Rooting in People's Lives: The Most Reliable Approach to Literary and Artistic Creation
To humbly learn from the people and from life, to draw nourishment from the great practices of the people and the rich and colorful life, to continuously accumulate life and artistic experiences, and to continuously discover and create beauty. The life of the people is the inexhaustible and inexhaustible source of creation for all literature and art, and all innovations in the arts ultimately derive directly or indirectly from the people.
From [Month] [Day] to [Month] [Day], the Beijing People's Art Theatre's classic Pekingese drama "The First Building Under Heaven" is back on stage, inviting both old and new "customers" to reunite at the old establishment "Fujude" to savor "Beijing's finest cuisine" and experience the "bittersweet" flavors. As one of the Beijing People's Art Theatre's signature plays, "The First Building Under Heaven" has been performed since [Year] and is one of the representative works of the theatre's Pekingese classics.
走出自己的方寸天地,方能迈进创作的广阔世界。年来,中国文联按照党和国家的要求,持续开展“中国精神中国梦”、“深入生活、扎根人民”主题文艺实践,以更高的组织化程度和专业化水平,团结引导广大文艺工作者牢记习近平总书记教诲嘱托,把艺术创造向着亿万人民的伟大奋斗敞开,向着丰富多彩的社会生活敞开。
获得中国电影金鸡奖奖项的《中国机长》、《人生大事》、《妈妈!》,获得大众电影百花奖奖项的《你好,李焕英》,获得中国电视金鹰奖奖项的《装台》、《人世间》等,以及热播剧《繁花》、《狂飙》,题材各异、体裁有别,但无不是生活沃土的馈赠,表达出老百姓朴素的情感期待。
In recent years, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles has consistently organized artists to conduct field trips and creative work in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Inner Mongolia Grasslands, and the regions north and south of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang. They have engaged in face-to-face exchanges and heartfelt communication with local residents, immersing themselves in the beautiful lives of multi-ethnic interactions and integrations, thereby drawing inspiration for their creations and reaping abundant fruits. The artists have expressed their sentiments, saying, "Only by truly stepping into the lives of the people can we understand where artists should begin their journey!"
Famous screenwriter Gao Mantang spent years, traveled through multiple provinces, and interviewed numerous individuals to create the TV series "Old Peasants," which vividly portrays the recent history of China's rural areas. When asked about the reasons for his success, he said, "It's just one sentence: for the work to improve, the writer must go down. This is a well-worn saying, but it is an unbreakable truth in creation."
The people are life, and life is the people. Only by digging deep wells and seeking springs in the lives of the people can literary and artistic creation gain sweet nourishment; only by rooting itself in the fertile soil of life and diligently cultivating can literary and artistic creation reap rich rewards.
In the new era and on the new journey, literary and artistic workers must not only hold the magnifying glass of the times, sensing the joys and sorrows of the people, savoring the sweet and bitter flavors of life, and understanding the warmth and happiness of the world; but also steady the telescope of history, using artistic expressions that transcend life to recreate the rich and colorful lives of the people, shaping more typical images of Chinese people in the new era, and forging the peak of literature and art through fervent creative practice.