The Heroic Narrative Communication of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front History

Technological innovation in the era of intelligent media has endowed the dissemination of red culture with new momentum. The history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front is an epic of heroes forged in the crucible of ice and fire. The heroic narrative within this history is by no means a simple factual recounting; rather, it is a communicative activity that strengthens collective memory, transmits core socialist values, and solidifies historical proof. With the state’s emphasis on “red gene culture,” the heroic narrative of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front history is being widely disseminated through diverse media such as documentaries, short videos, films, television dramas, and exhibition livestreams.

智媒时代的技术革新为红色文化传播赋予新动能。东北抗日联军的历史，是一部在冰与火的淬炼中写就的英雄史诗，对东北抗联历史中的英雄叙事绝非简单的史实复述，而是强化集体记忆、传递核心价值、牢固历史证明的传播活动。随着国家对“红色基因文化”的重视，东北抗联历史的英雄叙事正在通过纪录片、短视频、电影、电视剧、展览直播等多种多样的媒介得到广泛传播。

Reconstructing the Communication Scene through Micro-Slices

以微观切片重构传播场景

Communication studies hold that memory is not a simple individual psychological activity but a “social process” constructed and transmitted through media, narratives, and rituals. Proactive narrative lies in taking the initiative and dominance of the narrative firmly in one’s own hands from an autonomous and self-conscious subjective position. The narrative-based dissemination of the heroic martyrs in the history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front can form social consensus through shared, persuasive stories, effectively shaping society’s collective cognition of the history of the War of Resistance.

传播学认为，记忆并非简单的个体心理活动，而是通过媒介、叙事和仪式得以构建传承的“社会过程”。主动叙事在于以自主、自觉的主体位势，把叙事主动权和主导权牢牢掌握在自己手上。对东北抗联历史中英雄先烈的叙事化传播，可通过共享的、具有说服力的故事形成社会共识，有效地塑造社会对抗日历史的集体认知。

On the one hand, the heroic narrative in the history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front uses micro-slices to allow audiences to intuitively feel the vividness and tangibility of history, guiding them to establish a correct view of history and nation within the story scene. In 2025, the Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation launched the program *War of Resistance Relics: A Dialogue Across Time and Space*. Using “relics” as a medium, it narrated heroic deeds through micro-objects such as Yang Jingyu’s belongings and Zhao Yiman’s letter to her son, achieving a temporal dialogue between contemporary youth and the heroes. This micro-narrative, rich in emotional penetration, breaks down the grand history of the War of Resistance into tangible, relatable lives, making it the most effective carrier and conveyor belt of historical memory.

一方面，东北抗联历史中的英雄叙事以微观切片让受众直观感受历史的鲜活可感，引导受众在故事场景中建立正确的历史观和民族观。2025年，江苏广播电视总台推出的《抗战信物·时空对话》栏目，以“信物”为媒介，通过杨靖宇的遗物、赵一曼的示儿书等，从微观物件讲述英雄事迹，实现当代青年与英雄之间的时空对话。这种极具情感穿透力的微观叙事，将宏大的抗战历史细化为一个个可触摸、可共情的生命，成为历史记忆最有效的承载物和传输带。

On the other hand, in the era of digital-intelligent media communication, the heroic narrative in the history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front exhibits characteristics of scenification and ritualization, allowing audiences to strengthen their national faith in solemn and serious scenes. Commemorative activities for heroes, visits to memorial halls, and public memorials on Martyrs’ Day all fall under the communicative behavior of the “ritual view” in communication studies. Through this ritualized communication, members of society are no longer onlookers detached from history but personally participate in a collective, solemn cultural experience, fostering reverence for heroic martyrs and a sense of identification with national culture and national identity. For example, the all-media livestream event *Song of Beacon Fire*, jointly created by Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning provinces, brought together over 30 new media accounts, presenting journalists delving into important sites, memorial halls, and commemorative activities of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front, achieving a resonant livestream across large and small screens, effectively strengthening the collective memory of revolutionary history.

