When this group attacked the Modernist orthodoxy in the pages of the United Daily News 'literary supplement and in China Tide, they kicked off a third Nativist Literature Debate.
寫實主義再興後，文壇出現了挑戰現代文學的鄉土文學論戰，在「聯合副刊」、「夏潮」等園地展開激烈辯論。