Hence the Cultural Revolution can also be described as an aftershock of the May Fourth Movement, because it sought to build by destroying, and placed the new and the old in opposition in the belief that modernity and tradition were incompatible.
文化大革命也因而可以說是五四的餘波，以破壞作為建設手段，將新、舊對立，視現代與傳統無法相容。