Exploring The Value Guidance Function Of Socialist Literature And Art From "Spring Festival Gala"

"Literature and art are the trumpets of the times,which can best represent the style of an era and lead the style of an era." Xi Jinping likened the work of literature and art to the cause of "cultivating the foundation and casting the soul",and highly appraised the important role of literature and art in the cause of socialist culture.Throughout the history of human development,culture,including literature and art,has played a great role in the advancement of human civilization.Review of the development history of Chinese civilization,the cultural development,including literature and art,also provides a strong spiritual support for the Chinese nation to develop tenaciously and live endlessly.The soul of socialist literature and art is to realize the ideals and beliefs of socialism and communism.Socialist literature and art guides the production and life in all fields of our society with socialist ideology and aesthetic requirements.It has the important mission of recording and reflecting people’s social practice,cultivating and promoting socialist core values,inheriting and continuing the splendid civilization of China.Socialist literature and art is deeply integrated into the life and cause of our people,providing ideological enlightenment,spiritual motivation and value guidance for people’s life practice with excellent works of literature and art,and guiding the Chinese people to create the spiritual home of the Chinese nation.With the development of reform and opening up,CCTV "Spring Festival Gala",as a typical representative of the form of socialist literature and art,is known as the "panoramic miniature" of China’s social development.Based on the traditional Spring Festival customs,the "Spring Festival Gala" reproduces the great achievements,hot events and popular words of the Chinese society in that year with the comprehensive literary and artistic performances appreciated by both refined and popular people.It integrates tradition and modernity,carries the dual mission of ideological and political education and mass entertainment,and effectively realizes the value guidance function of socialist literature and art "carrying Tao in literature and educating people".Based on the study of the 37-year "Spring Festival Gala" program,this paper finds that "the feeling of home and country" is the consistent value thread of all previous "Spring Festival Gala".Just as Xi Jinping emphasized at the Spring Festival Youth League visit in 2019 that Chinese children should always practice the fine national tradition of "filial piety at home and loyalty to the country","people’s happiness","national prosperity" and "national rejuvenation" are the value pursuit that the Spring Festival Evening always adheres to."Spring Festival Gala" accompanies the Chinese people through one New Year’s Eve after another with colorful art programs and warm Festival ceremonies.It has won the love and support of the masses and become a new folk custom of traditional Spring Festival culture.Therefore,only by persisting in serving the people and the cause of socialism and constantly creating excellent programs with the spirit of the times,national temperament and innovative ideas can socialist literature and art continuously carry forward "the feeling of home and country" and actively play the role of value guidance.This paper mainly consists of four parts:The first part focuses on the typical problem of "Spring Festival Gala" as a form of socialist literature and art.This part starts from three aspects: first,it introduces the birth and main development stages of "Spring Festival Gala";secondly,it establishes the value of socialist literature and art in serving the people and the cause of socialism from the ideological nature of socialist literature and art;thirdly,it analyses the representativeness and typicality of "Spring Festival Gala" as a form of socialist literature and art.In the typicality analysis,the paper draws the traditional culture and folklore foundation of the "Spring Festival Gala" from the value guidance function analysis of the traditional Spring Festival folklore,and establishes its cultural legitimacy as the carrier of the value guidance function.Then,from the "Spring Festival Gala",it upholds the founding purpose of "Returning to the People","Sticking to the socialist value standpoint","Appreciating both elegance and vulgarity",and the growth process of the "Spring Festival Gala" closely related to the same frequency resonance of social changes in China,this paper further expounds the typical value guiding function of the "Spring Festival Gala",and emphasizes the reasons for choosing the "Spring Festival Gala" as the carrier of the value guiding function of socialist literature and art.The second part elaborates the core content and main form of value guidance of the "Spring Festival Gala".The happiness of every small family is closely related to the prosperity and development of the large family of the country.In the core content,from the dual value dimension of the family and the country,the article carefully chooses reunion,filial piety and harmony as the value expression at the family level,takes inheriting excellent traditional culture,praising the achievements of reform and opening up,carrying forward the spirit of the Chinese nation and undertaking the mission of the world’s great powers as the value presentation at the national level,and vividly interprets the performance of "Spring Festival Gala" for the value concept of "filial piety at home and loyalty to the country".In the main form,the original intention of "Returning happiness to the people" makes "combining education with pleasure" become the content carrier of value guidance of "Spring Festival Gala",which reflects the value mission of socialist literature and art "carrying Tao in literature and educating people".The popularization and development of modern media technologies,such as home TV and live TV,have provided indispensable means of communication for guiding the value of the "Spring Festival Gala"."Spring Festival Gala" strengthens the value concept and spiritual guidance contained in the program through the idol star and model,and strengthens the reality and demonstration of the value guidance function.The traditional custom ceremony and special time of the New Year’s Eve Watch endow the value guidance of the "Spring Festival Gala" with sacredness.The continuous attention of the whole people before,during and after the performance of the "Spring Festival Gala" constantly strengthens its value guidance function.The third part mainly analyses the predicament and reasons of the value guidance function of the "Spring Festival Gala".Over the past 37 years,"Spring Festival Gala" has also encountered many problems and bottlenecks in the process of development and expansion.Especially in recent years,there has been more and more dissatisfaction with the "Spring Festival Gala".Tucao’s "Spring Festival Gala" phenomenon has even become a new culture of "Spring Festival Gala"."Spring Festival Gala" is an indispensable "New Year’s custom" and cultural feast for Chinese people on New Year’s Eve.Its cultural value and artistic status can’t be replaced.However,it also encounters difficulties in development because of the difficulty of adjusting the population.The realization of its value guidance function is also greatly challenged.This part mainly discusses the problems and reasons of the development of "Spring Festival Gala" from three aspects: the contradiction between political guidance and popular entertainment,one-dimensional dominance and multiple inclusion,the contradiction between mainstream media and business subjects,which brings about multidimensional mission bearing pressure;the development constraints of programs such as excessive ritualization,regional limitations,lack of innovation;the new challenges brought by the changes and adjustments of the times,such as the impact of pluralistic values,multimedia competition,high-level appreciation,and the trend of globalization,etc.The fourth part actively discusses the innovative development of the "Spring Festival Gala" in the new era.The "Spring Festival Gala",as an important carrier of "the feeling of home and country" and promoting the socialist core value system and values,must arouse the great attention of ideological and political educators.This paper evaluates the value guidance function of socialist literature and art in a positive attitude,and provides suggestions for its healthy development.This part mainly proposes innovative content from the aspects of highlighting the connotation of core values,returning to the real needs of the times,creating excellent art programs,and paying attention to the narrative perspective of the people,etc.,and innovative presentation forms from the dimensions of exploring new production models,catering to the new psychology of audiences,exploring ritual artistry,etc.,and innovative ways of communication from the angles of constructing multimedia networks,improving people’s participation and expanding international influence,etc.This part probes into the innovative path of the value guidance function of the "Spring Festival Gala".Literature and art have souls and works are immortal.The vast majority of literary and artistic workers should fully understand the essential attributes of socialist literature and art,solve the problem of "who for whom,who to rely on,who I am",take the Chinese spirit as the soul of creation,always adhere to the synchronization with the times,take the people as the center,devote to the people with fine works,lead the fashion with wise morality,and vigorously carry forward "the feeling of home and country".Only in this way can socialist literature and art truly play the guiding role of core values and constantly inspire the Chinese people to move forward in order to achieve a happy life and build a better world.