Renaissance Attitude Toward Traditional Culture and the Reasons for It

Preliminary period: the main contents include advocating democratic science against authoritarian superstition; advocating new morality against old morality; advocating new literature against old literature. Among them, the slogan "Down with Confucius" aimed the struggle at the Confucian classics.

Reason: Most of the bourgeois radicals accepted the Western ideas of civil rights and equality, and Darwin's theory of evolution, and vigorously propagated the ideas of democracy and science. With the New Youth as the main ideological activities, while Cai Yuanpei was the president of Peking University, he was determined to reform, to be inclusive as the purpose of running the school, and to advocate the freedom of academic thought. This provided an ideological safeguard for his opposition to the old Confucian culture.

Late period: propaganda of Marxism

Reason: the victory of the October Revolution in Russia

Renaissance: to revive the culture of ancient Greece and Rome to express its anti-feudal ideas

Reason: the bourgeoisie at that time did not have a mature ideological system