Mao Zedong asked literary and art workers to "observe the world, society, literature and art from the viewpoint of dialectical materialism and historical materialism". Mao Zedong's poetry is a shining example of analyzing and expressing social life with this world view. For example, in "Xijiang Moon Jinggangshan", Mao Zedong spoke highly of the decisive role of unity between the army and the people, and "unity is strength" defeated the enemy, which is a powerful manifestation of his mass viewpoint of highly trusting the mass power. Believing in and loving the masses is like a red line running through Mao Zedong's poems.
Mao Zedong's poems are full of profound philosophy. "The Seven Laws of the People's Liberation Army Occupy Nanjing" wrote: "If the sky is affectionate, the sky will be old, and the world will be vicissitudes." In other words, endless things in the universe have to go through the process of production, development and extinction, and all exist as processes. As Marx said, "the world is not a collection of unchangeable things, but a collection of processes", and so is human society. The sea and mulberry fields are always changing, and new life always overcomes decay. It is "the tiger and dragon win the past, turn upside down and be generous" and "sing a chicken all over the world, and all parties are happy to play".
Mao Zedong is a great Marxist idealist. In his poems, he enthusiastically eulogized the revolutionary ideal of life and the magnificent struggle to realize this ideal. The Seven Laws and the Long March is a poetic model combining revolutionary realism with revolutionary romanticism. It not only describes the difficulties and obstacles experienced by the Red Army's Long March, but also brings the lofty spirit of the Red Army to the extreme to overcome all difficulties and not be afraid of sacrifice in order to realize the revolutionary ideal of going north to resist Japan, achieving the perfect unity of content and form, which can be called a masterpiece of art and handed down from generation to generation. The theme of this poem is taken from the struggle life of the 25 thousand-mile long March. However, the poet did not deliberately exaggerate the cruelty and sacrifice of the war, but concentrated on expressing the joy of winning the Long March and realizing the revolutionary ideal and contempt for hardships.
In Mao Zedong's poems, the revolutionary ideal of life and the epigrams of overcoming difficulties are always beautiful. For example, "You are not a hero until you reach the Great Wall", "You dare to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky for sacrifice", "You have to compete with heaven for land" and "When the wind blows, turtles and snakes are quiet and ambitious". A bridge flies north and south, and the natural barrier becomes a thoroughfare; Red rain turned into waves at will, and Qingshan deliberately turned into a bridge; A fairy cave was born on a dangerous peak, with infinite scenery; A golden monkey starts a thousand strokes, and an emerald jade clarifies ten thousand flowers; A unique hero drives tigers and leopards, and no hero is afraid of bears; The four seas are churning, and the five continents are shaken by wind and thunder. To sweep away all pests, all invincible "and so on. In the days when there were no stars and the night was like a rock in Na Yue, this revolutionary ideal once shone like a burning torch on the people's way forward; When thunder and lightning and storms come, this revolutionary ideal is like a petrel spreading its wings and calling on the people to attack the dark and decadent forces; In the years of smoke and war, this revolutionary ideal is like a loud horn, inspiring the people to kill the enemy bravely; At the present historical stage of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's modernization, this revolutionary ideal is like a golden drum, which urges people to ride the wind and waves, be determined to reform and create miracles.
Mao Zedong wrote Xijiang Yue Jinggangshan in Jinggangshan 1928, together with his works of this period, such as the Battle of Qingpingle Gui Jiang, Picking Mulberry Seeds, Double Ninth Festival, Dreaming of New Year's Day, Magnolia on Guangchang Road, Butterfly Lovers from Tingzhou to Changsha, and Pride of Fishermen. This group of words with superb artistic conception and flying poems are mostly "humming on horseback" They are wonderful works of revolutionary poetry formed by the fighting passion of great revolutionary leaders and the creative passion of outstanding poets.
Mao Zedong's poems left a beautiful temple in readers' hearts. The beauty in Mao Zedong's poems is the generalization and sublimation of the beauty of nature and social life. The important feature of its beauty expression is that it is good at combining natural beauty with social beauty, and expressing the content of social beauty through the vivid artistic image of natural beauty.
In the history of China's poetry, Qu Yuan was the first poet who described the natural beauty in great quantities and combined it with his concern for the country and the people. This is a fine tradition of China's classical poetry. Du Fu's "Although the country is broken, the mountains and rivers will last forever, and the vegetation will revive in spring" (Spring Hope); Yue Fei's "Angry hair rushing to the crown, leaning against the column and resting in the rain" ("Man Jiang Hong") is the representative work of this tradition. Mao Zedong's poems inherited this fine tradition. In his poems, there are few works that do not involve natural beauty; There is little description of natural beauty. The first half of the word "Qinyuan Spring Snow" is about the snow scene in the north, combining the Great Wall, the Yellow River and the Qin Jin Plateau, which is magnificent and magnificent; Write down the magnificence of the motherland's rivers and mountains in the majestic: the Great Wall and the great river, set off far and near, combined with dynamic and static, intricate and brilliant, depicting a magnificent snow scene with low sky and wide land. However, this is just the scenery when the sun does not come out. When the snow stops and the sun comes out, the scenery will be pushed to a higher level. "It must be a sunny day. It's especially enchanting to see a red skirt!" The red sun and white snow here complement each other, beautiful and moving, with an open picture, majestic and poetic. The epigram of "the mountains and rivers are really beautiful" in the second half not only summarizes the beautiful realm of the snow scene in front, but also leads to the "romantic figure" that the poet should highlight and should dominate this beautiful mountains and rivers. From the glory of the motherland to the great figures with outstanding achievements in history: Qin Huang, Hanwu, Tang Zong, Song Zu and Genghis Khan; From the perspective of historical materialism, this paper points out their class and time limitations as feudal politicians and militarists. Liu Yazi, an excellent poet with high artistic attainments, spoke highly of the aesthetic value of this poem, saying that "Mao Runzhi's Qinyuanchun is a swan song throughout the ages, and Dongpo is young and flat, but both the poems of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the slow poems of the Southern Song Dynasty are still backward".