Is the New Culture Movement a total denial of China's traditional culture?

The value orientation of the new culture movement is anti-traditional, which is not bad. However, the New Culture Movement is not groundless, except for the external conditions of the impact and influence of western culture, and the soil provided by the internal evolution of China's humanistic tradition.

The New Culture Movement has done a lot of work in "sorting out national heritage". Hu Shi's Outline of China's Philosophical History and Textual Research on China's Classical Novels, Lu Xun's A Brief History of Chinese Novels, Gu Jiegang's discussion on distinguishing ancient history, and Chen Duxiu's and Qian's philological research are all achievements of sorting out national heritage.

Their working methods are scientific and modern, which are greatly influenced by western academics. Therefore, many old-school scholars often fail to "sort out the national heritage" in terms of methods, horizons and topics.

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The Relationship between New Culture Movement and China Traditional Culture;

The new culture movement put forward the idea of "re-evaluating all values", which seems to have inherited the slogan of Nietzsche, a western thinker, and is actually in the same strain as the "retro liberation" initiated since the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Although there was an atmosphere of criticizing the tradition during the May 4th Movement, which even flourished, it can't be said that the New Culture Movement at that time was a "fracture" of China tradition. The ideal new cultural movement of Cai Yuanpei and Hu Shi was China's "Renaissance".

The New Culture Movement criticized and sublated the orthodox things in traditional culture. They also chose the learning methods of the Qing Dynasty, vernacular Chinese, classical novels and traditional operas. They studied the pre-Qin philosophers and explored the ideological value of Mozi. These not only show that they are in the tradition, but also inherit and develop China's humanistic tradition.

People's Network-May 4th Movement is not a break of traditional culture.