What do experts of new literary and art groups think?
In the process of realizing the Chinese nation’s great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream, it is inseparable from literature and art to raise the spiritual banner, establish the spiritual pillar and build the spiritual home. Socialist literature and art, in essence, is the people’s literature and art. At present, a large number of new literary and art organizations have emerged, and new literary and art groups are very active (referred to as "two new" literature and art), which has enriched people’s spiritual and cultural needs and displayed China’s literary image in the new era on the world stage. At the same time, people expect that, as the artistic expression of the spirit of the times, the "two new" literary phenomena can more effectively provide vivid cases for explaining China’s literary practice and China’s aesthetic experience, promote the construction of academic discourse system of China’s literary theory with characteristics, and respond to the innovation of the times with question consciousness while promoting the development of the theory with practice.

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Contemporary Kunqu Opera "Moonlight on the Spring River" created by Zhang Jun Kunqu Opera Art Center. Information picture

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I look forward to the "two new" literature and art taking root in China and issuing the voice of the times.
Author: Fan Yugang (Professor, Literature and History Department, Central Party School [National School of Administration])
The atmosphere of "everyone is an artist" liberated the literary productivity.
New literary and art organizations mainly refer to private literary and art groups and online virtual communities such as private cultural studios, private cultural brokerage institutions and online literary and art communities. They are a new social force dedicated to the development of literature and art, mainly focusing on the functions of literary and art creation, communication, release, promotion and sales, and play an active role in the production and dissemination of prosperous literary and art creation. Compared with the traditional groups engaged in artistic work in state-owned literary and art academies, art galleries, universities and other institutions, the new literary and art groups are mainly represented by online writers, contract writers, freelance writers, independent filmmakers, independent actors and singers, freelance artists, etc. They are thriving with the development of cultural industry, online new media technology and marketization. It is characterized by freelancing and "independence" that is not attached to institutions within the system. It is often scattered in various fields of the cultural industry in the form of individuals and is an extremely active new force in the development of the cultural industry at present.
A large number of "two new" literature and art have become an important part of the socialist literature and art cause, covering almost all fields of literature and art, including literature, drama, film and television, fine arts, photography, calligraphy, music, dance, folk art and acrobatics, involving all aspects of the cultural industry system such as creation, production, communication and consumption. In the final analysis, the "two new" literary phenomena are the product of the times. In the context of information civilization, the wide application of information digital network technology has broken the traditional artistic barriers and mechanisms, and the phenomenon of "two new" literature and art has emerged in large numbers with the emergence of new literary formats. In the context of information civilization, "network aborigines" have convenient access to network cultural resources, skillfully use network digital technology, and make artistic creation with ease. In the era of constantly lowering the artistic threshold, the huge new literary and art groups of "writing my mouth with my handwriting" and "everyone is an artist" have created new literary and art forms, pushing China literature and art into a new era of information civilization. At the same time, the abundance of material civilization and the great rejuvenation of the nation in the new era have stimulated the cultural vitality and literary creativity of the broad masses of the people. They have liberated the literary and artistic productive forces with endless new literary and artistic organizations and huge new groups of literature and art, and have generally improved people’s appreciation and aesthetic ability. Highlighted "The people are connoisseurs and judges of literary aesthetics.
The "two new" literature and art are rooted in people’s practice and promote the historical development of literature and art with amazing creative vitality. They are living individuals, and they are collective noun of the capital "people". They have played a vital role in the prosperity of socialist culture, and they are the new force of cultural market subjects, the effective force of public cultural services, the social force that inherits excellent traditional culture, and the supplementary force of foreign cultural exchanges and cultural trade.
Close to the new literary and artistic needs of the people.
The popularity of "two new" literary phenomena and the promotion of social influence show that the existing form of art has changed, and the way people feel art and their cognition of art have changed. Art is not only related to people’s mind and aesthetic pursuit, but also social productivity, which is one of the new kinetic energy of economic and social development.
It can be said that the phenomenon of "two new" literature and art is generated from colorful social practice, which meets the diverse spiritual and cultural needs of the people, makes the people’s nature and value orientation manifest, becomes the spiritual home of the masses in the continuous improvement of the literary ecology, and generates cultural values and spiritual expressions with the meaning of the times. The phenomenon of "two new" literature and art shows that "people’s literature and art" is no longer just an artist’s "endorsement" for the people, but more manifested as the independent expression of the people.
The phenomenon of "two new" literature and art is widely distributed, with a large number of people and great social influence, which is closely related to the life of the public. It is not only related to the people’s beautiful life, the realization of cultural rights and interests, but also helps to improve the public’s aesthetic taste and artistic appreciation, thus showing the spiritual outlook of the Chinese nation in enhancing the degree of social civilization. In a certain sense, the "two new" literature and art is an important participating force for a country to improve its literary level or improve its literary system, which embodies the prosperity of socialist literature and art and the effectiveness of national cultural governance.
