"May Day" is one of the three major festivals in the mainland, and now it has become a tourist festival, but how did May Day come about, the meaning of May Day, what events May Day is to commemorate, what victory is celebrated, and not many people pay attention to understand now.
I asked some people what kind of holiday May Day is, and some people answered that it was a small long holiday, a holiday for tourism, of course, the answer was more on Labor Day, but that's all.
May Day is certainly good as Labor Day, but it is not just a holiday to commemorate labor, May Day is more accurately called May Day International Labor Day.
International Workers' Day is a celebration of international workers' rights.
In the late eighties of the nineteenth century, workers in New York, USA, in order to fight for the 8-hour working system, after that struggle, won the 8-hour working system for the workers in the capitalist countries.
In 1889, the Second International, led by Engels, decided to designate May 1 as International Workers' Day in order to commemorate the "May Day" of American workers.
Many countries in the world commemorate May Day International Labor Day, only the United States, the birthplace of Labor Day, but there is no May Day International Labor Day.
It is known that the lighthouse country in the mind does not have May Day International Labor Day, and this fact is avoided by public knowledge.
As soon as the People's Republic of China was founded, it decided that May 1 of each year was Labor Day, and the legal working day for workers was set at 8 hours, and later the labor law was used to protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers.
I remember that when I was a child, there was a parade on Labor Day, and now tourism has replaced the parade, which is also good, but the origin and significance of May Day International Labor Day, we still have to understand and remember.
We should be proud to grow up under the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and love my China.
We laborers should work hard for the construction of a socialist country with Chinese characteristics.
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