May 4th Youth Day was established to commemorate the May 4th Movement which broke out on May 4th, 2009. It originated from the May 4th Movement in China in 19 19.
Background/May 4th Youth Day
1918165438+101World War I, which lasted for four years, ended in the victory of Britain, America and France and the defeat of Germany and Austria.
1919 65438+10, the victorious allied forces held a peace conference at the Palace of Versailles in Paris. The Republic of China attended the meeting as a victorious country. At the meeting, the representative of the Republic of China put forward legitimate demands such as abolishing foreign privileges in China and abolishing Article 21, which were all rejected. The meeting decided that Japan should take over various German privileges in China. The representative of the Republic of China is actually prepared to sign and recognize this humiliating treaty. When the news came, the whole country was furious. The May 4th patriotic movement led by students began like a volcanic eruption.
On the afternoon of May 4th, more than 3,000 students from Beijing gathered in front of Tiananmen Square and visited the X-line. They chanted slogans such as "Give me back Qingdao, fight for sovereignty abroad, and get rid of national thieves at home", and called on people from all walks of life to take action to oppose imperialist aggression and defend China's territory and sovereignty. This movement won the solidarity and support of workers and people from all walks of life. Workers in Shanghai and Nanjing held X-strike or X-prestige. Under the pressure of the people all over the country, the Beiyang government was forced to release the arrested students, recall Cao Rulin and others, and ordered the delegates attending the meeting in Paris to refuse to sign the peace treaty.
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 ideology, and made ideological and cadre preparations for the establishment of the * * * production party in China.
In order to enable young people to inherit and carry forward the glorious tradition of the May 4th Movement, 1939, the Northwest Youth Salvation Federation in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region designated May 4th as China Youth Day. 1949 65438+On February 23rd, the Council of China Municipal People's Government officially designated May 4th as China Youth Day.
May 4th Spirit/May 4th Youth Day
The core content of the May 4th spirit is "patriotism, progress, democracy and science".
We should advance wave upon wave, struggle bravely, make positive progress, and strive for the independence and liberation of the nation and the prosperity of the country.
Some people think it is patriotism, some people think it is democratic science, some people think it is emancipating the mind and innovating constantly, some people think it is the liberation of rational spirit and personality, some people think it is the courage to explore and pursue truth, some people think it is revolution or change to create a new situation, some people think it is completely anti-imperialist and anti-feudal, and so on. All these statements are reasonable, but they are actually related.
Patriotism is the source of the May 4th spirit, and democracy and science are the core of it. Being brave in exploration, innovation, emancipating the mind and carrying out reform are the ways to put forward and realize democratic science, and rational spirit, personality liberation and anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism are the contents of democratic science. And all these, the ultimate goal is to revitalize the Chinese nation. Therefore, to commemorate the May 4th Movement and carry forward its spirit, we should combine these aspects and work hard to revitalize the Chinese nation.
In a word, the spirit of the May 4th Movement represents the unity of honesty, progress, positivity, freedom, equality, creativity, beauty, kindness, peace, mutual love, labor and happiness of the whole society.
Therefore, the May 4th spirit is a sublimated patriotic spirit.
Cultural significance/May 4th Youth Day
The May 4th Patriotic Movement was the beginning of China's working class entering the historical stage as an independent regime. Intellectuals with preliminary ideology began to infiltrate workers, which promoted the combination of Marxism and China workers' movement and made organizational and ideological preparations for the establishment of China's * * * production party.
The May 4th Movement was the end of the old democratic revolution in China and the beginning of the new democratic revolution, and the China revolution entered a new historical period. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the State Council, the Central People's Government, officially declared May 4th as China Youth Day in February. 1949.
Before the May 4th Movement, the struggle on the cultural front in China was a struggle between the new bourgeois culture and the old feudal culture. Before the May 4th Movement, the disputes between schools and imperial examinations, between new learning and old learning, and between western learning and middle school all had this nature. At that time, the so-called schools of thought, new learning and western learning were basically the natural science and bourgeois social and political theories needed by bourgeois representatives (basically, there were many remnants of China feudalism). This so-called "new learning" thought played a revolutionary role against China's feudal thought at that time and served the bourgeois democratic revolution in China in the old period. The weakness of China and the world bourgeoisie has entered the era of imperialism. After several rounds of fighting, it was defeated by the reactionary alliance of foreign imperialist slavery thought and China feudalism retro thought. In the era of imperialism, the old bourgeois democratic culture has been corrupt and incompetent, and its failure is inevitable.
Not since the May 4th Movement. After the May 4th Movement, a brand-new cultural force appeared in China, which is the * * * cultural thought produced by China * * producers, that is, the world outlook and social revolution theory produced by * * *. The May 4th Movement took place in 19 19. The establishment of the China * * * Production Party and the real start of the workers' movement were in 192 1 year, both after the First World War and the October Revolution, that is, the national X issue and the colonial revolutionary movement changed the face of the past in the world. This new force has made great progress in the fields of social science and literature and art, whether it is philosophy, economy, politics, military science, history, literature and art (whether it is drama, film, music, sculpture or painting). Lu Xun was the leader of China's Cultural Revolution. He is not only a great writer, but also a great thinker and revolutionary. Lu Xun is the most correct, courageous, resolute, loyal and enthusiastic unprecedented national hero on the cultural front, representing the majority of the whole nation and charging the enemy. Lu Xun's direction is the direction of Chinese new culture.
"May 4th Youth Day" has actually been fixed as a symbolic cultural symbol. Its symbolic significance is mainly the responsibility for the fate of the country, the passion for solving social problems, and the awakening and creation of all walks of life. In the different historical periods of China's revolution and construction, they all contain the spirit and demands of the times and guide the development direction of the youth movement in China.
May 4th Youth Day is held once a year, grand or simple, but its significance has always been there. "May 4th Youth Day" contains two meanings: one is to commemorate the May 4th Movement, and the other is as a youth day. The isomorphism of the two has become a spiritual motive force with profound historical and practical connotations. It is not only a commitment to history, but also a visit to realize society and life, and it is also a reflection on future history.
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