Was the New Culture Movement created out of thin air by a few young people?

Most of them were created by the new youth.

Almost put the new youth mobilized and then the whole country responded to it.

Holding high the banner of democracy and science, New Youth launched a magnificent new cultural movement with opposing old morality and advocating new morality, opposing old literature and advocating new literature as its main content. Its main advocacy contributions are in the following three areas:

1) Criticize the old feudal morality, criticize the reverse current of the restoration of Zunkong, and advocate the new morality and new ideas of democracy, freedom, equality, and fraternity. Chen Duxiu published a series of political essays in Lachundu's "New Youth": "Refutation of Kang Youwei's Letter to the Prime Minister", "The Constitution and Confucianism", "The Resurrection of Yuan Shikai", "Restoration and Respect for Confucius", etc., and "refuted the words" of Zun Kong Senqin's remarks in the "Correspondence" column.

Based on the factual theory of Yuan Shikai's claim to be the emperor, he pointed out that "advocating respect for Confucius is bound to establish a monarch, and advocating the establishment of a monarch is bound to be restored."

2) Promote science and oppose superstition. "New Youth" advocates a scientific view of society and life, and opposes idolatry, superstition, blind obedience, subjective arbitrariness, and all dark and ignorant phenomena. Chen Duxiu's book "The Theory of Idol Destruction" supports this view.

3) Initiating a literary revolution, advocating new literature against old literature, and advocating vernacular literature against classical Chinese. Hu Shi's "Discussion on Literary Reform" opened the prelude to the literary revolution. Immediately after Chen Duxiu's "Theory of Literary Revolution", he put forward the three major doctrines of literary revolution.

"New Youth" advocates the ideological enlightenment and propaganda of democracy and science, which is like the beginning of a spring thunder, awakening a generation of young people.

The New Culture Movement was initiated by Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu, Lu Xun, Qian Xuantong, Li Dazhao and other people who had received Western education (then called New Education)."Anti-traditional, anti-Confucianism, anti-literary"ideological and cultural innovation, literature.

In September 1920, starting from Volume 8, No. 1, New Youth was reorganized into the organ of the Shanghai Initiation Group of the Communist Party of China, actively carried out Marxist theoretical propaganda, became the main front for disseminating Marxism in China, had a wide influence among the vast number of revolutionary intellectuals, and made ideological preparations for the founding of the Communist Party of China and the development of the Chinese revolutionary movement. On July 1, 1922, New Youth closed its publication after the publication of Volume 9, No. 6. In 1923, the quarterly magazine "New Youth" was founded in Guangzhou, with Qu Qiubai as the editor-in-chief, which was the first theoretical journal of the Communist Party of China and became the organ of the Communist Party.

From its inception in 1915 to its closure in 1922, New Youth lasted for seven years. The past seven years have been an era of great emancipation of the minds of Chinese intellectuals, especially young intellectuals, an era of fierce battles between the old and new trends of thought, and an era of China's transformation from the old democratic revolution to the new democratic revolution. "New Youth" adapts to the requirements of the times, guides the pace of this era, and cultivates a whole generation of young people.

The early leaders of the Communist Party of China, such as ***, ***, Yun Daiying, Cai Hesen, etc., have all been deeply influenced by it. said"New Youth is a well-known magazine of the New Culture Movement, edited by Chen Duxiu. I started reading this magazine when I was a student at the Normal School.

I particularly like the articles of Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu. They replaced Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei. When I was in the car, I became a role model.

Yun Daiying and others wrote to "New Youth" and said:"Our life has always been in chaos, and since we have gradually woken up after reading "Organ Newspaper Youth", it is really like seeing the dawn in a dark place. We can't express our gratitude enough to all the gentlemen who made "New Youth".

Since we have attained this enlightenment, we have made a great wish to do the cause of "self-conscious people", so we have set up "New Voice"."。

Conclusion: In short, "New Youth" during the May Fourth New Culture Movement was a mentor for young people, spreading the gospel to young people. "New Youth" became popular, and everywhere it went, it sparked the spark of ideological revolution, it nurtured a generation of young people, and in the history of China's modern enlightenment thought, it made outstanding achievements and shined for thousands of years.

New Youth is closely associated with the New Culture Movement and the May Fourth Patriotic Movement, and has played an immeasurable role in the direction of modern Chinese society.