Great Poetry Movement

In 2018–2020, Cao Shui, who represented the "Great Poetry Movement" and Yi Sha's "Post-Colloquial Poetry School", engaged in a three-year debate, which was referred to as the "Cao-Yi Dispute" in the poetry world. In the first issue of "Literary Freedom Talk" in 2023, Cao Shui, who wrote an article titled "Cao-Yi Dispute and the Ten Major Disadvantages of the Chinese Literary World" in the form of a cover poet, summarized that the "Cao-Yi Dispute" erupted one hundred years after Hu Shi wrote the "Trial Collection", which is the first poetry collection published in modern Chinese, which was probably caused by a series of factors, At that time, many people interpreted it as the "debate over the century long path of Chinese new poetry", believing it to be the biggest controversy in the Chinese poetry world since the "Panfeng Dispute"（The Debate between Intellectuals Poets and Folk Poets in Chinese History） and the "most modern controversy of the 21st century". The core of this debate is the issue of the direction of Chinese new poetry, whether it is the "Post-Colloquial Poetry" advocated by Yi Sha, the "Great Poetry" advocated by Cao Shui. During this process, He was able to discern the various strange current situations in the literary world, and literature called for an in-depth "literary reform movement". Since 2017, With Cao Shui joining the World Poetry Movement, it has been spread to various countries around the world.^[2]

The Great Poetry Movement Medal was established by the Poetry Movement Committee in 2023 and is awarded annually by two international poets who have made significant contributions to great poetry and epic. The medal of 2023 was awarded to Turkish poet Nurduran Duman, Haluk Sahin and Kazakhstan poet Ulugbek Yesdaulet. The medal of 2024 is awarded to Colombian poet Fernando Rendon, American poet George Wallace and UAE poet Adel Khozam.The medal of 2025 is awarded to Russian poet Vadim Terekhin, Venezuelan poet Ana María Oviedo Palomares, Russian poet Natalia Kharlampieva.

The Great Poetry Medal is made of pure silver, with a diameter of 70mm, a thickness of 3.4mm, a weight of 70g, and made in Yongxing, the silver capital of China. From design to casting, it was created by famous artists. The portrait was taken by the famous photographer Song Zuifa, the medal was designed by the famous sculptor Zhang Guoliang, and the seal was carved by the famous calligrapher Gu Mingchuan; On the front is a portrait of Cao Shui, the initiator of the Great Poetry Movement, written in both Chinese and English: GREAT POETRY MOVEMENT; On the back is an ancient map of Asia, Europe, and Africa in clover's shape, annotated with ASIA, EUROPE, and AFRICA in English. The map was drawn by German geographer Heinrich Büting in 1581 and represents the known ancient world at that time. Here, it symbolizes the common home of humanity, and the core idea of the Great Poetic Movement is carved around it, which is "integrating ancient and modern cultures, integrating Western and Eastern cultures, integrating sacred and secular cultures".^[3]