Inscription for the First Anniversary of the Founding of the Lu Xun Academy of Arts[1]

(May 10, 1939)

Anti-Japanese realism, revolutionary romanticism.

[1] On May 10, 1939, when Mao Zedong attended the anniversary commemoration of the founding of the Lu Xun Academy of Arts, he inscribed "Anti-Japanese realism, revolutionary romanticism," requiring that literary and artistic creation should both reflect the reality of resisting Japan and embody the ideal of certain victory.