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The Lu Xun College of Arts of Yan’an University has magnificent and far-reaching origin. In February 1938, in Yan’an, Chinese revolutionary leaders, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Lin Boqu, Xu Teli, Cheng Fangwu, Ai Siqi, and Zhou Yang jointly signed an announcement titled “An Account of the Foundation” for establishing a school in commemoration of the late eminent writer, Lu Xun, and named the school Lu Xun College of Arts. The inaugural meeting was held in the Central Auditorium in the Yangjia Ridge of Yan’an on April 10, 1938, and Mao Zedong wrote the school motto: “Intense, earnest, assiduous, and modest”. In April 1943, the college was merged into Yan’an University. After the victory of Anti-Japanese War, the college moved to Northeast China.
In Yan’an times, leaders of cultural affairs of CPC, Zhao Yimin, Sha Kefu, Wu Yuzhang, and Zhou Yang took the presidency or vice presidency of Lu Xun College of Arts successively. From March 1938 to November 1945, Lu Xun College of Arts recruited four grades of students for the Department of Literature, five grades of students for the  departments of Play, Music, and Fine Arts respectively, and turned out 685 graduates, of which 197 came from the Department of Literature, 179 from the Department of Play, 192 from the Department of Music, and 147 from the Department of Fine Arts. Many well-known contemporary Chinese writers and artists, such as, Zheng Lucheng, Liu Chi, Mo Ye, Wang Kun, Cheng Yin, Luo Gongliu, Zhong Dian, Li bo, He Jingzhi, Shi Le, Yu Lan, Qin Zhaoyang, Huang Gang, and Kang Zhuo are all graduates of the Lu Xun College of Arts. The old Lu Xun College made a great contribution to the revolutionary cause, and produced so far-reaching effect on the contemporary Chinese culture and arts that it is called “Holly Place of New Arts”.
The Lu Xun College of Arts resumed at Yan’an University in 1996, and now has a faculty of 43 teachers with good makings, strong capability, and reasonable professional structure, of which three are professors, seven are associate professors, and 16 are lecturers. In addition, the college has engaged a lot of notable artists as part-time professors. The college has over 800 full-time students on campus, and over 300 students of continuing education in two bachelor programs of music and fine art.
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