人民的文艺--廖冰兄两组《猫国春秋》中的“鼠变”问题

The People's Literature and Art:"Change of Mice"in Liao Bingxiong's Two Sets of Cat Kingdom

解放战争前夕,廖冰兄创作了《猫国春秋》漫画,以动物喻指手法批判国民党反动势力。在中国香港期间,他又创作了第二组《猫国春秋》,画中恶鼠和良鼠的比例相对于第一组作品出现了明显变化,而导致该变化发生的直接原因是闻一多等人对第一组图中缺少“大众”形象这一问题的批评。此外,廖冰兄考虑到华南大众读者的阅读喜好,还改用多格连环画的形式绘制第二组作品。作为中国香港中共宣传组织“人间画会”的成员,廖冰兄在创作第二组《猫国春秋》时践行了毛泽东提出“人民的文艺”的“延讲”精神,同时预示着其“新市井”漫画阶段的到来。

Before the War of Liberation,Liao Bingxiong created the comic strip Cat Kingdom,using animal metaphors to criticize reactionaries of the Kuomintang(KMT).During his stay in Hong Kong,he created the second set of Cat Kingdom,in which the proportion of evil and good mice changed significantly compared with the previous one.He made such a change directly because Wen Yiduo and others criticized the lack of the image of"the general public"in the first set.In addition,taking into account the preferences of readers in southern China,Liao created the second set in multi-frames.As a member of the Human Art Club,a publicity organization of the Communist Party of China(CPC)in Hong Kong,Liao Bingxiong fllowed the guiding principle of"the people's literature and art"put forward by Mao Zedong at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art when creating the second set,which also heralded the arrival of"new public"comic strips.