“五·四”新文化运动对传统文化的影响

The Impact of "May 4" Movement on Traditional Chinese Culture

"五·四"运动是新旧民主主义革命的分水岭,其倡导的自由(freedom)、民主(democracy)精神在当今仍然具有时代意义。但是,从另外一方面来讲,"五·四"新文化运动盲目推崇(worship)西方文化,贬低(degrade)中国传统文化,将传统(tradition)和现代(modernity)完全割裂开来,造成民族自卑感和崇洋媚外的心里。使得现代中国人失去了根,失去了认同感(identity)。

The May 4th movement in Chinese history serves as the dividing line between the Old Democratic Movement and the New Democratic movement, whose advocate of freedom and democracy still stood the test of the time. It, however, went too deep to blindly worship the western culture and civilization while degrading traditional Chinese culture by emphasizing too much the disparity between tradition and modernity, thus creating a sense of national inferiority and blind faith in things foreign, which in turn lead to the loss of Chinese root and Chinese identity for modern Chinese people.