The Meaning of Red Classics

The "Red Classics" in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China have a strong realistic color in content, which reproduces the magnificent historical picture of the China revolution. In the era when material life was extremely scarce, people in China used to be full of lofty sentiments and high morale, but today, many people have experienced unprecedented hesitation and emptiness. The great richness of material life cannot replace the comforting function of spiritual life. The role played by red classics due to specific institutional factors and their ability to embody and shape the spirit of the times are incomparable to general literary classics. As a revolutionary discourse, it bears the heavy responsibility of historical narration, that is, to understand the past and prove today and tomorrow with a progressive view of history. At the same time, as a literary discourse, it also accommodates and creates the life imagination, youth familiarity and growth hope of several generations. Therefore, the "red classics" have irreplaceable historical value. As a special historical and cultural resource, red classics have not become sealed history with the development of the times. They were there. The original work is still being read, watched and appreciated, and has become a resource of contemporary literary creation, which has been repeatedly adapted, remaked and covered.

The red classic is Literature and Art of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers, which portrays ordinary people who have been neglected and despised for thousands of years as heroes, which is different from the overlooking and pity for civilians during the May 4th Movement, and makes the daily life of civilians, especially farmers, be presented to readers in an unprecedented delicate way.

The feelings of homeland, social responsibility, ideals and beliefs expressed by red classics, as well as the lofty artistic realm beyond their own interests that they pursue and create, are the most precious literary heritage, which is also lacking in today's literary writing and needs to be learned and absorbed, especially when they get rid of the shackles of "economic power."