自从农村人民公社成立以后,在甘肃省委的直接领导下,我们剧团有几个作者,分别在农村生活了一个较长的时间。甘肃不少农村面貌的迅速变化,使我们充分认识到人民公社的巨大力量。作为社会主义的文艺工作者,我们按捺不住激动的心情,要歌颂三面红旗,要歌颂我们时代的英雄人物。这也是党和人民对我们文艺工作者的要求与期望。在《向阳川》的创作过程中,省委的领导同志一直指导着我们的创作,并且具体提出,希望我们把以常翠林为首的英雄人物写好。我们在生活中接触到许多的英雄人物,使我们受到了很大的教育,引起了我们艺术创作的激动,经省委领导同志一指明,我们体会到,歌剧能不能响亮地唱出社会主义,能不能比较深刻地反映我们的时代,关键在于能不能塑造好新英雄人物的形象。但是,由于我们在生活、思想与技巧三个方面都不过硬,特别是我们创作者的思想水平与阶级觉悟,和当代的英雄人 Since the establishment of the Rural People’s Commune, under the direct leadership of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, there are several authors in our theater who have lived in rural areas for a longer period of time. The rapid changes in many rural areas in Gansu have enabled us to fully recognize the tremendous power of the people’s communes. As socialist writers and artists, we can not tempt ourselves with excitement. We should sing the three red flags and praise the heroes of our time. This is also the demand and expectation of the party and the people on our literary and art workers. During the creation of “Xiangyangchuan”, the leading comrades of the provincial party committee have been guiding our creation, and specifically put forward the hope that we will write the heroic figures headed by Chang Tsulin. We have touched many heroes in life so that we are greatly educated and aroused the excitement of our artistic creation. As indicated by the leading comrades of the provincial party committee, we realize that opera can not sing loudly socialism, The key to whether we can reflect our era more profoundly is whether we can shape the image of a new hero. However, since we are hard at work in terms of life, thinking and skills, especially the ideological level and class consciousness of our creators, and the contemporary heroes