Red literary and artistic works enter the ideological and political class, how to plant the seeds of "awakening"

Once, when talking about the great miracle of China's poverty alleviation in class, Zhang Zhi recommended students to watch the TV series "Mountains and Seas". As a result, many students understand that the history of poverty alleviation between the present and the past is also the history of the Chinese Communist Party's unswerving struggle to realize the people's yearning for a better life.

Zhang Zhi is a researcher at the Institute of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era at Chinese Min University, and some high-quality film and television dramas are always introduced in the class. When talking about the content of guiding students to establish Marxist beliefs and socialist beliefs, he talked about the movie "Chosin Lake", through the screen, students truly experienced why volunteer soldiers became "the most lovely people".

Ideological and political science classes have shown more and more new forms of teaching. Long Pingping, screenwriter of the TV series "The Age of Awakening" and former director of the Third Compilation and Research Department of the Documentation Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, once gave a "real-life immersive ideological and political lesson" to young students in the Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery in Shanghai. He solemnly said, "Is there a sequel to The Age of Awakening?" Your happy life today is the sequel. We must take them as models, build our country well, and realize the last wishes of these revolutionary martyrs. ”

On January 11, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the opening ceremony of the seminar on the study and implementation of the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China by major leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels: "It is necessary to make good use of the channel of ideological and political science in schools, promote the history of the party to better enter the teaching materials, classrooms, and minds, and give play to the important role of the party's history and morality. ”

When red literary and artistic works are introduced into the ideological and political classroom, how to plant the seeds of "awakening"?

"If young people don't like it, they fail"

According to a special survey on party history study and education conducted by the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily, 43.3% of the respondents chose film and television dramas as the main channels for understanding party history, and the "Founding Ceremony", "Red Women's Army", "Long March" and so on are all red film and television dramas that impressed the respondents.

The "red drama list" he recommends to students include: "The Great Cause of Building the Nation," "The Great Cause of Party Building," "The Great Cause of Building the Army," "The Founding Ceremony," "The Founding Ceremony," "The Boy who Justimeted Classmates," "Deng Xiaoping at the Turning Point of History," "The Begonias Are Still The Same," and "Meritorious Deeds."

Feng Wuzhong lamented that last year's "Age of Awakening" "awakened" the young generation in the new era. "These seeds of awakening will then take root, sprout, blossom and bear fruit, grow into great trees, and hold on to the heavens. This is the charm and power of red literary and artistic works, which can play a role that is difficult for teachers to teach. ”

Recently, the episodic historical novel of the same name, The Age of Awakening, which is artistically crafted on the basis of dramas, was published. Long Pingping admitted that before the broadcast of this drama, he was a bit "confused", he was more than 60 years old, and he did not know what young people were thinking now.

Long Pingping said: "What do young people really need? I didn't have a very clear judgment when I was writing, nor did I cater to the ideas of young people. But I know that if young people don't like it, they're failing. ”

After the broadcast, the enthusiasm of netizens to watch the drama made Long Pingping learn some very trendy network vocabulary, such as "bullet screen" and "urge change". Touching him, there are also netizens who write a series of reviews with a sense of truth: "Our examination point is their life", "They are the first to wake up and the first to leave", "The end of Yanqiao Road is a bustling avenue"...

"I was taught a very big lesson: I really underestimated the political discernment and artistic appreciation of contemporary youth. This drama was constantly urged by young people when it was broadcast, and those bullet screen messages were very touching. Young people use their online languages such as YYDS, Breaking Defense... To the young revolutionary martyrs of 100 years ago, express a strong hero worship. During the Tomb Sweeping Festival, they piled flowers in front of the tombstones of the Longhua Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery to express their gratitude to the martyrs. Long Pingping said.

To Long Pingping's surprise, Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian became "young friends" because of this drama. "The family life and father-son relationship of the great people in 'The Age of Awakening' are very lifelike. Many people on the Internet say that 'when I saw Chen Yannian and Chen Duxiu arguing, I quarreled with my father', such a collision of ideas, the expression of two different eras, I really did not expect when I wrote this TV series. ”

Historical figures come alive, and the influence of red film and television dramas is subtle

In 2021, at the mobilization conference for party history study and education, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "We must encourage the creation of literary and artistic works with party history themes, especially film and television works, do a good job in the study and education of young people, and let the red gene and revolutionary flame be passed on from generation to generation." ”

The impact of high-quality red film and television works on young students is subtle.

