Chapter 134 The backbone of the literary army

At the third "Wen Dynasty" conference, listening to representatives of workers and peasants speak was like drinking ice water in the dog days. The audience in the Great Hall of the People was full of rapt attention for a while, and then burst into applause uncontrollably.How vivid, how deep, how mellow, how powerful are the words of these speakers!Just as the worker poet Huang Shengxiao said: "Today I will stand in the Great Hall of the People of our own 650 million people and speak loudly, so that the imperialists and all reactionaries will tremble when they hear it, and the proletariat of the world will listen to it." encouraged."

These proletarian poets and painters, just a few years ago, were still cut off from the pen, really "a shoulder pole has fallen down, and it still doesn't recognize the word 'one'"!Once they grasped the sharp tool of literature and art, they immediately held it firmly in their hands as a "weapon to unite the people, educate the people, strike the enemy, and destroy the enemy."They have a firm stand, have a clear distinction between what to like and what to hate, and express the feelings and ideals of themselves and the people.They wrote, painted and sang for their unstoppable fiery emotions, just as the peasant painter Chu Chunyi said: "Our production develops so fast, and our life is so sweet, the more we think about it, the happier we are. I want to sing, I want to write, I want to paint.” How can this surging voice and image, coming from the masses and going to the masses, not be welcomed by the people, but also inspire them?

Each of these workers, peasants and writers had different motivations for starting their creations. Like the worker poet Guo Xianhong, when a delegation from a capitalist country came to their factory, "Looking at our lively workers, they are very skillful in manipulating these new equipment. , they were shocked!" made him happy and proud.He said: "Thinking about the past, we were trampled and bullied by domestic reactionaries and foreign imperialists, but now, the imperialists and capitalists look so small and insignificant in front of us! This feeling of pride makes me unable to resist I want to pick up my pen!"

Peasant poet Huo Mansheng, in order to tell everyone about "The Legend of Thief", the landlord Shaodong took out a pistol and aimed it at his chest, and this tone has been suppressed in his heart.He began to compose poems to fight class enemies until he wrote: Li Bai wrote a poem to Du Fu. I couldn't help thinking: If we two great ancient poets could hear these two wonderful lines, they would surely laugh and be proud of being able to fight the reactionaries together with the peasant poets. The wonderful speeches of workers, peasants and artists at the "Wen Dynasty" conference are too numerous to record. In addition, there are writers and actors who are intellectuals... Whoever goes deep into the fiery struggle of workers, peasants and soldiers, he gets along well with workers, peasants and soldiers The longer the time, the more harmonious the emotions are, and the more simple and profound his speeches are, sincere and touching!On the one hand, we deeply understand that Chairman Mao instructed us that "China's revolutionary writers and artists, promising writers and artists must go among the masses, must go wholeheartedly among the masses of workers, peasants and soldiers for a long time and unconditionally... ..." is an eternal truth; on the one hand, we cannot but feel extremely happy that in just a few years, a literary and artistic team with the proletariat as the backbone has been formed.Let us always learn from them, and under their encouragement and urging, together climb "the peak of new literature and art that is greater than the literature and art of any era."

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