Han Niu (1923-), a native of Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province, was an important member of the July Poetry School. Poetry was published in the early 1940s. After 1944, I worked as an editor in Xi 'an. 1950, he worked in Air Force Health and People's Publishing House successively. 1955, he was imprisoned as "Hu Feng" for one year, and soon he was strictly controlled as a "Rightist". During the "Cultural Revolution", the cadre school in Xianning, Hubei Province was decentralized. After the Cultural Revolution, he came back as the deputy editor of China magazine. His published poetry collections include Hot Springs, Butterflies on the Sea, Silent Cliff, etc., as well as Reading Notes on Learning Poetry.

Han Niu's life was bumpy. "He experienced war, exile, hunger, and several times in prison, engaged in heavy physical labor such as farming, pulling flatbed cars, killing pigs and cattle", which is really a "painful and rich life", and his poems are the true records of this kind of life pain. If his early poems were too intense and exposed in conveying this kind of pain, the poetic style after the hardships of purgatory life became deep and concise. Poems on flora and fauna written in the early 1970s, such as Mourning for a Maple Tree, Chiji, Don't Run Here, South China Tiger, etc. , full of uncontrollable grievances, grief and pain, but the poet no longer expresses his grief by venting, but embodies the painful life and personality pursuit of animals and plants with similar experiences in a symbolic image or artistic conception. This poetic style of expressing one's will through images continued until the 1980s, but with the growth of age, his poems added a desolate tragicomedy seeking the end-result of life to the painful feelings of life.

Han Niu's poems about objects often project his subjective spirit and life feelings into objective images, and refine his own poetry and interest in the sudden encounter and seamless integration of subject and object. However, this legacy of July was broken and surpassed in the poet's heyday. He no longer uses the way he is already familiar with, but enters a free and radiant dream writing state. Poems written in the middle and late 1980s and 1990s, such as Sleepwalking, Miracle in the Chest, Void in the Distance, and A Dream under the Three Dangerous Mountains, are the fruits of this transcendence.