The Evolution Of The Popular Literature:1917-1949

The Popularization of Arts movement is extremely important as aphenomenon ofmodern Chinese literary history, reflecting the Chinese literature by modern classicaltoward an important feature: the literature and art began to emerge from the confines ofthe services for the small number of people, to the masses for the vast majority ofpeopledirection of the service. Promote this trend, not only the art of transmutation, themoresocial and historical conditions. National crisis since the late Qingintellectuals firstgenerated a strong response, the feudal system ofself-rescue would not work, theancient tradition seems to failure,"west" tolet people see the outside world from thespiritual level of the nationaltransformation was put on the agenda. Literaryunprecedented attention tothe torrent of national liberation in their own unique way, thepopularity has become an inevitable direction. The late Qing Liang Qichaopromote"culture change" to become the harbinger of literary change, but also forliteraryapproached ordinary people open the door. New Culture Movement, especially thesubsequent "54" campaign so that more people of insight to recognize the importanceof ideological change, modern Chinese literature in the usual sense of the curtainopened, people ofEnlightenment values, the public’s concern from the outset impliesapopular choice of the road, popular concrete attempt to further deepen thenationalcrisis of30years, from both theoretical and practical level, thetheoretical contributionis much larger than the practice. After the outbreakof the War of Resistance AgainstJapan, the popularization of art tobecome a consensus, writers and artists to his owncreative initiative intoa national liberation struggle, when the literary work and politicalstrugglehas been closely tied together, and even become a tool for political struggle, oris the means to achieve political goals. Although theindependence of the literary arts hurt, but really come to the public middleof their experience and regret that we haveonly a historical perspective toa better understanding of this point in the liberated areas,especially the apparent performance in the literary activities in Yan’an. The articleattempts to sort out the hope in this is not a new topic update awarenessand trigger newthinking on this phenomenon.