Guangming Daily: Literature and art cannot be slaves to the market and must resonate with contemporary Chinese people

The charm of literary and artistic works is not created by sitting in the room and dreaming about it, but is created through close contact with real life and in-depth experience. If literary and artistic works want to resonate with contemporary Chinese people, they should first have the pattern of the times, historical responsibilities and even cultural missions.

According to media reports, He Xiangjiu, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, criticized the chaos of literature and art at this two sessions. He recalled that when creating the full-length TV series "Jiao Yulu", the producer wanted to ask a private company to cooperate. The person in charge of that company offered the conditions for cooperation were that the script should be first changed, the awareness of the main theme should be downplayed, and there should be "human drama" and "human drama". Only in this way can there be "drama to watch."

Disregarding historical truth, he "arranged""human drama" and "human drama" for Jiao Yulu just by opening "brain holes", obviously entering the misunderstanding of dispelling sublimity and putting entertainment first. This kind of operation is not just a question of "playing" and "playing", but in the final analysis, it is a vulgarization expression.

In the new era environment, what is the main theme of Jiao Yulu's spirit? It is the sentiment of a public servant that "holds all the people in his heart, but not himself", the pragmatic style of exploring everything and "eating buns chewed by others has no taste", and the fighting spirit of "daring to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky" and "revolutionaries" The fighting spirit of being a hero in the face of difficulties "is the moral sentiment of hard work and plain living, being honest and upright, and" never engaging in specialization at any time."

It is not that literary and artistic works cannot reflect Jiao Yulu's human nature and humanity, but no matter where the perspective is cut in, no matter how human nature is explored, they cannot be divorced from objective reality, otherwise they will not be able to win the recognition of the audience. For some time, some film and television works have been fabricated for the sake of so-called ratings and box office, even distorting history and mocking sublime. Such excavation is not a sincere and honest attitude, nor is it a responsible attitude towards history, culture, or public perception. While "pulling down" heroes, it also distorts the values of a nation and a country and disintegrates cohesion.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech at the symposium on literary and artistic work: "Compared with social benefits, economic benefits are secondary. When there is a contradiction between two benefits and two values, economic benefits must obey social benefits, and market values must obey social values. Literature and art cannot be slaves to the market, and don't be covered with the stench of money." "We must adhere to the aesthetic ideals of literature and art, maintain the independent value of literature and art, and reasonably set quantitative indicators such as circulation, ratings, click-through rates, and box office revenue that reflect market acceptance. We must neither ignore or deny these indicators, nor must we absolute these indicators. Change, be led by the nose by the market." The essence of one-sidedly pursuing "having a show" means making wrong choices and becoming a "slave to the market" when considering which is more important, social benefits and economic benefits.

The people are the source of literary and artistic creation. Once they leave the people, literature and art will become rootless duckweed, disease-free groans, and soulless shells. As General Secretary Xi Jinping said: "The people are not abstract symbols, but concrete people, with blood and flesh, emotions, love and hate, dreams, and inner conflicts and struggles." In fact, as long as we conduct in-depth observation, dig carefully, and present a real Jiao Yulu, how can there be "no chance"?

The charm of literary and artistic works is not created by sitting in the room and dreaming about it, but is created through close contact with real life and in-depth experience. If literary and artistic works want to resonate with contemporary Chinese people, they should first have the pattern of the times, historical responsibilities and even cultural missions. Only by taking a serious attitude towards past history and historical figures can we have an equal dialogue with them and artistically present vivid stories.

Editor: yvette