(1) advocates democracy and science, and opposes tyranny, ignorance and superstition. Pay equal attention to democracy and science.

(2) Advocating new morality and opposing old morality. Old morality mainly refers to the traditional Confucian morality represented by Confucius' theory, and its core content is three cardinal principles, namely, the monarch is the minister, the father is the son, and the husband is the wife; The five permanent members are benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. The new morality refers to equality between men and women, personality liberation and so on. Because the old morality was the shackles used by rulers of past dynasties to bind people's thoughts, the New Culture Movement put forward the slogan of "Down with Kongjiadian".

(3) advocate new literature and oppose old literature (literary revolution)

Achievements:

Lu Xun wrote novels such as Diary of a Madman and Kong Yiji, which organically combined anti-feudal content with vernacular forms and became a model of new literature.