Traffic, there is room for discussion. On the one hand, critics criticize it for inducing young people to break away from real politics in political thought, on the other hand, they accuse it.
Deviated from the direction of the new culture movement in cultural thought. But times have changed. Today, let's look at this history objectively.
It is not difficult to find that these two statements are contrary to the historical facts at that time and are biased.
The positive significance of sorting out the national heritage movement
First of all, from the perspective of political thought, Hu Shi's article "The Significance of the New Trend of Thought" is in the process of exposing and sorting out the national heritage movement, although
But he continues to advocate the argument of "studying more problems and talking less about doctrine", but the "problem" he advocates here is actually
It refers to the urgent problem of "social life" and the urgent survival problem of "caring for life", that is, the social reality problem.
Topics, including political issues, are not limited to academic issues. That is to say, at least at the beginning of the movement to sort out national heritage.
Hu Shi has no motivation to induce young people to break away from real politics. Of course, it is because of blindly following the principle of "study more problems and talk less"
Some doctrines ",sorting out the national heritage movement was really out of touch with the development trend of social thoughts at that time. But as far as social division of labor is concerned,
The movement of sorting out national heritage still has irreplaceable academic and cultural significance. To put it bluntly, the new culture movement after the May 4th Movement mainly includes
Two different development trends, Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu and others immediately opened up China from the front after accepting Marxism.
The new chapter of revolution made the New Culture Movement realize salvation and enlightenment on the social and political "ism" level.
Machine combination. As for the movement of sorting out the national heritage initiated by Hu Shi, it was really not urgent at the moment, but it also seized the historical opportunity in time.
Actively answer the cultural question of where the new culture is going, and persistently continue the enlightenment of the new culture movement from one side.
Cause, and make it mature and deepen gradually. The reason is that the movement of sorting out national heritage is at the level of "problem" of academic culture.
It further promoted the modern transformation of China's traditional academics. It can be seen that these two directions have different division of labor, but they can also
Complement each other and complement each other.
Secondly, from the perspective of cultural thought, Hu Shi and others led the fashion for a period of time. At that time, some conservatives were ignorant.
Under the current circumstances, it is still difficult to get rid of the ancient complex to a great extent; Most of the new cultural figures are limited to "not breaking and not standing"
The way of thinking even lacks the necessary reference to the advantages and disadvantages of traditional culture. This time, Hu Shi and others took the lead in uncovering the "textual research"
Investigate problems, input theories, sort out national heritage and rebuild civilization, and advocate a "critical attitude" and "re-evaluation"
Set all values ",from the traditional culture of China to find the organic combination of Chinese and Western civilizations. On the one hand, they inherited the new culture.
On the other hand, the rational critical spirit of this movement deepened the understanding of Chinese and Western cultural issues in the New Culture Movement. So, they
The "Sorting out National Heritage Movement" advocated is not only an academic and cultural movement, but a product of the new culture movement.
It embodies the continuation of the New Culture Movement in the field of academic culture, and further promotes the modern transformation of China's traditional academics. correct
Therefore, at that time, some commentators commented with great certainty: "In the heyday of the movement in this transitional period, there was a revival of national heritage consolidation."
Getting up is an insurmountable step in the cultural and sports career. (Chen Duan: "May 4th".
Dynamic historical evaluation ")
The Movement of Sorting out National Heritage Promoted China's Modern Academic Transformation.
Specifically, the promotion of the movement of sorting out national heritage to China's modern academic transformation is mainly reflected in the following three aspects.
First of all, from the perspective of the reconstruction of the discipline system, the movement of sorting out national heritage basically broke the "four-part" of China's traditional academics.
Classification, advocates that according to the modern western academic category, "Chinese studies" should be studied in different disciplines, so that the word "Chinese studies" will eventually
Gradually fade out of the modern academic stage; At the same time, it also severely criticized the feudal Confucian classics and the xenophobic stance of the Six Classics.
The vigorous development of the concept of "Confucian classics is history" completely stripped the sacred glory of Confucian classics and declared the disintegration and end of traditional Confucian classics.
So as to realize the real independence of historiography.
Secondly, from the perspective of research transformation, the movement of sorting out national heritage has also broken through the shackles of traditional academic concepts.
He also introduced the concepts of "equality of Confucian classics", "equality of modern ancient prose" and "equality of elegance and vulgarity" which were successfully established in China academic circles.
Established an "equal vision", which greatly expanded the vision and scope of Chinese studies and extended the field of Chinese studies.
Reach out to the wider world. During this period, as an important part of the movement to sort out national heritage, Gu Jiegang
The movement of distinguishing ancient history led by the Communist Party of China (CPC) also greatly promoted the modern trend of thinking of doubting ancient history through the popularization of "skepticism".
Its development has made it reach an unprecedented stage in transportation, depth and scale.
Thirdly, from the perspective of updating research methods and means, the movement of sorting out national heritage welcomes western modernity with an open mind.
The academic trend of thought has widely applied the methods of natural science to the research field of China, especially replaced it with modern archaeological methods.
Traditional epigraphy has made a breakthrough in the excavation of Yin ruins; At the same time, inspired by the western academic system, China
Modern academic circles also began to sprout the consciousness of "group research" and gradually established a series of modern academic research institutions.
And conduct research in the form of gathering people, especially in the field of language history.
In a word, sorting out the national heritage movement is an academic revolution with the significance of "academic paradigm" 1929, Gu Jiegang said:
"This fundamentally broke China's previous academic scope and research methods, and fundamentally changed; This is one of the thoughts of intellectuals.
Radical reform. "(Preface to the Annual Report of the Institute of Language History of Sun Yat-sen University, Episode 6).