“五四”新文学作品主要抒写的是觉醒的知识分子的众多苦闷:性的苦闷、生的苦闷以及在异国他乡作为弱国子民遭受歧视的苦闷等等。厨川白村的《苦闷的象征》似乎就是对中国“五四”“苦闷文学”的艺术理论总结。因此,鲁迅、丰子恺等人翻译的厨川白村的《苦闷的象征》都一版 The “May 4th” new literary works mainly describe the numerous distresses of the awakened intellectuals: depression of nature, depression of life and depression in the foreign countries as a weak country citizen. Kitakawa’s “depressing symbol” seems to be a summary of the art theory of the “May Fourth” “depressing literature” in China. Therefore, Lu Xun, Feng Zikai, who translated Kitakawa white village “symbol of depression” are a version