The Spirit of Searching for Beauty and Novelty——A Review of Children's Poems by Zhang Jilou

Brought up in Sichuan, Zhang Jilou wrote many excellent children' poems. The period from 1959 to 1964 was his first productive period during which he displayed a colorful world to the children in the newly founded China. The New Age was his second productive period, during which he acted on the basis of tradition as a disseminator of love and the inheritor of civilization. His works composed in 1990s are characterized by more beauty, incarnating his search for beauty and novelty. Zhang Jilou has continued to be productive as he marched into the new century