前记:这是我的文艺论文集子「关于现实主义」的序文的一部分。这一部分企图对当前的文艺创作问题提一点意见,所以摘录发表以供从事文艺创作的同志们参考;而这一部分的前面和后面的文字却偏重在说明集子里面的内容及叙述前国民党统治区的进步文艺界的某些情况,就都略去了。不仅前国民党统治区的革命文艺工作对于毛泽东的文艺方向的实践还不过是一个开始,就是对于毛泽东的文艺方向已经有了六七年的实践历史的老解放区也还不过才是一个开始。如果中国共产党率领着中国人民进行了如此长期如此残酷的战斗,终于推翻了中国最后一个黑暗王朝的统治,奠定了中 Foreword: This is part of my preface to the book “About Realism”. This section attempts to give some advice on the current issue of literary and artistic creation. Therefore, the excerpts are published for reference by comrades engaged in literary and artistic creation. However, the preceding and following passages in this section emphasize the contents of the collection and the pre-narrative Kuomintang areas Some aspects of the progressive literature and art are omitted. Not only did the practice of revolutionary literature and art in the former Kuomintang area for Mao Zedong’s literary direction be only the beginning, it was just the beginning of the old liberated areas that had had a history of six or seven years of practice for Mao’s literary and art direction. If the Chinese Communist Party led the Chinese people in such a long and cruel battle, they finally overthrew the rule of the last dark dynasty in China and laid a solid foundation