May 4th Youth Day handwritten newspaper information and pictures

May 4th Youth Day handwritten newspaper information and pictures

May 4th Youth Day was established to commemorate the May 4th Movement that broke out on May 4, 1919. It originated from China’s anti-imperialist and patriotic “May 4th Movement” in 1919.

Background/May 4th Youth Day

On November 11, 1918, the 4-year-long World War I ended with Britain, the United States, It ended with the victory of France and other countries and the defeat of Germany, Austria and other countries.

In January 1919, the victorious Allied Powers held a peace conference at the Palace of Versailles in Paris. The Republic of China participated in the conference as a victorious nation. Representatives of the Republic of China proposed at the meeting the abolition of foreign privileges in China and the cancellation of the Twenty-One Laws and other legitimate demands, but they were all rejected. The meeting actually decided that Japan would take over various German privileges in China. The representatives of the Republic of China were actually prepared to sign and acknowledge this treaty that was humiliating and humiliating the country. When the news came, the whole country was outraged and people were indignant. The May Fourth Patriotic Movement, led by students, began like a volcanic eruption.

On the afternoon of May 4, more than 3,000 students in Beijing gathered and marched in front of Tiananmen Square. They chanted slogans such as: "Give us back Qingdao, fight for sovereignty abroad, and eliminate national traitors at home", calling on people from all walks of life to take action Rise up, oppose imperialist aggression, and defend China's territory and sovereignty. This movement received solidarity and support from workers and people from all walks of life. Workers in Shanghai, Nanjing and other places held strikes or demonstrations one after another. Under the pressure of the people across the country, the Beiyang government was forced to release the arrested students, remove Cao Rulin and others from their posts, and instruct the representatives attending the Paris conference to refuse to sign the peace treaty.

The May Fourth Movement was a thorough and uncompromising anti-imperialist and anti-feudal patriotic movement. She promoted the combination of Marxism and the Chinese workers' movement, created a group of intellectuals with preliminary communist ideas, and made ideological and cadre preparations for the establishment of the Communist Party of China.

In order to enable young people to inherit and carry forward the glorious tradition of the May 4th Movement, in 1939, the Northwest Youth National Salvation Federation of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region designated May 4 as China Youth Day. On December 23, 1949, the Government Affairs Council of the Chinese People's Government officially stipulated that May 4 is China Youth Day.

May Fourth Spirit/May Fourth Youth Day

The core content of the May Fourth Spirit is "patriotism, progress, democracy, and science."

For the sake of national independence and liberation, and for the prosperity of the country, we should fight bravely, be enterprising and work diligently.

Some people think it is patriotism, some think it is democracy and science, some think it is emancipating the mind and continuous innovation, some think it is rational spirit and personality liberation, and some think it is the courage to explore and pursue the truth. , some think it is a revolution or change that breaks the old and establishes the new, some think it is a thorough anti-imperialist and anti-feudal, and so on. These statements all make sense and are in fact connected.

Patriotism is the source of the May Fourth spirit. Democracy and science are the core of the May Fourth spirit. The courage to explore, dare to innovate, emancipate the mind, and implement changes are the ways to propose and realize democracy and science. The rational spirit, Personal liberation and anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism are the contents of democracy and science. The ultimate goal of all these is to revitalize the Chinese nation. Therefore, to commemorate the May Fourth Movement and carry forward the May Fourth spirit, we should combine these aspects and work hard to revitalize the Chinese nation.

In short, the May 4th spirit represents honesty, progress, positivity, freedom, equality, creativity, beauty, kindness, peace, love and mutual help, labor and happiness, and all-round The unity of social happiness.

Therefore, the May Fourth spirit is a sublimated patriotic spirit.

Cultural significance/May 4th Youth Day

The May 4th Patriotic Movement was the beginning of the Chinese working class’s emergence on the stage of history as an independent political force. Intellectuals with preliminary communist ideas began to penetrate deeply into the working masses, promoting the combination of Marxism and the Chinese workers' movement, and preparing organizationally and ideologically for the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party.

The May 4th Movement was the end of China’s old democratic revolution and the beginning of the new democratic revolution. The Chinese revolution has since entered a new historical period.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Government Affairs Council of the Central People's Government officially declared May 4th as China Youth Day in December 1949.

Before the May Fourth Movement, the struggle on China’s cultural front was a struggle between the new culture of the bourgeoisie and the old culture of the feudal class. Before the May 4th Movement, the disputes between schools and imperial examinations, between new learning and old learning, and between Western learning and middle schools, were all of this nature. The so-called schools, new learning, and Western learning at that time were basically the natural sciences and bourgeois social and political theories needed by the representatives of the bourgeoisie (basically, I mean that there were also many residual poisons of China's feudalism mixed in. ). At that time, this so-called new learning thought had a revolutionary role in fighting China's feudal ideas and served the Chinese bourgeois democratic revolution of the old period. The Chinese bourgeoisie is powerless and the world has entered the era of imperialism. After a few rounds of fighting, it was repulsed by the reactionary alliance of foreign imperialist enslavement ideas and Chinese feudal retrospection ideas. The old bourgeois democratic culture has become corrupted and powerless in the imperialist era, and its failure is inevitable.

This was not the case after the May 4th Movement. After the "May Fourth Movement", China produced a completely new cultural force. This is the communist cultural thought led by the Chinese Communists, that is, the communist cosmology and social revolution theory. The May 4th Movement was in 1919, and the founding of the Communist Party of China and the real beginning of the labor movement was in 1921, both after the First World War and the October Revolution, that is, during the National Revolution issues and colonial revolutionary movements when the world changed the face of its past. This new force is in the fields of social sciences and literature and art, whether in philosophy, economics, politics, military science, history, literature, art (and drama). , film, music, sculpture, painting), all have developed greatly. Lu Xun was the leader of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. He was not only a great writer, but also a great thinker and a great revolutionary. Lu Xun was an unprecedented national hero who represented the majority of the nation and charged against the enemy on the cultural front. He was the most correct, bravest, resolute, loyal and enthusiastic and an unprecedented national hero. The direction of Lu Xun is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation.

"May 4th Youth Day" has actually become a cultural symbol with symbolic significance. Its symbolic meaning is mainly responsible for the destiny of the country, passionate solution to social problems, and awakening and creation of all walks of life. In different historical periods of China's revolution and construction, they all contain the spirit and charisma of the times, guiding the development direction of the Chinese youth movement.

"May 4th Youth Day" is held once a year. It may be grand or simple, but the meaning of the festival will always remain. "May 4th Youth Day" contains two meanings: one is to commemorate the "May 4th Movement", and the other is as a festival for youth. The two together constitute a spiritual driving force that contains profound historical and realistic connotations. It is not only a commitment to history, but also a visit to the realization of society and life, and a reflection on future history. ;