Reflection On ’The Intermediate People’ Problem During Contemporary Chinese Literature

The Intermediate People Bad Cultural Policy’ was one of the’ Eight Bad Cultural Policies ’during the Great Cultural Revolution criticized by<JiYao>.This ’Bad Cultural Policy ’was named after Shao Quanlin,which meant that Shao should be to blame for this.Consequently,Shao Quanlin was punished,and lost his life.The whole event originated from ’the Dalian Meeting’ held in Aug,1962.On the meeting,Shao Quanlin said that our writers should describe more ’intermediate people’ in their novels,rather than those ’heroes’ or ’bad guys’.However,’the Intermediate People’described by Shao Quanlin on’ the Dalian Meeting ’can not simply equal to ’the Intermediate People’ criticized later,actually,they were two different concepts.We can find several fragments about’the Intermediate People’ in Shao Quanlin’s speech on’ the Dalian Meeting’,but these fragments accounted for only a little part in the whole speech.We will failed if we want to make an induction from these fragments about what does ’the Intermediate People’mean precisely,unless we ask for help from other materials,for example,novels which described’ the Intermediate People’ and quoted by Shao Quanlin in his speech.But,Xie Yongwang、Huang Qiuyun、Jin Weimin、Li Yunchu,etc,they wrote a series of journal papers,which explained and promoted the spirit of ’the Dalian Meeting’,moreover,they changed Shao Quanlin’s opinion.Their opinions plus Shao’s opinion equaled to’the Intermediate People Theory’.Several fragments about ’the Intermediate People’ on ’the Dalian Meeting ’finally became ’the Intermediate People Bad Cultural Policy’,this process can be regarded as a typical case in ’the Seventeen Years’ and the Great Cultural Revolution.It helps us to learn about the criticizer’s working ways,and the essence of the criticize.<Wen YiBao>was one of the most important journals at that time.We can find from<WenYiBao>(1962-1966)that there were many complicated causes in this criticize event:people’s complex psychology during that ’dark era’、complex fighting among different literature groups、specific class division among workers、farmers、soldiers and intellectuals.Among all these reasons,intellectuals’ attitude is a matter of concern.Essentially,’Shao Quanlin’s Intermediate People Theory ’was an injustice,it was made by politic and tragically became the victim of politic.They choose Shao Quanlin,because he was the head of literature organizations,moreover,Shao showed a tendency that he preferred ’normal people ’than these so-called ’heroes’ in his early works.’The Intermediate People’ was closely related to ’the Normal People’ in many ways.During these criticize events,Shao Quanlin and these literature works which referred to ’the Intermediate People’ were all criticized,but they all need to be rehabilitated when time passes To rebel these so-called ’heroes’ and ’bad guys’,’the Intermediate People’ appears.It broke the rigidified conception about character description,given the character description more spaces.However,the tense atmosphere at that time limited ’the Intermediate People’ in many ways.When describing ’the Intermediate People’,writers sometimes adopted the same means as they described ’heroes’;’the Intermediate People’ finally will become heroes narrowed this kind of characters,too.’The Intermediate People Bad Cultural Policy’actually was one part of ’Realism go deeper’,but for the convenience of criticize,it was picked as a independent theory.’The Intermediate People Bad Cultural Policy’was a good example to study the relationship between literature aesthetic and polity.