Cong Zhichen: Red literature highlights the spirit of Chinese spirit and Chinese style

Cong Zhichen, an associate professor at the Chinese Department of Peking University

Red is the brightest background of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China. In the great journey of the Chinese Communist Party's unity and leading the Chinese people for a century, the red blood was passed down from generation to generation. Red literature has also become the mainstream of Chinese modern and contemporary literature. A department tells the red classics of the party's stories, revolutionary stories, and heroic stories, reflects the brilliant achievements of the party's leadership and art cause, record the historical great cause of the party's unity and leadership creation, and condense the historical memories and thoughts of a generation of Chinese people. emotion.

In the new era, red theme literature flourish. From different perspectives and different forms of red stories and red resources, not only the traditional and serious literary masterpieces, but also the "red" elements in popular literature and online literature are also increasingly prominent Some works have been adapted into film and television dramas. Telling red stories, inheriting the red gene, the creation of red themes carrying a heavy history, while continuously open to the vast reality of the era, constantly pushing out the new, strongly highlighting the Chinese spirit and the Chinese style.

Through artistic innovation, tell the red history to the heart of contemporary readers

Red literature profoundly affects the unique appearance of Chinese literature. Writers actively participate in the active spirit of revolutionary practice and intervene in society, pursue the creative pursuit of artistic refining and vivid writing of revolutionary history, and adhere to the aesthetic model of character shaping of realism. They are all precious traditions accumulated by red literature. Innovation is the life of art. With the changes in the background of the times and the aesthetic needs of readers, red literature is constantly seeking breakthroughs in terms of content vision, expression, and ideological connotation, trying to tell the red history through artistic innovation to contemporary readers.

With the latest achievements of historical research, combining the case head and field visits, contemporary writers continue to penetrate the red history, broaden the writing field, and enrich the connotation of the subject matter. Take the work that celebrates the works that have emerged during the century of the party as an example. He Jianming's "Revolutionary" uses the young martyrs who sacrifice the young martyrs on the streets of Shanghai, telling the touching deeds of the early Chinese Communists for their ideals and convictions. Nodes, vividly restore the historical scene with literary brushwork; Yang Zhenlin's "China on the Mountainside: Red Flag Qu" and Tieliu "Link" and other works, focusing on the precious historical experience accumulated by the century -old party history, write and promote the national spirit.

While showing the ideal of revolutionary ideals, some creations integrate more humanistic feelings and deepen and enrich the artistic techniques of realism. The development of red literature is closely related to the increasingly abundance of contemporary literature and art. Thanks to the continuous exploration of literary creation in the past few decades, today's red literature is more calm in dealing with the relationship between history and art, subject matter and form. A number of revolutionary historical novels such as Zheng Xin's "East to the Sea", such as grand narrative but more "ingenious" in the root of the roots. The typical character is created. Essence

Some creations are facing contemporary readers, drawing beneficial elements from popular literature and popular culture. In fact, some red classics from the 1950s to the 1970s have absorbed the advantages of Chinese classical popular novels. "Lin Haixueyuan" is one of the typical representatives. Revolutionary narrative naturally has heroic romantic and legendary colors. It is vivid and fascinating. In recent years, a number of writers such as Haifei have excavated spy war stories from the red history, and successively wrote works such as "Sparrow" and "Suzhou River". Some have been adapted from film and television dramas and spread widely. Sun Ganlu's "Thousands of Rivers and Mountains" also uses type novels and popular literature and art to interpret the ups and downs of revolutionary historical stories, exciting, and closer the distance between red history and contemporary readers.

Based on the background of the times, let the red spirit enter the reality from history

The red theme focuses not only the red past in the smoke and fire. In the new era, historic changes have undergone the cause of the party and the state and have achieved historic achievements. Based on the background of the times, let the red spirit from historically illuminate the reality, write the inheritance of red genes and revolutionary salary, and become an important topic of red literary creation.

