He Jingzhi’s political lyrics are called “Jingzhi Style”, which is highspirited and untrammeled with its tone of ode. His lyrics are representatives of the “Seventeen Years” literature. This lyric style always directly extols the political image which is appealing and emotional, rather than figuratively and symbolically setting its theme. In another word, the “big I” and “small I” in He’s lyrics seems consistent. Let alone the positive and derogative attitude towards it, the significance of the lyrics in the literary history is that it answered the aesthetic expectation when Chinese revolution succeeded. This lyric became the proper artistic way for the “time of ode”, a national discourse in the aesthetic sense. However, He Jingzhi’s political lyrics have been coldly treated in the postrevolutionary period because they were fully “essentialized”, without the emotional and mental restlessness, bewilderment, and distress, the “aperture” which drifts away the system, the personal voice which is conflicted with the revolutionary epic.

“Jingzhi style”; He Jingzhi; political lyrics; “red lyrics”