The phenomenon of "two new" literature and art has strengthened the flesh-and-blood relationship between literature and art and the people, and promoted literature and art to return to the cultural standard of taking cultural people and aesthetic education as people. The emergence of "two new" literary phenomena has reunited the spiritual strength of the people and is conducive to consolidating the common ideological foundation of the United struggle of all the people. The social energy radiated by the phenomenon of "two new" literature and art has a far-reaching influence on forming a new pattern of literature and art development, promoting the great development of cultural productive forces, and consolidating the spiritual foundation of the great rejuvenation of the nation with the concept of literature and art and culture.
The phenomenon of "two innovations" in literature and art is a symbol of the development and progress of literature and art in China. They are not "isolated islands" of literature and art, nor are they "whispering" to themselves, but take root in the earth and make a sound of the times. In the creative mechanism, the "two new" literature and art pay more attention to the literary practice from the perspective of audience preference and attracting consumption, respect people’s market choice in grounding gas, guarantee the independent expression of personal cultural rights and interests in popularity, and spread people’s voices in promoting righteousness. As a new force in the development of literature and art, the "two new" literature and art are the new force in literary production in the new era, and the fans of the integration of literature and art with science and technology are not only literary consumers but also literary producers, and they are also the creators of new literary formats, which are close to the new literary needs of the people.
Calling for the opening of the boundary of literature and art
As an active practice of literature and art in the new era, the phenomenon of "two innovations" in literature and art has sent a question of the times to the vast number of literary and art theorists, demanding that literary and art theories respond to the characteristics of the times, effectively explaining China’s literary practice and aesthetic experience with China theory, and guiding literary and art practice with China theory. For the workers of philosophy and social sciences, the "two new" literary phenomena have spawned new literary concepts and aesthetic concepts, calling for the generation of theoretical criticism and research paradigms with the characteristics of the times, and requiring China theory to effectively explain China’s literary practice and China’s aesthetic experience, and to construct a literary theory discourse system that publicizes China spirit, China value and China’s strength. This is the mission of China literature and art in the new era.
The phenomenon of "two new" literature and art not only calls for the opening of the boundary of literature and art, but also promotes the transformation of the research paradigm of literature and art theory and the literary criticism model, calls for a better interpretation of China’s literary practice with China theory, and promotes the construction of the academic discourse system of China’s literary theory in the new era. The phenomenon of "two innovations" in literature and art requires contemporary literary theories to explain the spirit of China, the value of China and the strength of China in a theoretical way, sublimate China people’s literary aesthetic experience into a universal aesthetic theory and aesthetic pursuit in the sense of human civilization, and strengthen the consensus of civilizations, value sharing and aesthetic appreciation in the mutual learning of civilizations.
The new literary form can’t just revolve around the flow and technology.
Author: Feng Mengyao (Ph.D., School of Journalism and Communication, Jinan University)
In recent years, with the innovation of Internet literary forms, a number of new literary and art workers have grown up, and their names and works have become the new favorites of new media platforms. Different from the artistic practice of traditional literary and art workers, the new literary and art groups were born because of the "network". They extended the socialist literary and art undertakings to cyberspace, and finally created scenes of literary and art realities that need to be explored and examined urgently under the dual role of content-based and flow logic.
At present, the new literature and art forms exist and develop under the dual promotion of capital and technology, which not only provides more opportunities for the new literature and art groups than before, but also brings them various problems. The supremacy of flow leads to frequent water injection in works, technical manipulation disturbs the ecological order of the new literary form, and there is a contradiction between the consumption orientation of literary works and the humanistic connotation, which are all new problems and challenges that the new literary groups have to face. Facing up to the difficulties faced by the new literary and art groups, we can create better creative conditions for them and strengthen the development of China’s literary and art undertakings.
The supremacy of IP leads to the creation being restricted by traffic thinking.
At present, the creative characteristics of new literary and art groups are walking with the flow. Following the flow logic, new literary works derive diversified forms, and IP marketing is its typical performance. IP marketing is to break away from a single form and platform, get adaptation and re-creation by virtue of its own attraction, and distribute it on multiple platforms to get traffic.
As a cross-media narrative practice, IP marketing was originally an industrial innovation worth exploring, but the current new literary and artistic production is gradually showing the trend of "IP hype". For example, the paid income of online literature in China is gradually slowing down with the depletion of the demographic dividend of the mobile terminal and the mature growth rate of the market, replaced by the entry of big capital, that is, the operation of the whole industrial chain with IP content as the core and cross-border resource integration as the means. Some commercial organizations have opened up online literature creation, publishing, film and television, games, animation, audio books and other resources, forming an online literature ecological chain and a whole industry development chain. This seems to be a win-win situation to expand the content value of works, but in the actual operation process, the content is often a relatively marginal part, which is often arbitrarily tampered with to meet market demand and give in to business logic.
