On the Epochal Characters of Qu Qiubai's Cultural Thought

The thick volumes of Qu Qiubai's works reflect his unique and deep-rooted cultural thought.This paper explores the four remarkable epochal characters of his cultural thought: criticalness,innovativeness,forwardness and scientific spirit.Firstly,criticalness is the major character of his cultural thought: he was good at expressing his own cultural standpoint based on the use of Marxist outlook and methodology to examine and criticize Chinese cultural phenomenon and movement;Secondly,Qu Qiubai has strong innovation consciousness: he always investigated a cultural problem with the overall development of society,grasped the essence of the culture of the time,and promoted the development of Chinese advanced culture in accordance with the requirement of the time;Thirdly,Qu Qiubai's firm adherence to the proletarian culture orientation and his prediction that the socialistic civilization is the developing trend of the China's future culture fully demonstrate his forwardness;Lastly,Qu Qiubai insisted on and advocated an anti-imperialism,anti-feudalism scientific,and populace's culture,and he built up a scientific and systematic cognition to it.That is not only the content requested by the new democratic culture,but also another remarkable character of Qu Qiubai's cultural thought.