Chen Li, a junior high school Chinese teacher at a key middle school in Beijing, was a post-95s student who asked the students of the first grade in class whether they had watched "The Age of Awakening", and most of the students raised their hands with great excitement: "I have seen it, I have seen it!" Chen Li suddenly realized that from the red TV series, these post-00s students can more easily and truly appreciate the feelings and emotions of the characters.

When Chen Li was in the Chinese Department of College, the teacher would play some red classic film and television works in the literature class and comment on them, such as "Song of Youth", "Red Rock", "White Haired Girl", and "Red Girl Scout Army". Chen Li liked the form of "watching movies in class" at that time.

Wang Jia, a 2021 master's degree graduate of a university in Beijing, mentioned that when she saw the TV series "Lovely China" that told Fang Zhimin's story on the Internet during her graduate school, the first picture that came up in her mind was the scene of the teacher leading the whole class to read the text aloud in elementary school. "By then, there will be active creations everywhere, rapid progress everywhere, songs will replace lamentations, smiling faces will replace crying faces... The joy of life will replace the sorrow of death, and the bright garden will replace the desolate wasteland! ”

Wang Jia feels that a good red-themed film and television drama can pull itself back into the torrent of history, and the characters in the play are no longer just white paper and black characters in textbooks, but have become flesh and blood and full of soul.

Many red film and television dramas attract the younger generation because they are immersed in history and vivid on the screen.

Xi Jieying, vice chairman and secretary general of the Social Investigation Center of the State Council Counselor's Office, believes that the reason why "The Age of Awakening" shocks young people so much is because "the truth of the plot and details can make people feel empathy."

Long Pingping said that when he created the script, a very important point is to highlight the "ideological nature" of the work, "a TV series, a novel, to write historical events, historical figures, the work expresses your own view of history, express your views on history and characters, on the basis of based historical materials for artistic processing."

Long Pingping pointed out that in order to display the ideas of Mao Zedong and Li Dazhao and other advanced elements 100 years ago, it is necessary to refine, summarize, and sublimate from some of their articles and works, and cannot be completely copied, otherwise it will be the same as reading textbooks. "To become a living character image, put into a special environment to understand."

Long Pingping believes that contemporary young people need to understand the historical knowledge about the founding of the party, so that the post-90s and post-00s of 100 years ago can "communicate" with today's post-90s and post-00s.

"The traditions and hero worship of our thousands of years of civilization are deeply rooted in the hearts of contemporary youth and cannot be erased. This is called positive energy. This positive energy is the mainstream in our entire society and among the youth as a whole. At every major historical juncture, it is still youth who rush to the forefront. Long Pingping sighed.

Red literary works are becoming part of the ideological and political classroom

While red literary and artistic works have received hot market feedback, they are also becoming an indispensable part of the education of ideological and political classrooms in colleges and universities.

Feng Wuzhong's main courses at Tsinghua University are "Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought and the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" and "Introduction to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era". He often introduces a variety of literary and artistic works in MOOCs and classroom teaching, which adds a lot of color to teaching, so it is called "ideological and political class with literary and artistic style".

"Whether it is playing clips in class or recommending everyone to watch all of them after class, many red literary and artistic works can play a role in infecting, moving, and inspiring people, and become an important supplement and important carrier of the ideological and political class." Feng Wuzhong believes that the appropriate introduction of literary and artistic works in the teaching of ideological and political science can turn static into dynamic, flat into three-dimensional, abstraction into image, and then dull into fresh.

"The ideological and political science class should not only 'carry the word in the lesson' but also 'preach the word in the text.' The 'Tao' here refers to the basic principles of Marxism and the basic viewpoints of Chinese Marxism, and the 'Wen' here refers to various forms of literature and art. Feng Wuzhong further believes that when the ideological and political class is opened, it will become a microscope for students to understand history, grasp the azimuth of reality, and foresee the future.

Zhang Zhi shared that after class, some students left him a note to express their affirmation of the course, for which he sighed: "Good ideological and political work should be like salt, not just eat salt, the best way is to dissolve salt into various foods and absorb it naturally." ”

Zhang Zhi feels that for students' ideological and political work, the ideological and political classroom is the main channel, but we must also pay attention to microcirculation. "We must not only grasp the main channel, but also activate the microcirculation, achieve complementarity and combination, and be good at doing ideological education work from the students' daily life and exchanges."

Sun Hongyan, director and researcher of the Institute of Children and Adolescents of the China Youth Research Center, said that it is a good way to guide young people's thinking in the form of red film and television dramas as an example of the ideological and political curriculum, because teenagers like to visualize and story-based education methods, and red film and television dramas promote positive energy and socialist core values, which is consistent with the direction of ideological and political science.

