Traditional Ethics And The May Fourth Movement Writer's Personality And Literary Creation

May Fourth Movement writer's personality is base on the "3 immortalities" of traditional ethics. Those writers showed a great concern in the high culture of personality, and they tended to build their own characteristics at the aim of "the man of honor" in traditional theories—no matter in" social morality" or" private Germany ", all in agreement with the traditional ideal of "Morals model". And they tried to achieve this goal of "setting up people" by literature. And through which they tried to save the nation and found a new state. Their personal composition is also influenced by the western theory, but in their opinion, China's traditional ethics is " body ", the western theory is "application ". This kind of personal characteristic has caused the contradiction and war of their soul, and has formed their " dual personality ", letting them fully demonstrate the status of " historical intermediate". This has determined that the reason that for May Fourth Movement of literature is the concerning of country and the Current situation, and its way of saving the nation is to " set up people". This is caused by the traditional culture of China's ethics that have long been known as " borrow the ideology and culture in order to solve problems ". Therefore, their belief of saving the nation is " save the nation through ethics ". Because of this, their proposal must be "people's literature" and based on "people's morals". On the functional view of literature, there are inherent connections between the claim of the "Literature produced for people" and "Run a country with literature"; and the idea of the "for art " group inherited the idea of "Express the ambition with the poem" and "Express emotion with the poem", and in the "ambition" and "emotion", much "truth" is contained. Their concerning of the people and the country did its utmost to publicize the enlightening and sarcastic function of literature. In the direction of their literal material selecting, it is their idea of China's traditional ethics is "body "while the western theory is "application " that brought up their love and hatred for family, started the war between human desire and morality, expressed the contradiction between "collective" and "individuality", and that described the homesickness of the writers. It is the traditional ethics and the May Fourth Movement writer's personality and literary creation that resulted in the Aesthetics characteristic conception that kind-heartedness and truth are virtues, in its characteristic of depressed, tragic and lyrical intension, and displayed the connection with traditional aesthetical view of literature.