毛泽东文艺思想,是中国革命文艺运动的指南,也是少数民族文艺工作者的指路明灯。我们少数民族的人民,解放前长期遭受反动统治阶级的残酷压迫,不仅在政治、经济上落后,就是表现少数民族人民思想愿望的民族文艺,也象被埋没在污泥坑里的明珠 Mao Zedong’s thought of literature and art is a guide for the Chinese revolutionary movement for literature and art and a guide for minority artists. The people of our ethnic minorities, who were subjected to cruel oppression by the reactionary ruling classes for a long time before the liberation, have not only lagged behind in political and economic terms, but also have shown their national literary and artistic achievements as ideological and cultural aspirations of the ethnic minority people, as well as the pearl buried in the mud pit