China's modern and contemporary popular literature refers to the works created or recreated by literati in the form of inheriting the tradition of China's ancient novels, with the industrial and commercial economic development of metropolis in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China as the background and the traditional psychological mechanism as the core in content; ..... formed a group of readers, mainly the general public, who regarded them as spiritual consumer goods, which would inevitably reflect their society. A core meaning of this view is that popular literature has indeed gradually found its own historical position in the relationship with the "market". Without the rise of this literary and cultural market in the "modern city" and the emergence of readers dominated by "citizens", modern "popular" literature would be impossible. Obviously, if we start from this concept, then Zhao Shuli should certainly not enter the scope of our investigation of "popular literature"-because his novels have nothing to do with "citizens" and "modern cities".

Cultural exposition

Just as there are different opinions about Zhao Shuli's works in history, the definition of the concept of "popular literature" seems to be full of inherent contradictions. Because first of all, if "popular literature" is closely related to the market, if everyone agrees, it can include the economic market and the ideological market, then when we talk about the market, we should pay attention to the diversity of the market. There is a market among citizens in modern cities, but isn't there a market in China's broader rural society? I think of course there is. The existence of Zhao Shuli itself strongly proves the existence of this rural cultural market. Secondly, if "popular literature" is a continuation of some China tradition, or inherits some traditional cultural interests, then I think Zhao Shuli is more traditional, more local and more interesting in China than Cheng Xiaoqing and others-he was originally writing under the guidance of the theory of "fresh and lively Chinese style, Chinese style loved by China people" in Mao Zedong. So I understand why Mr. Fan used the concept of "popular literature" in the words with the word "citizen" quoted above. Tolerate some confusion between the concepts of "popular literature" and "citizen literature" and put the interest and standard of "citizen literature" in the investigation and description of "popular literature", which is an obstacle for us to enter the historical context and understand the relationship between popular works and the times today. Comparatively speaking, "citizen literature" or "citizen literature" clearly shows the connection between literature and a specific social stratum in a specific era.

law of development

However, it is from this contradictory concept that China's "popular literature" has gained great legitimacy and certainty today. From the legends of the Tang Dynasty, the stories of the Song Dynasty, Zhang Hui's novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, to the condemnation and darkness in the late Qing Dynasty, to Zhang Henshui, Cheng Xiaoqing, Li Shoumin and so on, and then to Jin Yong, Gu Long and Qiong Yao. If you count this "internet age", there may be an author like Annie Baby. "Popular literature" has become a great tradition, forming its own classicality, its own transition and its own modernization process. In the process of the modernization of popular literature, Zhao Shuli, including the later Yao Dan school yam, including the later Huang Ziping's "revolutionary historical novel", I think it should also include writers who are very popular today, such as Zhang Ping. Of course, there are some differences, not to mention things during the Cultural Revolution. Regarding the "eight model operas", Mr. Fan Boqun's view is: "It has finally reached the extreme by administrative means, and it can be said that it has reached the" great popularity "of the whole people, but the creation of these works does not conform to the inherent law of creation, nor can it be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people."