How did the May 4th Youth Day come about?

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How did the May 4th Youth Day come about? May 4th is Youth Day every year.

1965438+On April 24, 2009, Liang Qichao telephoned the National Association for Foreign Affairs from Paris: "It is said that German affairs will be handed over directly from Qingdao to Japan, and Britain and France are unmoved because Japanese ministers strive for results. If I accept this, I will tie myself up. Please warn the government and the people, severely punish the plenipotentiary (representative), and never sign your name as a sign of determination. "

On April 29-30, representatives of Britain, the United States and France attending the Paris Peace Conference held a meeting, and representatives of Japan were invited to attend. They agreed on the terms of the Treaty of Versailles concerning Shandong (Articles 156, 157 and 158) and ceded the rights and interests seized by Germany in Shandong to Japan.

On May 1, Lu Zhengxiang, China's negotiator and foreign minister, telegraphed the matter to the Beijing government, saying that if the contract was not signed, it would damage the cancellation of consular jurisdiction, the cancellation of boxer indemnity, tariff autonomy and compensation for losses. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Beijing Municipal Government (the think tank of the Presidential Palace) held an emergency meeting and decided not to sign the contract. Shanghai's "Continental Daily" and "Beijing Express" revealed: "The government received a phone call from the Japanese delegation in Paris, saying that the diplomatic war against China to recover Jiaozhou leased land failed."

On May 2nd, the Beijing government cabled the representative of China in Paris that the contract could be signed. Lin Changmin, director of the Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote an article in the Morning Post and the State Gazette calling for: "If Shandong dies, the country will not become a country, and 40,000 people will swear to death." Cai Yuanpei, president of Peking University, informed students that diplomacy failed.

On May 3, all walks of life in Beijing urgently negotiated countermeasures. In the evening, Peking University students held a student meeting in Beiheyan Peking University Law Auditorium, and invited representatives from Beijing 13 Middle School to attend. The meeting decided to hold a demonstration in Tiananmen Square on the 4th (Sunday).

On the morning of May 4th, 10, student representatives from all schools held a meeting in the Faculty of Law and Politics to agree on the parade route. Some students who are going to punish the traitor by violence wrote a suicide note. In the evening 1, more than 3,000 Beijing students gathered in Tiananmen Square from all directions, and the bloody book of Peking University students "Give me back Qingdao" was hung on the scene. After a brief rally speech, the motorcade went to the embassy district. When I reached the west exit of Dongjiaomin Lane, I was stopped by a policeman, so the students recommended representatives to meet with the ministers of the four countries. Only the staff of the American embassy accepted the students' written words, while the British, French and Italian embassies refused to accept them on the grounds that the minister was absent. More than 3000 students spent two hours in the scorching sun. Seeing that the embassy district could not pass, they were even more indignant, and the motorcade turned to Cao Rulin's residence in Zhao Jialou. While the students marched, they publicized that "many people shed tears, many westerners took off their hats and cheered, and many patrolmen shed tears". (Weekly Review191May 09 1 1) At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, students flocked to Cao Zhai. Kuang, a student from the Department of Mathematics and Science of Beijing Normal University, jumped into the room first and opened the door. The student brigade swarmed in and beat up Zhang Zongxiang, the ambassador to Japan in Cao Zhai. The students couldn't find Cao Rulin anywhere. In a rage, they burned down their house around 4: 30. After that, the military police rushed to search the students and 32 people were arrested.

On May 5th, all colleges and universities in Beijing went on strike. Tsinghua students who were far away in the suburbs and did not participate in the 4th Action announced that they would "act in concert with all schools from today".

On May 7, the arrested students returned to school to resume classes through mediation by the principal group headed by Cai Yuanpei.

On May 9, Cai Yuanpei secretly left with mixed feelings in order to take care of Peking University.

On May 19, 25,000 students in Beijing went on strike again, and then gave a speech, boycotted Japanese goods, published a patriotic daily newspaper, and organized a "volunteer army to protect Lu".

On June 3rd, Beijing students held a large-scale street speech because the government defended Cao Rulin and He Lu. On that day, more than 65,438+070 students were arrested. The next day, more than 700 students in Beijing were arrested on the same day, and the number of students who took to the streets was twice that of the third day. Too many students were arrested and the school was treated as a prison.

On June 5, major cities across the country went on strike, and classes were on strike to support the patriotic movement of Beijing students. More than 800 imprisoned students were released.

On June 10, the Beijing Municipal Government dismissed Cao, Zhang and Lu.

On June 23rd, Xu Shichang met with representatives from all walks of life in Shandong and said that the government had ordered Lu Zhengxiang to sign the contract.

On June 28th, China's plenipotentiary Lu Zhengxiang refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles with Germany. In fact, the representative of China could not go out to attend the meeting because his residence was surrounded by students and workers studying in China.

The May 4th Movement is an uncompromising patriotic movement against imperialism and feudalism. She promoted the combination of Marxism and the workers' movement in China, brought up a group of intellectuals with preliminary communist ideas, and made ideological and cadre preparations for the establishment of China. The May 4th Movement opened the prelude of China's new-democratic revolution, and promoted the historical process of China and the widespread spread of Marxism in China. To inherit and carry forward? May 4th Movement? Since the glorious revolutionary tradition movement of China youth, 1939, the Northwest Youth Salvation Federation in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region has designated May 4th as Youth Day. 1949 12 the State Council, the central people's government, officially promulgated this regulation. Advocated by the May 4th Movement? Patriotism, progress, democracy and science? Spirit is still respected by contemporary young people.