After the imperial examination system was abolished in 1906, people who received a traditional education lacked new ideas, but those educated in the new way, under the influence of the anti-Confucianism of the May 4th Movement, completely denied tradition, and that created a serious rift in the intellectual world.
自一九○六年廢除科舉以後，受過傳統教育的人，缺乏新觀念；接受新式教育的人，受五四運動「打到孔家店」影響從而全面否定傳統，造成知識界嚴重的斷層。