Zhou En-lai s thought on literature and art embodies some of the basic concepts and methods of dialectical materialism and historical materialism.

It is a long process of sinicization of Marxism thought on literature and art.

This paper reviews the situation of studying the ancient Confucian thought on literature and art since the 20th century,analyses several main studying aspects in the new times,and makes academic self-examination of the situation of its research.

Deng Xiaoping theory of literature and art, which is the fresh theory of literature and art, germinated in the period of the war of Resistance Against Japan, and matured in the new times of our socialist modernization, is the inheritance and development of the Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung theory of literature and art in the new times.

This paper,from two view of points of literature and art bearing relation to people and relation to politics,discusses Deng Xiaoping′s theory of literature and art,exposes Deng Xiaoping′s enriching and developing Mao Zedong′s theory of literature and art.

They contain the author s penetrating views and profound insights,therefore serve for the main part of his literary theory.

According to Hu Feng, the development of literature is dependent on the co-efforts of the writers who are organized into a group by a magazine that is directed by a unified editorial thought and a literary theory.

His thought,closely related to the garden theory,art and thoughts in the late Ming Dynalty and the early Qing Dynasty,is an important part of his literary thoughts.

As a literary conception and literary trend, literary thought is closely related to a particular social ideological thought and at the same time, it influences and normalizes writers creative activity.