家族制度曾是五四新文化运动锋芒所向的焦点之一。陈独秀《宪法与孔教》一文在批判“三纲”说时，实际上已涉及到了礼教和家族制度，认为“此等别尊卑、明贵贱之阶级制度，乃宗法社会封建时代所同然”①。１９１７年初，吴虞在《新青年》上发表了《家族制度为专制主义之根据论? The family system was one of the focal points of the May Fourth New Culture Movement. When Chen Duxiu’s article entitled “Constitution and Confucianism” criticized the “Three Guidelines”, he actually involved the system of ethics and family and held that “the class system of equality of dignity and equality is the same as the feudal era of patriarchal society” ① . At the beginning of 1917, Wu Yu published the “Basis Theory of the Family System as Absolutism” on “New Youth.”