另一方面，在数智媒体传播时代，东北抗联历史中的英雄叙事具有场景化、仪式化的特点，让受众在庄重严肃的场景中增强民族信仰。对英雄的纪念活动、纪念馆的参观、烈士纪念日的公祭等，都属于传播学中“仪式观”的传播行为。通过这种仪式化的传播，社会成员不再是游离于历史之外的看客，而是亲身参与到一种集体的、庄重的文化体验中，让其对英雄先烈产生敬畏感，对民族文化和民族身份产生认同感。例如，黑龙江、吉林、辽宁三省携手打造的全媒体直播活动《烽火长歌》，汇集了30余家新媒体账号，呈现记者深入东北抗联的重要遗址、纪念馆、纪念活动现场，实现大屏小屏共振直播，有效地强化了革命历史的集体记忆。

The heroic narrative in the history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front can quickly anchor historical coordinates, turning every dissemination of heroic deeds into a confirmation of historical truth, and making the conscious dissemination among the public a great wall of steel against the erosion of time and historical nihilism.

东北抗联历史中的英雄叙事可快速锚定历史坐标，让英雄事迹的每一次传播变成对历史真相的确认，让社会大众间的自觉传播成为对抗时间侵蚀和历史虚无主义的钢铁长城。

Enriching Communication Carriers through Narrative Innovation

以叙事创新丰富传播载体

The spirit of the War of Resistance is not a fossilized relic but a flowing river. When disseminating heroic narratives in the New Era, it is necessary to analyze the cognitive structures and reception habits of different audiences and adopt more flexible and diverse communication strategies to achieve the goal of enabling audiences to actively “decode” the heroic narrative of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front.

抗战精神不是凝固的化石，而是流动的江河，在新时代传播英雄叙事时，需要分析不同受众的认知结构和接受习惯，采用更加灵活、丰富的传播策略，以达到让受众主动“解码”东北抗联英雄叙事的目的。

From the perspective of cultural communication, the innovation in the heroic narrative of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front provides rich “symbolic resources” for various forms of cultural creation. In recent years, numerous literary and artistic workers across the country have created and produced a large number of artistic works commemorating the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front.

从文化传播的视角看，东北抗联的英雄叙事创新，为各类文化创作提供了丰富的“符号资源”。近年来，全国各地众多文艺工作者创作推出了一大批纪念东北抗联的艺术作品。

Highly recognizable cultural images such as the snowy forests, isolated army camps, and heroic group portraits constitute the cultural text of the heroic narrative. These heroic stories, like streams converging into contemporary cultural creation, innovate the dissemination of the heroic spirit through different communication carriers. From the traditional novel *Tracks in the Snowy Forest*, to films such as *On the Songhua River*, *Zhao Yiman*, and *There Will Be Successors*, to television dramas such as *General Yang Jingyu*, *Eight Women Throwing Themselves into the River*, and *The First Gunshot*, and to documentaries such as *The Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front* and *Forging Heroic Spirits in the White Mountains and Black Waters*, each transformation of media form represents a new interpretation of the heroic narrative, allowing audience groups with different tastes and generations to feel the emotional shock and national integrity conveyed in cultural works.

林海雪原、孤军营地、英雄群像等极具辨识度的文化意象构成了英雄叙事的文化文本，这些英雄故事如同溪流般汇入当代文化创作，创新了不同传播载体对英雄精神的传播。从传统的长篇小说《林海雪原》，到电影《松花江上》《赵一曼》《自有后来人》，再到电视剧《杨靖宇将军》《八女投江》《第一声枪响》，以及纪录片《东北抗联》《白山黑水铸英魂》等一系列影视作品的涌现，每一次媒介形态的转换，都是对英雄叙事的新阐释，让不同趣味、不同代际的受众群体都能感受到文化作品中传递的情感震撼和民族气节。

At the same time, the heroic narrative, through a powerful “story framework” setting and the selective recounting of historical heroic figures, shapes people’s understanding of reality and expectations for the future. For example, the documentary *The Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front* aired by China Central Television presented a panoramic epic of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front’s bloody struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Using modern communication methods, the documentary innovated the “encoding” of the heroic narrative in the history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front, not only showcasing a nation’s faith and unity in desperate straits but also emphasizing the indelible historical contributions of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front to the victory of the national War of Resistance and the World Anti-Fascist War.

