The background of Lao She's writing Grassland.

During the war of liberation, he wrote it while resting at Shandong University in Qingdao. Lao She described what he saw, heard and felt during his first visit to the Inner Mongolia prairie.

The ideological trend of democracy, science and personality liberation aroused by the May 4th New Culture Movement awakened him from the life creed of "running a primary school seriously, respectfully serving his mother, getting married and having children properly". The prosperity of the literary revolution made him "obsessed with new literature and art", thus starting a new starting point in his life and career.

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However, due to the influence of the times, Lao She was once close to the practicality of literature. However, after a period of development, he felt uncomfortable as an artist, so he once again called for and practiced the free expression and artistry of literature, during which his literary thoughts also experienced repeated and shocks.

Therefore, Lao She has no firm and simple literary position, and his literary thoughts are vacillating, but he tends to look at literature from an emotional point of view, thinking that "making people happy is the purpose of art" and "literature is to know and explain life".

At the same time, Lao She believes that "literature is based on qi" emphasizes self-expression and does not use literature as a textbook for preaching.