Let the war song of a strong army be louder and louder —— Written on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the publication of the speech at the Yan'an Symposium on literature and art ■ Liu Xiaowei The temperature of history always makes people feel more and more in looking back again and again. In May 80 years ago, Comrade Mao Zedong personally presided over the Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium and delivered the famous speech at the Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium (hereinafter referred to as the speech). The speech fundamentally answered the major principled issues such as the direction and path of revolutionary literature and art, expounded the party's literary and art ideas and thoughts, and deeply discussed a series of major issues such as literature and art and the people, literature and art and life, literature and art and the times. It has had a far-reaching historical impact and is still shining with dazzling ideological light today. In the golden autumn eight years ago, President Xi presided over a symposium on literary and artistic work and delivered an important speech, which deeply expounded the status, role and mission of socialist literary and artistic work, creatively answered a series of fundamental and directional major questions related to the prosperity and development of literature and art, and pointed out the direction for the development of literature and art in the new era. On the occasion of commemorating the 80th anniversary of the publication of the speech, reviewing the two important programmatic documents on literary and artistic work in the history of our party is of great practical and far-reaching historical significance for prospering military literature and art, building a strong military culture, and uniting the majestic force of officers and soldiers to jointly build a strong military dream. one Culture is an important force for national survival and development. Since its birth, our army has attached great importance to the construction of military culture. A glorious military history, in a sense, is also the construction history and development history of military culture. The scenes of history are meaningful—— The Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium was held at a time when the Japanese aggressors stepped up their military attack and madly invaded the culture after the outbreak of the national war of resistance against Japan. At such a historical moment, the Party Central Committee attaches great importance to the unique important role of literary and artistic work in publicizing Anti Japanese, inspiring fighting spirit and improving combat effectiveness. At the critical juncture of the war of resistance against Japan, our Party established Lu Xun Academy of art in Yan'an, which clearly declared that "Art - drama, music, art and literature are the most powerful weapons for propaganda, encouragement and organization of the masses" and "we should develop the vast art movement in the era of National Liberation... Realize the mission and role of literature and art in today's China". In the famous battle of Chenzhuang, as soon as the battle started, the members of the battle drama club braved the hail of bullets to perform on the front line. The war lasted five days and the performance lasted five days, which greatly boosted the morale of officers and soldiers and improved the combat effectiveness of the army. This is reminiscent of Comrade Mao Zedong's summing up his speech at the Yan'an Symposium on literature and Art: the Communist Party should have two armies, one is "the army with guns in hand" and the other is "the army of culture"; "We should make literature and art an integral part of the whole revolutionary machine, serve as a powerful weapon for uniting the people, educating the people, attacking and destroying the enemy, and help the people fight the enemy with one heart and one mind.". This warm scene is also memorable—— At the Symposium on literary and artistic work held in Beijing, after listening to Yan Su's speech that literary and artistic soldiers have their own "wind, flowers and snow moon" - the wind is the "autumn wind of iron horses", the flowers are the "yellow flowers in the battlefield", the snow is the "night snow of building ships" and the moon is the "cold moon at the border", President Xi very much agreed with Yan Su's view, And deeply encouraged: "our military literary and artistic workers should mainly focus on the goal of strengthening the army and do what they should do..." in an important speech at the Symposium on literary and artistic work, President Xi deeply pointed out, "The rejuvenation of a nation requires strong material and spiritual strength. Without the active guidance of advanced culture, the great enrichment of the people's spiritual world and the continuous enhancement of national spiritual strength, a country and a nation cannot stand tall among the nations in the world." This is true for a country, a nation and an army. Culture is combat effectiveness and a powerful spiritual weapon for building a strong army. How to give full play to the role of military literature and art, serve to improve combat effectiveness and strengthen the army is a major topic that the party leaders have always paid attention to. Looking at the glorious course of more than 90 years, one of the "secrets" of the people's army from victory to victory under the banner of the party is to let the advanced military culture provide officers and soldiers with strong spiritual power, value recognition and code of conduct. "In the blue sky, I am a white cloud, embracing the earth, I am a grass, never flinching in the wind and rain, chasing dreams on the battlefield and singing the war song of a strong army..." in May this year, the song "a strong army with me" created by the literature and art light cavalry team of the PLA culture and Art Center was shocked and released on the whole network, which inspired the enthusiasm of officers and soldiers to prepare for war with passionate melody and sonorous rhythm. This is an epitome of military literary and artistic works serving a strong army. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the whole army has taken the ability to fight and win as the fundamental focus, gave full play to the powerful combat function of advanced military culture, and sang the strong voice of the times of building a strong army. A few years ago, the drama "soldiers · major events of the country" attracted the attention of officers and soldiers again last year. Together with the other three works created before the transformation of the military professional literary and artistic groups, this drama was included in the "stage art boutique creation project to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China" of the Ministry of culture and tourism, which was organized by the literary and artistic troupes directly under the Ministry of culture and tourism and successively exhibited throughout the country. Why is this play popular with officers and soldiers? Because this drama allows people to see the blood and responsibility of contemporary soldiers to overcome the accumulated disadvantages of peace and dare to face the actual contradictions, and touch the pulse of the times of building a strong army. "The closer military literature and art is to the battlefield, the closer