Chen Duxiu denied the progressive role of traditional Confucianism at that time.

Chen Duxiu lived in a mixed era in hundred schools of thought. As a representative of anarchism, Chen Duxiu, a university professor, pursues "complete freedom". To do this, we must completely break the shackles of feudalism. Among them, although the famous Confucian scholars are of great significance to today, their creative years, creative backgrounds and individual sentences still have feudal traces. There is a saying in The Analects that the world is the land of kings. This shows that Confucianism wants people to behave themselves and obey the king; This is totally inconsistent with the dominant ideas of Chen Duxiu and "anarchism". At that time, it was during the reign of Yuan Shikai and others, and the people wanted to overthrow them. How can they follow some views of Confucianism? At this moment, Chen Duxiu stepped forward and led a "storm of new culture movement". From today's perspective, Chen Duxiu's denial of Confucianism has further promoted the pace of "new culture", but it has gone too far. Therefore, there are both negative and positive aspects.