写什么,怎么写,写得怎样——大跃进民歌再认识

What to Write,How to Write and How About It——Rethinking the Folk Songs During the Great-Leap-Forward Movement

“大跃进”新民歌运动是中国当代文学进程中的一个重要事件。对它的评价,几十年间反差极大。今天重新认识,应避免对复杂现象的简单化处理。从“写什么,怎么写,写得怎样”三方面切入进行综合分析发现:新民歌的确是一场政治造诗运动,违背了文艺创作规律,同时,它又一定程度上反映了群众建设社会主义的积极性,艺术表现上也并非一无是处,全盘否定是不公允的。

The New Folk Song movement during the Great Leap Forward period, an important page in the contemporary Chinese literary history, had received various evaluations with striking contrasts through the several decades. To get a new understand, we should put it back in the special historical circumstance and synthetically review it from the present perspective, avoiding simplification of this complex phenomenon. Synthetic analyses in this paper from the three aspects of ＂what to write, how to write and how about it＂ remind us the fact that it was exactly a movement of politically poetic production with a departure from the rule of writing. However, it reflected to some extent the mass＇s enthusiasm in building socialism. It is by no means artless in rhyme or expression, so it＇s unfair to repudiate it totally.