May Fourth Literary Why Cover Of Confucius And Mencius "

Looking back the whole 20^th century,we will find a very special situation:at the beginning of this century the traditional culture is great criticized,but at the end of the century it becomes a hot spot. Today,the world focus attention upon China at Beijing Olympic Games,and the traditional culture is quietly growing and attracts worldwide attention.More and more people fix eyes on the oriental civilizations,especially the Chinese one,a new round of "China-craze" is in the making.Certainly, Confucianism that is the core of traditional culture naturally gains the great homage and adoration.But behind the hot cultural phenomenon,we should also realize another opposite thought---criticizing the subject of "Review Confucian Ethics" of The May Fourth Literature.So the paper thinks it has significant meaning to maintain a sensible thought and give this phenomenon an impartial judgment.Researching one kind of literature phenomenon must to find the clue in the literature history. The review Confucian ethics of the May Fourth Literature is closely related to the social and historical background of both internal and external troubles.On one hand,the paper collates the May Fourth Literature's background,and analyzes the reasons,contents,ideas,meanings and values.On the other hand,because a large number of people participate in the May Fourth Movement and the lake of space as well as capacity,the paper only selected two major owners—Chen Duxiu and Lu Xun as references, in order to look for the general and specific examples.In particular,the paper begins from three aspects:the first part of the paper combines with the historical background,and studies the reasons, thoughts and cultural motives of the review Confucian ethics in depth.Reasons and background ate not root to understand fact,but also can make us evaluate literature phenomenon fairly and impartially. The second part analyses the connotation and thought and clarifies by Chen and Lu's literary activities, creative insights as well as ideas as examples,in order to duplicate the real history.The third part interprets the review Confucian ethics from the perspective of history and modern,which highlights the glorious and eternal impact on the modern discourse,besides,this subject would be a modern extended of May 4^th spirit,and have practical significant for the development of modern thoughts.