After the outburst of Anti-Japanese War, a large number of progressine workers in
literature and arts streamed into Yan′an and there they made full use of literature and art to
propagate and organize the popular in order to arouse the awareness for saving their country
existence. This campaign supplied rich spiritual food for the soldiers and people during the war.
The main trend throughout literature and art covers patriotism and revolutionary heroism and
their vast historical pictures and deep-thoughtful contents supplies people with vivid materials
from the angle of literature to understand the war.