The representative literary societies and figures of realism and romanticism during the May 4th Movement.

The appearance of the May 4th New Literature has a milestone significance in the history of China literature development. Many scholars believe that the May 4th New Literature Period is the beginning of Chinese-style "Enlightenment Literature". It is actually a thankless thing to judge whether there was romantic literature during the May 4th New Literature Period, because during the May 4th period, a large number of western romantic literature flooded into China's literary world, while most writers in China's literary world took the road of enlightenment literature, that is, realism. But there are also some romantic writers and their works, such as Guo Moruo, Yu Dafu and Xu Zhimo, who tend to be romantic. At that time, as the actual advocate and host of the Literature Research Association, Shen Yanbing founded Novel Monthly to advocate realistic literature. However, 98% of the free contributions describe the love relationship, which can be said that love is an important motif of romantic literature. Later, Novel Monthly gradually formed a representative agency of romantic literature!