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The status and role of spiritual products

The purpose of studying and analyzing the spiritual effects of spiritual products on people is to more consciously guide the production of spiritual products in accordance with the production laws of spiritual products, and to better and comprehensively exert the influence of spiritual products on people. The role of people. Promote the all-round development of people, improve people's ability to develop the economy and promote the overall civilization and progress of society. The spiritual effects of spiritual products on people are mainly reflected in the following aspects.

(1) Spiritual products can entertain people

Entertainment is one of the basic natures of human beings. The pursuit of happiness and joy is a physiological instinct and desire of people, and it is also the reason why many spiritual products, especially It is the basic function of a cultural product and an important criterion for judging whether it is a masterpiece. People pursue happiness and enjoy happiness not only to meet physiological needs, but also to achieve normal physical, mental and psychological development. More importantly, they want to create a happy mood and create an entertaining and harmonious lifestyle. , thereby maintaining the healthy and sustainable development of human productivity. Creating happiness and spreading happiness are the first and basic functions of many spiritual and cultural products. Spiritual cultural products that can entertain people can often inspire people's desire to watch or participate, and can subtly play their role in educating, inspiring, and shaping people in the entertainment process. Otherwise, there will be spiritual and cultural products that lack entertainment and cannot attract people, and ideological education will not be able to play a role no matter how good it is. The first generation of leaders of New China had great experience and feelings about the characteristics of spiritual and cultural products that create happiness and have a good impact on people's physical, mental and productivity status. Premier Zhou once said to people during his lifetime: "Chairman Mao is not like us when he watches theater. He watches theater mainly to rest. Comrade Chen Yun is very weak and tired. He needs another environment to rest and listen to Pingtan in order to prepare for The party has to do more work." Premier Zhou also said frankly: "Sometimes I want to watch mind-numbing dramas and movies to take a break." Liu Shaoqi also said: "Watching excerpts can give people a rest and make people happy. That’s very good. Providing entertainment and rest will help people exert their socialist enthusiasm.”

With the rapid development of the economy, people’s work and life pace have accelerated significantly, and their material and cultural living standards have greatly improved. Today, with advancement, people's nature to pursue happiness has not only not degenerated, but on the contrary, it has become stronger and stronger, and their tastes have become higher and higher. Therefore, spiritual products and cultural services whose main purpose is to sell happiness are very marketable in the market. Producing more spiritual products that integrate thought, entertainment and appreciation is the requirement of the times and the only way to prosper culture.

(2) Spiritual products can educate people

Since ancient times, our country has fully recognized that culture has the function of ideological enlightenment. Education through fun.” Legend has it that our country used culture as a tool for education during the Yao and Shun eras. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the educational function of culture received more attention. Xunzi pointed out in "Music Theory": "Vocal music penetrates people deeply and transforms people quickly. Therefore, the former kings would like to write it." Confucius even put it very seriously from the perspective of "cultivating oneself, regulating one's family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world." He advocates the educational function of culture, which is said to be "prosperous in poetry, established in etiquette, and accomplished in music"; "no one is good at music when changing customs; no one is good at etiquette when it comes to governing the people"; the purpose of making ritual music is "to teach the people their likes and dislikes" , and it is against the principles of humanity." Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, paid special attention to "high-level education." He said: "Five Classics, Four Books, cloth, silk, Shu, and millet are all available in every family. Gaoming's "Pipa Ji" is like delicacies from the mountains and seas, which are indispensable for rich families." Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated in the "Da Ming Law" that at that time Stage performances must "persuad people to do good". During the period of socialist construction, socialist spiritual and cultural products played a huge educational role. As Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of China's reform and opening up, said in his article "Congratulations at the Fourth Congress of Chinese Literary and Art Workers": “Whether it is to meet the various needs of the people’s spiritual life, to cultivate new socialist people, or to improve the ideological, cultural, and moral standards of society, literary and artistic work has important responsibilities that cannot be replaced by other departments.”

Many excellent spiritual and cultural products from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, have played a very good role in educating and edifying people. The ancient Chinese "Three Character Classic" and "The Poems of a Thousand Families" and other early childhood education books have long been instilling Confucian social ideals in the form of early childhood education. The ruler is bright and the ministers are loyal, the generals are in harmony, the ruler and the people are happy together, and there is long-term peace and stability. In society, we talk about good neighborliness and friendship and integrity in making friends.

