Abstract: Since the May Fourth Movement,“human literature” has become the fundamental theme of the Chinese new literature,which advocates personality,liberation and freedom of human as well as the enlightenment value of literature.However,how to understand this proposition fully and accurately remains an issue that scholars of the Chinese literature have never stopped thinking about for a hundred years.As a matter of fact,advocating “human literature” does not mean abandoning the literary responsibility and mission accumulated in thousands of years of the Chinese literary tradition; it cannot be divorced from the interactive relationship with the literature of the times; moreover,it does not weaken the essential connection between “human literature” and literature of all mankind.Either in the rise of the May Fourth New Literature or in the current global epidemic context,it has been fully proved that humanity,contemporaneity and humanity interact and coexist in the Chinese literature.

Key words: human literature, literature of the times, the Chinese New Literature, community with a shared future for mankind