Ye Ting, the author, was illegally arrested by the Kuomintang during the Southern Anhui Incident. He was imprisoned in Shangrao, Jiangxi, Enshi, Hubei and Guilin, Guangxi, and finally transferred to the concentration camp of China-US Institute of Special Technical Cooperation in Chongqing. In prison, Ye Ting suffered all kinds of inhuman torture, but remained faithful and unyielding. In the face of all kinds of inducements from the Kuomintang, he showed the integrity of a man. He wrote this poem on the prison wall and was widely read by later generations.

Song of prison

It is a vernacular narrative poem written by modern revolutionary Ye Ting when he was imprisoned in Zhazidong, Chongqing. This poem was written in 1942. The whole poem is divided into two sections, which are clear and easy to understand, and seem to blurt out without saying anything, but the emotion is intense, the momentum is heroic and the artistic conception is clear and complete. This is the true expression of the poet's noble sentiment, which makes readers feel shocked and moved by the awe-inspiring righteousness in the poem and respects the poet's noble personality.