it is to the original mission", which is the heartfelt feeling of the members of the literature and art light cavalry team of the PLA culture and Art Center. Over the past few years, they have toured the grass-roots level, and what impressed them most is the scene of going to the first-line performance in the training field. In the wind and snow border and remote checkpoints, a performance is an education, and a consolation is a mobilization. Write about strengthening the army, sharpening the spirit and sword, and arouse the fighting pride of officers and soldiers with combat literature and art. Military literature and art is at the right time. Serving a strong army in the new era, military literature and art work shows strong vitality and radiates new vitality and vitality. two This is a historical photo that has long been yellowing. In the photo, Wang Dahua and Li Bo, literary and artistic workers in Yan'an, are performing the Yangko opera "brother and sister reclaiming wasteland" for the masses. Impressively, the hillside was densely packed with spectators. It is said that the performance was watched by more than 20000 people. This is the scene after the Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium. Before the symposium, literary and artistic workers were divorced from reality and the masses. They performed many foreign dramas in Yan'an, but the masses said they couldn't understand them. To this end, Comrade Mao Zedong clearly put forward at the Yan'an Symposium on literature and art, "the question of why people is a fundamental question, a question of principle", It is emphasized that "our literature and art are for the people" and "we literary and artistic workers of intellectual origin must change and transform their thoughts and feelings in order to make their works popular with the people. Without this change and transformation, everything can not be done well and incompatible". After the Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium was held, the majority of literary and art workers came out of the "ivory tower" and "Pavilion" one after another, went deep into the countryside, the battle front and the army station, and created a large number of works loved by the masses. When the hearts of writers and artists are closely connected with the hearts of the people and embrace each other warmly, their works have more touching artistic power and eternal vitality. At the Symposium on literary and artistic work held in October 2014, President Xi stressed that, "Socialist literature and art, in essence, is the literature and art of the people." to reflect the aspirations of the people, literature and art must adhere to the fundamental direction of serving the people and socialism. " "Taking the people as the center is to take meeting the people's spiritual and cultural needs as the starting point and foothold of literature and art and literary work, the people as the main body of literary and artistic expression, the people as the connoisseur and judge of literary and artistic aesthetics, and serving the people as the bounden duty of literary and artistic workers". Guided by the spirit of President Xi's important speech, the transformation and reconstruction of military literature and art has a clear direction and strong driving force. Like the change in the people's attitude towards literary and artistic workers after the Yan'an literary and artistic symposium, today's military literary and artistic workers have changed their work style and become a good literary and artistic light cavalry team facing the grass-roots and serving the officers and soldiers, which has also been warmly welcomed by the grass-roots officers and soldiers. This scene is filled with warmth—— On February 2, 2019, when the Spring Festival is coming, President Xi made a special trip to the Beijing Garrison to cordially comfort the grass-roots officers and soldiers. With great interest, he watched the little chorus "the descendants of Zhang side" compiled and performed by the soldiers and took the lead in applauding them. President Xi said with deep feeling that the military's literary and artistic work should establish the guidance of serving soldiers and grass-roots units, build a good literary and artistic light riding team, and constantly enrich the amateur cultural life of grass-roots officers and soldiers. Since the adjustment and establishment of the PLA culture and Art Center, the literary and artistic light riding team has taken Wulan Muqi as an example and organized the literary and artistic light riding team according to the idea of "light, accurate, flexible and integrated". It covers many art categories such as vocal music, dance, instrumental music, sketch, reading, calligraphy and painting, and actively provides performance services, creative services, training services, psychological services and equipment services for the army. Up to now, it has served more than 690 soldiers, traveled more than 100000 kilometers and served more than 865000 officers and soldiers, which has been warmly welcomed by the officers and soldiers of the army. They also trained and helped the grass-roots literary and artistic backbone, and left a "literary and artistic light riding team" for the army after serving the performance. "How far the marching road is, a team set out bravely, inspired by lofty beliefs, and flew across thousands of rivers and mountains all the way..." the literature and art light riding team of the cultural work corps of the Political Work Department of the Xinjiang Military Region and the Tibet Military Region overcame factors such as bad weather conditions and went wholeheartedly to the frontier officers and soldiers and the front line of training. In the summer of 2019, the camp training unit of the school of military culture of the National Defense University traveled thousands of miles from Beijing to a naval base in the eastern theater to carry out camp training for officers and soldiers, focusing on the vocal music, dance, hosting, drama and other majors urgently needed, urgently needed and expected at the grass-roots level, and explored and formed the whole process training mode of "theory teaching, skill training, course release and graduation report". In addition, they also focused on major theme activities and created a number of excellent literary and artistic works with strong military flavor and war flavor for the army. It is understood that since 2012, the college has trained more than 3600 cultural backbones for grass-roots forces and guided the arrangement of more than 20 evening parties. Camp training has become a useful attempt for the school of military culture of National Defense University to promote the construction of military cultural services at the grass-roots level. In recent years, there is also a small literary and artistic team with the literary and artistic backbone of each army as the main body. They go to the army to carry out performance services and train amateur literary and artistic backbone for the army... Their footprints vividly reflect the distinct guidance of the military's literary and artistic work to serve the grass-roots level and officers and soldiers. three Literature and art is the clarion call for the advancement of the times. It can best represent the style of an era and lead the atmosphere of an era. The call for excellent literary and artistic works is comprehensive, true