Source: China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Weekly Release time: 2022-06-26 Font size: Large, medium and small
Chairman Mao’s speech at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art
On May 2, 1942 , Yan’an held a literary and art event that attracted worldwide attention forum. At this conference, the great leader Chairman Mao made an important "Speech". The content of this important "Speech" is divided into two parts; one is the introduction at the opening ceremony; and on the position and attitude issues in literature and art. , the work object problem has been systematically and clearly analyzed. The second is the concluding speech at the end of the meeting. The introduction mainly points out the importance of revolutionary literature and art, and the conclusion mainly elaborates on five issues, namely: for whom our literature and art is for; how to serve and promote the popularization and improvement of literature and art; and the relationship between the party's literary and artistic work and the party's overall work. , the issue of the relationship between the party's literary and artistic work and non-party literary and artistic work; the issue of literary and art criticism; the issue of rectification in the literary and art circles.
"The Speech" systematically summarized the experience of the revolutionary literary and artistic movement since the May 4th Movement, answered a series of fundamental questions that have been debated for a long time in the Chinese revolutionary literary and artistic movement, clarified the Marxist literary theory and the party's literary and artistic line, and pointed out the issues that the meeting should resolve. The "Speech" played a positive role in promoting the rectification movement in the literary and art circles, and clarified the purpose of literature and art serving society and the public. Until now, the content of the "Speech" has had a wide impact on the creative direction of literature and art. It is so big and has far-reaching significance. It still has important guiding significance, practical significance and strategic significance in the era.
After the "Speech" was published, the intellectuals in Yan'an began to consciously turn their vision to the life that reflected the thoughts of the workers, peasants and soldiers, and a number of outstanding works that were loved by people and full of national color emerged. The writer Zhao Shulike published the novels "Xiao Erhei's Marriage" and "Li Youcai's Straight Talk"; the poet Li Ji drew on the Bixing technique of Xintianyou in northern Shaanxi to create a long narrative poem "Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang" that reflects the tortuous love story of young farmers. The poet He Jingzhi adapted the opera "White-Haired Girl " and "Brother and Sister to Develop Wasteland" based on the widely circulated story of "White-Haired Fairy" in Hebei area in 1945. Printmaker Gu Yuan went deep into the masses and listened to the opinions of farmers with an open mind. His woodcut work "Learning to Follow Wu Manyou" published in the supplement of "Liberation Daily" used sheepskin coats and velvet hats, common clothing of farmers in northern Shaanxi, as model worker Wu. Full of identity shapes, the two sides of the picture are decorated with pigs, horses, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, sorghum, corn, etc., exuding a strong local flavor.
Since then, a large number of outstanding writers and works have emerged in the literary world; such as Lao She, Ba Jin , Ding Ling , Guo Moruo , Bing Xin , Lu Yao , Sun Li , Zhao Shuli , Lu Wenfu, Mo Yan, Chen Zhongshi, Wang Meng, He Zhizhang, Li Ying, Guo Xiaochuan, Liu Zhang, Li Cunbao; representatives of the calligraphy and painting art circle include Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Zhang Daqian , Wu Changshuo , Huang Binhong , Jiang Zhaohe , Li Keran , Fu Baoshi , Guan Shanyue , etc., a large number of content rooted in the soil of life are healthy and positive, praising the good life and criticizing mistakes. Excellent literary and artistic works have emerged one after another.
In the more than 40 years since the reform and opening up, while we have introduced foreign capital and advanced technology, we have also introduced the same to Western culture and civilization.However, when we introduced and studied Western culture and art, some of our cultural and art workers, or people with titles such as experts, masters, doctors, etc., did not absorb the introduced technology like the scientific research and technical team did. , absorb, and then develop and create technologies that belong to China's own intellectual property rights; instead, go out with the attitude of studying abroad, and then copy and improve Western culture and Chinese traditional culture; and then inject it into your own literary and artistic worldview Here, a rule of worship was formed that prioritized those who stayed overseas and gave priority to Western culture and art. Who has studied abroad, who has won any major awards abroad, regardless of whether the award has real artistic value and contribution value.
