The cause of literature and art is an important cause of the Party and the people, and the literary and artistic front is an important front of the Party and the people. During his work in Zhejiang, the General Secretary clearly proposed that Zhejiang literature and art should be prosperous and developed. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the General Secretary has delivered a series of important speeches at the symposium on literature and art work, the opening ceremony of the 9th National Congress of the Chinese Writers’ Association at the 10th National Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the joint group meeting of members of the cultural and artistic circles and social sciences circles of the CPPCC, pointing out the way forward for the prosperity and development of socialist literature and art.
First, Zhejiang literature and art are full of righteousness. The majority of literary and artistic workers in the province listen to the Party, follow the Party, show great virtue, and cultivate integrity. The theme is louder and the positive energy is stronger.
Second, Zhejiang literature and art are in full bloom. In the fields of literature, drama, film, television, music, dance, art, photography, calligraphy, quyi, acrobatics, folk literature and art in our province, a number of excellent works with national influence have emerged.
Third, Zhejiang has a large number of literary and artistic talents. There are a total of 7215 members of the National Artists Association in the province, of which 8 were selected as “Four One Batch” talents in the Publicity Department, 5 were selected as “Young Talents” in the Publicity Department, and 5 were selected as “Ten Thousand Talents Plan”.
Fourth, Zhejiang’s literary and artistic undertaking. In order to serve and guarantee the G20 Summit, more than 600 artists in our province have undertaken the work of editing, directing, creating, performing and so on of the summit gala, fully demonstrating the unique charm and beautiful image of Zhejiang. In order to help the rural revitalization, our provincial writers and artists served as rural work instructors, lighting up the way for farmers to become rich with art. Especially this year, in the face of the sudden COVID-19, literary and artistic workers in our province devoted themselves to fighting the epidemic and creating enthusiastically, effectively playing the role of strengthening confidence, warming people’s hearts and gathering people’s hearts. The practice has fully proved that the writers and artists in our province are an excellent team with faith and feelings, high quality and ability, and dare to take good deeds.
To achieve socialist modernization, we cannot do without the prosperity of culture and literature and art. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee opened a new journey of socialist modernization and put forward the strategic goal of building a cultural power by 2035. The 8th Plenary Session of the 14th Provincial Party Committee fully implemented the requirements of the Central Committee, based on the reality of Zhejiang, responded to the expectations of the people, put forward the modernization of cultural construction first, and made a comprehensive deployment to build a new era of cultural highland. Literature and art is the name card of culture, an important ruler of civilization, and an important symbol of the times. The cultural heritage of Zhejiang comes from the five thousand years of Chinese civilization; The root vein of Zhejiang literature and art is deeply rooted in the rich soil of “three places”; The nutrients of Zhejiang literature and art are derived from the vivid practice of the “August 8th Strategy”; The flowers and fruits of Zhejiang literature and art are bred from the hard work of Zhejiang people; The future of Zhejiang literature and art is engraved on the magnificent picture of “important window”, and Zhejiang writers and artists shoulder the heavy responsibility at the right time. It is hoped that the provincial literary and artistic front will firmly hold the right direction, respond to the call of the times, take root in the land, pursue artistic ideals, and prosper the development of Zhejiang’s literature and art in the new era, so as to provide value guidance and spiritual support for striving to become a leading province in socialist modernization.
Here, I would like to put forward five hopes to encourage you all.
First, we should be confident in culture, and use advanced literature and art to keep our roots and forge our souls
The world today is undergoing unprecedented changes in a century. This is a period of great change, transition, and accelerated evolution of the game. It is a period of endless new situations, new contradictions, and new challenges. To strengthen cultural self-confidence is related to the prosperity and decline of the country, cultural security and the independence of the national spirit. The provincial literary and artistic front should adhere to the guiding position of Marxism, firmly grasp the direction of advanced culture, adhere to the correct position, viewpoint and method, sing the main melody, promote positive energy, and encourage the whole province to unite and forge ahead.
