The theme of Ai Qing's Poems Towards the Sun: It expresses the author's longing for life and depicts a beautiful attitude towards life. The sun gives people warmth and strength. To the Sun is more than 400 lines long, which is the longest poem by Ai Qing in 1930s. It consists of nine independent chapters that echo each other.

Excerpt from the original:

I stood up-like a sleepy beast, a wounded beast.

I struggled for a long time from the dilapidated forest and cold rocks, supported my upper body, opened my eyes and looked for the horizon.

I-am a, from distant mountains, from uncultivated mountains, to these tens of millions of people.

Work with your hands, shout with your mouth and walk with your feet.

1April, 938, Ai Qing returned to Wuhan from the war-torn north, and wrote a long poem "Towards the Sun" with strong and rich emotions. For more than half a century, the history of modern literature in China and literary critics unanimously praised it as an important and excellent poem in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period because of the author's spirit of continuous exploration of life and art and his broad aesthetic realm. Because it not only marks that Ai Qing's creative path has reached a new height, but also has a wide and far-reaching impact on the development of China's poetry creation.