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Tan Yunchang: For a relatively long time, starting from the reflection on the May Fourth Movement in the late 1980s, to now, the re-evaluation and re-understanding of Chinese traditional culture has become a major trend in academic and ideological circles. The most obvious one is Wang Yuanhua's transformation from New Enlightenment to New Chinese Studies. Very early on, probably in 1989, I saw that he published a long article called "Thoughts on the May Fourth Movement" in the magazine "Research on Literary Theory" edited by my teacher (Mr. Xu Zhongyu). It was about various thoughts caused by commemorating the 70th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, and there were many reflections in it. On the one hand, he said that the May Fourth Movement was a new tradition. The May Fourth Movement was anti-traditional and was also the choice of our traditional culture. On the other hand, he believes that some specific practices during the May Fourth Movement, especially the radical attitude, are worthy of reflection.