The Historical Contribution Of The Yan'an Forum And The Real Meaning

As an important literature to research Mao Zedong's literary thought,the Party's literary leadership policy,Mao Zedong's “Speech in the Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium”(hereinafter referred to as “The Speech”),published at the beginning of 1942,received wide attention,researching and learning by scholars.In the Yan'an Rectification Movement,because of the appearing of burning question in literary and art circles of Yan'an,“The Speech” came into being.In view of the main contradiction,“The Speech” puts forward "Whom the literary serve for?","How to serve?","literary criticism standard" and " struggle method of literary and art circles",and gave answers and analysis around these problems,which producted the learning trend of “The Speech”,and corrected some mistakes thought in the work of literature and art at that time,and had a positive effect on literary and art workers and their works.“The Speech” is not only laid the correct ideological foundation for literary and artistic works in the period of Yan'an Rectification Movement,but also a shining theory in the history of Chinese modern literary movement,and its publishing also enriched and developed the Marxist literary theory.“The Speech” clearly pointed out that the proletariat art must serve the creating ways for workers,peasants,soldiers and the masses,and also pointed out the creative direction of the combination between popularization and improvement,which also laid the solid foundation for the development literature and art of Yan'an and the construction of literary theory system after the founding of the nation.After the founding of People's Republic of China,“The Speech” still took leadership position in the party's policy of literature and art.Deng Xiaoping inherited the spirit of "speech",and clearly put forward "Two Serve" policy,namely “literature and art serve the people”,and “literature and art serve the socialism”,and brought order out of chaos in the circle of literature and art,and broke the heavy chains of the thought of art workers in a long time.Since then,the literature and art went into the diversified forms of development,an prosperity and prosperous new era,starting a real situation of "all flowers blossoming and hundreds of schools contending".Xi Jinping's speech in Literature and Art Symposium inherited the spirit of “TheSpeech”.General Secretary,Xi Jinping 's speech,made an accurate analysis of the current problems existing in the development of literature and art,scientifically developed the content of Mao Zedong's “The Speech”,which is to adhere to the popular literature and art,and put forward the problem of the social benefits of the literature evaluation,having high expectations to literary and art workers.Xi Jinping's speech shows the clearly direction for the healthy development of literature and art,having important practical significance to promote the prosperity and development of literature and art.