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Discuss the tradition of May 4th literature, thank you.

The May 4th literary tradition was constructed through interpretation. Advocates of the literary revolution emphasize the humanism and personality liberation spirit of the May 4th literature, and praise the authentic status of vernacular literature. After the rise of left-wing literature, it revised the May 4th literary tradition, eliminated the contents that did not conform to the principles of proletarian revolution, and at the same time strengthened the ideological elements of revolutionary democracy that existed in it. By the1940s, the May 4th literature had been integrated with the left-wing literature and the literature in the liberated areas on the basis of the new-democratic thought, and isomorphically became a "proletarian-led, popular, thoroughly anti-imperialist and anti-feudal" new-democratic literature. However, after this rewriting, the May 4th literature tradition can no longer fully and effectively explain the May 4th literature itself, which led to the discussion on the guiding ideology of the May 4th literature revolution in the early 1960s. This discussion conforms to the trend of ideological emancipation, but it is doomed to be impossible to really return to the May 4th Movement. Today, with the rise of conservatism, it is particularly necessary for us to understand and reinterpret the May 4th literary tradition on the basis of the principle of modernity, so as to make it the spiritual motive force for the people of China to pursue the ideal of modernization.