晚清白话文运动与五四文学革命的联系与区别

The relation and difference between the vernacular movement in the late Qing Dynasty and the May 4th literary revolution

自五四文学革命起,白话文正式取代文言文,确立了正式的语言书写地位。事实上,早在晚清就曾出现过由裘廷梁、黄遵宪、梁启超等一批士大夫发起的白话文运动,但是此次运动并没有从根本上动摇文言文的正统地位,直到五四文学革命的成功才彻底结束了文言文作为书面语言的局面。

Since the beginning of the May 4th literary revolution, the vernacular language has officially replaced classical Chinese, and established the formal language writing position. In fact, as early as in the late Qing Dynasty had appeared in a vernacular movement initiated by Qiu Tingliang, Huang Zunxian, Liang Qichao and a number of scholars, but the movement did not fundamentally shake the orthodox position of classical Chinese, until the success of the May 4th literary revolution, which complete end the situation that classical Chinese as a written language.