How to understand the contemporary value of literary creation?

The significance is: to feel the steadfastness, selflessness and lifelong struggle for faith of revolutionary heroes across the years in red books.

As a special historical and cultural resource, the red classics have not become sealed history with the development of the times; they are also current, with the original works still being constantly read, watched, and appreciated, and have become a resource for contemporary literary and artistic creation, being repeatedly adapted, remade, and covered.

The Red Classics are the "literature of the workers, peasants, and soldiers," and they make heroes out of the ordinary people who have been neglected and scorned for thousands of years, which is different from the "May Fourth" period when they looked down on the common people and pitied them. The daily life of the common people, especially the peasants, is shown to the readers in a delicate way that has never been seen before.

The national sentiment, sense of social responsibility and ideal beliefs expressed in the red classics, as well as their pursuit and creation of a lofty artistic realm that transcends one's own interests, are the most valuable literary heritage, which is also lacking in today's literary writing, and need to be learned and drawn from, especially when they are free from the constraints of the "economic power", they need to draw valuable spiritual nourishment from the red classics.

These are the most important things that we can do to improve the quality of our work.

The writers and artists who are active in literary creation today have all been influenced by the Red Classics, which have become one of the traditions and resources of contemporary literary creation. Compared with the stormy revolutionary and war years that gave birth to the Red Classics, contemporary China is also undergoing a profound and drastic change, and it should also be able to produce new classic works.

The red classics are the "literature of the workers, peasants and soldiers", which take as their protagonists the common people at the bottom of the social ladder, who have been neglected and scorned for thousands of years, and mold them into heroes. We can think that what it conveys is also a kind of authentic civilian spirit. The spirit of the common people is different from that of the May Fourth Movement, which looked down on the common people and pitied them, but rather looked up to them.

The close-up view makes the daily life of the commoners, especially the peasants, unfold before the readers in a delicate way that has never been seen before.

Only writers like Liu Qing, Liang Bin and Hao Ran, who are truly familiar with the peasants and love the rural life, can depict the natural scenery of Toad Beach, Qianli Dike, Baiyangdian, and Dongshanwu with such deep feelings, and let the readers feel the peasants' simple spirituality and worldly joys and sorrows when they are rendering the winds and clouds of the times.

The characters of Liang Shengbao, Zhu Laozhong, and Xiao Changchun are indeed taller than real-life peasants. But these characterizations are not lacking in believability because they are not unearthly. They still feel like living people, not puppets on strings.

The red classics highlight the spirit of collectivism. "The discovery of the "individual" by the May Fourth Movement is of great positive significance, and the respect for individual life and individual rights is one of the most important achievements in the construction of modernity. However, focusing on the individual and respecting the individual does not mean that individual interests are paramount and teamwork is not emphasized. The spirit of collectivism can also be translated as team spirit in today's context.

People are both individual and social. Individual value is valued as a prerequisite, while collectivism and team spirit are the transcendence of the value and meaning of individual life.

Red classics are dominated by revolutionary romanticism, which conveys a very unique charm. What makes the heroes in Red Rock transcend ordinary people is not their extraordinary martial arts skills or intellect, but their superb willpower based on faith.

The transcendent spirit of the red classics is not only reflected in the aspect of the spiritual temperament of the heroes. It is also manifested in the transcendence of the artistic atmosphere and aesthetic realm created by the works: readers even know that Lin Daojing is not equal to Yang Mo, or Jianghua is different from Ma Jianmin.

Knowing that the real Weihu Mountain is not as dangerous as the novels, and that Qionghai's "Nanfu" is different from the situation in the movie or the dance drama, readers still like to be intoxicated by the artistic atmosphere of the work, because the work introduces everyone to a better world on the other side.

Thus, after the passage of time, readers can criticize the various limitations of the red classics, but it is difficult to forget it, and we should not ignore its existence.