The two written instructions on literary and art work were: (1) Mao Zedong's instruction of December 12, 1963 to Peng Zhen and Liu Ren, who were leading comrades of Beijing Municipal Party Committee, on problems existing in art work, and (2) the instruction he wrote on June 27, 1964 on the ``Report on the Rectification Campaign in the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and in Its Various National Associations (Draft)'' prepared by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee. Chairman Mao said that ``there were many problems in various forms of art including theatre, folk arts, music, fine arts, dancing, film, poetry and literature''; that in the previous 15 years the national associations of literature and art and most of their publications, by and large, had not carried out the policies of the Party, and that ``in recent years'', they had ``slid right down to the brink of revisionism''. After its Third Plenary Session in December 1978, the Party's Eleventh Central Committee formally declared that the criticism of literary and art work in these two written instructions did not tally with the actual situation, and that it was later used in the ``Summary of the Forum on the Work in Literature and Art in the Armed Forces'' in such a way as to have the most serious consequences. (Cf. Note 34.)