1940年代报刊视域中的现代诗人节

Modern Poets’ Day in 1940s’ Newspapers and Periodicals

源自端午节的中国现代诗人节在1940-1949年间经历了兴起到衰落的全过程,1940年代的中国报刊对此有明显展现。诗人节的诞生隐含着文人政客重振新诗雄风、鼓舞民心士气的期望,也赢得了众多报刊的支持与推广。但它的庆祝范围一直被局限在文人圈中、形式也过于单一,导致诗人节在与赛龙舟、劳军等端午活动的报刊宣传博弈中居于下风。而诗人节的设立初衷与实际影响之间的差距,也引发了不少文人在报刊上质疑该节日的存在合理性。诗人节对抗战诗歌发展有一定的促进作用,但作为节日它并未深入民心,因此在建国后逐渐消隐。

The Chinese modern Poets’ Day, originated from the Dragon Boat Festival, has sprung up and finally gone downhill from 1940 to 1949, the process of which was shown obviously in the Chinese newspapers and periodicals in 1940 s. Poets’ Day was born with intellectuals and politicians’ expectations to bring about the regeneration in the new poetry realm and the encouragement among public and soldiers, and this original intention had attracted a great number of support and popularization from the publishers. However, this festival was always being celebrated monotonously only by Chinese scholars, which suggested to be a disadvantage during the competition with other Dragon Boat Festival’s activities, such as dragon boat racing and taking greetings to army. The disparity between the original intention and the real impact of the Poets’ Day also resulted in the intellectuals’ suspecting the rationality of this festival’s existence, which could be found in various newspapers and periodicals. Poets’ Day might boost the development of Anti-Japanese War Poetry in some way, but it didn’t win support among the people as a festival, so it faded out after the foundation of New China.