What were the attitudes of countries towards traditional culture during the New Culture Movement?

Treating traditional culture is radical and extreme, thinking that traditional culture is dross and should be completely eliminated.

During the New Culture Movement, there was overcorrection.

This sentence comes from the preface written by Hu Shi for Wu Yu Ruben.

In the preface, Hu Shi said: Wu Yu "is an old hero of the single-handedly working shop in Sichuan", and what he said here was "working shop" rather than "knocking down the Confucius Store". The two expressions have different meanings, especially "punch card shop" should never be understood as "down with Confucius" and "down with Confucianism". Both Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao made it clear that they did not completely deny Confucius, but fully recognized his historical position. They just pointed out that Confucius' Tao "does not conform to modern life."

Therefore, "China people. However, Hu Shi gave Confucius a high position in the Outline of China's Philosophical History. In his later years, Hu Shi pointed out many times that he never belittled the proper position of Confucius and Confucianism.

Gong Shuduo pointed out in the article "Correct Evaluation of the May 4th New Culture Movement" (People's Daily 1999-05-06) that the main content of the May 4th New Culture Movement's opposition to old ideas and traditions was to oppose Confucianism, but it did not completely deny tradition. Therefore, the New Culture Movement was triggered by the social reality of respecting Confucius.

In the New Culture Movement, Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao and others criticized the old ideas. They concentrated on opposing the designation of Confucianism as the state religion, pointing out that Confucianism maintains an autocratic system and is incompatible with civil rights.

The concept of equality runs counter to each other, but the advocates of the New Culture Movement did not completely deny Confucius and his theory. For example, Chen Duxiu affirmed the historical position of Confucius and the historical value of Confucianism, saying that "anti-Confucianism is not against Confucius personally, nor is it that he is worthless in ancient society, and Confucius' theory also has advantages, not"-nothing. "

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Li Dazhao also clearly pointed out in the article "Natural Ethics and Confucius": "To slap Confucius in the face is not to slap Confucius himself, but to beat Confucius as a monarch in previous dynasties.

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Not to slap Confucius, but to slap the soul of authoritarian politics. "In this way, we can also" see that the New Culture Movement did not completely internalize the tradition, nor did it regard China's traditional culture as dross, which cannot be said to be completely anti-tradition. The New Culture Movement did not and could not interrupt the traditional culture. If there is "interruption", it will only break the orthodox position of Confucianism.