Ma Lao is a poem written by modern poet Cang Kejia in April 1932. On the surface, this poem is about an old horse, which is under pressure and suffering and has to struggle under the whip. In fact, it is about the suffering of farmers in the old society.

This poem, with its serious and persistent attitude towards life and dignified and simple style, stands in the long river of history, paving the way for the poet's realistic creation and laying the foundation for the continuous development of China's new poetry. After the publication of Old Horse, Cang Kejia was hailed as a "peasant poet".

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Cang Kejia's poem is a philosophy brewed in lyricism, and it is a philosophical poem. Wen Yiduo once had an incisive conclusion, "There is not a poem of Ke family that does not have extremely real life significance." This "extreme truth" comes from the poet's philosophical summary of his concern and grasp of the essence of life.

He extended the singing of new poems to farmers and rural areas in old China. Before him, no poet could describe farmers and countryside so successfully. He consciously absorbed nutrition from China's classical poems and modernized them, casting the China style of his works.

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