First, we should use literature and art to disseminate advanced theories.
Second, we should use literature and art to inherit the red gene. As the starting place of the Chinese revolutionary red ship, Zhejiang has rich red resources. We should take the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China as an opportunity to vigorously promote the spirit of the Red Boat, deeply tap and use the red cultural resources of Zhejiang, use rich and colorful art forms, create more and better literary and artistic works, tell the red story of Zhejiang, and melt the red gene into the blood of every Zhejiang person.
Third, we should use literature and art to boost vitality. Our way forward has never been smooth. The more we go against the wind and climb over obstacles, the more we need to boost our spirits and work hard. We should use the power of literature and art to convey the spirit of Zhejiang, encourage the cadres and masses of the province not to be discouraged in the face of challenges, not to bow in the face of difficulties, stimulate a high spirited and indomitable state of mind, and create a strong atmosphere of being practical, being first, and doing well.
Second, we should focus on the people and use people’s literature and art to eulogize the good life of the new era
Over the years, Zhejiang cadres and masses have implemented the ten major action plans to enrich the people and strengthen the province, implemented digital reform, accelerated high-quality development, promoted the modernization of provincial governance, built an important hub of the “the Belt and Road”, and fought against the COVID-19. Many fascinating reform stories have emerged, leaving many inspiring footprints and showing many touching human love. These are the best creative materials of Zhejiang literature and art. The provincial literary and artistic front should firmly establish the view that “the people are the creators of history”, clarify the fundamental issue of who to create and speak for, take into account the people’s life, destiny and feelings, express the people’s wishes, mood and voice, and praise the people of Zhejiang and Jiangsu with fine spiritual food, and dedicate to the people of Zhejiang.
First, we must take root in the people. Real life is an inexhaustible source of literary creation, and people’s practice is an inexhaustible rich mineral resource for artistic innovation. We should establish and improve the long-term mechanism of “going deep into life and taking root in the people”, widely carry out the activities of “eight entries” and “cultural entry into thousands of families” of artists and writers, deeply observe, study and analyze the lively life forms, thoughts and feelings of the people, seek inspiration, collect materials and absorb nutrients from the people, and never build cars behind closed doors to engage in “soilless cultivation”.
Second, reflect the people’s life. Only literary and artistic works with flesh and blood, emotion, love and hate, and dreams can be attractive, infectious, and vital. It is necessary to carry out a series of literary and artistic creation and exhibition activities of “Well off in Zhejiang”, record the good life of the masses in the camera, pour the joys and sorrows of the masses into the pen, deeply refine the life, vividly express the life, and fully display the life, and carefully depict the literary and artistic scroll of Zhejiang people’s entrepreneurship.
Third, meet the spiritual needs of the masses. With the continuous improvement of living standards, the people’s requirements for the quality, taste, form and variety of literary and artistic works are also getting higher and higher. We should actively participate in the construction of a civilized practice center for the new era, help rural revitalization and the construction of rural cultural auditorium, carry out the project-based operation of literature and art volunteer service, promote literature and art to the countryside, literature and art to support education, and literature and art to benefit the people, and constantly meet the personalized and diversified literature and art needs of the masses.
Third, polish the masterpieces, handed down masterpieces and immortal masterpieces, and show the Chinese characteristics and Zhejiang style of the “important window” with fine literature and art
It is the main task of Zhejiang literature and art in the new era to strive to create artistic masterpieces worthy of the times and create artistic models of “important windows”. The provincial literary and artistic front should take the creation of excellent works as its unremitting pursuit, constantly promote literary and artistic innovation, improve the quality of literary and artistic creation, and promote Zhejiang’s colorful literature and art, with many excellent works.
