The May Fourth Movement was a patriotic activity launched in Beijing on May 4, 1919, with students as the main body, including citizens, businessmen, workers, intellectuals, and educational circles.
These old photos are the most real side of the Peking University student parade, and they are the real witnesses of history, which is rare to see.
The fundamental reason why such a large-scale patriotic movement broke out is that although the Qing Dynasty has come to an end, the republican system has replaced the feudal system, and a new page should be opened. However, the poison of feudal relics still took root under the republican system, the country was still in internal and external difficulties, and the poor people did not change their own life difficulties because of the change of dynasty.
At that time, the country was not united, but more fragmented, and the situation of warlords was like the rise of the eastern Han Dynasty, and this turbulent situation seriously hindered China's development path.
The direct reason is that Japan defeated the German army in Qingdao in World War I and wanted to become the new "master" of Qingdao and even Shandong.
At that time, Europe had experienced four years of war and had no time to take care of China on the other side of eurasia, which allowed Japan to seize the opportunity, and on August 23, 1914, Japan began to declare war on Germany, and on November 7, Germany's lease land in Jiaozhou Bay was occupied by Japan.
In 1915, Japan forced China to accept the humiliating "21 Articles," which further aroused the patriotic sentiment of the Chinese nation.
At the Paris Peace Conference after the victory in World War I, the chinese representatives as the victorious powers failed to regain the sovereignty of Jiaozhou Bay at the peace conference, and diplomatic failures on a series of related matters led to a surge in patriotism in the country and triggered the rise of the May Fourth Movement.
In the middle of the picture above are students who are arguing with the police, as students they are unarmed, but full of patriotic enthusiasm, in their hearts the mother of the motherland has suffered 100 years of humiliation, as intellectuals this is what they can not tolerate, so even if they are surrounded by police, they must use their knowledge and patriotic enthusiasm to fight with these compatriots who are also part of the Chinese nation.
The picture above shows the old photo of Peking University students petitioning in front of the presidential guard gate on June 28.
A student of the Beijing Finance and Business School who gives a speech on the street.
Students detained in Peking University classrooms.
At that time, everyone had a real guy in their hands.
The rise of the May Fourth Movement had a great impact on China, and it was a real mass movement, the most thoroughly anti-imperialist and anti-feudal, and became a great patriotic spirit with willingness to pursue, indomitable, and worried about the country and the people.
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