副刊在报纸上是一个最大的自由族。而且,由于其不太受时效限制,同时又可以涉及文艺创作和学术研究等各个领域,因而其文化色彩也就更浓厚一些。我国的五四新文化运动时期,报纸副刊的确发挥了为单纯的新闻体所无法比拟的传播作用。我国报纸刊有副刊性质的文字甚早,但却不一定作为专页,也不称之为“副刊”。“副刊”两字首先见诸报端的,当推北京出版的 Supplements are one of the largest freeroms in the newspaper. Moreover, since it is not subject to limitation of aging and can simultaneously involve various fields of literary and artistic creation and academic research, its cultural color is even stronger. During the May 4th New Culture Movement in China, the newspaper supplement really played an incomparable role as a mass media. The text of our newspaper in the nature of supplement is very early, but not necessarily as a special page, nor as a “supplement.” The word “supplement” first appeared in the newspapers when it was published in Beijing