Menglong is indeed a significant epithet that both resonates with classical associations and reveals the lack of preparation and general disbelief from the literary establishment towards an aesthetic that aimed at breaking free from the overtly political language, form, and content of officially sanctioned poetry. The word menglong has gone through many a translation, before acquiring a somewhat conventionalized version in misty. The Misty poets were born in the first years of the People's Republic of China, and shared dramatic experience of the Cultural Revolution, and the subsequent condition of human crisis. Most representative figures of Misty poetry's aesthetics include Mang Ke, Bei Dao, Shu Ting, Gu Cheng, Jiang He, and Yang Lian. In Shu Ting's poems it is not unusual to find images borrowed from other Chinese poets from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as from British romantic poets, but these allusions are processed into introspective exploration of social and human relationships that is unique to her poetry.