《新青年》的创刊,既是中国文化转型发展的新标志,也是中国文学现代发展的新起点,是促成民国文学新潮兴起的一个重要因素,开启了中国文学现代转型的历史航程。五四新文化将文学作为传播“新文化、新思想、新道德”的重要载体和途径,使之充当了文化转型的历史先锋。《新青年》主张废弃文言文,倡导白话文,不仅仅是单纯地着眼于语言置换的问题,而是谋求建立一整套与时代发展相一致的新的文学表意系统和话语方式,借以完成晚清以来“我手写我口”的夙愿,谱写中国文学现代发展的历史新篇章。
About the first issue of New Youth, this is a new symbol of the development of cultural transformation in China, is also a new starting point of the development of modern Chinese literature, and it is to build a new rise of an important factor, that initiates the modem transformation of Chinese lit- erature history. New Literature as spread New Culture, New Ideas and New Moral important way to make it acted as a pioneer in May 4th new culture movement. To advocated abandoned writings in classical style, advocating the writings in modem style, it is not just simply focus on the problem of language re- placement, but seek to establish a set of consistent with the time development of new literary expression system and the way of words, so as to complete the late Qing dynasty since the long-cherished wish," I write my mouth" compose new history of the development of Chinese modem literature.