The Transformation Of The Traditional Cultural View Of The May Fourth Enlightenment Intellectuals And Its Contemporary Enlightenment

The cultural enlightenment in the period of the May 4th Movement laid the foundation for the enlightenment of modern Chinese thoughts and played an important role in the development of Chinese enlightenment.The May Fourth Movement from 1915 to 1921,the May 4th enlightenment intellectuals took the new youth as their main position,holding high the banner of "democracy" and "science",hoping to open the people's wisdom by criticizing traditional culture and propagating new ideas,to make up for the lack of national character,and to cultivate new citizens suitable for the development and construction of modern democratic countries.In the historical development after the may fourth movement,the attitude of enlightenment intellectuals towards traditional culture has been constantly interpreted,and a variety of opinions have emerged.Many scholars believe that total negation is the basic attitude of enlightenment intellectuals towards traditional culture.On the basis of integrating and analyzing the literature related to the traditional cultural view of the May 4th enlightenment intellectuals,this paper holds that the traditional cultural view of the May 4th enlightenment intellectuals is not only a negative attitude,but also taken a turn,from radical landlord's overall anti tradition to dialectical and rational cognition of traditional culture.Before and after the May 4th movement,they showed different cultural attitudes.In the early stage of the May 4th movement,the May 4th enlightenment intellectuals took the theory of evolution as the theoretical basis and believed that western civilization was the direction of the evolution and development of Chinese civilization,Taking western civilization as the reference standard,they put forward the proposition of western culture is easy to Chinese culture,and from the ideological,social,institutional and moral level criticizes the traditional culture,but this anti-traditional attitude has its profound theoretical basis,political needs and practical considerations.enlightenment intellectuals believed that traditional culture was not suitable for modern life and republican system,which must be criticized.But at that time,in the call of respecting the restoration of Confucius and "making Confucius the state religion",the criticism of traditional culture academically not only failed to achieve the goal of enlightenment,but was even used by the forces of feudal restoration,so it could only fundamentally deny the traditional cultureAfter the first world war,the ills of capitalism exposed,the value of the eastern civilization once again to get attention and promotion,with the rise of nationalism trend of enlightenment intellectuals will have to know Chinese and western culture at the same time,through the baptism of the may fourth movement,the early stage of the enlightenment effect has appeared,Cai Yuanpei educational reform at Peking University have contributed to the intellectuals in the north of joint,condensed the power of the enlightenment,the construction of the overall goal of the new culture has become increasingly clear and feasible Finally,inspired by the victory of the socialist revolution in Russia and under the negative influence of the early enlightenment,the attitude of enlightenment intellectuals towards traditional culture changed.this is mainly embodied in the they are no longer claims fundamentally deny traditional culture,but a beginning to dialectical point of view to look at the traditional culture and the relationship between Chinese and western culture,put forward to the construction of Chinese and western combined,integrated to create a new civilization,and the traditional culture in the actual operation,interpretation,and will pick the mining,trying to look for traditional culture system support for rebuilding civilization.Marxism plays an important role as a critical weapon in this cultural turn.Today,we are still on the road of cultural modernization.The situation we are facing is more complicated than the May 4th movement.In the face of the impact of western culture and the requirement of enhancing cultural soft power,how to treat traditional culture and how to make traditional culture become the endogenous driving force of our nation's development are still questions we need to answer.We must draw history from the May 4th movement,guided by Marxism,we should understand traditional culture dialectically,while treating western culture correctly,we should also correctly handle the relationship between Chinese and western cultures,constantly promote the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional culture,and constantly promote the sinicization,epoch-making and popularization of Marxism.