in poetry theme and artistic methods during the Baiyangdian times continued but some of them discontinued at all in ‘Mongrongsi Movement’. Most of the Baiyangdian intelligences creating poets were from high class and graduated from good and famous schools.The books for internal reference, which were published for criticism before Cultural Revolution, were only accessible by high-ranking officials over a certain level.However, they could read those books as middle school students and they tried to search for a new culture. They came to have suspicions on Cultural Revolution in a short time and there became semi-public civil trend among youths. Under these circumstances, middle school students in Beijing came to Baiyangdian in 1969. Although living environments were changed their skepticism and contemplation were continued and they found their unique expressions. The poetry creation attitude of Baiyangdian poets can be identified as ‘Personal’. After 1950s, literature and art in China were controlled by the mainstream discourse.In particular, personal creations became illegitimate during the Cultural Revolution. They could not be publicly published nor revealed to the public. Under these circumstances, the creations in Baiyangdian need not consider the expectations of the readers. The poetry creation was for personal expression only and the poetry creation in Baiyangdian
poetry village in the space where culture was lack was the method to survive. This creation attitude made the writers faithful to their own personal feelings and emphasized their personal experiences and insights. In this article, the situations of the members, their search for poetry, characteristics of Baiyangdian poetry and the meaning of Baiyandian poetry village in the history of Chinese Poetry focusing on the time of Cultural Revolution and the specific place of Baiyangdian.