First, create good works with strong realism. All valuable and meaningful literary and artistic creations should reflect and reflect reality. We should focus on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party in 2021, the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, and the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the August 8 Strategy in 2023, implement the literary and artistic creation project with the theme of “Chinese spirit, Zhejiang power”, speed up the creation of major literary and artistic masterpieces with the theme of “important windows”, and strive to launch a number of art categories in literature, music, drama, film and television that can sing loudly, spread widely, stand firmly, and match the “important windows” in Zhejiang, It is a masterpiece of Zhejiang literature and art handed down from generation to generation with a degree of dissemination, recognition and reputation.
Second, we should create good works with originality. Literary and artistic creation is the integration of various artistic elements and technical elements. Without the spirit, ability and platform of innovation, all creation is like fishing for the moon in water. We should integrate literary and artistic creation into the construction of the four poetry road cultural belt and the Zhijiang cultural industrial belt, and make good use of Zhejiang literary and artistic landmarks, such as the Zhejiang Literature Museum, the Provincial Oil Painting Academy, the Zhejiang Calligraphy Academy, the Zhejiang Concert Hall, and the Yueju Opera Museum, so as to enhance the ability to integrate elements, enhance the ability to create literary and artistic originality, and constantly improve the spiritual height, cultural connotation, and artistic value of works.
Third, we should create good works facing the world. The more national, the more global. We should hold high-quality international literary and artistic activities such as the China International Network Literature Week and the West Lake International Magic Exchange, carry out multi-channel, multi form and multi-level foreign literary and artistic exchanges, widely participate in the dialogue of world civilizations, contribute Zhejiang’s voice and color to the world, and show Zhejiang’s poetry and artistic conception.
Fourth, we should promote the modernization of people, shape the soul and lead the fashion with the most beautiful literature and art
The people-centered modernization proposed by the provincial party committee, in the final analysis, should guide, influence and shape people through cultural construction. The provincial literary and artistic front should vigorously advocate the “six fashions”, such as patriotism and love of the countryside, scientific rationality, scholarly etiquette, being realistic and first, being open and generous, and being faithful and trustworthy. It should integrate lofty values and beautiful emotions into its own works, guide people to gather together towards noble morality, better enlighten their thoughts, cultivate their sentiments, and warm their hearts, and better educate people, educate people, and cultivate their talents with culture.
First, we must adhere to the unity of the pursuit of ideals and national conditions. Literary and artistic works have no borders, but writers and artists have their own countries. Our generation of writers and artists grew up in New China, walked with the reform and opening up, and their life choices and career paths are closely related to the reform and development of the country. We should always have a patriotic heart and the ambition to serve the country, closely combine personal artistic pursuit and academic ideal with the future and destiny of the country, and closely combine them with the well-being of the people. We should take moral and art worship as a lifelong lesson, and strive to be an artist who contributes to the country, the people, and the people.
Second, we should adhere to the unity of cultivating people’s body and mind and cultivating people’s sentiments. Literature and art not only enrich people’s spiritual world, but also enhance people’s character and temperament. We should take traditional virtues such as abstinence from extravagance and thrift, honesty and trustworthiness as an important part of literary and artistic creation, deepen the study of “harmony” culture, speed up the building of a “poetry and painting Zhejiang” with both internal and external cultivation and divine shape, promote the transformation of the beauty of Zhejiang’s landscape and poetry and painting into the beauty of soul and morality, and promote Zhejiang’s drama, calligraphy, poetry, song and fu, etc. to go to the grass-roots level, go to the people, and constantly improve the people’s humanistic cultivation and civilization.
Third, we should adhere to the unity of artistic personality and social morality. Literature and art can have economic benefits, but they must be based on social benefits. We should set an example to strengthen the construction of the literary and art industry, handle the relationship between justice and benefit, seriously consider the social effects of works, bear loneliness and guard our minds in the face of the tide of the market economy, consciously resist the wrong tendency of regardless of right and wrong, inverting black and white, consciously abandon the vulgar, vulgar, kitsch and vulgar tastes, consciously oppose the decadent ideas of money worship, hedonism, extreme individualism, and not be a slave to the market and money.
