What is the New Culture Movement?

The New Culture Movement is an ideological and cultural innovation and literary revolutionary movement that is "anti-traditional, anti-Confucian and anti-classical" initiated by some people who have received western education (then called new learning) before and after the May 4th Movement in19.

2, the basic content

The basic content, four propositions and four objections truly reflect the "newness" of the New Culture Movement. Namely:

First, advocate democracy and oppose autocracy.

Second, advocate science and oppose superstition.

Third, advocate new morality and oppose old morality.

Fourth, advocate new literature and oppose old literature.

3. Significance

(1) The New Culture Movement is a continuation of the Revolution of 1911 in the ideological and cultural fields, and it has formed an unprecedented ideological emancipation.

(2) It has dealt an unprecedented blow to absolutism politically and ideologically, shaken the ideological dominance of traditional ethics, and paved the way for the spread of Marxism in China.

(3) After the May 4th Movement, the New Culture Movement became an ideological movement to promote Marxism and various schools of socialism, which transformed the old democratic cultural movement into a new democratic cultural movement guided by Marxist theory.

(4) After the May 4th Movement, progressive newspapers and societies have sprung up all over the country.