The idea of "art for life" was first put forward by foreign theorists.

However, as far as "Art for Life" is concerned, its origin is not so clear, and its connotation is vaguely regarded as a self-evident proposition by new writers in China, so that its extension is diffuse and has developed to an all-encompassing level.

As Shen Yanbing said in the article "Literature and Life", the new writers in China only vaguely know that "Western literature researchers have the most common slogan:' literature is a reflection of life'" (3). As for who is the advocate of this slogan, no one can say clearly. According to some views of Shen Yanbing at that time, this view of "art for life" seems to come from Tolstoy: "I naturally disapprove of the extreme" art of life "advocated by Tolstoy ..."

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