What are the similarities and differences between May 4th literature and 1980s literature?

Compared with the literary creation in1980s, there is a following relationship between the May 4th period and1980s. However, due to the different historical background, the literature in the 1980s inherited and developed the May 4th literature.

(A) the similarity between the May 4th period and the 1980s. First of all, the ideological background of his creation, during the May 4th Movement and the early 1980s, was the period of China's social thought transformation. Second, the subjectivity of literature. Emphasizing the value of "human literature" and literature itself was advocated by the contemporary literary world in the 1980s and the May 4th modern literary world. In 1980s, the movement of "rewriting the history of literature" in the literary world was to re-establish the main meaning of literature. This is essentially consistent with the theory advocated by the literary sages during the May 4th Movement, that is, emphasizing the writer's main concern for social life. Thirdly, in terms of artistic techniques, it is obvious that both the literature in the 1950s and the literature in the 1980s are tolerant and receptive to foreign schools, styles and methods. Fourth, the characteristics of literary creation. In 1980s, literature not only inherited the tradition of the May 4th literature enlightenment, but also put this tradition into practice, showing the same prosperous literary creation as in the May 4th decade. When talking about the literature in the 1980s, Mr. Hong Zicheng said that the literature in the 1980s was to "revive the enlightenment responsibility and literati consciousness of the May 4th writers and rebuild the position of attaching importance to the value of literature itself. "It can be seen that there is a current follow-up relationship between literature in the 1980s and May 4th literature. A Comparative Study of the May 4th Local Novels and the Root-seeking Literature in the 1980s also takes the May 4th Local Novels and the Root-seeking Literature in the 1980s as the research objects, and makes a comparative study of the local literary creations in these two periods by using the research methods of cultural analysis and ideological analysis, and holds that "literary creations will present similar states in similar historical and cultural contexts".

(2) The differences between the May 4th Movement and the 1980s. First, the social background of creation is different. The May 4th Movement was a historical period of anti-imperialism and feudalism in China, but in the 1980s, the country had just experienced ten years of civil strife. Second, the significance of literary enlightenment is different. If the literature in the 1980s is a kind of "reflection", then the literature in the May 4th period is a revolutionary trend of thought, which aims to enlighten the ignorant and backward people from the ideological and cultural level. Third, literature has different social effects. In the literary creation in the 1980s, no epoch-making literary master was as profound as Lu Xun. When integrating Chinese and foreign ancient and modern times, the writers in the 1980s still lacked the wisdom, courage and courage like Lu Xun to explore and exclude the reality of the times and the deep psychology of the nation, so the literature in the 1980s had far less profound influence on national thought than the literature in the May 4th period. Fourth, the writing characteristics are different. The literature in the May 4th period was just in the initial stage of vernacular Chinese, and the creation of classical Chinese was still the mainstream, while the literary creation of classical Chinese basically disappeared in the 1980s.