Just as content gives way to traffic, IP hype not only brings the deep integration of literature and business, but also brings a series of market chaos. When the same IP needs to travel in different fields, it is difficult to form a stable content value system at the source of IP creation, and the core values of the works are erratic; The purpose of many online writers is to adapt and tailor their original works with IP logic, and content flooding occurs from time to time; A large number of homogeneous works appear, and the effect of classified writing is obvious; Film and television, comics and games are in a strong position, while original writers such as online writers have no say in the direction of adaptation of their own creations … … On the capital-driven production line, in the consumption system wrapped by eyeball logic, when traffic replaces content as the core thinking, the original intention of online writers has either actively or passively become hype IP instead of creating content, and they have gone too fast and too far, forgetting their original intentions.
Technical manipulation disturbs the ecological order of new literature and art
Technology is a double-edged sword for the new literary form, which not only brings convenience to creation and promotion, but also disrupts the operation order of the new literary form to some extent. Taking copyright as an example, the traditional copyright problem is often reflected in plagiarism, while under the technical empowerment, piracy and infringement are more hidden, diverse and difficult to monitor. Based on P2P technology, which directly exchanges data or services without relay equipment, the hidden infringement of downloading and using original music without the authorization of the copyright owner often appears on platforms such as live broadcast and variety show, and technical piracy often makes the infringement more difficult to distinguish and define.
Insiders pointed out that the Application of new technologies has diversified infringement methods on online literature: P2P file sharing, deep linking, cloud disk piracy, search engine transcoding, browser aggregation, mobile app piracy and so on. In addition to technology making piracy infringement more hidden, the time and economic cost of rights protection are high, and the economic and legal costs paid by infringers are low. Considering comprehensively, many new literary and art groups show high tolerance for piracy infringement because of their lack of influence and right to speak.
Technology disturbs the ecological order of the new literary form, and also deprives the new literary groups, as an important part of this ecology, of their legitimate rights and interests, making them lose their original motivation. Whether on the online literature platform or the original video platform, most of the authors’ income comes from the click volume of their works and the share of patch advertisements rather than copyright income. When the works are infringed by piracy and blocked by advertisements, the network writers are faced with the loss of the works, and the original video owners can only rely on the advertisement implantation in the production process to obtain meager income. When piracy and infringement are popular in the original market, the value of originality is more like a myth in a technological age, which is beyond our reach.
One-off "FMCG" loses the value of the new literary form.
In 2013, Nanpai Sanshu, the author of Tomb Robbery Notes, published Weibo, announcing the closure of the pen, and finally expressed "Sorry, I can’t carry it anymore" in Weibo. The word "carry" tells the living status of many new literary and art groups. Network survival means that if you don’t update, you will be eliminated and forgotten. In addition, the website’s "full attendance award" setting and "update ticket" reward mean that writing constantly ensures quantitative and regular updates, which is the underlying logic of a network writer’s survival. The pattern of online novel creation and consumption, which is increasingly being commercialized, makes online writers "voluntarily participate in this hidden catch-up game", spending a lot of time and physical strength to adapt to this commercial creation mechanism, and also makes the water injection behavior of works happen constantly. In addition, dominated by business logic, the writer’s first creation can only be selected from the topics set by the platform. As individuals on the production line, online writers seem to take the initiative to engage in writing work, which may actually have no creativity. When novels lose their creativity to cater to business logic, online writers will become like balloons pierced by needles and slowly lose their rising power. At present, the experience of online novels is more of an entertainment consumption with the selling point of quickness, curiosity and excitement. Network writers not only create words, but also are captured by words, and their works are more of a kind of "fast-moving consumer goods".Let the reader get a temporary pleasure when reading, and nothing seems to be left after reading.
This is the value crisis faced by the creation of new literary and art groups. The logic of capital and technology blindly pursues quickness, convenience, excitement and satisfaction, turning literary and art creation, which is related to the soul, into a commercial production behavior, and everything is simplified to attracting attention and attention. It is difficult for the new literary form lacking humanistic connotation to go far and be stable. However, in the Internet age dominated by commerce and technology, we can’t just rely on the strength of the new literary group itself to maintain a good order ecology of the new literary form and ensure the humanistic connotation of the creation of the new literary group. It is necessary to look at the new literary and art groups with a brand-new eye and establish a systematic, reasonable and comprehensive talent evaluation mechanism. It is necessary to unite them with brand-new policies and methods, and regulate the operation order of the new literary form through effective mechanisms.































































