The Historical Significance of the New Yangge Movement in the History of Chinese Literary and Artistic Development

The New Rice-planting Song Movement: It was the first achievement of the spirit of the Speech in literature and art after the Yan'an Literary and Artistic Symposium. Literary and art workers changed their attitude of belittling the folk art of rice-planting songs, and together with the masses, they guided the transformation of the old rice-planting songs into small square song and dance dramas reflecting the new contents of the class struggle and the production struggle, and combining drama, music and dance in one furnace. the Spring Festival rice-planting songs were in full swing in 1943, and a batch of rice-planting song dramas were popular among the masses, such as "Brother and Sister Opening the Wilderness" of "LUYI", etc. The New Rice-planting Song Movement demonstrated that literary and artistic development is not only the first step in the development of Chinese literature and arts, but also the second step. The new rice-planting song movement demonstrated the practice of literati workers to face the masses and popularize to the workers, peasants and soldiers.