Did the advocates of the New Culture Movement deny China's traditional culture by criticizing Confucianism? Why?

Advocates of the New Culture Movement did not deny all the traditional cultures in China because they criticized Confucianism. The reason for this is the following：

First, they pointed out that Confucianism does not mean all Chinese studies. "Non-Confucianism is small, and the real scope of Chinese studies is large."

Second, they did not deny the historical role of Confucianism.

Third, they didn't make Confucius' theory useless. They criticize Confucianism in order to point out that Confucianism is fundamentally unsuitable for modern life, oppose the ideological imprisonment of Confucianism, shake the absolute authority of Confucianism, and make people dare to break through the cage of feudal thought and think independently in order to obtain "true and reasonable beliefs."

Extended data:

Evaluation of the new culture movement;

The slogan of the new culture movement is four words, democracy and science. These four words were the pursuit of all intellectuals in China at that time.

At that time, China was oppressed by feudalism and imperialism. So the situation at that time was still very difficult. Especially in China, people have not yet awakened. The words we used at that time were really not conducive to the spread of culture.

In the early days of the New Culture Movement, under the banner of "scientific democracy", it opposed the old culture and old morality and belonged to the bourgeois enlightenment movement. After the October Revolution in the Soviet Union, advanced intellectuals in China began to accept and spread Marxism, and historic changes took place in China.

A thorough anti-imperialist and anti-feudal student-oriented May 4th patriotic movement broke out, which later developed into the participation of people from all walks of life. The May 4th New Culture Movement became a watershed of the new and old democratic revolution, and it was a historic revolution in politics, ideology and culture.

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