From The "semi-lennon" To "semi-agricultural,

This paper is mainly concerned with the significance and merit of LiuBannong in the New Chinese Literature between 1913 and 1934. At that time, Liu, based on his writing, established a link between the popular literature, the folk literature and the May 4th literature, and paved the way for the development of the morden literature..Considering him standing on the turning point of literary style changing from the old to the new, this paper tries to make a comprehensive evaluation of Liu's achievements in and contribution to the new literature. Summarizing his life and his literary writing, this paper tries to analyze the reason why Liu being overlooked by many people for so many years, based on which, this paper further expounds its content and the significance. Then, centering on his fiction theory and writing during the republic era(1913—1917), this paper tires to analyze the differences between Liu's theory and writing and the one being considered to be Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies. It also tries to point out that Liu's interests on the literary form and the express approach of the popular literature has laid solid foundation for his prosing in the folk literature later. So, it is not surprising that in 1918, Liu involved himself deeply in the so called The ballad Movement. Liu learned a lot from these ballad, based on which, he tried to reform the old Chinese poems. He began to write poetry in vernacular Chinese in 1917, which means a portion of his poetry were full of some kind of Chinese language essentially modeled after the spoken language of the common people. As is well known, Classical Chinese became increasingly viewed as an archaic fossil hindering education and literacy, and, many suggested, social and national progress. And Liu believed that the primitive passion of the vernacular Chinese can give the Chinese people some power to survive the great crisis they faced at that time, and give the nation a re- birth. In a word, what he called for is the creation of a new Chinese culture based on local and folk standards. Finally, this paper tries to give an answer to the question that whether Liu Bannong be superannuated or not during his last years.It can be concluded that what this paper concerned will be of great help to our understanding about the link between the popular literature, the folk literature and the May 4th literature. It also can help us broaden our research area and better understand from where the new Chinese literature comes.