Fifth, take advantage of digital reform to expand communication and influence with digital intelligence literature and art
The digitalization reform of Zhejiang literature and art has become the trend of the times. This is the renewal and iteration of ideas, as well as the renewal and reconstruction of literature and art ecology. The provincial literary and artistic front should have a more agile thinking to insight into the development of digital intelligence literature and art, actively adapt to the characteristics of new media and new carriers of literature and art, realize the perfect combination of technology and literature and art, and make literature and art more interactive and popular with the masses.
First, traditional literature and art should be rejuvenated. Our province is rich in traditional opera and folk art resources. Protecting and inheriting the rich and diversified traditional opera and folk art resources is an important part of cultural Zhejiang construction. We should speed up the building of a digital platform for provincial operas and quyi, do a good job in image collection and data collection of intangible cultural heritage, endangered cultural heritage and their inheritors’ performances, use digital technology to diversify and stereoscopize the display of operas and quyi, and let more young people like traditional operas and quyi such as Yueju, Wuju, Daoqing, etc.
Second, let the new literature and art develop healthily. In recent years, a large number of new literary and artistic organizations have emerged in our province, such as online literary and artistic communities. New literary and artistic groups, such as online writers and live singers, are very active. It is necessary to strengthen self-discipline in the industry, abide by network management regulations, follow literary and artistic creation ethics, respect literary and artistic achievements, and strive to create excellent network works with positive energy and vitality. The Federation of Literary and Art Circles and other departments should implement the plan for the creation and dissemination of high-quality online literature and art, unite and attract new literary and art groups with new policies and methods, and guide them to become a living force for the prosperity of socialist literature and art.
Third, we should balance and facilitate the consumption of literature and art. In the Internet era, literary and artistic creation and acceptance have changed from the vertical relationship to the synchronous cross relationship. It is necessary to deeply understand the literary and artistic consumption needs of various groups through big data, use new media to eliminate the literary and artistic consumption gap between urban and rural areas and between classes, learn experience from effect evaluation, and feed back creation, so as to achieve rapid iteration of cultural products, and promote independent self-help and balanced popularization of literary and artistic consumption.
People are the most critical factor for the prosperity and development of Zhejiang literature and art in the new era. Zhejiang literary and art circles have a group of famous writers and artists who have a great influence in the country. There is a literary and art “Zhejiang Army” that combines the old, the young, the professional and the amateur, and has all kinds of literary and art talents. This is a very valuable asset of Zhejiang. We should strengthen political guidance, unite and lead writers and artists to practice socialist core values, and constantly enhance organizational centripetal force. We should strengthen communication, extend our work arm, bring together tens of thousands of literary and art practitioners and enthusiasts, and constantly enhance the appeal of the organization. We should strengthen the digital empowerment, accelerate the formation of the “one network” of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles of the whole province, and constantly create a new situation in the work of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Strengthening and improving the Party’s leadership over literary and artistic work is the fundamental guarantee for the prosperity and development of Zhejiang’s literature and art in the new era. Party committees at all levels in the province should attach great importance to the work of literature and art, strengthen the party building of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, strengthen the party building of literary and art units, guide and promote the deepening of reform and development of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and earnestly control the direction and guarantee. We should strengthen and improve literary and artistic theory and criticism, praise the good and belittle the bad, dispel the evil, and more effectively guide creation, promote fine works, improve aesthetics, and lead fashion. We should lead the cause of literature and art in a way that conforms to the law of literature and art, and protect the enthusiasm and creativity of writers and artists. We should deepen the reform of “running at most once”, strengthen the management of cultural market services, improve the public cultural service system, and create a better environment for the prosperity and development of Zhejiang’s literature and art in the new era.
“Articles are written in a timely manner, and songs and poems are written in a timely manner.”.