Abstract: There are two different developing situations in the contemporary transition of Chinese Culture: one is the colliding situation of Chinese and Western cultures under the restriction of prefigurative culture; the other is the mixture situation under the restriction of cofigurative culture. The latter is substituting the former. Because the prefigurative culture has long restricted the value orientation and historical direction of the new poetry movement, it makes the new poetry manifest the radical art feature with the merit of richcreativeness and demerit of pooraccumulation. Once the collision changes into the mixture, the cofigurative culture will substitute the prefigurative culture.

Key words: postfigurative culture, cofigurative culture, prefigurative culture