What is the "seventeen years" literature after the founding of the People's Republic of China?

Seventeen-year literature refers to the period of China literature from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" (1966), which belongs to a period of contemporary literature in China. "Seventeen years" can only be regarded as a very short moment in the long history and five thousand years of civilization in China. When it is given a specific meaning and bears a special historical content, it can no longer ignore its long history in literature-even though it has been deposited for more than half a century, it is still a "living fossil": that is, the two aspects embodied in the literature in the seventeen years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

1. The strongest stroke in the history of literature at that time was that politics was above literariness, and the political movement caused the blind obedience of literature. Facing the works at that time, we can almost truly feel the political atmosphere of that era and some spiritual characteristics of people at that time, and the works were forced to be put into a political thought and popular political tendency recognized by the situation. When the high revolutionary enthusiasm replaces the realistic creation and poetic realm of literature, it naturally produces literary norms that meet these requirements.

2: I think the course of this decade, despite all kinds of shortcomings, also occupies a considerable position in the history of China literature. It has high artistic achievements and rich artistic connotations in the modern, modern and contemporary literary history of China. The seventeen-year literary period also produced many literary works with high artistic achievements, such as Defending Yan 'an, Red Sun and <; < Lin Hai Xue Yuan >, <; < Red flag spectrum > > \< < Song of Youth, Morning in Shanghai, History of Entrepreneurship, <; < Hongyan >: > , "Storm" and other outstanding writers such as Du Pengcheng, Qu Bo, Liu Qing, Zhou Libo, Zhou Erfu, Wei Wei, Yao Xueyin have emerged. In the past seventeen years, Lao She, Tian Han and other old writers have also contributed many good works.

Of course, the characteristics of the seventeen-year literature are also very distinct, because at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people of the whole country worshipped China's * * * production party and its leaders very much, and all the people were very positive and simple-minded, which was also reflected in literary works to varying degrees, so there were about three themes in this stage: praise, memory and struggle. Praise the party, leaders, socialism and the people; Recall the years of war, the years of suffering, and the past life; Fight imperialism, capitalism, old ideas and old ideas. Therefore, the artistry of a few works at this time is not high, and the works mainly reflect the idea that literature carries Tao. The style of the works is often lost to simplicity, and the characters also show some stylized tendencies.

as a literary genre, novels are prominently reflected in the shaping and depiction of characters. Novels always take it as their duty to create typical characters by relying on the complete story in a specific environment. The characters portrayed are sometimes a synthesis of realistic contradictions and have artistic expressive significance. Looking at the 17-year history of literature, the typical is exaggerated excessively or even unlimited here, which is concentrated in a term that appears repeatedly in countless popular revolutionary war novels: hero. At that time, the criterion of "whether the theme is important or not determines the value of the work" required the writer to choose only "important themes" to express, that is, to express only bright things. Among them, only those heroic images who are fearless, desperate, strong and brave can become the focus of the concern and interest of the author and readers. When it comes to heroes, we have to talk about hero worship here. Anyone who has studied history should know that most of the heroic ideas we initially formed in our minds came from myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, which shows that hero worship is not a unique product of that crazy era, but has a profound historical origin. In China, it is a blind worship, but it is worth mentioning that the heroes of ancient Greece and Rome are quite different from those created by China in seventeen years. The hero of the former is not only the perfect embodiment of human beings, but also more or less has the ugly side of human nature, while the hero of the latter is gradually evacuated into a fixed accumulation body representing the advanced class attributes and possessing noble political quality under the social conditions of blind political ideal; The former is flesh and blood, and like mortals, there is worldly desires, and everyone has his own unique characteristics. For example, Achilles in Homer's Epic is an out-and-out war hero, but he is a brave but irritable commander-in-chief. However, Yin Qingchun in China's Yin Qingchun and Xiao Wu in Eternal Warrior are hard to exist in it except for the collective. On the other hand, in order to reflect the complete height of the hero image, almost all the novels in the past seventeen years have adopted absolute affirmation-this is actually an unwritten rule: as long as a hero is indomitable spirit, even if he becomes a prisoner, he will still stand high above Changhong; Even in the face of thousands of difficulties and dangers, it is still inspired by lofty beliefs, and there is no intention of retreating.

The concealment of cities in "seventeen-year literature" is more manifested in the scarcity of urban literature. In the literary world of China in the "Seventeen Years", the writers in the former "Liberated Areas" occupied a dominant position. They were familiar with rural life, and in their minds, literature and art serving the people were understood as serving farmers. The popularization of literature and art they pursued for many years, more precisely, the peasantry of literature and art. This determines that their pens often stay in the material field of rural life, and lack the necessary reflection on the city where they live. Even some works reflecting urban life, "urban space" is reduced to "factory", a place for struggling capitalists, and the emotional expression, moral system, value orientation and literary imagination in these works are completely bound in the category of rural culture, reflecting the writers' rural complex. The concealment of the city makes the modernization demands expressed in the "seventeen-year literature" text lack the construction of spiritual and material foundation, and at the same time it shows great one-sidedness. "Seventeen-year Literature" seems to be the writing of red China and local China.