Nanchang New Life Movement (1934-1935)

The New Life Movement was launched by a preparation. One is that JiangJieShi established the secret orgnization "FuXingShe" to relize "Race Renewal". "LiXingShe",the core organization of "FuXingShe", launched the New Life Movement. The other is the Confucianism morals that JinagJieShi asserted become the contents of the New Life Movement. The New Life Movement was launched at NanChang for "suppressing bandits", but it was not its main purpose. Its main purpose was "Race Rewal". JiangJieShi, YangYongTai, and personnels of "LiXingShe" influenced the New Life Movement .JiangJieShi set up a new system of virtues for the New Life Movement. The source of its theories primarily consist in JiangJieShi influenced by the Confucianism culture. GuanZi's "Li Yi Lian Chi"become the contents of the New Life Movement. WangYangMing, ZengGuoFan's theories, SunZhongShan's "San Min Zhu Yi", and the inspiration of Japan, Germany, all consititued the source of his theories. The core of the new theories that JiangJieShi set up is "Li Yi Lian Chi". First, he criticized the inreansonable living of people, then he explained his theories. His explaination wasn't same as GuanZi's explaination. It was primarily to maintain GuoMinTang's power. Although he asserted the purpose of the New Life Movement had kinds, but all were around the "Race Rewal". In fact, regadless of its purpose, its was for the sake of attaining "Jiao Yang Wei" and calling up the people,for the legitimate foundation of its political power to provide more elucidation. Deep into his theories of analysis, exsit two predicaments, One is regardless of law, econamy and people in the function in the morals. The other is the new morals cannot design from the "Yi Shi Zhu Xing" in the living.Because of the government suppressed the citizen society, the New Life Movement was advanced into the living depending on the administration system. It orgnized its own orgnization, its personnels was borrowed from daministration. Even the every kind of plan was finished by the help of administration. It advanced "Rules", "Clean"and "San Hua" in the living, but the New Life Movement didn't care all those things. Its ways of advancement was propaganda, instruction, supervision, prize and punishment etc. All ways was superfluous because of its advancement had no contents. We can find that the New Life Movement had interfered with the freedom of the people's living through all kinds of ways.The New Life Movement was advanced in the living depended on staffs in the administration, police, students and women with knowledeg. It was primarily because of the government suppressed the citizen society, abandoned its social foundation. So it impossibly depended on some personnels colse with people in citizen society to complete the New Life Movement. After analyzing these personnels, we can discover they were limitedly in function, the keys consisited in the people not need the movement. JiangJieShi wasn't satisfied with the results of the New Life Movement, he critized the results many times. The kind of his attitude explained the New Life Movement didn't attain its anticipant purpose. The reason was, One is the New Life Movement didn't get the approbation of the people; the other is it deviated from people's need; the end is the leader's behavior influnenced the results. All these were disadvantage to the legitimate foundation of the government.In fact, the New Life Movement wanted to resolve the crisises of politics, economy and ideology of government, to establish the legitimate foundation of power. But analysizing the problem, we can discover the New Life Movement hadn't resolved the crisises and established the legitimate foundation. The key was that it didn't solve people's actual needs, it hadn't gained people's approval. It proves that the legitimate foundation of any government must care people's benefits. If it deviate from this center problem, the legitimate foundation is difficultly established.