The Modernity Feature Behind The Paradox

YanFu ,as "the first man who introduced the ideology of modern times",and as the man who initiated the philosophy of evolution and ethics before the philosophy trend of marxism,embodies the modernity implications in his broad and profound thoughts. While his paradoxical conscience reflects the synchronic features in Chinese modernity.During the period of new culture movement ,the people such as LuXun and HuShi get involved in the literary revolution is under the influence of YanFu. At the same time,the national character criticism,the time concept and ethics, the relationship between May4th literary and traditional culture , and the modern aesthetics are all connected with the thoughts of Yanfu.Yanfu's selection has a great effect on the selection of an age.The contradiction of Yanfu's thoughts are regarded as the wind vane of May4th literary revolution. YanFu impresses.radicalness and hesitation upon the May4 literary revolution.Which forms the futures of the process of the Chinese modern literary too.The paper is composed of the introduction,the body and the conclusion.The introduction presents the profound influence by Yanfu and the comments on YanFu's thoughts which fall into a dilemma.The body proves the modernity implications which is embodied in YanFu's thoughts,and combs the modernity influence to May4th revolution. It is composed of three chapters.The first chapter mainly explores radicalness of YanFu's thoughts and enlightening modernity. On the influence of YanFu, May4 literary pursuits rationality, freedom and future.The second chapter analyses conservativeness and aesthetic modernity of YanFu's thoughts .May4 literary showes the feature of hesitation ,which is on the influence of YanFu.The third chapter deals with the modern aesthetics of YanFu's thoughts,and explores aesthetics choices of May4th literary under the influence of YanFu's thoughts.The conclusion, based on his paradoxical conscience, reflects the synchronic features in Chinese modernity process,and stresses that its radicalness and hesitation, as the feature of May4th literary, are on the imprinting of Yanfu.