Nature of the New Culture Movement

The New Culture Movement was started by bourgeois radical democrats.

The New Culture Movement was an ideological and cultural innovation and literary revolution initiated by Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Cai Yuanpei, Qian Xuantong, and other Western-educated people who were "anti-tradition, anti-construction, and anti-literature".

The New Culture Movement was an unprecedented intellectual liberation movement in modern Chinese history. It held high the banners of democracy and science, carried out a fierce sweep of the feudal authoritarian system and feudal ideology and culture, promoted the awakening of the Chinese people, especially the intellectual youth, and created the conditions for the spread of Marxism in China, as well as the ideological preparations for the birth of the Chinese ****anufacturing party.

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Historical background

Historical Background

After the Xinhai Revolution, the Western Enlightenment spread further, and the idea of democracy*** and was y rooted in people's minds. The Beiyang warlords (Yuan Shikai for the restoration of the imperial system) implemented the counter-current of respecting Confucius and restoring the past. More importantly, people at that time reflected on the failure of the Xinhai Revolution. After the Xinhai Revolution, the advanced intellectuals realized that the root cause of the failure of the revolution was the lack of democratic **** and consciousness in the national brain, and that it was necessary to impact the feudal thought and feudal consciousness from the cultural and ideological point of view, and to realize the real **** and polity through the popularization of the **** and thought.

Historical significance

The influence of the New Culture Movement on the mainland lasted until around 1949, and its main achievements were threefold: in terms of cultural atmosphere, it broke the dominance of the old feudal culture and replaced it with the new and improved European and American cultures, which further enlightened the people, bridged the East and the West and deepened China's understanding of the West to a deeper level.

In terms of ideology, it further struck down the idea of feudal autocracy, spread the spirit of democracy and freedom in the West, and also shaped the liberal ideas of modern Chinese literati, and made liberalism and the Three Principles of the People and ****productivism ranked as the three major currents of thought in modern China.

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