In this regard, the creators need to establish a view of history and the Great Age, and to understand reality in history and discover history from reality. Whether it is poverty alleviation or building a beautiful China, when the great practice of writing a new era in literature, if it can be placed in a century -old struggle, and placed in the continuous red spiritual context, it will undoubtedly expand the works to expand the works. Deepen the reader's understanding of reality and history. Fan Ping's "The Sun Turn" not only tells the story of a former fighting hero now dedicated to the post of criminal police. The power and dedication of the belief of the Communist Party. Wen Yanxia's "Pipa Block" takes the Gannan Mountains as the background, and writes how to change from the red hot soil of the revolutionary era to the hot soil of poverty alleviation and development in the new era. These works have both historical depth of field and realistic temperatures, which vividly present the appearance of the new era, and also reveal the inheritance and development of history.

On the other hand, it is necessary to go deep into the scene of the times, capture new actual experience and new hero model image in a timely manner, and promote the red spirit with contemporary value. In the red classics from the 1950s to the 1970s, "Red Rock", "Red Day" and "Red Flag Supreme", which not only focused on the history of the revolutionary history, but also the "History of Entrepreneurship" and "Great Change of the Mountains" that showed the agricultural cooperation campaign. There are industrial novels such as "Breaking the Wind", which reflects the timely writing of the socialist construction cause at that time. The new weather presented in the new era and the emergence of new characters need today's red literature to discover and express vividly. After the 80s writer Dong Xia Qingqing, in the process of visiting the border defense, he accumulated the true understanding of the soldiers who stationed in the border guards under the difficult conditions, and provided fresh experience for military writing with the work "Under the Mount Kichalit". Zijin's "Earth Like Song" tells the life story of Gao Baolai, the late police station of the Enshizhuang Police Station of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, and created a touching new era Leifeng character image. Carry forward the fine traditions and let the red theme writing endlessly

Red literature is a unique carrier of red culture. It continues to discover the red elements in historical memory, showing the new connotation of red culture, and at the same time, with the expressiveness and appeal of language art, the red culture has resonated with readers. In the development of red culture, the status and role of literature are difficult to replace. Red -themed works have become a strong motivation for online literature in recent years, which reflects the attractiveness of red stories to contemporary readers, especially young readers.

Show the power of faith, inherit the red gene, and guide people to establish and adhere to the correct view of history, national view, national outlook, cultural concept, and enhance the aspirations, bones, and confidence of the Chinese people. This is an irreplaceable value and charm of red theme. It is also the reason why red literature is often written and endless. Zhu Xiuhai's "Belong Horse" tells that a female former captain followed the army with the army repeatedly built magical achievements in the Northeast battlefield. After the revolutionary victory, he returned to Yimeng Mountain, hiding his merits and names, and lived the ordinary life of ordinary people. Her understanding of the revolution and the simplicity and sincere understanding of the spirit of the Communist Party have triggered the thinking of readers today. Lao Teng's "North Earth" writes the firm belief of the builders of the North Wilderness and the deep feelings of the home country. The novel characters deeply realize in the pursuit of the history of the father and the elderly. There is a spiritual inheritance.

For the current red theme creation, we not only have the magnificent revolutionary history and the deeds of the characters that can be excavated and written, but also have deep creative experience and literary traditions for reference and drawing. Liang Bin, Wu Qiang, Qu Bo and other older generations of writers have the experience of revolutionary struggle themselves, and have established their beliefs for writing for the people in the baptism of blood and fire. On the basis of the deep accumulation of life, they are improving and refined, and they create excellent works with both red genes and classic quality, both revolutionary passion and dirty atmosphere, showing the style of Chinese literature. Today's creators should draw power and nutrients from the valuable literary experience of their predecessors, consciously go into life, take root in the people, and consciously inherit and carry forward the spirit of Chinese aesthetics.

Regardless of how the literature changes, the writing of red stories and inheritance of the red spirit will not stop, and they constitute the eternal charm of Chinese literature. It is expected that the creation of red themes will continue to produce Huang Zhongda Lu, showing the Chinese style with the red classic in the new era.

Source: People's Daily

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