What was the ultimate goal of Hu Shi and Lu Xun in advocating the replacement of the literary language with the vernacular? What aspects of the New Culture Movement did Hu Shih and Lu Xun contribute t

What was the ultimate goal of Hu Shi and Lu Xun in advocating the replacement of the literary language with the vernacular? What aspects of the New Culture Movement did Hu Shih and Lu Xun contribute the most to primarily? The ultimate goal was to oppose Confucianism, the theoretical pillar of feudalism

Hu Shi was the first to propose the use of the vernacular language

Lu Xun, who published the first vernacular novel in the history of modern Chinese literature, The Diary of a Madman, in New Youth in May 1918, mercilessly criticized the old rites and old morals, pointing out that behind feudal benevolence and righteousness, the word "cannibalism" was all that was hidden. He pointed out that behind the feudal benevolence and morality were all the words "cannibalism", and that those cannibals were "poisonous in their words and full of knives in their smiles", and that the history of China's more than 2,000 years of feudal rule was the history of cannibalism, and proclaimed that "in the future we will not tolerate cannibalism in the world! "This novel laid the foundation for the New Culture Movement. This novel laid the cornerstone of the New Culture Movement to replace the literary language, he also tried to write poetry in the vernacular.