72年前,毛泽东同志《在延安文艺座谈会上的讲话》是20世纪40年代马克思主义中国化进程中文艺思想成果的集中体现;72年后,习近平总书记在文艺工作座谈会上发表的重要讲话,则是在新的历史条件下马克思主义文艺观中国化的最新理论成果。正确把握两个《讲话》继承和发展的关系,对于全面认识和深刻理解习近平总书记重要讲话的丰富时代内涵,指导和繁荣社会主义文艺创作,具有十分重要的意义。 72 years ago, Comrade Mao Zedong’s “speech at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art” was a concentrated expression of the achievements of literary and artistic thought in the process of sinicizing Marxism in the 1940s. After 72 years, General Secretary Xi Jinping made an important statement at the literary and art symposium Speech is the latest theoretical result of the localization of Marxist literature and art in the new historical conditions. Correctly grasping the relationship between the succession and development of the two “speeches” is of great significance to comprehensively understanding and thoroughly understanding the rich contemporary connotation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech and guiding and prospering the creation of socialist literature and art.