This plays a better role in maintaining social order. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, novels such as "How the Steel Was Tempered" and "The Story of Zoya and Shula" introduced from the Soviet Union became excellent reading materials that our country's teenagers rushed to read at that time, which effectively matched the thinking of teenagers. Education plays a big role in cultivating them to establish a correct outlook on life, world view and values. "The Long March", "Ode to Yan'an", "Zhou Enlai", "Eighth Route Army", "Founding Ceremony", "Chongqing Negotiations", "The Great Battle", "Bright Sword", "The Sky of History", "Passion" have emerged in our country in the new era "The Burning Years", "Absolute Power", "State Cadres", "Jiao Yulu", "Kong Fansen", "Ren Changxia" and other literary, film and television works with the main theme have become patriotism, collectivism and *** for the broad masses of the people. The vivid teaching materials of communist ideal and moral education have played a huge role in cultivating new socialist "four haves".

(3) Spiritual products can inspire people

Inspiring people is a prominent feature and important function of spiritual products. German esthetician and psychologist Max Desso wrote in the book "Principles of Aesthetics and Art": "In all happy and sad situations that arouse everyone's emotions, music is like a rope that binds people. Together. Music can especially ignite religious and patriotic enthusiasm." "Shangshu Da Zhuan" records an inspiring and exciting story about ancient Chinese music. Legend has it that King Wu of Zhou defeated Zhou and led an army to attack the capital of the Shang Dynasty. On the eve of the decisive battle, King Wu of Zhou led his soldiers to set up a bonfire outside the city. They sang and danced to a climax, which boosted the morale of the soldiers, boosted their spirit, strengthened their fighting spirit, and inspired them to share the same hatred of the enemy. With one heart and one mind, they overthrew King Zhou of Shang in one fell swoop. Brutal rule. In the summer of 1942 during World War II, German invaders surrounded Leningrad in the former Soviet Union with heavy troops. German aircraft and artillery bombarded the city frantically. The city was in ruins, there was a lack of food, and casualties were increasing. The situation was very serious. However, when the general counterattack was launched, the commander-in-chief of the Leningrad front had a sudden idea and decided to organize a rehearsal and perform the "Seventh Symphony" composed by the meritorious composer Shostakovich, which sang the praises of the heroic Patriotic War. To boost morale and lift spirits. When the "Seventh Symphony" was finally played in the Leningrad City Concert Hall on August 9, the music flew into thousands of homes in Leningrad through radio waves. Thousands of male and female citizens were extremely excited, carrying submachine guns on their shoulders, shouting the slogan "Long live the motherland!", united as one, and with a fearless spirit of going forward and not fearing sacrifice, they braved the enemy's artillery fire and charged into battle, finally defeating the invasion. who. The novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by American female writer Mrs. Stowe revealed the tragic fate of black slaves and played a huge role in inspiring the American people to participate in the abolition movement and the Civil War. In 1862, President Lincoln met Mrs. Stowe at the White House and praised her highly as "this little woman wrote a book that led to a great war." During the period of socialist construction, excellent spiritual products can still inspire and inspire people. For example, 100 patriotic movies, 100 patriotic books, and 100 patriotic songs have effectively cooperated with the patriotic education of the majority of young people and are still playing a role today. In recent years, a series of major political events have been held from top to bottom around commemorating the 80th anniversary of the birth of the Communist Party of China, the 110th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth, the 100th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birth, the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Long March. This colorful, healthy, educational and entertaining cultural activity plays an indispensable role in inspiring patriotism and national spirit and motivating people across the country to build socialism with Chinese characteristics.

(4) Spiritual products can shape people

When describing the ideal state of future society, Marx proposed that communism is “based on the comprehensive and free development of everyone. The social form of principles”. This shows that the comprehensive and free development of human beings is the main feature of communism, the ultimate goal of social development, and an inevitable requirement for building a harmonious culture. In terms of promoting the comprehensive and free development of people, culture is an important way and means. Because the comprehensive and free development of human beings includes the development and improvement of ideological and moral and scientific and cultural qualities. Without the pursuit of lofty spirituality, the need for elegant culture, a higher ideological realm, a higher cultural literacy, a professional level that is qualified for work, and the ability to deal with various contradictions in society, this person cannot be a person. A person who develops comprehensively and freely.

Therefore, we should provide more and better spiritual products to the public to enrich people's spare time life, cultivate people's sentiments, inspire people's fighting spirit, uplift people's spirit, broaden people's horizons, and improve people's ideological and moral and scientific and cultural qualities , enhance people's abilities, promote people's all-round development, and thus shape people into a noble person, a pure person, a person who is free from vulgar taste, a person with ideals and ambitions, a person who is capable and capable , a person who benefits the country and the people.

In today's world, culture, economy, and politics are integrated with each other, and its status and role in the competition for comprehensive national strength are becoming increasingly prominent. The power of spiritual products is deeply embedded in the vitality, creativity and cohesion of the nation. The production of spiritual products will increasingly play a huge role in promoting social and economic development and the all-round development of people.