A Model for Developing the Spirit of Criticism:Re-reading Xi Jinping's Speech at the Symposium on Literary and Artistic Work
General Secretary Xi Jinping's Speech at the Symposium on Literary and Artistic Work is a brand-new chapter of Chinese Marxist art theory in the 21st century,and a theoretical achievement of art theory that shines with the brilliance of Chinese and modernised Marxist thought,and is an important part of Xi Jinping's cultural thought,which is of fundamental guiding significance to the work of literature and art in the new era.The speech's discussion on the need to promote the"spirit of criticism"and advocate"true criticism"is still of great significance today,ten years later.The"spirit of criticism"is an extremely important proposition in the theory of literary criticism,which is the concentrated expression of the most essential requirements of literary criticism,the generalisation of the fundamen-tal laws of literary criticism,the stipulation of the reason why literary criticism is the soul of literary criticism,and the torch and lighthouse leading the spirit of literary criticism in the track of real criticism.This important speech of Gen-eral Secretary Xi is a model of literary criticism that vigorously promotes,consciously practices,and fully embodies the"spirit of criticism",and it is a model of"real criticism"that literary criticism should strive to learn from.