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What were the new morals advocated by the New Culture Movement?

1. New morality: expanding filial piety and fraternal duty in the family into friendship and love in the whole society, teaching people to expand love, not advocating to teach people to narrow love.

2. Introduction to the New Culture Movement

The New Culture Movement was an ideological and cultural innovation and literary revolution against tradition, Confucianism and literature, which was initiated by Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu, Lu Xun, Qian Xuan Tong, Li Dazhao and other Western-educated people before and after the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement in 1919. In 1915, Chen Duxiu published articles in New Youth (originally called Youth Magazine), which he edited, advocating democracy and science (formerly known as "Mr. De" and "Mr. Sai"). This movement dealt a severe blow to the traditional rituals that had ruled China for more than 2,000 years, inspired people's democratic consciousness, promoted the development of modern science in China, and laid the ideological foundation for the spread of Marxism in China and the outbreak of the May Fourth Patriotic Movement.

3. Achievements

In the cultural atmosphere, it broke the dominance of the old feudal culture, replaced the old culture with the improved new culture of Europe and America, further enlightened the people, communicated between the East and the West, and deepened China's understanding of the West to a deeper level;

In the ideological aspect, it further struck down the idea of feudal autocracy, spread the spirit of Western democracy and freedom, and also shaped the modern Chinese literature.

In ideology, it further combated feudal authoritarianism and spread Western democracy and liberalism, and also shaped the liberal ideology of modern Chinese literati, and made liberalism and Three Principles of the People and ****productivism the three major ideological trends in modern China, with liberalism dominating the senior intellectuals;

Politically, it cultivated a large number of modern talents who cared about the affairs of the country and tried to survive and grow strong for the Chinese nation, and at the same time formed a "third way" of the liberal intelligentsia, which was the main body.

Politically, it has trained a large number of modern talents for the Chinese nation who care about national affairs, and also formed the political force of the "Third Way" with liberal intellectuals as the main body, which has made a great contribution to restraining the authoritarian impulses of the rulers and promoting Chinese political democracy.