A Research On Literary And Artistic Activities In Tao Xingzhi’s Rural Construction Practice

Tao Xingzhi,as an educator,has long been famous at home and abroad,and its educational thought and practice have far-reaching influence,which has always been the focus of attention.And because of this,its role as a "practicer" for social transformation is relatively neglected.In fact,Tao Xingzhi in his "Local Education and Rural Transformation" has long made clear the relationship between social transformation and education,that is," running a school and social transformation is one thing,not two things.To transform society without starting from running a school,one can not transform one’s heart;to transform one’s heart,one can not transform society thoroughly.On the other hand,running a school without the mission of social transformation,There is no purpose,no meaning,no vigour.So education is social transformation.Tao Xingzhi’s ultimate aim in rural education reform is to try to transform Chinese countryside and Chinese society.By reviewing his practice of rural education for many years,we find that in the process of rural construction of Tao Xingzhi,it is always accompanied by the development of various Literary and Artistic Activities.First of all,novels,poems,plays,movies and so on,as the carrier and tool of Tao Xingzhi’s rural construction activities,carry the ideal of his rural construction,embody his view of the masses and the people,and support the continuous progress of his rural construction activities.For example,Tao Xingzhi’s attitude towards villages and cities,his thoughts on traditional education and new education,his views on Chinese tradition and foreign science and technology,and his thoughts on setting up self-defense groups and breaking down the eight-part rural-building ideas can be regarded as a rural-building novel,which reflects Tao Xingzhi’s attitude towards rural and urban areas,as well as his poetry creation following the popular language In addition to poetry,drama is also Tao Xingzhi’s keen literary and artistic style,starting from the establishment of Xiaozhuang Opera Society,to the performance of Yucai Drama Group,so that the originally shelved drama performance gradually to the countryside,and was accepted and loved by farmers;As a film and television work closely related to the cause of Tao Xingzhi’s rural construction,the film "Wu Xun Zhuan" was once criticized as reformist after its release,and even caused trouble to its rural construction groups.Tao Xingzhi’s rural construction cause has extraordinary significance.Tao Xingzhi,as a "beggar of Xingxue" like Wu Xun,carried out Literary and Artistic Activities related to Wu Xun,and refined the "new spirit of Wu Xun" in the course of the activities,and carried out the rural construction activities to the end continuously and deeply under the encouragement of this spirit.Secondly,under the enlightenment of literature and art,various mass cultural movements also began.For example,in the course of the literacy education campaign,Tao Xingzhi and Zhu Qihui co-authored the "Thousand Words for the Civilians" as a literacy textbook for farmers to develop their life skills and enrich the spiritual world of farmers;set up popular schools,evening schools,tea gardens,reading clubs and other activities to educate farmers on literacy,which also became the activity center of rural mass culture;in addition,created the "Little teacher system ",the " transfer teacher system" and other practical methods of universal literacy education In addition,in shaping the modern way of life of the rural people,Tao Xingzhi put forward the slogan of "meeting friends ".By holding " bright moon meeting " and carrying out weekly social activities,he went deep into the life of the peasants,tried his best to help them solve all kinds of difficult and complicated problems,and combined with the reality of life to "transform the people ",so that they could lead a healthy,working,scientific and artistic modern rural life.This kind of "life education ",which is devoted to improving the living standard of farmers,has also been vigorously promoted in liberated areas.With the full outbreak of the War of Resistance,Tao Xingzhi and his rural construction groups also followed the pace of the anti-Japanese countries,joined the camp of the comprehensive war of resistance,and carried out a series of educational and literary propaganda activities in the wartime villages.These include the anti-japanese activities of "teaching for national liberation" carried out by the engineering group,the construction of a cave-based school in guilin for cave education,guerrilla education,the establishment of a life education society,and the active promotion of the volunteer movement by means of speech mobilization and voluntary donation in beibei,chongqing,in order to solve the problem of insufficient military service.At the same time,in order to solve the problem of difficult children’s education in wartime,Tao Xingzhi founded the education of talents in Beibei,Chongqing School,in Yucai school,the " created month "," created year "," poetry party ",painting exhibition,fog season probation,performance and other cultural activities outside the school emerge in endlessly,many cultural celebrities also come to Yucai for various reasons to participate in teaching work.Before and after the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan,Tao Xingzhi actively carried out democratic propaganda and the social reality at that time,Tao Xingzhi actively carried out democratic propaganda and education activities by means of poetry and propaganda,and put forward the proposition that democracy should go to the countryside,to the ranks of children and to the front line.This paper is a statement and discussion on the Literary and Artistic Activities related to the rural construction of Tao Xingzhi,and in the process of inquiry,the author thinks about the relationship between the Literary and Artistic Activities and the transformation of the countryside,in order to provide some ideas for the rural construction and social reform in today’s society...