Research On Anti-japanese Culture And Art At Northern Jiangsu Base (1940-1945)

Anti-Japanese culture and art at northern Jiangsu base were national and scientificnew democratic mass culture movement under the leadership of the Communist Party ofChina with anti-Japanese national salvation as the theme. It publicized the anti-Japanesenational salvation viewpoint, mobilized people to join the war, carried forward nationalrighteousness and encouraged military and civilian morale. While eulogizing theanti-Japanese military and civilian patriotism and heroism, it exposed the crimes ofJapanese and their puppets of trampling our land, ravaging the people, and destroying thebase construction. It played an important role for the victory of the war.Through sorting out, comparison, analysis, summary, refinery, and integration ofhistoric data, the paper gives an in-depth analysis of the motives and course of flourishingcultural and art activities at northern Jiangsu anti-Japanese bases, and introducescomprehensively the cultural and art organizations and groups, which played anorganizational and dominant role in northern Jiangsu anti-Japanese cultural and artactivities: Central China Branch of the Lu Xun Art Academy, the Lu Xun Art Group,Funing Culture Village, Huhai Art and Culture Society, Northern Jiangsu Culture and ArtTroupe, and Xinan Travel Group. It also gives a detailed exposition of the diverse forms ofdrama, literature, music and art activities for northern Jiangsu anti-Japanese culturalactivities, sings the praises of the heroic deeds of the Communist Party of China, the NewFourth Army and the people, reveals the ugly face of the Japanese and their Puppets, andhighly summarizes the distinct times, intense fighting, broad masses and unique local ofnorthern Jiangsu anti-Japanese bases culture and art. It also generalizes objectively theanti-Japanese United Front set up with broad chest through northern Jiangsu anti-Japanesecultural and art activities as well as the valuable experience of carrying out anti-Japanesecultural and art movement with the spirit of an iron army and developing new democraticculture with wartime forms. It gives an important enlightenment of respecting knowledgeand talents, working hard with a united pioneering spirit, keeping pace with the times,being human-oriented and advancing the main theme of the times to prompt future generations to carry forward the fine traditions, safeguard, build and develop the countryset up by our predecessors. It finally thinks about and discusses problems like the functionof culture and art, its ideological and art character, its popularity and advancement.The article has also paid special attention to the macro-environment of anti-Japanesecultural and art activities set up by the rise and development of new culture movement innorthern Jiangsu anti-Japanese bases, the development route for northern Jiangsuanti-Japanese cultural and art activities pointed out through the spirit of Mao Zedong’s "OnNew Democracy" and "Speech at the Yan’an Forum on Literature", as well as theoutstanding contributions of Liu Shaoqi, and Chen Yi as leaders of Huazhong Bureau ofthe Communist Party of China and New Fourth Army to the cultural and art activities atnorthern Jiangsu anti-Japanese bases. While striving to give a panoramic view of theintroduction and analysis of the general overview of the cultural and art activities ofnorthern Jiangsu anti-Japanese base areas, it also seeks to look for some questions worththinking about, such as why the Communist Party of China could propaganda among themasses and mobilize them to fight against the Japanese and construct anti-Japanese bases?How could the New Fourth Army become an iron army versed both in literature and inmilitary affairs? Through the analysis of this article, the conclusion is clear: attaching greatimportance to the cultural construction of the New Fourth Army and the bases andvigorously carrying out anti-Japanese cultural activities have played a big role.Wartime forms of cultural activities have it uniqueness. They are the product of thetimes and serve the theme of the times. Research of the paper shows that cultural and artactivities beating together with the pulse of the times have strong appeal, attractiveness andvitality, as well as a certain impetus to the development of the times. It is finally putforward research on the cultural and art activities in northern Jiangsu anti-Japanese bases isthe demand of modern times with good practical significance in order to follow thesocialist cultural and art development road with Chinese characteristics and strive to buildsocialist culture with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese manner.