Legacy of May Fourth Movement endures

It is 90 years since the May Fourth Movement. It was not just a tsunami-like social movement, but also contained seething spiritual and cultural currents. In these many years, the discussions and contentions over it have never ceased.

The movement is not an obsolete event. It is still remembered in people's contentions and reflections after every historic transition. Generation after generation, Chinese people have showed endless interest in the historic destination of the figures active in the movement. People are still using May Fourth as a mirror to reflect their lives in reality.

To say it is still alive, the most important reason is that it founded an inviolable political principle for the society of modern China. The participants of the movement awakened hundreds of millions of Chinese people to the enthusiastic patriotic spirit, and achieved unprecedented social mobilization with its incisive slogan "defend our sovereignty and punish the traitors". Because it was such an unprecedented universal and profound social movement, it not only became a milestone in China's modern history, but also obtained long-term meanings that last until today.