Mainstream figures of the May Fourth Movement, of whom New Youth and New Tide were representative, actively promoted a "New Culture." As well as stressing the concepts of science and democracy, they also attacked China's traditional ethics, customs, historiography and literature.
新青年、新潮社代表的五四主流人物積極推展「新文化」，除強調科學、民主觀念，更抨擊中國傳統倫理、風俗與歷史、文學。