Literary Day

Well-known figures such as Liang Qichao and Cai Yuanpei published articles speaking highly of the student demonstrations.

Mao Zedong wrote an article praising the May Fourth Movement, and the same year, the Republic of China government designated May 4 as Youth Day.

[3] In 1940 or 1943, the KMT government moved Youth Day to March 29 to commemorate the martyrs of the Yellow Flower Mound Uprising.

During the Chinese Civil War, the Kuomintang-established observance of Youth Day on March 29 became an occasion for people to express their dissatisfaction with the Kuomintang.

[2] The Kuomintang government did not carry out any activities in Taiwan commemorating the May Fourth Movement during the period from 1945 to 1949,[2] but on May 4, 1950, the Chinese Writers' and Artists' Association [zh] was established in Taipei,[6] and in the 1950s, the Kuomintang government established the May Fourth literary award and began designating May 4 as Literary Day each year.

Students of Beijing Normal University after being detained by the government during the May Fourth Movement
"A May to Remember", published in 1947 in New Child . The upper left section represents Literary Day.