The movement of letting a hundred flowers blossom in China is a political movement that implements the policy of "letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend".

China's literary and art circles, baptized by the May 4th Movement, have always had a sense of mission to become the clarion call and drummer of the times. The coming climax of large-scale economic and cultural construction has once again aroused the political enthusiasm of literary and art workers who want to make a difference in literature and art. The meeting of China intellectuals has inspired them, and the rise of the Soviet Union's "unfreeze literature" has also inspired China writers. They began to publicly express their dissatisfaction with the dull and depressed literary and art circles.

At this time, in order to encourage the cultural construction in China, Mao Zedong put forward the slogan "Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend".