with the death of Mao Zedong, the arrest of the Gang of Four, as well as an opening to the west, the laws became looser around the "cultural requirements". The unofficial magazine "Today" (Chinese: 今天 Jintian) offered a platform for these feelings and poems. The first issue was published with the seminal poem "The Answer" (Chinese: 回答 Huida), which can be regarded as a paradigm for the obscure nature of misty poetry. The line "I do not believe" (Chinese: 我不相信 wǒ bù Xiangxin) here almost became a buzzword at the time. The publication of further Menglong poems immediately initiated a year-long debate on the freedom of the individual and the author and his commitment to society, the state, and the party. The group influenced Uyghur poets like Ahmatjan Osman, a leader in the gungga (hazy, vague, or uncertain) movement of the 1980s. The movement had several lasting impacts on Uyghur poetics, such as the introduction of free verse. List of Misty Poets Bei Dao Bei Ling Chou Ping Duo Duo Fei Ye Gu Cheng Ha Jin He Dong Jiang He Mang Ke Shu Ting Tang Yaping Xi Chuan Yang Lian Zhang Zhen Yan Li References Barnstone, Tony, ed. (1993). Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. . Jones, Andrew F. (1992). Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music. Cornell East Asia series, no. 57. Ithaca, New York: East Asia Program, Cornell University. . External links Out of the Howling Storm, The New Chinese Poetry Jintian Poets.org - A Brief Guide to Misty Poets 20th-century Chinese literature Chinese poetry groups and movements