1927 after the defeat of the first revolutionary civil war, the China revolution entered a new historical period under the sole leadership of the proletariat (through the * * * production party). Writers who participated in the first revolutionary civil war, such as Guo Moruo and Cheng, young writers who just returned from Japan, such as Feng Naichao, Li, Zhu Jingwo, and writers who are engaged in practical work in China, such as Yang Hansheng, came to Shanghai in succession and gathered in literary posts. Faced with the sharp and complicated situation of class struggle, they are deeply dissatisfied with the fact that literature can not meet the needs of struggle, and urgently demand that literature be used as a weapon to fight against reactionary forces; The active proletarian literary movement in the Soviet Union and western European countries, especially the vigorous rise of the Japanese proletarian literary movement, has given them great influence and enlightenment.

What kind of "revolutionary romance" will be spread and circulated?

Because this "sense of the times" has become a kind of psychology at that time. The universality of social psychology makes people generally think that groups are reliable sources of information. The more they trust the collective, the more they doubt their personal views. (Although some writers realized the mistake of this feeling at that time, it was really insignificant. ) So they think it's worthwhile to join the group. This can be seen from two aspects.

First, ordinary literary writers at that time borrowed or copied foreign literary expressions and put forward that "all literature is propaganda", defined "bourgeois art" as "deception and anesthesia" and "proletarian art" as "propaganda, incitement and revolution". So the novel creation is full of slogans and shouts.

Secondly, because many works are purely "propaganda" and "shouting", the characters in the novel lack individuality, ignoring the shaping of typical characters, the plot is mostly superficial, with few real and vivid details, a weak sense of life, a loose structure and mostly didactic language. For example, Young Wanderer, one of Jiang Guangci's early novels, blindly pursues the effect of "propaganda" and the role of "weapons". Through Wang Zhong's ten years' wandering experience, the novel shows the social contradictions and struggles in this period, full of distinct love and hate and the romantic passion of Byronic resistance.