尽管文学发达源远流长,但在中国历史上,事功的写作始终是首要的。对于社会生活而言,诏令奏议的重要性远过于诗词歌赋。将事功的写作发挥到极致者,乃是毛泽东的写作。从某种意义上说,靠写作获得政权,在中国历史上还是第一次。时代环境的不同,将宣传置于一个前所未有的重要地位上,毛泽东把握住了这一机会,创造性地通过写作掌握文化领导权,建构全新的语言政治,为意识形态注入了革命的灵魂和巨大的活力。本文以修辞批评的眼光,考察毛泽东的各类写作,试图分析其在历史进程中的作用和影响。毛泽东话语是现代白话文的主体,历史虽已进入后毛泽东时代,但它在语言中的巨大影响力仍然决定着我们的许多行为和表述,是我们习焉不察的一笔巨大的遗产。 Despite the long history of literature, in the history of China, the writing of merit has always been paramount. For social life, the edict is far more important than poetry. It is Mao Zedong’s writing that the writing of the meritorious service is played to the extreme. In a sense, obtaining the power by writing is the first time in Chinese history. Different from the times and environments, propaganda was placed on an unprecedented important position. Mao Zedong took this opportunity to creatively master cultural leadership through writing, constructed a brand new language politics, infused a revolutionary soul into the ideology and a huge vitality. In the perspective of rhetorical criticism, this article examines all kinds of writing by Mao Zedong and attempts to analyze its role and influence in the historical process. Mao Tse-tung’s discourse is the main body of modern vernacular Chinese. Although history has entered the post-Mao era, its tremendous influence in the language still determines many of our behaviors and expressions. It is a huge legacy that we are not aware of.