An Ignored Front For The Traditional Chinese Studies Of The Republic Of China-qinghe

After the New Culture Movement, Chinese culture began a regenerative reconstruction in 1920s -30s. Although the New Culturist was dominant in ideology in China, The traditional Chinese Studies was severely impacted, thrown into the embarrassment and abandonment of the history corner .But a group of Chinese traditional culturist is still fond of the literati as a cultural renaissance will be the preferred destination for treasure, burst into cries of "soul come back" .It was in such an unfavorable historical background that Qinghe came out. Aiming at preserving and promoting the traditional Chinese Studies along with resistance of Westernization, a group of well-educated scholars in the traditional Chinese Studies struggled against Westernization under the leadership of Chen Ganyi, based on the magazine Qinghe as a front for the traditional Chinese Studies. The columns of Qinghe are mainly Chinese classics, poems, and investigations of literature with a strong sense of traditional Chinese. As for the authors, almost all of the 105 are the Southeastern Scholars with a solid foundation of Chinese culture. In ideology, Qinghe was classified into culture conservatism as well as school of quintessence Chinese culture, school of critic review and culture selfish departmentalism. However, Qinghe had its own sharp and unique characters, compared with other schools of culture conservatism. The author has an elaboration on its defects and historical contribution by a comparison with other schools of culture conservatism: As for its political belief, it believes in the academics to save China; As far as culture is concerned, It opposes total Westernization and holds for restoring what is ancient, through literature and the sorting of traditional Chinese literature, it strives to preserve traditional Chinese culture.