在文艺理论上,“四人帮”有一个自诩为“标新立异”的“创见”,即所谓“努力塑造工农兵的英雄人物,这是社会主义文艺的根本任务”。在这里,“四人帮”俨然把自己打扮成“工农兵英雄”的虔诚的崇拜者,热忱的鼓吹者。然而,事实告诉人人的却又恰恰相反: 别人写了歌颂长征的作品,他们就斥之为“替老家伙评功摆好”。别人要写女英雄刘胡兰,他们阴阳怪气地问:“是否要学刘胡兰牺牲?”对于歌颂伟大的共产主义战士雷锋的作品,他们贬低为宣扬“做小事情”。对于反映大庆、大寨英雄事迹的作品, In the theory of literature and art, the “gang of four” has a “pioneering idea” that argues itself as a “paradoxical innovation”, that is, the so-called “heroic task of shaping the workers, peasants and soldiers is the fundamental task of socialist literature and art.” Here, the “Gang of Four” seems to dress up as a devout admirer and a passionate advocate of “the hero of the workers, peasants and soldiers.” However, the facts are told to everyone but on the contrary: when others write works that sing the long march, they dismiss it as “appraising the good old guys.” Others write female hero Liu Hulan, and they yelled in wonder: “Do you want to learn how to sacrifice Liu Hulan?” They devalued the promotion of “doing small things” to the works of Lei Feng, who praised the great communist fighter. For the works reflecting the heroic deeds of Daqing and Dazhai,