Research On Mao Zedong’s Thought On Rural Cultural Construction In The Yan’an Period

Rural cultural revitalization is the soul of rural revitalization strategy,and rural cultural construction is the due meaning of rural revitalization strategy.Since the 18 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to the important role of rural culture construction in the rural revitalization strategy.In the report of the 20 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,General Secretary Xi Jinping further proposed to comprehensively promote rural revitalization and solidly promote rural cultural revitalization.During the Yan’an period,Mao Zedong attached great importance to the issue of rural cultural construction and carried out arduous theoretical and practical exploration,thus forming the corresponding thinking on rural cultural construction.This idea has important guiding significance for carrying out rural culture construction in the new era and promoting the comprehensive rural revitalization strategy.During the Yan’an period,Mao Zedong carried out innovative development of the theory of rural cultural construction by Marxist classic writers,which made the Marxist theory of rural cultural construction Chinese,modern,and took root in China.Mao Zedong absorbed and developed the theory of rural cultural construction of the Communist Party of China before the Yan’an period,and inherited the rural cultural construction thinking in China’s excellent traditional culture.These theories and ideas of rural cultural construction have had an important impact on the formation of Mao Zedong’s thinking on rural cultural construction in the Yan’an period,and are the theoretical source of Mao Zedong’s thought on rural cultural construction in the Yan’an period.The four aspects of lagging behind in rural cultural construction in base areas,the generally low cultural level of peasants,the cultural encroachment carried out by the Japanese aggressors,and the cultural autocracy of the Kuomintang reactionaries are the background and reasons for the emergence of Mao Zedong’s thinking on rural cultural construction in the Yan’an On this basis,this paper further explores the basic composition of Mao Zedong’s ideological system of rural cultural construction in the Yan’an period,and the main contents of its ideological system are the construction of rural education,rural science and technology,rural health,rural sports,and rural literature and art.These five parts are interrelated and mutually reinforcing,thus digging into their internal logical relationships.The internal logic of Mao Zedong’s thinking on rural cultural construction in the Yan’an period is that the construction of rural education is the foundation of rural cultural construction,the construction of rural science and technology is the driving force of rural cultural construction,the construction of rural health is the support of rural cultural construction,the construction of rural sports is the guarantee of rural cultural construction,and the construction of rural literary and artistic undertakings is the sublimation of rural cultural construction.When analyzing the main content and internal logic of Mao Zedong’s thought on rural cultural construction in the Yan’an period period,and are the historical necessity of Mao Zedong’s rural cultural construction.Excavate and explain the main characteristics of Mao Zedong’s thinking on rural cultural construction in the Yan’an period,which is mainly reflected in the emphasis on cultural co-construction and sharing,the combination of intellectuals and peasants,the combination of education and production,and the War of Resistance.Following the logic of history and reality,the historical contribution and practical enlightenment of Mao Zedong’s thought on rural cultural construction in the Yan’an period were analyzed.During the Yan’an period,Mao Zedong’s thinking on rural cultural construction guided the rural cultural construction in the anti-Japanese base areas to make remarkable achievements,and its historical contributions were mainly embodied in promoting the development of rural cultural construction,forging closer flesh-and-blood ties between the Communist Party of China and the masses,providing cultural preparations for the victory of the rural revolutionary road,and enriching and developing the Marxist theory of rural cultural construction.These historical contributions and practical experiences can bring many useful practical enlightenments for the construction of rural culture and the realization of rural revitalization in the new era.In the new era,in the process of carrying out rural cultural construction,it is necessary to adhere to the guiding position of Marxism and the party’s comprehensive leadership,persist in taking the broadest masses of the people as the center,attach importance to the cultural education and guidance of peasants in connection with the tasks of the new era,and vigorously cultivate backbone cadres of excellent quality rural cultural construction in the new era.