User:Siyuan Cheng/New Youth

According to Mingwei's book, the comprehensive monthly cultural magazine, "New Youth" is a powerful challenge to China's traditional feudal culture. According to the Mingwei, "The ideal of national rejuvenation was first clearly presented by the late Qing reformer Liang Qichao[梁启超] (1873-1929) in his groundbreaking' Shaonian Zhongguo shuo' [少年中国说] (Ode to a young China, 1900), which happened to be published in the first month of China's first lunar year of the twentieth century" (Pg 15). "New Youth" magazine not only played an active role in the dissemination of young ideas, but also the May Fourth New Culture One of the most important publications in the history of sports and modern Chinese literature and cultural thought. Later, many famous Chinese writers and thinkers joined, such as Hu Shi, Lu Xun, and Li Dazhao. Besides, "New Youth" also fought against feudal literati and other feudal literature trends. By drawing lessons from foreign literature, the young thinkers who wrote the New Youth Magazine hope to satirize the negative impact of feudal society on society through these satirical articles. This led to China's backwardness in all aspects.

Many scholars believe that China's backwardness is not only a political factor, but cultural and ideological factors are also crucial. According to Mingwei, "Perhaps it is the words of a conservative intellectual like Zhang Shizhao [章士钊](1881-1973) that can best demonstrate the absolute authority endowed in youth. He saw the New Culture Movement as a sprint in which everyone, including the by-then veteran literature Liang Qichao, participated. Those who did not would be declared ‘backward,’ ‘reactionary,’ or ‘dead’: ‘when thousands [(]of youth[)] point their fingers at those [(]who do not run with them [)], those will drop dead immediately’ 千人所指，不疾自僵." (Pg 18). This also led to the profound influence of the New Youth Movement on the ideological and cultural development of modern China because many celebrities participated. Only when everyone has advanced ideas can people realize that some of the old society's bad customs, such as slavery, are not good for the development of social humanity.