First, Guo Moruo's understanding of scientific discourse
During the May 4th Movement, our motherland was faced with internal troubles and foreign invasion, and science was winning the favor of intellectuals with its powerful practical function. Science has become a belief, a value, a doctrine, and an important part of the mainstream ideology at that time, and the most respected period of science is precisely when the May 4th writers began their own life path.
Under this specific historical background, Guo Moruo naturally holds the attitude of worshipping science with his radical political inclination and patriotic feelings. However, accidental choice has brought important changes to Guo Moruo's life. Being a medical major in natural science, he always uses scientific rules to regulate himself, explore the unknown, answer questions, and even influence his judgment on the nature of literature and his choice of literary concepts.
Second, scientific discourse and Guo Moruo's literary creation
Intellectuals' cultural vision is unprecedented. They finally broke through the narrow vision of "one big country" and looked around the world to seek new knowledge. The whole society is in the process of change. In this social change, Guo Moruo began to accept and respect scientific ideas. In particular, his experience of studying in Japan played an important role in his life.
During his study abroad, he consciously absorbed the latest scientific ideas at that time, and the cultural and psychological structure formed in the west, which was seeking truth from facts, being brave in innovation, pioneering and enterprising, and paying attention to rational speculation, greatly impacted Guo Moruo's cultural vision. This not only exercised his scientific thinking, but also influenced his life pursuit, ideals and beliefs, which led to the overall change of his spiritual world.
Thirdly, Guo Moruo's pantheism thought.
/kloc-in the middle of the 9th century, there were three major discoveries in the world: the law of energy transformation and conservation, the theory of cells and the theory of biological evolution; At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a physical revolution represented by Planck's quantum theory and Einstein's theory of relativity, and the resulting natural science revolution.
Newton's universe and Darwin's human world formed the world view at that time. In people's understanding, the world is like a machine, composed of moving material entities, obeying the laws of mass and gravity.
These natural science truths have broken the aura of "God", eliminated the existence of "God", completely destroyed the ideological rule of theology, and opened up a modern direction for the combination and development of natural science and humanities. Under the impetus and influence of the new achievements and new spirit of the world natural science, Guo Moruo's pantheism is integrated into the spirit of the times of natural science.