How to better realize value guidance in literary and artistic creation
2026-03-20
This year's Government Work Report proposes to better meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the people. In recent years, the popularity of cultural relics and intangible cultural heritage has continued to rise, and literary and artistic creation has shown a new trend of vigorous development, demonstrating the profound heritage of China's excellent traditional culture. The English song and dance, which cleverly integrates dance, Nanquan routines, and traditional Chinese opera acting skills, has become popular in China and the world of "circle fans"; The new national style environmental style Yue opera "New Dragon Gate Inn" continues to stir up a craze for performances, even setting a record in the history of Yue opera performances where "tickets are hard to come by"; The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting creatively combines dance and poetic drama, leads the audience to immersively trace the origin of Chinese excellent traditional culture with elegant and beautiful oriental aesthetics, and becomes a rare phenomenal work in recent years... Culture is providing rich nourishment for people's spiritual life with the power of moistening things silently. Looking at the Hundred Flowers Garden of Literature and Art, these exquisite works of literary and artistic creation convey the socialist core values through vivid and rich artistic images, concretely presenting the ideological connotations of excellent traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture. Through tangible and sensory artistic image performances, they evoke people's collective memory and national emotional resonance, and stimulate people's inner value recognition of socialist culture. Literary works not only carry values, but also serve as initiators of emotions. Excellent literary and artistic works present a colorful cultural appearance through various artistic languages. In art exhibitions, they use music, actions, and situations that touch the senses to build a bridge of communication with the audience, while evoking emotional resonance and conveying their underlying thoughts and emotions. In order to better resonate with the audience, excellent literary works often favor emotionally charged and extremely realistic ordinary characters in character creation, rather than unattainable images. In the classic red dance drama "Eternal Radio Waves", the portrayal of the heroic character Li Xia not only showcases the patriotic portrait of "the long river flows silently, love and faith forever", but also depicts the portrait of an ordinary person who loves family and life. In Li Xia, the audience sees three symbols: "martyr," "husband," and "ordinary person," which interact with the audience and evoke emotional resonance. It is through this approach that the symbolic interaction in literary works is no longer simply an immersive experience, but a realistic perception that awakens people's historical memories and stimulates inner emotions. To measure whether a mainstream song and dance drama can "nurture the heart, mind, and sentiment", it depends on whether it can allow the audience to bring home the emotions on stage and transform the cultural connotations into a daily lifestyle that they cannot perceive. This is also the key to cultural practice, which is to transform the abstract ideas carried in literary and artistic works into people's inner value standards, so that mainstream values not only enter the eyes and ears in artistic presentation, but also enter the brain and heart. In the new era, in order to achieve a cultural transition from emotional resonance to value recognition in literary and artistic creation, precise efforts need to be made in the following aspects. Tell the story of 'us' and highlight the dominant position of the people in cultural creation and acceptance. For example, in this year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala's micro musical "Every Light", the winners of the World Skills Competition stepped onto the stage to sing, making their stories known to more people. This approach not only showcases the physical and mental appearance of workers in various industries, but also sings the concept of "top performers in every profession" into the hearts of more people. Through this program, the audience not only found the figure of "me" as a laborer in the singing, but also empathized with the fighting spirit of "us" as strugglers, thus unleashing greater enthusiasm for work and entrepreneurship. Continuously innovating to meet the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people. With the development of the economy and society, people's demand for spiritual and cultural products is becoming increasingly strong, and their aesthetic taste is constantly improving. This requires literary and artistic workers to keenly capture these changes, constantly innovate and interpret, and strengthen innovation and interpretation. In recent years, distinctive traditional cultural forms such as lion dance and Yue opera have utilized advanced technology to achieve diverse exhibition and performance methods that combine virtual and real elements, as well as online and offline elements, providing valuable experience for the innovative development of traditional art and culture. Expand the performance context and bring cultural practice into millions of households. Some literary and artistic works should not be limited to theaters in the performance process, but should also be gradually extended to the real life situation. With the help of large-scale celebrations, virtual exhibition halls, the Internet and other exhibition platforms, cultural practice can enter the homes of ordinary people. The deeper the cultural dissemination goes into daily life, the more value recognition can complete the transformation from externalization to internalization in a silent manner. This not only enriches the cultural life of the masses, but also effectively enhances the spiritual cohesion of socialist culture. The mascots of the 15th National Games, "Joyful" and "Joyful", have become popular on social media platforms; The song 'Jiahe Wanggang' sings the memories of the departure and struggle of the young people of Guangpiao, resonating with the emotional resonance of 'youth parting ways' and flooding the entire internet... The popularity of these cultural IPs confirms this truth. In the future, literary and artistic creation should pay more attention to the accessibility of people's embodied participation, enter more into people's living scenes, and use popular forms of artistic expression to achieve spiritual nourishment and value guidance. In the new era, we look forward to the emergence of more high-quality and contemporary literary and artistic creations, arousing emotional resonance among billions of people and transforming them into value recognition, so that culture can truly become a powerful force to unite national spirit and promote social progress. (New Society)
Edit:Momo Responsible editor:Chen zhaozhao
Source:Guangming Net - Guangming Daily
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