On Zhao Shuli Direction "

ZhaoShuliDirection and its influence is an important phenomenon in the 20th century Chinese literary. ZhaoShuliDirection was established as the criterion of assessing the value of the border area works. The theory made Zhao Shuli famous but it cannot include all the connotation of his novels. The discrepancy was ignored on purpose in the explanation done by the literary circle according to the spirit of The Speech about Literature and Art's Work in YanAn. Zhou Yang, Chen Huangmei and others explained ZhaoShuliDirection from the perspectives of class struggle and the antithesis of landowners and peasants. They stressed on the importance of the creating of "new peasants" and the political features of the characters, which catered to the standards of "socialist realism" .In general, ZhaoShuliDirection is not actually the creation direction of Zhao Shuli himself, while it is the product of the leaders of the literary circle who combined Zhao's novels and the spirit of the The Speech about Literature and Art's Work in YanAn by Mao Zedong. Zhao Shuli's Direction refers to such a literary viewpoint that Zhao's literary creation is on the side of the peasants, getting the resource from the folk culture, reflecting the realities of the countryside, describing the life of peasants. The difference between ZhaoShuliDirection and Zhao Shuli's Direction is in fact the antithesis between political utilitarianism position and nongovernmental interest position.After 1949, ZhaoShuliDirection had its ups and downs in the mainstream speech. The values he pursued dissolved in the propaganda of political extremism. The lack of the creation of typical heroic characters is the Zhao's novels' deadly defects. From his emendation of Ten Miles Shop, we can see his endeavoring to create heroic characters and his failure because his endeavor didn't accord with the mainstream ideology. ZhaoShuliDirection came to an end because of Zhao Shuli's political life coming to an end, which, however, leaves an unpleasant topic in the literary history and the ideology history.