Literary Revolution

Literary movement and literary trend of thought in the first decade

Section 1 The Rise of the Literary Revolution

First, the reasons for the literary revolution

(1) is the requirement of the enlightenment thought with democracy and science as the banner at that time, and it is the inevitable result of the development of the May 4th New Culture Movement.

② It came into being to meet the requirements of the development of China literature, and it was the development of the literary reform movement in the late Qing Dynasty under the new historical conditions.

③ Enlightenment and influence of foreign literature.

Second, the rise of literary revolution and the evaluation of Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu's literary revolution.

1, the rise of the literary revolution

On June 1 91July 65438+1October1day, Hu Shi published a paper on literary improvement. On February 1 day of the same year, Chen Duxiu published the article "On Literary Revolution", which officially raised the banner of literary revolution. Under the banner of Hu and Chen, Qian, Liu Bannong and others also wrote articles expressing their support and approval, and constantly supplemented and enriched the contents of the literary revolution. A literary revolution, breaking the old and establishing the new, has gradually emerged in China's literary world.

2. Comments on Hu Shi's and Chen Duxiu's views on literary revolution.

(1) Hu Shi's literary thoughts played a pioneering role in the birth of modern literature in China. The emphasis and advocacy of literary content and social function, as well as his "historical evolution of literary view", had a great influence on the feudal old literature that controlled the literary world at that time. In particular, the introduction of vernacular literature has effectively promoted the modernization of language. But most of the ideas are minor improvements in form, and there is a big compromise.

(2) Chen Duxiu's literature advocates starting from the standpoint of thoroughly opposing feudal democracy, opposing both the language form and the reactionary ideological content of the old literature, thus clearly raising the banner of the literary revolution. The attitude of advocating literary revolution is much more resolute and radical than that of Hu Shi. But what kind of new literature should be established after denying the feudal old literature is not specific. There are some contradictions and confusion in the literary concepts borrowed from the west.

Third, the significance of the literary revolution.

1 declared the end of China classical literature with thousands of years' history and the birth of new literature.

2. He made immortal contributions to the ongoing anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democratic revolution at that time, and opened the first glorious page of people's anti-imperialist and anti-feudal literature with comprehensive innovation from theoretical proposition to creation and from literary content to form.

3. China literature broke the isolation and went to the world, and the world literature began to go to China, which opened a new process of China literature modernization.