一如果说，本世纪发生在我国最重要的事情是我国人民终于掌握了自己的命运，那么，在文学艺术领域，本世纪最重要的事情就是人民文艺的兴起了。这里说的人民文艺，不是通常讲的民间文艺，也不是指过去时代文艺作品中具有的人民性，而是指同我国人民的解放事业和社会主义建... If the most important thing that happened in our country in this century is that our people finally have their own destiny, then the most important thing in this century in the field of literature and art is the rise of people’s literature and art. The people’s literature and art here refers not to folk arts as usual, nor to the people’s character as in past literary and artistic works, but to the liberation cause and socialist construction of our people.