? Hu Shi (1891-1962), formerly known as Simi and scientifically known as Li Hong, was renamed Hu Shi when he took the "Geng Kuan" study abroad exam. 18911February 17 was born in Shanghai, with a ancestral home in Jixi, Anhui, and a bureaucratic landlord family. His father Hu Chuan worked in northeast China, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Taiwan Province provinces.

1895 studied in Jixi's hometown private school, received nine years of old-fashioned education, and laid a solid foundation for Chinese studies. Besides reciting classics and history, I also read China's classical literature extensively. At this time, influenced by Fan Zhen's deism, he believed in atheism. 1904 went to Shanghai to study. He carefully read Yan Fu's Theory of Evolution and was influenced by it. He wrote nearly 200 poems when he was studying, and he has the reputation of "young poet".

19 10 Summer, I studied in the United States and entered Cornell University. 1965438+In September 2005, he transferred to Columbia University and studied under the pragmatism philosopher Dewey. 19 17 published "My humble opinion on literary improvement" in New Youth at the beginning of the year, and put forward the idea of "eight noes" and taking vernacular literature as authentic, which blew the horn of the literary revolution and became famous from then on. 19 17 returned to China after submitting his doctoral thesis and became a professor in Peking University.