1957' s anti-rightist movement inhibited the vitality of prose creation; The subsequent Great Leap Forward (1958) directly influenced prose creation with a grandiose social atmosphere, which contributed to the popularity of "false, big and empty" style and led to prose works being far away from real life. Therefore, although the prose works of this period are flowery and colorful, they can never hide the pale, superficial, grandiose and empty nature, thus lacking long-term artistic vitality. This abnormal phenomenon in creation has also aroused people's vigilance. From February 65438 to February 27, 959, the Chinese Writers Association held a symposium on literary creation. Mao Dun affirmed the creative achievements in the past year and criticized the exaggerated, idealistic and one-sided wrong tendency in serving production and central work due to misunderstanding of revolutionary romanticism. Lao She pointed out in his speech "Laws and Motives" that "literary creation has its own laws, and it is impossible to write works by rubbing one's hands", and advocated that "the leap-forward plan should give consideration to quantity and quality, balance laws and motivations, and strive for a hundred flowers in genre". At the same time, the newspaper opened the column "Let Prose Bloom More Gorgeous" from the No.0/kloc-959 issue, and successively published articles such as About Prose by Bing Xin, Prose Field-Broad Sky by Qin Mu and I Talk about Morning Morning Piccolo by Mi Xue. Qin Mu said: "The prose we are talking about now is pithy, witty, cordial, touching and delicate, which is fascinating to read and lasting for a long time." . We have reason to care and appeal: let this flower bloom more beautifully. In particular, he pointed out: "In addition to international and social struggles, artistic theories, customs and people, there are also essays on knowledge, the world and personal feelings. "

Due to the mistake of the Great Leap Forward, China's national economy not only failed to achieve the Great Leap Forward, but also caused serious retrogression of the national economy, food shortage, inflation, tight market supply and a decline in people's living standards during the three years from 1959 to196. Coupled with a series of "anti-Rightist" and "anti-Rightist" movements, many people have been hurt, and intellectuals in the cultural and scientific circles generally feel depressed and unhappy. Therefore, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward the eight-character policy of "adjustment, consolidation, enrichment and improvement" in September 1960. In this case, Hu Qiaomu wrote to People's Daily, demanding that "the supplement has the responsibility to encourage people to overcome difficulties, carry forward the spirit of optimism, and help people have a rich, healthy and positive spiritual life, but don't talk big or empty words". In particular, he suggested that "you can write some manuscripts of reading notes, advocate reading more books, and read more good books at all times and in all countries, so as to gain ideological lessons and increase your knowledge." Under the instruction of Hu Qiaomu, since the winter of 1960, People's Daily has successively opened several columns on reading: from196010/0/0/3 to19610. 196 1 year 65438+1October 23rd, the column "Reading Essays" was officially opened, and the authors were Deng Tuo, Liao Mosha, Jiang Zengpei and Cang Kejia. Until19621215; On March 30th, 196 1, Tang Tao opened the column "Shu Hua" under the pseudonym "Huian"; 1961June 17 to April 24 1962, road workers opened the column of "visiting books and reading records"; From August 2 196 1 to August 28 1962, the column "Poetry and Prose" was opened, with the authors Chen Youqin, Xia Jingyan, Lu Gong, Chen Yiyun, Cang Kejia and Sha Li. From 196 1 10 to 1 12+00, A Ying opened a column about the Xinhai Revolution. The above columns on storytelling and writing provide readers with a good spiritual food in the era of monotonous spiritual life, and also contribute a few fresh and scholarly smells to a single boring literary world.

It was at the time when prose creation began to gradually return to its own artistic laws that People's Daily opened a column on "Writing Prose" from October 28th to June 5th in 196 1 year/kloc-0. He has published Lao She's The Importance of Prose, Li Jianwu's The Spirit of Bamboo Slips-An Open Letter, New Prose, New Prose, etc. In addition, Bing Xin, Guo Yuheng, Xu Chi and others also published some essays in Wen Wei Po, Guangming Daily, China Youth Daily and Changjiang Literature and Art, which theoretically promoted the development of prose creation at that time, and contemporary prose appeared the second short period of all-round development after 1956. For example, Yang Shuo's Snow Wave, Liu's Camellia Fu, Litchi Honey, Liu's Lamp, Sunrise and Yangtze River are all poetic lyric prose with meaningful artistic conception and beautiful style. Yuan Ying's Green Hills and Bamboo, Wei's boatman's Music, Ji Xianlin's Ma Yinghua and Love Bamboo are all widely read by readers. 196 1 This year is called "the year of prose". In addition, under the influence of Deng Tuo's essays column of Yanshan Night Talk and Deng Tuo, Wu Han and Liao Mosha's Notes on Three Villages, essays once became the "banner" of newspaper literary supplements, and many newspapers and periodicals all over the country reopened essays columns one after another and began to publish a large number of essays, which jointly promoted the second climax of essay creation after the founding of the People's Republic of China.