19 15 years, Chen Duxiu published an article in the new youth (formerly known as youth magazine) edited by him, advocating democratic science and opposing feudal culture, which opened the curtain of the new culture movement. This movement dealt a heavy blow to the traditional ethics that ruled China for more than two thousand years, stimulated people's democratic consciousness, promoted the development of modern science in China, and laid an ideological foundation for the spread of Marxism in China and the outbreak of the May 4th patriotic movement.

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The progressiveness of the new culture movement

(1) shook the dominant position of feudal thought. Before the New Culture Movement, the bourgeois reformists and revolutionaries did not thoroughly criticize feudal thoughts when they publicized their political opinions. After the New Culture Movement, feudal thoughts were criticized and people's thoughts were liberated unprecedentedly.

(2) Promoting democracy and scientific thinking. China intellectuals were baptized by western democratic and scientific thoughts in the New Culture Movement. This paved the way for the spread of new ideas and promoted the development of natural science in China.

(3) Prepare for the May 4th Movement. The New Culture Movement inspired people's democratic consciousness and played a role in propaganda and mobilization in the May 4th patriotic movement.

(4) The later spread of socialist ideology inspired the advanced intellectuals in China to choose and accept Marxism as an ideological weapon to save the country, transform society and promote revolution. This is the most important achievement of the New Culture Movement.

(5) Conducive to the popularization and prosperity of culture. The new culture movement advocates vernacular Chinese, which can unify language and writing more closely and be accepted by the general public, thus contributing to the popularization and prosperity of culture.