The "May Fourth Movement" that broke out in Beijing on May 4, 1919, was a patriotic movement with young students as the main body and other strata participating together, and its impact on future generations can be said to be of great significance.
Among the students who served as pioneers in the "May Fourth Movement" and led the public to move forward bravely, there were five leading organizational figures, known as the "leaders of the five university students". It was under their leadership that the "May Fourth Wind and Thunder" radiated from Beijing to all parts of the country and became a national movement that shocked China and foreign countries.
Fu Si Nian (1896-1950)
Fu Sinian, zi Mengzhen, a native of Liaocheng, Shandong, is a famous historian, an expert in classical literature studies, and one of the student leaders of the May Fourth Movement.
Fu Si Nian studied at Tianjin Fuli Middle School in his early years and was later admitted to Peking University. During his time in school, under the influence of the New Trend of Thought, he organized the New Wave Society with Luo Jialun and Mao Zhun to advocate the vernacular literary movement, and was one of the leaders of the Peking University Student Union at that time.
During the May Fourth Movement, Fu Si Nian served as the commander-in-chief of the parade, but soon after he withdrew from the student movement, and in that year, he was admitted to the official fee of Gengzi's compensation, and successively studied at the University of Edinburgh, the University Of London, and the School of Philosophy of the University of Berlin. After returning to China, he became the dean of literature at Sun Yat-sen University.
In 1928, at the invitation of Mr. Cai Yuanpei, Fu Sinian became the director of the Institute of History and Linguistics of the Academia Sinica. Later, he served as the director of the Institute of Social Sciences, the director of the preparation of the Central Museum, the suffragette of the National Council of Political Participation, the director general of the Academia Sinica, and the member of the Political Consultative Conference.
Fu Sinian also taught at Southwest United University and Peking University, and served as the acting president of Peking University for a period of time, and his educational advocacy of the idea of "going up to the poor and falling into the Yellow Spring, using your hands and feet to find things" had a certain influence at that time.
In 1949, Fu Si Nian went to Taiwan and later became the president of National Taiwan University. In 1950, Fu Si Nian died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at the Taiwan Provincial Council.
Luo Jialun (1897-1969)
Luo Jialun, Zi Zhixi, pen name Yi, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, a student leader of the May Fourth Movement, and for the first time proposed the term "May Fourth Movement" in the Weekly Review, can be said to be the name of the May Fourth Movement, he is also a famous educator, thinker and social activist in China's modern history.
Luo Jialun studied at Fudan Public School and Peking University in his early years, and was Cai Yuanpei's proud protégé. In 1919, he and Fu Sinian and others founded the New Wave Society and published the monthly magazine "New Wave". He was a representative of the student circles in Beijing at that time, and during the May Fourth Movement, he personally drafted the only printed leaflet, the Declaration of the Whole Of Beijing Scholars.
In 1920, Luo Jialun went to Europe and the United States to study. After returning to China in 1926, he taught at the Department of History of National Southeast University, and became the first president of Tsinghua University in 1928, followed by the president of Chuo University in 1932. His educational philosophy is very clear, with "stability, enrichment and development" as the school policy, and "sincerity, simplicity, majesty and greatness" as the learning style. Under his creation, at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the candidates who took the Central University as the first choice accounted for two-thirds of the number of applicants in the country at that time.
In 1941, Luo Jialun resigned as president of Central University and successively served as vice chairman of the Kuomintang Central Committee Party History Compilation Committee and ambassador to India. After 1949, he went to Taiwan and successively served as a national policy adviser to the The President of the Republic of China Government, a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, a chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang History Society, the president of the Chinese PEN Association, the vice president of the Examination Institute, and the director of the National History Museum, and died of illness in Taipei in 1969.
Xu Deheng (1890-1990)
Xu Deheng, formerly known as Xu Ji (許础), is a native of Dehua, Jiangxi, the founder and leader of the Jiusan Society, a famous political activist and educator.
