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What is the background of "Tiananmen Poetry"?

On January 8, 1976, Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council of China, passed away. When the bad news came, the whole country was deeply saddened. However, the "Gang of Four" Wang, Zhang, Jiang, and Yao, who were in high positions at the time, were overjoyed. They used all means to suppress and obstruct people's mourning activities, and unscrupulously spread rumors and continued to frame Comrade Zhou Enlai. During these criminal activities, Behind the scenes, they accelerated their efforts to usurp the country's supreme leadership. Faced with the perverse actions of the "Gang of Four", at the end of March 1976, large slogans opposing the "Gang of Four" and defending Zhou Enlai first appeared in Nanjing. Then, Zhengzhou, Fuzhou, Xi'an, Taiyuan and other places also began to publicly mourn Comrade Zhou Enlai in various ways. Around April 5, millions of people in Beijing gathered in front of the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square, using tears, black gauze, white flowers, poems, elegiac couplets, wreaths, oaths, speeches, blood letters... to express their unforgettable tribute to the people's good prime minister. Grieve, denounce and denounce the heinous crimes of the "Gang of Four". In those days, Tiananmen Square turned into a solemn memorial hall and a battlefield with clearly defined fortifications. The love and hate that had been stored in people's hearts for a long time burst out like volcanic lava. Under this circumstance, in order to save themselves from bad luck, the "Gang of Four" used state machinery to suppress the movement. As an important form of expression of the "April Five" movement, poetry is people's main fighting weapon. In those days of April 5th, thousands of poems were posted around the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tiananmen Square. The vast majority of the authors of these poems are ordinary workers, students, farmers, soldiers, and cadres... They expressed their deep love for Zhou Enlai and their incomparable respect for the "Gang of Four" in their poems with unstoppable passion. hatred. This is the background of the "Tiananmen Poetry".