The May 4th Movement is not only a patriotic movement, but also an ideological movement with a wide influence. The people involved are students, patriots, the working class and other lower classes. As early as the New Culture Movement, Hu Shi and Lu Xun advocated writing vernacular Chinese, and Lu Xun's vernacular Chinese movement & gt was the first vernacular article.

19 17 1, Hu Shi published my humble opinion on literary improvement in the fifth volume of New Youth.

19 17 In February, Chen Duxiu published "On the Literary Revolution" in the sixth issue of the second volume of New Youth, and put forward three principles of literary revolution.

After Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu played the banner of literary revolution in New Youth, they got responses from Qian, Liu Bannong () and others.

Qian published "To Chen Duxiu" in the first volume of New Youth, agreeing with Hu Shi's "My humble opinion on literary improvement".

19 18 in may, "new youth" was written entirely in vernacular, with more vernacular poems, and a completely anti-feudal new work represented by Lu Xun's vernacular novels appeared.

19 19, the first meeting of the preparatory committee for the unification of Putonghua was held. Zhou Zuoren, Hu Shi, Qian, Ma Yuzao, etc. Put forward the suggestion of "the method of unifying Putonghua".

After many efforts, on June 5438+0920 65438+ 10, the Ministry of Education instructed all ethnic schools in China to change the national language of the first and second grades into the stylistic language. 1920 In April, the Ministry of Education issued a circular again, explicitly requiring all the textbooks of other subjects in schools across the country to be changed to stylistic texts except the first and second grade Chinese.

So far, the vernacular movement has made remarkable achievements. The vernacular movement during the May 4th Movement was not only a revolution of stylistic reform, but also a part of the New Culture Movement, which promoted the development of the New Literature Movement, the National Language Unification Movement and the Chinese Character Reform Movement.