| The"May Fourth"New Literature opened the prelude to the modern Chinese literature,with more fresh content showing China’s modern literature, describing the situation of China’smodern society, as well as thoughts and feelings of the Chinese people. Before and afterthe"May Fourth", China was in disarray, in which conscientious writers would hardlystand by and wait passively in the midst of the tumult. Few writers gave up the literary andfollowed the army, while many writers described the reality of China with indignation,expressing their dissatisfaction with the status quo and the yearning for an ideal society, inorder to arouse the conscience for happiness of every Chinese. Based on social reality, MayFourth writers found"human". In their efforts, they found the human rights of a person ashuman beings; in their articles,"human discovery" was also shown everywhere. Baimalake writers was a group of such writers with humanitarian feeling. Being unable to standwitnessing China’s situation, they manifested humanitarian feeling in social action and literarypractice.Baima Lake writer was a generation full of dreams and humanitarian feeling. As theintellectuals before and after the"May Fourth", they got rid of the spirit shackles of the past,and accepted many new ideas, including external cultural influences, although some of themdid not receive high education, there were also some people studied abroad, therefore idealism,humanitarianism, and heroism embodied in them. Baima lake writers faced the reality ofChinese society, took action step by step to criticize the old system destroying people’shumanity, barriers between people, war, unethical behavior, also to express the ideal sociallife longing. With calling for the world right path, they took measures to transform society for the ideal of humanitarianism.In the face of real difficulties, Baima lake writers dreamy ideal was shelved, and thehumanitarian act was held by many obstacles. However, unswerving humanitarianismblossomed in their literature as a bouquet of bright winter jasmine. As the times required,related literary works emerged, such as"A Tokyo Night"by Feng Zikai describing theindifference and estrangement between people, etc. From different aspects of views andattitudes, Baima lake writers revealed their humanitarian feelings.With sincere humanitarian feeling, Baima lake writers recorded the history of China,reproducing the status quo of China. They were not discouraged by a lot of difficulties, takingpains to reveal the humanitarianism with their own actions and words. Although Baima lakewriters had gone too far, how could we turn a blind eye to their humanitarian feeling? Theiremotion for humanity would live vividly in our mind, leaving us with the reflection of reality. |