The main contents of the New Culture Movement before May Fourth Movement include

The main contents of the New Culture Movement before the May Fourth Movement include:

1. Opposition to feudal rites and rituals: The New Culture Movement criticized the rites and rituals of the traditional feudal society, the concepts of ethics and morality, and advocated the ideas of individualism, human rights and freedom. They believed that these traditional concepts fettered the development of the individual and the progress of society.

2. Advocating Democracy and Literary Innovation: The movement advocated science, democracy and modern education, and advocated the concepts of "democracy", "science" and "freedom". The movement advocated science, democracy and modern education, advocated the concepts of "democracy", "science" and "freedom", and advocated the remodeling of Chinese society on the basis of modern science and technology and democracy. The New Culture Movement advocated vernacular literature and opposed the Confucian tradition of the written language. They attempted to express ideas in an accessible way to popularize knowledge and promote mass education.

3. Women's liberation and awakening of national consciousness: The New Culture Movement advocated equal rights for women, opposed women's bondage to traditional feudal family values, and advocated women's participation in social and political activities. The movement emphasized the importance of national consciousness and called on Chinese people to consciously defend the independence and dignity of their country and oppose foreign oppression.

4. Criticism of cultural traditions and opposition to traditional education: The New Culture Movement criticized the feudal moral and ethical system, the feudal political system, and traditional culture as the main causes of backwardness in Chinese society. The New Culture Movement called for a reform of the education system and advocated an education system based on modern technology and real-life experience in order to cultivate a new generation of independent thinkers and practicing professionals.

The Main Reasons for the Rise of the New Culture Movement

1. Intensification of Social Contradictions: At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, China's social contradictions were becoming increasingly acute, the people were suffering, and the national crisis was unprecedentedly serious. The decadence of the feudal system and the invasion of the Great Powers made the people skeptical and reflective of traditional culture, which provided the soil for the rise of the New Culture Movement.

2. The impact of Western thought: After the Opium War, Western powers gradually invaded China, bringing a series of advanced science and technology and cultural ideas. These new ideas had a strong impact on the traditional feudal culture, so that a part of the intellectuals began to accept and spread the Western concepts of democracy, science, equality and so on.

3. The promotion of educational reform: In the late Qing Dynasty and early Republican era, educational reform became an important part of national political reform. The establishment of new-style academies, the dispatch of foreign students and the promotion of new-style education made a group of modern-educated intellectuals begin to pay attention to the development of national culture and advocate the New Culture Movement.

4. Influence of Enlightenment thinkers: Enlightenment thinkers such as Liang Qichao, Kang Youwei, and Yan Fu disseminated advanced Western culture and ideas through translations and writings, laying the theoretical foundation for the rise of the New Culture Movement in China.

5. The needs of the revolutionary situation: After the Xinhai Revolution, the concepts of democracy, science and equality gradually became the goals pursued by the people. It was in this historical context that the New Culture Movement came into being, providing spiritual impetus for the development of democratic politics and national renaissance.

6. Self-awakening of intellectuals: During the New Culture Movement, a large number of modern educated intellectuals began to reflect on traditional culture and advocate the concepts of democracy, science and equality, forming a powerful trend of intellectual liberation. This self-awakening provided talent support for the rise of the New Culture Movement.