Crescent Society is a literary society with great influence in the history of modern literature in China. 1923, founded in Beijing, is the largest literary society dedicated to exploring the theory and creation of new poetry since the May 4th Movement. Its activities moved to Shanghai in the spring of 1927 and ended in 1933. Its main members are Hu Shi, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo and Liang Shiqiu.

In the early stage, the Morning Post Supplement was taken as the position, and in the later stage, Crescent Monthly (1928.3. 10) and Poetry Weekly (193 1) were founded. Crescent Society is a faction involving politics, ideology, scholarship and literature, which shows the characteristics of bourgeois liberalism in thought and organization.

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The Crescent Society was founded by Xu Zhimo on the basis of Tagore's collection of poems "The Crescent Moon", with the intention that "its exquisite bending obviously implies the perfection of the future" (Xu Zhimo's Attitude towards the Crescent Moon).

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Crescent School is an important school in the history of modern new poetry, influenced by Tagore's Crescent Collection. Generally speaking, the poetry school is divided into two periods: 1927 period.

1. The early stage began in the spring of 1926, Zhu Xiang, Rao Mengkan, Sun Dayu, etc.

2. 1927 Spring, Hu Shi, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu and others founded Crescent Bookstore, and the following year, Crescent Monthly was founded. The main activities of the Crescent School moved to Shanghai, which was later the Crescent School. Its main positions are New Moon and Poetry, which were founded in 1930. The new members are Chen, Fang and Bian.

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