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The Renaissance was a cultural movement which deeply influence European even the process of world’s culture development. The Renaissance first began in Italy and then spreading the other countries in Europe in the sixteenth century. The Renaissance have a great influence in philosophy ,art, politics, literature and so on. The Renaissance was the curtain raiser for the modern Europe history. It is considered to be the boundary between middle ages and modern.

The Renaissance was great movement in the history of mankind. Renaissance had won such a special place in European culture. The Renaissance as a new movement which propagate bourgeoisie’s ideological emancipation laid a solid foundation for the early capitalist germination. The Renaissance liberate people's thinking and negate the feudal privileges, it for early capitalist sprout development has laid a solid foundation. This period saw a rebirth in knowledge. The Renaissance was turning from God to man. Science and the arts were becoming more important. Christopher Columbus discovered America and Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel. William Shakespeare was writing his famous plays. The printing press was invented during the Renaissance. Some people consider the printing press to be the most important contribution to civilization in the last one thousand years! The printing press allowed music to be printed quickly. Before the Renaissance, music had to be copied by hand. One of the most famous persons from the Renaissance was Leonardo da Vinci. He was known as a Renaissance man because he could do many things well. He was a painter, architect, inventor, scientist, poet, musician, and teacher. The Renaissance was a rebirth in a second sense. It was a rebirth of classical learning and a rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greece. Renaissance artists and scholars looked back to this Classical past. They deliberately rejected the scholarship and religious thought of the Middle Ages. For them, the Middle Ages were a Dark Age. Nothing original and creative had happened since the fall of Rome. They sought to imitate the art of Classical Greece with its realistic depiction of the human form. They thought that the classical Latin written by Vergil, Cicero, or Julius Caesar was much superior to the Church Latin spoken during their own time. They wanted to purify Latin of its medieval corruptions. In the process of doing so, ironically, they helped to destroy the living Latin of the Middle Ages and turned it into the dead language which it is today. The Renaissance was a rebirth of the human spirit, a rebirth of creativity. While taking the classical past as its model, the Renaissance was one of the most creative periods in human history, comparable only to the Golden Age of Hellenic Athens in the fifth century before Christ. Florence has often been called the Athens of the Renaissance because so many great artists were born or worked there. The Italian Renaissance marks an important turning point in human history. the Renaissance is the beginning of our own Modern Period of history and marks the ending of the Middle

Ages. In art, in scholarship, in science, in the mediation between antique culture and the modern intellect, they took the lead, handing to Germany and France and England the restored humanities complete. Spain and England have since done more for the exploration and colonization of the world. Germany achieved the labor of the Reformation almost single-handed. France has collected, centralized, and diffused intelligence with irresistible energy. But if we return to the first origins of the Renaissance, we find that, at a time when the rest of Europe was inert, Italy had already begun to organize the various elements of the modern spirit, and to set the fashion whereby the other great nations should learn and live.

Now in China ,we don’t need another “Renaissance”. First ,in China ,there is not social foundation. Government will not allow to launch a such a movement, because it will make people’s consciousness chaos. It will result in social chaos. Second, now, what China need are not “the liberation of mankind and enlightenment”but to rebuild the moral order between man and man , man and society with a compromise of love”. Now in our country exist the problem of economical development with demoralization in society. We should give positive roles of morality, and advocates to reconstruct social capital and trust. For example , In the beginning of economic reform, the deficiency of business ethics reflects the imperfectness of ethical norms. The role of ethics is broad, and as useful to anyone, it deep into the human heart, so that a breach of its people insecure, will ultimately be required correct own moral flaws.So what we should do is to to rebuild the social ethics when we have gain a great progress in economic. China don’t need Renaissance.

Renaissance is a great movement . It have a great influence in history of mankind.But China don’t need another”Renaissance”.

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中国新闻周刊 2007.1.23

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