Our cultural and art units have unlimited learning from Western culture and art, which has turned into a strange circle and pattern of worshiping Western art theory. In the evaluation of domestic units, your overseas experience and cultural immigrant background will also be considered. When it comes to promotions and promotions; even when selecting academicians of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, there must be one criterion. Those who have studied abroad as a background, or who have studied abroad or received some awards will be given priority for admission. The unsatisfactory regulations and measures in these industries have invisibly encouraged the trend of worshiping foreigners and favored foreign countries, and invisibly suppressed the enthusiasm of many domestic intellectuals to immerse themselves in the cultivation of their homeland. Therefore, too many international students who study abroad for gold plating are like crucian carp crossing the river. A few years ago, when there was no epidemic, I once saw no less than three to five hundred people queuing up for visas in the U.S. Embassy District of Maizidian in Beijing every day. In fact, we do not exclude studying abroad, nor do we exclude Western culture and civilization. However, no matter how we study, the roots of your cultural creations and cultural sources and context should be rooted in the soil of thousands of years of civilization of your ancestors. Instead of learning some Western cultural knowledge, you will completely reject and deny your mother tongue culture.
is even like cultural colonization, taking things learned from the West, Western aesthetic standards and ways of thinking without any bottom line, and turning oneself into a slave of Western cultural colonization. There are also some people in the cultural and art circles who, in order to cater to Western aesthetics and gain personal interests, do not hesitate to vilify the image of their own nation, and even tamper with and vilify their history; they use extremely sinister means to whitewash Japanese militarism and commit heinous crimes against the Chinese nation. . This kind of practice of forgetting about ancestors is almost always done by some high-sounding experts, scholars, cultural celebrities, and leading parties. The poisonous textbook Wu Yong's illustrations that vilify Chinese children are full of sexual innuendos, induce children to commit crimes, maliciously insult the national flag, domestic children with Down syndrome, and text and pictures to induce children to worship foreign countries; even the Japanese invaders imitated Lei Feng and did good deeds. In the midst of the denunciation of the majority of patriotic parents and the public, Hong Huang, Xiao Ying and other experts, scholars, and doctors with titles on their heads came out to defend them and responded: "You don't understand art!?"
Wang Dongling’s super wild and graffiti-like style. Not for the sake of the festival, just for the limelight
And to what extent the cultural and art world is in chaos, has harmed the treasures of Chinese calligraphy that have been passed down for 3,000 years. Wang Dongling, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the China Academy of Art, is super crazy; Zeng Xiang’s Ugly Book, Shooting Book, Roaring Book, Printed Style, and caused an uproar inside and outside the industry. Some followers also say that this is an innovative move in calligraphy aimed at forming an independent art school. The collusion sounds cold, ridiculous, and hilarious. The art of Chinese calligraphy and painting not only reflects the breadth and depth of traditional Chinese culture, but is also full of the confidence of the brilliant culture of the Chinese nation that spans thousands of years. How can we agree with this kind of nonsense in the name of "innovation"? ! Master Wang's move still caused a lot of complaints on the Internet: "Can the master write another one that is exactly the same? I guess the master will refuse because he doesn't even know what he just wrote?!"
Previously, Jia Pingwa 's daughter Jia Qianqian 's poems about feces and urine have attracted overwhelming ridicule .As a person in the same circle, Peng Min, deputy director of a certain "Poetry Magazine", and the champion of that poetry competition, stood up and spoke, "No matter how good a poet is, who doesn't have a few bad poems?" Lu Xun was also brought out to "support" . And Lihua style poet Zhao Lihua even said: " I really have good intentions, chatter endlessly, and speak earnestly. How can I make the public understand that our poetry aesthetics, painting aesthetics, technological inventions, etc. are worse than those in the West? One hundred years of ..." It can be seen that Zhao Lihua really "loves her deeply and hates her deeply", but the public just "doesn't live up to expectations" and does not understand her good intentions. Maybe they think our poetry is so backward, but I want to ask: "When our ancestors were writing Li Sao, Chu Ci , Book of Songs ; when our ancestors were writing the four great inventions; when the Western Where is the culture, civilization and advanced technology? I would like to ask these so-called experts and scholars who have traveled abroad, where is the Western civilization lying in the wilderness, maybe it has not learned to walk on two legs?
Not only that! Just these, the editor-in-chief of a certain "Poetry Magazine" wrote poems about breast touching and explicit descriptions of sex. I don't know if it's my own preference, or Jiang Langcai simply has no literary talent and can't write decent poems to show others; but who has the final say? Just let it go on your own, so that plagiarism is common and vulgar and mediocre poetry halls have repeatedly appeared in the central first-level publications where it was difficult for a short poem to enter, but this one was once inscribed by Chairman Mao. I don't know how long a certain "Poetry Magazine" can last under the deliberate management of this gentleman. I think if the state did not directly subsidize this magazine, we don't know whether these people would go begging for food. And the film, television and music circles are even more chaotic. Even though the national cultural department has cracked down on the trend of transvestites, those popular songs are still not masculine. Boys moan and groan like women on stage.