In Sun Hongyan's view, young people are using their learning methods and expressions to approach the red classics and spread red culture. For example, they describe the Communist Party as using the term "the most bullish entrepreneurial team in history", and those who express positivity use "very Marxist".

Long Pingping also recognized that the introduction of some film and television works into the ideological and political class can help everyone study the history of the Party and understand the development of Chinese society. "Talking about party history cannot be conceptualized, dogmatic, or bookish." Turning the "conceptualized" characters in the original textbooks into vivid people and people who communicate face-to-face with contemporary people will have a perceptual understanding of history and party history.

"Red film and television + ideological and political lessons", how to achieve the effect of two-way improvement

Red film and television works have begun to become an integral part of ideological and political education, and this trend calls for two levels of improvement: the quality of ideological and political education in schools and the quality of red film and television drama creation.

Xi Jieying pointed out that now the ideological and political class still needs to further enhance the sensitivity, appeal and acceptance of young people.

Xi Jieying said: "First, seek truth from facts. Tell the truth and tell the truth. It is necessary to combine the actual scenes felt and felt by young people in their actual lives and then extend them to the truth and truth; second, to emphasize that the 'three histories' should be true and vivid, and to lead things with people; third, to truly change 'I want to learn' into 'I want to learn'; now those spontaneous interest groups among young people who study theory and history deserve special attention, and encourage and support them to become an important force in the thinking and politics class of young people; fourth, strive to change 'rational and strong' into 'silent things'. ”

Red film and television dramas are an educational means of "moisturizing things silently". So what kind of works are suitable for entering the ideological and political classroom?

Looking at the past "blockbuster" red film and television dramas, we can often find some similar success factors and new "bright spots" that follow the progress of the times.

For example, "Qia Classmate Boy", broadcast in 2007, is set against the background of Mao Zedong's reading life in Hunan First Normal School, telling the story of the vigorous learning and life of outstanding young people represented by Mao Zedong, Yang Kaihui, Cai Hesen, Xiang Jingyu, Tao Yi, etc. When the drama was broadcast, young people in many parts of the country opened up the "Qia Classmate Teenagers" post-viewing forum on the Internet, and the number of tourists visiting the First Normal School in Hunan greatly increased.

Sun Jiashan, an associate researcher at the China Academy of Arts, mentioned that because "Qia Classmate Youth" boldly used a group of young actors and decisively absorbed the successful genre elements of youth idol dramas at that stage, it not only obtained a win-win situation of ratings and word-of-mouth, updated the paradigm of revolutionary historical theme TV series, but also directly affected the creation of a number of TV series after that, and laid a good industry foundation for the current such film and television dramas.

When it comes to the "blockbuster drama" in 2021, Sun Jiashan affirmed the progress of production methods. For example, he said, "The Age of Awakening" used a lot of film production methods that are not common in TV dramas. "Not only the visual presentation of complex historical clues is freehand, but also the innovation of its own style of expression, and the large number of multi-camera shootings rare in domestic TV dramas maximize the details of actors, props and scenes."

In Feng Wuzhong's view, red film and television dramas that are suitable for inclusion in the ideological and political classrooms of colleges and universities should have three characteristics: First, they are "red," the three views are correct, the politics is strong, and the positive energy is the mainstay, but it is not preaching; the second is "true," which is in line with the truth of history and the truth of life, has true insights and a sense of truth, and is not a "divine drama"; the third is "living," not rigid, not monotonous, with ups and downs, and with aura.

The introduction of red film and television dramas into the ideological and political class should be highly in line with the needs and goals of young people's growth. Feng Wuzhong said that good literary and artistic works are the introduction to understanding history and accepting the truth, but even the best literary and artistic works cannot replace relevant historical and theoretical works. "To have a deep understanding of the history and achievements of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China, it is also necessary to systematically study the history of the Communist Party of China, the draft history of the People's Republic of China, and a brief history of reform and opening up."

Sun Hongyan also reminded ideological and political science teachers to pay attention to one point: the use of "red film and television + ideological and political science" should follow the principle of "moderation and suitability".

"Primary school students are more suitable for telling stories through film and television films, but in junior high schools and even colleges, with the rapid development of their thinking ability, they need to improve stories, film and television dramas, etc., not only to have good stories, but also to improve to ideological understanding." In addition, history cannot be distorted, history cannot be distorted, especially children, they may take the joke as true, which is not suitable for moderation. Sun Hongyan said.

China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Shen Jiequn Mei Xiaoyu Video production Shen Jiequn Yu Bingyue Source: China Youth Daily