The ideological trend of China's left-wing literature in the first half of the 20th century is not only the dominant ideological trend of the times, but also a part of the world's left-wing literature. The left-wing literature in China in this period closely linked itself with the fate of the oppressed people in the motherland and the oppressed people in the world. Popularization and cosmopolitanism are two notable features of China's left-wing ideological trend.
Left-wing literature has made brilliant achievements in all fields of literary creation. The essays represented by Lu Xun, novels represented by Mao Dun and Jiang Guangci, poems represented by Jiang Guangci and Yin Fu, and dramas represented by Tian Han and Xia Yan have all made great achievements. New Dream, Farewell to Brothers, Lisa's Sorrow, Diary of Ms. Sha Fei, Eclipse, Midnight, etc. Become immortal works in the history of modern literature.
Many articles by Lu Xun, Qu Qiubai, Mao Dun, Hu Feng, Zhou Yang and Feng Xuefeng. Summarize the practical experience of China's left-wing literary creation with Marxism tested by Soviet revolutionary practice. They are excellent literary theoretical works that "explain the author's thoughts and composition of works according to social trends, and criticize whether this social trend and tendency of works are true or not" (Feng Xuefeng's On the Writers of Society), and have played an important role in the development of left-wing literature in China.
After three discussions, namely 1930 popularization of literature and art, adoption of old forms and creation of new forms, 1932 task, content, method and form of popularization of literature and art, 1934 latinization of popular languages and characters, as well as practical activities such as workers, peasants and soldiers correspondent movement and street literature movement, the left-wing literature movement effectively promoted the popularization of China literature and art.
The left-wing literature movement strengthened the connection between China literature and world literature, especially the proletarian literature movement. Due to the lack of necessary understanding of China's revolutionary reality and struggle experience, left-wing literature wrongly denied the great achievements of the early May 4th literary revolution, wrongly criticized famous writers such as Lu Xun, Mao Dun and Ye Shengtao, and only issued a cry for quick success and instant benefit to China literature with young enthusiasm and impulse.