Salient Truth & Facts: May 1st & May 4th - The Importance & relevance of these dates to the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party - CCP : PART ONE

           PART     ONE

When China and the Chinese people  celebrate May Day or Labour Day on May the 1st, The May 4th Movement and Chinese National Day on 1st October every year they must never forget the great contributions to the great Chinese nation  of two outstanding Chinese professors of Peking University viz Professor Li Dazhao and Professor Chen Duxiu and may be also Cai Yuan-pei  the illustrious dean or principal of Peking University in the 1915 to 1930s.

The Chinese people first celebrated May Day or International Workers Day in 1920 when Professor Li Dazhao and Professor Chen Duxiu first held May 1st assemblies with students and labour unions in Shanghai and Beijing. These assemblies awakened the Chinese to Chinese nationalism and aroused great fervour in Chinese patriotism.

Li Dazhao was a professor of politics, history and economics of Peking University. In 1918 he was also appointed as the librarian of the university by Cai Yuan-pei. Li Dazhao not only taught in Peking University but also in four other universities in Peking. He was frequently invited as a speaker by associations, colleges and other organisations throughout China.

At Beijing University he influenced students during the May Fourth Movement of May 4th 1919. One of his students was Mao Zedong who worked for him as an assistant librarian in the library's reading room. Li's urgent call for democracy, science and constitutional rule were essential components of the brilliance of the May Fourth Movement.

He and Chen Duxiu advised and coached students to take actions against the decadent Beiyang government of the dying remnants of the Qing Dynasty and to protest against the imperialist powers' decision at the Versailles Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to transfer the former German occupied Shandong province to the Japanese empire. 

He and Chen Duxiu published productively a great variey of topics championing new and progressive ideas and became China's earliest self-converted communists. 

Li Dazhao was  the first to stress the importance of China's rural society in launching agrarian political movements. His protege Mao Zedong carried on his work and idea of forging China's rural society in advancing China's communist movement and revolution. This movement culminated in the great Chinese victory over the western imperialist powers and Japan and the decadent KMT or Kuomintang government  of imbecile Chiang Kai-shek and his gang of incompetent self-aggrandized followers who turned out to be state robbers, traitors and betrayers of China to the evil United States.

Li Dazhao initiated the Peking Socialist Youth Corps in 1920. He built China's earliest socialist and communist groups in Beijing even before the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. Li Dazhao was unable to attend the Communist Party's First National Congress in Shanghai in July 1921, but he and Chen Duxiu, another absentee were regarded as co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party.

On March 18, 1926, Li Dazhoa organized  anti-government demonstrations against the warlord Zhang Zuolin of Manchuria - North-East China because Zhang Zuolin was a Japanese lackey conspiring with the Japanese against the fledgling Chinese Republic of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Zhang Zuolin guards opened fire into the crowds killing over fifty demonstrators and wounding about three hundred others. 

Li Dazhao was then put on the most wanted list by Zhang Zuolin. He took refuge in the Soviet Embassy in Beijing where he continued to lead political maneuvers in north China to topple the warlord government. 

In 1927 Zhang Zuolin raided the Sovie t Embassy violating diplomatic immunity. Li Dazhao and his wife and daughter were seized . Li Dazhao and over twenty other individuals both Nationalists and communists were ordered by Zhang Zuolin to be executed on April 28th, 1927. Li Dazhao was just 37 years of age when he died at the hands of Japanese lackey Zhang Zuolin.

Li Dazhao left an enduring legacy upon Chinese history. As a leading intellectual of China's New Cultural Movement he and Chen Duxiu wrote hundreds of articles to promote democracy and called for a national revival. His turn to communism as a model for China's survival was very intense from 1918 to 1920. In fact he can be claimed as China's first communist, about a year earlier then Chen Duxiu.

Li Dazhoa's thoughts on the role of the peasants heavily influenced Mao Zedong whose adoption of the peasants' role in the revolution was fundamental to the victory of the Chinese Communist Party and the establishment of the People's Republic of China on 1st October, 1949.

The Chinese National Anthem of The People's Republic of China, 'The March of The Volunteers' written by Nieh Er is the embodiment of the spirit of the new modern powerful great wall of Chinese nationalism and communism to guard and protect China from further foreign aggressions of Western imperialism headed by the evil United States and its servile poodle Japan. 

On this May Day, First of May, 2023, Southernglory1 aka Yang Rong Nan congratulates and wishes the 'People's Republic of China of successfully forging a strong and mighty China never to be trampled again by foreign aggressions. Long live the 'People's Republic of China.'

End of PART     ONE

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Monday, May 1st, 2023