The fundamental characteristics of independence in the people of Hunan is the manifestation of personification in the specific property of the spirit of Huxiang Culture. This fundamental characteristics of independence is that intellectuals in Hunan, who regard politics as their fundamental importance and “the spirit of pursuit of practical use in doing things” and seeking truth as their leading way of life, pay special attention to their aspiration and reputation, to the spirit of bringing forth new ideas, to the people around the world and to rooting in their own land. In this way, they have expressed their heroic spirit of having the independent ideas of seeking truth, of daring to do whatever others have never done before and even of sacrificing themselves in mind. Newspapermen in Hunan during the May 4th Movement expressed fully this kind of fundamental characteristics of independence in the specific environment of the historical culture. The main expressions were as the followings: the spirit of personification which was upright and never stooping flattery and the spirit of craving for knowledge by which they could bring forth new ideas.