Red Classics Explanation: This is originally a post-Cultural Revolution term, but it contains memories of the Cultural Revolution that are connected to reality. It was first used (in the 1980s) to refer to the model operas that appeared during the Cultural Revolution.
Later (after the 1990s), people driven by nostalgia generalized and promoted it to refer to exemplary works reflecting the socio-political movements under the leadership of China's ****ist Party as well as the lives of ordinary workers, peasants, and soldiers created under the guidance of Mao Zedong's "Speech at the Yan'an Literary and Artistic Symposium" (1942).
Works belonging to the Red Classics:
1. Red Rock
Red Rock is a book published by the China Youth Publishing House in December 1961 by Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan, survivors of a Kuomintang concentration camp.
On December, 1961, it was officially published, the book was reprinted 113 times, reprinted 2 times, while the number of copies exceeded 10 million. It was a sensation as a red classic. The author wrote a revolutionary memoir "Forever in the Fire" in 1957, and then created this long novel "Red Rock" on this basis, which was later adapted into the red movie "Forever in the Fire".
2. Red Sun
Red Sun is a war feature film made by Shanghai Film Studio (Tianma Film Studio), directed by Tang Xiaodan and starring Zhang Hua, Gao Bo, Zhong Shuhuang and Li Nong.
Based on a novel of the same name by Wu Qiang, the film focuses on the three battles of Lianshui, Tusikou, and Mengliangtsu, and depicts the People's Liberation Army (PLA) destroying the 74th Division of the Kuomintang's ace army under the conditions of the disparity between enemy and enemy forces.
3, "Red Flag Spectrum"
The film has many characters, various contradictions are intricate, the writer and director of the irreconcilable class contradiction between the peasants and the landlords as the main line, and multi-level, multi-faceted performance of other classes of characters and their contradictions, in the many contradictions of the struggle to make the character image can be established.
4. The Song of Youth and Spring
The Song of Youth and Spring is the first outstanding long novel in the history of contemporary literature that depicts the student movement and portrays the image and growing destiny of revolutionary intellectuals.
Yang Mo, the author, was born in Beijing to a family of a declining bureaucratic landlord, taught in Ding County, Hebei Province, and then worked as a tutor and bookstore clerk in Beijing, during which time she came into contact with Marxist-Leninist ideas and joined the ****production party. This personal life experience had a great influence on her novel writing.
5. Defending Yan'an
Defending Yan'an is a famous "red classic" and "heroic epic", written by Du Pengcheng from the grass-roots level, describing how in the spring of 1947, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), under the leadership of the Chinese ****anist Party, was defeated by the enemy with ten times the number of soldiers.
The story of the brilliant victory in the Northwest Battlefield by turning from defense to offense. Praise the spirit of countless PLA fighters who defied death and felt at home, and the great generalship of many PLA commanders who were calm and collected and strategized.