Abstract: In 1930s there arose the then well-known “dispute between two Liang’s”. Superficially the dispute between Liang Shiqiu and Liang Zongdai was caused by personal feeling, but virtually it was caused by their entirely different conceptions of poetry. The dispute took place at a time when the new Chinese poetry was at the juncture of two roads leading from “non-poem” to “principle poem” and from “prosaicalization” to “poetic purification”. And it had rich connotations in the theoretical development of new Chinese poetry.

Key words: symbolism, non-poems, principle poems, prosaicalization, poetic purification