An Analysis On The Religious Spirit In The Literature Of May Fourth Movement

The religion is close relation to the literature from its emerging.In the period of the May Fourth maecnent,the Christianty,the Buddhism and the Taoism all Wave tremendous infwence to May forth literature.This article try to expound the religious expression in literature and the value and the cause of these phonomen in May Fourth literature.In the period of the May Fourth movement,because of the advocating of humanitarianism,the thought of universal love is also emerged in works of literature.Bing xin and Wang tongzhao fancy to save the world with the unwersal love.In their early works,love have the magic power to disperse,the depressing and the pessimism.It can remould wickedness too,Luyin.Yu Dafu and Xu Dishan thought the religious belicf as a refuge.They hope to search for comfort and spiritual sustanance there.In part of deseribing the marriage and the love,the writers who was influenced by the christianity have their special character too.In the low tide of the May Fourth movement.Some writers begin to have the idea of Buddhism.Xu Dishan explain exactly the idea that life is a sea of bitterness in his works .In the meantime,Lu Yin expressed her pressmistic attitude to life.The idea of the Buddhism also have infiluence to Lu Xun,but he shook from its yoke finally,and changed it into new strength.Because there is close relatiom between the Taoism and nature,some modern writer expressed some ideas of Taoism in their works.The Taoism's quiet and light attitude to life exert tremendous influence to some writers such as Fei Ming,Xu Dishan and Sheng congwen,when they look at the mature,they all keep in touch with the quietism of soul.The natural and simple aesthetic standand of the Taoism make them enjoying the simple and light.Beautiful of countryside and praising the harmonious relation between the human and the nature.On thcountrary, the countray,they causticly criticized and pungent satiried to the citys civilization.The confucianist pay attention to the value of morals and ignore the value of individual life.In the period of May fourth movement,people begun to concern the value of individual.It was accepted by writers.In this period,the equality was advocated.The Buddhism and the Bible have strong consciousness of equality.This common point make some works contain religious consciousness of equality.There are some common factors between universal love of religion and humanitarianism,so that some writers expressed the spint of humanitarianism when they emlodied universal love in their works.Because writers accepted the spirit of religion with choice,they could keep in touch with the trend of the times and these are the mainly value of religious effect,But there is clearly negative influence that it gives love with no choice to any object,unrealistic fancy to the kingdom of Heaven and gives up to destony and else.It is one of causes that the religion was desdated gradually in the works.There are several cause that the spirit of religion emerged in May Fourth literature.First,the restriction socal atwsphere in the period of M.F.movement.Provide a free ciricumstance which writers could accept different thought and theory.Secoad,the spirit of free,Freedom and unieversal love which was contained in religion,has common to the personality,equality and humanitarianism.The religious value to literature is also confirmed.Neverthless the development of religion in M.F.Literature trend to weak.There are some deep causes of times and society.The idea that save China with some spirit of religious was more and more unrealistic along with the advancement of times.The develepment of natural science explode the myth of religion.The christianity that hinder the development of western wilization in Middle Ages and spread into China by force make writers couldn't accepted it completely in reason and emotion.Owing to strong pounding by western culture and cristsized to traditional culture.The development of Buddhism and the Taoism are more and more weak.Exposed by Marism person furtherly realize unreality and cheatness of religion.That the consciousness of religion in majority of writers is dim leads to separation between the religion and literature.