同时，英雄叙事是通过一种强有力的“故事框架”设置，通过对历史中英雄人物的有选择讲述，来塑造人们对现实的认识和对未来的预期。例如，央视推出的纪录片《东北抗联》全景式呈现了中国共产党领导下东北抗日联军浴血奋战的壮阔史诗。纪录片运用现代传播手段对东北抗联历史中的英雄叙事进行 “编码” 创新，不仅展现了一个民族在绝境中的信仰与团结，还强调了东北抗联为全国抗战与世界反法西斯战争胜利作出不可磨灭的历史贡献。

Additionally, with the continuous development of information technology, anti-Japanese United Front sites and memorial halls across the Northeast are no longer limited to static displays. They also employ VR/AR technology for scene reconstruction, continuously narrowing the distance between communication media, the communication process, and the audience, forming a “cultural field” with regional intellectual property. For example, on August 30, 2025, the “Special Exhibition of Unearthed Artifacts from Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front Sites” opened at the Museum of the Communist Party of China. This special exhibition not only presented precious artifacts, archival documents, historical images, and historical scenes in a story-driven format but also broke through the traditional single narrative model of museums, skillfully integrating information technology methods such as image-based scene creation. This allowed visitors to experience the arduous struggle of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front amidst the multi-layered interweaving of sound, light, shadow, and scenery, fully reflecting the profound humanistic value of that period of history.

另外，随着信息技术的不断发展，东北各地的抗联遗址、纪念馆不再只是进行静态陈列，还通过VR/AR技术进行情景再现，让传播媒介、传播过程与受众之间不断缩小距离，形成具有地域IP的“文化场域”。例如，2025年8月30日，“东北抗联遗址出土文物特展”在中国共产党历史展览馆开展，这场特展不仅将珍贵文物、档案文献、历史影像、历史场景进行故事化呈现，还突破了传统博物馆单一叙事模式，巧妙融入影像造景等信息技术手段，让参展者在声、光、影、景的多层次交织中感受东北抗联艰苦抗战的故事，充分体现那段历史中厚重的人文价值。

Transmitting National Faith through the Heroic Spirit

以英雄精神传递民族信仰

The most profound communicative value of the heroic narrative in the history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front lies in the fact that its communicative effect does not stop at the cognitive level but reaches directly into the spiritual world of the audience, playing a role in value cultivation and spiritual shaping, acting as a “crucible for forging the national soul.” When many well-known red venues require reservations days in advance, when school groups and families voluntarily visit revolutionary sites, when countless visitors enter martyrs’ cemeteries, museums, and memorial halls… the heroic narrative of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front repeatedly reaffirms “who we are” and “where we come from.” This ritualistic communication continuously awakens and strengthens participants’ sense of national identity, stimulating the shared emotions of every member of Chinese society.

东北抗联历史中的英雄叙事，最深刻的传播价值在于其传播效果不停留在认知层面，而是直达受众的精神世界，起到价值涵化与精神塑造的作用，扮演着民族精神“铸魂熔炉”的角色。当许多知名红色场馆需提前数日预约，当学校团体和家庭个人自发参观革命圣地，当无数参观者走进烈士陵园、博物馆、纪念馆……东北抗联历史中的英雄叙事便在一遍一遍地重申“我们是谁”“我们从何处来”，这种仪式性的传播不断地唤醒和强化参与者的民族身份认同，激发中华民族每个社会成员休戚与共的情感。

In the New Era, the spirit of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front, with its unique power of inspiration and guidance, enlightens minds, cleanses hearts, and spurs people forward, possessing value that transcends time and space. Through the continuous, systematic narration of anti-Japanese United Front heroic stories via different media such as social media and popular culture, it is like a sustained “spiritual drip irrigation” in the soil of social culture, continuously consolidating the core value system of society.

新时代，东北抗联精神以其特有的感召引领作用，启人心智、涤人心泉、催人奋进，具有超越时空的价值，通过社交媒体、流行文化等不同媒介持续、系统地讲述抗联英雄故事，就如同在社会文化土壤中持续进行“精神滴灌”，不断巩固社会的核心价值体系。

(The author is a doctoral student at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Yanbian University, and President and Professor of Jilin Vocational and Technical College.)

（作者系延边大学人文社会科学学院博士研究生，吉林职业技术学院校长、教授）