Discussing HU Shi's Viewpoint on Chinese vernacular spoken language

HU Shi saw the need for language reform and championed the development of a vernacular that allowed modern Chinese to write the language the same way they speak.HU Shi was well known as the primary advocate for the literary revolution of the era,a movement with the aim of the replacement of scholarly classical Chinese in writing with the vernacular spoken language,as well as the cultivation and stimulation of new forms of literature.HU meant that literature should contain real feeling and human thought.This was intended to be a contrast to the recent poetry with rhymes and phrases that HU saw as being empty.Literature should not be written in the styles of long ago,but rather in the modern style of the present era.HU Shi emphasized grammar but he did not elaborate at length on this point,merely stating that some recent forms of poetry had neglected proper grammar.Hu implored writers to use their own words in descriptions,and deplored those who did not.