| To have the soul tempered and talents cultivated through literature and art,as a kind of ideological and political education that is implicit,plays a very important role in summoning people’s energies,uniting people’s will,cultivating people of the time and promoting social harmony.At present,profound changes have taken place in not only the social and cultural environment but also people’s aesthetic concepts,which poses new challenges to our ideological work,in which great importance has always been attached to the role of literature and art by General Secretary Xi Jinping.Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China(CPC),Xi has delivered a series of important speeches about the cultural and art work,having the fundamental questions such as “who does literature and art serve and how does it serve them?”,also some questions about significant social practice,such as “Should literature and art in the new era adhere to and exert social value,what social value should they adhere to and exert,and how to adhere to and exert social value of literature and art?”,got answered in a scientific way.It has been put forward clearly that “for literature and art is a project that may have souls cultivated,it shall undertake the responsibility of having people tempered and educated”,which is believed to be a scientific proposition.A lot of educational ideas,such as status and functions,ideological contents,important carrier,subject accomplishments as well as practical principles of having the soul tempered and talents cultivated through literature and art in the new time,are contained in Xi’s speech on cultural and art work.Being a theoretical system with strict logic and neat structure,they form Xi Jinping’s important exposition on having the soul tempered and talents cultivated through literature and art,providing both ideological and practical guidance for the cultural and art work as well as ideological work in the new era.Having been thinking about realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,Xi views having the soul tempered and talents cultivated through literature and art in a strategic way.He has pointed out that literature and art should provide spiritual power for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,revealed the individual education and social civilization functions of having the soul tempered and talents cultivated through literature and art,and clarified its strategic position as well as educational functions.He emphasized that literature and art shall be used to carry forward Chinese spirit and boost national cohesion.In this way,the contents of having the soul tempered and talents cultivated through literature and art in the new time get clarified.Xi pointed out that outstanding literary and artistic works are an important carrier for casting the soul of Literature and art and educating people,stressing it is necessary to attract,to adhere to the people-oriented creation orientation,to stick to the creative attitude of going deep into life,guide and inspire people with good works.Xi also pointed out that workers of literary and art should take the main responsibility of having the soul tempered and talents cultivated through literature and art,and they must uphold moral virtues and art besides improving their own quality and culture.Xi Jinping put forward the practical principles of educating people and guiding students: adhere to CPC’s overall leadership and firmly establish the consciousness of literary and artistic position;strengthen talent construction and improve the quality of literary and artistic workers;know well the masses’ knowledge acceptance characteristics and inspire their main force;put social benefits in the first place and guide the healthy development of cultural industry.With Xi’s idea on having the soul tempered and talents cultivated through literature and art,the Chinese traditional thought that writings are for conveying truth has been creatively transformed.While inheriting and developing the Marxist theory of having the soul tempered and talents cultivated through literature and art,it further promotes CPC’s theory of it,thus this exposition is of significance in both historical status and guiding function.Xi Jinping’s important comments on the cultivation and education of people with art and literature is reflection of strong and powerful sense of theory,sense of history,sense of reality and sense of nationality,which displays distinct theoretical characteristics.Xi Jinping’s important exposition on educating people and guiding students is an inevitable requirement for building socialist modernization in an all-round way.It provides theoretical guidance for the practice of educating people and guiding students in the new era and has also important practical significance. |