On The May Fourth Movement Of Vernacular Chinese And The Spread Of New Thoughts

The May fourth Movement had given birth to the great changes of Chinese culture,and the vernacular movement acted as an important part of it.Hence,the vernacular movement provided a convenient tool for the ideological and cultural communication at that time,which greatly promoted the publicity,introduction and spread of new ideas and new cultures.In this case,the vernacular movement had opened a new era in vernacular literature,and profoundly influenced the language habits and thinking forms of people at that time and even now.As we all known,the development of history is influenced by many forces,so that the rise of the May Fourth vernacular movement in modern China had also been the result of the interaction of various social factors.Both the growth of capitalist factors in modern Chinese and the influence of Western learning in the east,as well as the positive impetus of the vernacular movement advocates which had overthrown the feudal ideology and culture with the new language.Both the main body factors of the formation of the intellectuals in the May fourth Movement and the abolition of the Imperial examination system as the objective factor.And,with the development of the May Fourth Period,the May Fourth vernacular movement had grown rapidly and deeply,and then come to climax until the May Fourth Movement.At last,writings in the vernacular had been recognized by official and then respected as the national language.Since then it has become the official and popular discourse.The development of the May Fourth vernacular movement and the spread of new ideas is a process of mutual influence and promotion.On the one hand,the May Fourth vernacular movement had overthrown the classical style of writing and made the writings in the vernacular become national language.And this had provided new language environment for the promotion of new ideas.The publication of the published publications in the vernacular had provided a new carrier for the dissemination of new ideas.At the same time,some productions used writings in the vernacular had sprung up such as A Madman's Diary,which had provided expression form for the spread of new ideas.On the other hand,the further dissemination of the new thought had leaded to sublimate development of May Fourth vernacular movement.The spread of various ideological thoughts in May Fourth period had provided ideological resources and ideological basis for the May Fourth vernacular movement,and had enlarged the group of May Fourth vernacular moxvement,and had made the vernacular become a kind of enlightening discourse and revolutionary mobilization discourse.It can be said that the development of the May Fourth vernacular movement and the spread of new ideas have a profound historical significance,it has established a new discourse system,as well as has broken the monopoly on the culture by the former feudal scholar-bureaucrat class,which had promoted the thought and culture in the May Fourth period,and formed a peak of Chinese ideological and cultural development.In addition,this historical event has an important practical inspiration for the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.It is worth our careful summary and reference to promote the influence and inspiring of the socialist culture.