在毛泽东文艺思想的体系结构中,毛泽东的艺术本质理论、关于社会主义文艺的本质特征的论述,是最基础、最核心的部分。这也是马克思主义文艺理论中国化,即当代中国马克思主义美学和文艺理论体系框架形成和发展的逻辑起点和理论基石。所谓马克思主义的中国化,就是毛泽东所说的“马克思列宁主义的普遍真理与中国革命的具体实践互相结合”。这在美学和文艺理论上,就集中体现为毛泽东把马克思主义文艺意识形态学说具体化和现实化为以人民为本位的文艺观及其文艺本质理论,确立了“文艺为人民大众”的这一用马克思主义的立场、观点、方法认识和解决中国具体文艺问题的基本思想理论原则。迄今为止,在关于毛泽东文艺思想的研究中,人们对毛泽东的文艺本质理论似注意不够,尤其是 In the architecture of Mao Zedong’s literary and art thought, Mao Zedong’s theory of the essence of art and his exposition of the essential characteristics of socialist literature and art are the most basic and core parts. This is also the logical starting point and the theoretical cornerstone of the sinicization of Marxist theory of literature and art, that is, the formation and development of the framework of contemporary Marxist aesthetics and literary theory in China. The so-called sinicization of Marxism is what Mao Zedong said: “The universal truth of Marxism-Leninism is combined with the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution.” This aesthetics and literary theory, concentrated on Mao Zedong’s Marxist literary and ideological theory as the embodiment and reality of the people as the basis of the concept of literature and art and the essence of its literary theory, established the “literature and art as the public” This is the basic ideological and theoretical principle of understanding and resolving China’s specific literary and art issues with Marxist standpoints, views and methods. So far, people have not paid enough attention to Mao’s theory of literary and art essence in the research on Mao Zedong’s literary and art thought, especially