Chapter 158 Ming theory

Cai Yuanpei said: "University scholars are also schools that 'include the grand ceremony and recruit all families'." In modern Chinese history, Cai was the first to propose replacing religion with aesthetics, and the first to advocate replacing classical Chinese with vernacular Chinese.Cai Yuanpei said in a speech delivered at the Beijing Women’s Higher Normal School in 1919: “I dare to conclude that the vernacular school will definitely win. But whether classical Chinese will be absolutely excluded is still a question. According to my observation, in the future, the vernacular must be used for practical writing. However, art literature, or part of it still uses classical Chinese.”

Cai Yuanpei, who defended the May Fourth New Culture Movement, said: "The spirit of morality lies in the freedom of thought." Cai Yuanpei said to the students studying abroad: Don't lose your "I", as a Chinese personality, don't be assimilated. Cai Yuanpei's message to the graduates of Peking University is: Each encourages new aspirations, and together proves that the year is chilling. When the First World War was over, Cai Yuanpei said with confidence: "Now that the World War is coming to an end, and the Allied Powers have won the victory, all the dark ideas of international inequality must be wiped out, and they must be replaced by bright ideas."

Mr. Cai said: "It has only been fifteen years since the May 4th Movement, but the history of our country and the modern environment have urged us to make great progress. We expect that at least ten years of work should reach Europe. 100 years." He then hoped that "in the second decade and the third decade, there will be a Chinese Raphael and a Chinese Shakespeare". On November 16, 1918, when Cai Yuanpei was 51 years old in the seventh year of the Republic of China, the "First World War" had just ended. He organized a rally in front of Tiananmen Square to celebrate and delivered a speech entitled "The Sacredness of Labor". The slogan "Saint Labor" was chanted.