Abstract: By comparison this article discusses the modernity character of Lu Xun and Yu Dafu's novels. As the most important leading writers of "May 4th" period, Lu Xun and Yu Dafu contributed a series of classical works to the Chinese new-vernacular literature respectively. Compared with the traditional Chinese novels, their novels bear remarkable modern changes in content, way of narration, esthetic orientation and many other aspects, which manifest the unique approach and context gene of Chinese nationality novel in its process from tradition to modernity.