This essay will first discuss the importance of form for Chinese revolution. The success of the Yan'an revolution lies in its discovery of an appropriate national form

wherein Marxism transcended from the abstract realm to the material

and as a result

the arts that were produced were able to embody a Chinese style and spirit. In these rural reconstruction movements

in contrast to Republic-era rural reconstruction movements like Liang Shuming's

the arts served as a practice which

starting from the small tasks of everyday life

and a new family tradition to a new village custom

ultimately winning the heart of the masses and encouraging peasants to stand up. As cultural politics

the Yan'an arts movement also became an art that created a new world.