Xu Deheng studied at Jiujiang Middle School in his early years, joined the League, participated in the Xinhai Revolution, and fought against yuan. After being admitted to Peking University in 1915, he joined the Young Chinese Society and advocated the New Culture Movement. He was one of the leaders of the "National Magazine" founded by the National Student Salvation Congress, a national student unification organization at that time, and one of the famous student leaders in the May Fourth Movement, and he also contributed to the drafting of the "Declaration of the Student Circles in Beijing".
In 1920, Xu Deheng went to France to study, studied at the University of Lyon in France, and obtained a master's degree, and later studied science at the University of Paris, under the famous Marie Curie. After Returning to China in 1927, Xu Deheng successively served as a political instructor at the Wuhan Central Political School, a professor at the Fourth Sun Yat-sen University in Wuhan, a secretary general of the General Political Department of the National Revolutionary Army, a political instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy, and a political instructor at the Wuhan Branch, during which he also taught at Peking University. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xu Deheng actively participated in various rescue activities, and in 1946, he established the Jiusan Society and was elected as the chairman of the Jiusan Society.
After liberation, Xu Deheng successively served as vice chairman of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the State Council, minister of fisheries, member of the National Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference, and member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and died of illness in Beijing in 1990.
Duan Xipeng (1896-1948)
Duan Xipeng, Zishu Yi, Jiangxi Yongxinren, one of the student leaders of the May Fourth Movement, for some special historical reasons, was less well-known in later generations.
Duan Xipeng studied in the Department of Political Science and Law of Peking University in his early years, and founded the magazine "National" in 1918. During the May Fourth Movement, he was elected as the first president of the Chinese Students' Federation and initiated and organized a student assembly march.
In 1920, Duan Xipeng went to Europe and the United States to study, and successively studied at Columbia University, the University of London, the University of Berlin, the University of Paris and many other world-renowned universities. After returning to China, he served as a professor of history at Wuchang University and the head of the History Department of Guangdong University. From 1930 onwards, Duan Xipeng began to engage in politics, serving as the vice minister of education of the Kuomintang government, the acting president of Nanjing National Central University, the chairman of the Education Committee of the Central Training Corps, and the executive member of the Kuomintang Central Committee, and died of illness in Shanghai in 1948.
Kang Baiqing (1896-1959)
Kang Baiqing, a native of Anyue County, Sichuan, was hailed as "one of the pioneers of Chinese vernacular poetry" and one of the well-known student leaders of the May Fourth period.
Kang Baiqing has been studying at home since he was a child, and he has also participated in the Hongmen Brotherhood. In 1916, Kang Baiqing was admitted to the Beijing Higher Normal School, and the following year, in 1917, he entered the Department of Philosophy of Peking University. In that year, Kang Baiqing joined the "Professors' Council" system founded by Peking University and served as the "director". In 1918, he also joined the "Young Chinese Society" organized by professors at Peking University and actively advocated the New Culture Movement. Zhang Shizhao, who was serving as the education chief of the Beiyang government at that time, spoke highly of Kang Baiqing, believing that in the new literary movement, the highest achievement in prose was Zhou Zuoren, and the highest achievement in new poetry was Kang Baiqing.
In 1919, the Peking University Student Union was established, and Kang Baiqing became one of the leaders of the student union. During the May Fourth Movement, Kang Baiqing participated in leading the students to demonstrate, and actively plotted with several other student leaders to develop the May Fourth incident into a national movement. He also led a delegation of Students from Beijing to Nanjing to petition and became president of the All-China Federation of Students.
After May Fourth, Kang Baiqing went to the United States to study at the University of California, Berkeley. After returning to China, he taught at Shandong University, Sun Yat-sen University, and Xiamen University, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Kang Baiqing served as an aide to the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang. After liberation, Kang Baiqing successively taught at Sun Yat-sen University and South China Normal University, and died on his way to death in 1959.
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