In what year did the May Fourth Literary Revolution begin?

The "May 4th" literary revolution began in 1917. The May 4th literary revolution refers to the literary changes that opposed old literature and promoted new literature in the period from the beginning of 1917 to the period after the May 4th Movement in 1919.

In January 1917, "New Youth" published Hu Shi's "A Preliminary Discussion on Literary Reform", which proposed "eight things" to improve literature.

That is to say, what you say must be meaningful, and you must not imitate the ancients. You must pay attention to grammar and do not make innocent moans. You must avoid clichés, use allusions, use antitheses, and do not avoid common sayings and words.

He also proposed the idea of ??"unity of language and literature" and that vernacular literature should be "authentic Chinese literature".

Evaluation of the "May 4th" Literary Revolution The "May 4th" literary revolution obviously had some weaknesses, such as the lack of a historical critical spirit of concrete analysis of the past literary tradition, and the civilian literature it advocated was only urban petty bourgeois citizen literature, and therefore could not

To bring literature closer to the broad masses of the people.

However, judging from the contemporary nature of its theoretical propositions and the new characteristics of its creative achievements, this is after all an unprecedented great revolution.

It announced the end of Chinese feudal era literature and the birth of a new anti-imperialist and anti-feudal Chinese literature led by the proletariat.