And some historical film and television dramas, It even distorted the facts and made up random anti-Japanese dramas. Recently, "My Name is Liu Jinfeng" was criticized by the audience for being too Japanese, and was ordered to be stopped by the Central Academy of Fine Arts. 's speechless post-2000 graduation works have no legacy or character of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting art. Instead, they pursue the outlines of Western art and imitate and copy the painting styles and aesthetic standards that are close to the West. Traditional Chinese culture has been squeezed out by the self-awareness of overly deliberate professors and experts, and has completely lost the innovation and inheritance of traditional literature and art by students. Excessive entertainment and commercialization have done more harm to literature and art, and have been overtaken by Western culture. Many of our so-called scholars do not hesitate to use various means to destroy the traditional national culture for their own fame and fortune. They serve as cultural traitors for the peaceful evolution and cultural infiltration of the West, and serve as leaders and traitorous public figures in the literary and art circles.
These are examples in the literary and art circles. , that is, in the thirty or forty years of reform and opening up, some people in our literary and art circles have done some things that are like farce and farce, not only breaking the three views; but also forgetting their ancestors in pursuit of fame and fortune. The scheming, omnipotent, and extreme performances make the public stunned. This is the truest situation in the field of literature and art, and I personally have social worries and worries about the current situation of literature and art: film and television and excess. Entertainment programs that are over-commercialized and over-entertained will produce social brain death . Then, when literature and art are over-entertained and commercialized, it is not as simple as social brain death. Without the foundation of national culture and tradition, The consequences can be very serious. Today, with the disintegration of the former Soviet Union and Ukraine , where is the Soviet red flag they once had? Where is their former national spirit? Why are the people of Ukraine so miserable today in the war-torn world? The answer is not difficult to explain.
In fact, the reason for the chaos in the calligraphy and painting art world is the lack of effective supervision of the industry and the lack of laws and regulations to protect traditional culture and art. It is more caused by industry culture and human greed.I can't help but wonder what these so-called ugly books, shooting books, roaring books, and printed , especially the so-called masters who are well-educated and highly respected, do this. Is it to establish a sect, or is it to attract attention and vilify oneself? A series of ideas such as "eyeball economy, pain points, selling points" and other ideas that are eager for quick success and quick profit; TV media, which are somewhat boring and ignorant at home, add fuel to the flames and use such unscrupulous farce as a selling point to attract viewers. Like a scourge, it has been forcefully injected into the bone marrow of the contemporary people, while the excellent traditional Chinese culture has been thrown into a remote corner and no one cares about it. In today's media and the Internet, the content with the highest likes, fans, fans, and cries are often those that are superficial and of low taste. However, those connotations that are rich in thought, soul and spiritual awareness are left behind and not taken seriously. This also illustrates the terrible phenomenon that Chinese traditional cultural thoughts are gradually disappearing.
For the sake of the independence and self-confidence of our traditional culture and art, the author strongly establishes "Traditional Culture and Art Protection Law" on traditional national culture and resolutely resists and cracks down on ugly books, shooting books, roaring books, printed and other , some Acts that maliciously denigrate traditional culture; legislation must also be enacted for film and television arts . It is not allowed to distort or tamper with historical facts through commercial performances or other forms, such as publishing books, paintings, film and television dramas, etc. Once discovered, severe crackdowns and severe punishments must be made. Only with the law as the basis and weapon can the independence and authenticity of traditional culture be effectively protected. Let our descendants respect their ancestors and remember the true history. We can only keep the warning of "a slight difference is a thousand miles away" mentally and spiritually, and tell ourselves that in terms of cultivation, we must learn from and pass "take the Dharma from above, and you will get it from it; take the Dharma from the middle, and you will get it." The enlightenment point of view of "underneath" can then achieve true cultural independence and cultural self-confidence in the rapidly developing new economic era, and make a strong preparation for the upcoming or ongoing changes in the times in the future.
Finally, the author sincerely makes a suggestion to managers in the field of culture and art. I hope that our traditional culture and art, which have been prosperous and brilliant for thousands of years, will continue to be glorious and continue to innovate and perpetuate through the writings of generations of patriots. If we completely put an end to the chaos of literature and art, let our literature and art re-read Chairman Mao's " Speech at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art", let literature and art take root in life and the countryside; let culture work Those who truly understand that literature and art are the purpose of serving the broad masses of the people, and are not the starting point for any one person or that small group to sensationalize, moan for no reason, and dance around for personal fame and fortune; truly understand that literature and art are not a stage and stage for cultivating and breeding refined egoism. soil. When learning imported cultures, we must take the essence and discard the dross. Whether we go to study abroad or study abroad, we must never forget that the foundation of culture and art lies in our thousands of years of excellent traditional culture. Copying and borrowing is a form of cultural colonization. Shallow consciousness and self-disdain for national culture are the result of either a lack of knowledge of national history or a cultural slave who is always lacking calcium in his bones.
