On this day, 83 years ago, on May 28, 1942 (April 14, 1942, the lunar calendar), Mao Zedong delivered his "Speech at the Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art". Group photo of Mao Zedong, Zhu De, etc. with those participating in the literature and art symposium On May 2, 1942, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a literature and art symposium in Yangjialing, Yan 'an. More than 80 writers, artists and literary and art workers attended the symposium. The meeting was presided over by Kaifeng. The first meeting was held on May 2. Mao Zedong talked about one issue: position, attitude, objects, work, and study. On the 16th, the second meeting was held. Mao Zedong, Zhu De and other central leading comrades listened carefully to everyone's speeches. Ke Zhongping, head of the People's Troupe, talked about the troupe's performance experience. Ouyang Shanzun, president of the Combat Drama Club of the 120th Division who returned from northwest Shanxi, made a speech. On the 23rd, the last meeting was held. Zhu De spoke first, talking about the position, attitude, and object of literary and artistic work, and contacting himself about the transformation of his world outlook. Mao Zedong made a "conclusion" speech. After the symposium, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Ren Bishi, Wang Jiaxiang, Bogu, Kaifeng, Xu Teli and other central leading comrades took photos with all the representatives attending the symposium. On May 28, at the Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art, Mao Zedong delivered his "Speech at the Yan' an Forum on Literature and Art". The "Speech" is divided into two parts: "Introduction" and "Conclusion". The "Speech" is a summary of the experience and lessons of China's New Cultural Movement since the May Fourth Movement. It connects the problems existing in the literary and art circles in Yan 'an and various anti-Japanese base areas and puts forward the theories and policies of the Communist Party of China to solve these series of problems. "Speech" pointed out: "Why the question of people, is a fundamental question, a question of principle." "We literary and art workers, whose knowledge is based on birth, must change and reform our thinking and feelings if we want our works to be welcomed by the masses. Without this change, without this transformation, everything would not be done well, everything would be out of place." "If this fundamental problem is not solved, many other problems will not be easy to solve." The "Speech" clearly pointed out the direction of literature and art serving the people and first of all serving the workers, peasants and soldiers; At the same time, based on the laws and characteristics of literature and art, the famous conclusion was put forward that "literary and artistic works as ideologies are all products of the reflection of certain social life in the human mind." The "Speech" also proposed a typical creative principle, that is,"the life reflected in literary works can and should be higher, stronger, more concentrated, more typical, and more ideal than ordinary actual life, so it is more universal. Revolutionary literature and art should create various characters based on actual life to help the masses promote the development of history." The "Speech" further pointed out the issue of "how to serve the masses" and pointed out that the principles of party spirit must be reflected through typical images to more effectively exert the specific combat functions of literature and art. Only literary and artistic works that typify the contradictions and struggles in life can "wake up and inspire the people through artistic feelings, push the people towards unity and struggle, and transform their own environment." Soldiers of the Eighth Route Army made their own musical instruments, staff of the Jinchaji Pictorial Press were making plate making and the actors of the Anti-Enemy Drama Club had dinner with the troops in the Yangko opera "Brothers and Sisters Pioneering"