New Culture Movement Memorial

New Culture Movement Memorial

The New Culture Movement Memorial Hall was officially opened to the public in May 2002. It is located at 29 May 4th Street, North Shatan street. It is a modern building with glorious revolutionary tradition. Originally the first courtyard of Peking University, it was built in 1616 and completed in 1918. The whole building is built with red bricks and tiles, so it is called red building. The floor is I-shaped, brick and wood structure, with five floors of basement, 100 meters wide from east to west, 14 meters deep in the main building, 34 meters long from east to west and 34 meters * 34 meters long from south to north, with a total area of 10000 square meters. As the birthplace of the new culture movement and the May 4th movement, it was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in March 1961.

Introduction to the memorial

The New Culture Movement Memorial Hall is located at No. 29, Wusi street, Dongcheng District. It is a memorial hall built on the former site of the red building of Peking University. The preparatory office was established in July 2001 and officially opened to the public on April 28, 2002. The museum is a public institution affiliated to the National Museum of China. It now has two departments: office and business department.

The red building of Peking University is a modern building with glorious revolutionary tradition. It was the first courtyard of Peking University. As the birthplace of the new culture movement and the May 4th movement, it was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in March 1961. In December 2002, the Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial became the patriotic education base of Beijing, and is also a national key red tourist attraction.

The New Culture Movement Memorial Hall is the only comprehensive museum in China that fully displays the history of the May 4th New Culture Movement. The Red Mansion of Peking University is the main front of China's new culture movement and the birthplace of the May 4th patriotic movement. Some important activities of the Communist Party of China in the early days were also held here. In 2008, due to the maintenance of the red building, the Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial Hall was temporarily closed.

Reopen

On the eve of the 90th anniversary of the May 4th movement, the Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial Hall reopened. Sun Jiazheng, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the China Federation of literary and art circles, and Cai Wu, Minister of culture, attended the re opening ceremony. Shan Jixiang, director of the State Administration of cultural relics, delivered a speech at the ceremony.

The re opening of the museum mainly focuses on the restoration of the old site, supplemented by exhibition, trying to reproduce the Red Mansion of Peking University in the 1920s, which makes people feel personally. The restoration of the old site displays 1198 objects, including the basic display of "the herald of a new era", as well as the special exhibition of Cai Yuanpei and Chen Duxiu, who are important figures in the new culture movement, Some old sites such as the director's room of Li Dazhao library and the reading room where Mao Zedong worked were restored to show some important historical events during the May 4th New Culture Movement.

Memorial Hall and Peking University Red Mansion

Red Mansions are famous because of the May 4th New Culture Movement. In September 1915, Chen Duxiu founded Youth magazine (renamed new youth in September 1916) in Shanghai. In the field of ideology and culture, he launched a new culture movement with democracy and science as the banner, declaring war on traditional feudal ideology, morality and culture, which opened the prelude of China's ideological liberation movement in the early 20th century. In January 1917, Cai Yuanpei, an educator, was appointed president of National Peking University. He worked in this building (now room 208). In accordance with the university model and education policy of western bourgeois countries, he reorganized and reformed the old Peking University, advocated new culture and new ideas, advocated all kinds of ideas "inclusive", and advocated academic democracy. Under his leadership, a number of new school professors appeared in Peking University. For example, he hired Chen Duxiu to be the head of liberal arts at Peking University, and invited Li Dazhao, Hu Shi, Lu Xun and other new school figures to teach at Peking University. The New Youth Department moved from Shanghai to Beijing with Chen Duxiu. Peking University has formed a new culture camp with the new youth department as the core and many new school figures as the group, and promoted the emergence of a large number of progressive associations and progressive publications. Therefore, the red chamber became the barracks of the new culture movement. In 1919, the Great May 4th Patriotic Movement was born here, and the early Chinese Marxists represented by Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu sowed the fire of Chinese revolution here.

Historical evolution

Peking University, formerly known as the Qing Dynasty Capital University, was founded in 1898 (the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu). In 1912, Beijing University was renamed Peking University. Since 1916, the student dormitory building has been built on the beach. Because the building is made of red brick, it is called red building. After the completion of the red building in August 1918, it was converted into the Department, library and liberal arts classroom of Peking University to form the Peking University College of Arts. In September 1915, youth magazine (later renamed New Youth) was founded in Shanghai, and the new culture movement rose. The advanced intellectuals represented by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao held high the banner of democracy and science and launched a comprehensive challenge to the feudal traditional ethics. After Cai Yuanpei became president of Peking University, he advocated all kinds of ideas and academic democracy. Under his leadership, Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Hu Shi and Lu Xun, the representatives of the new culture movement, came to teach at Peking University one after another. Young Mao Zedong also worked in the library on the first floor of the Red Mansion. Under the influence of the new culture movement, many innovative groups and progressive journals appeared in Peking University. Therefore, the red chamber became the barracks of the new culture movement and the birthplace of the May 4th Patriotic Movement in 1919.

Relying on the red building of Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial Hall, the historical features of the new culture movement are displayed in an all-round way through the new culture movement display, site restoration, May 4th periodical display and TV video. Through more than 90 pictures and more than 60 objects, the exhibition vividly represents the history from the rise of the new culture movement to the founding of the Communist Party of China, The office where Li Dazhao was the director of Peking University Library, the reading room where Mao Zedong worked, and the classroom where Peking University students attended classes were restored; more than 20 kinds of periodicals and magazines collected by the National Museum of China during the new culture movement were displayed in the periodical exhibition hall; two films, the May 4th Movement and the former residence of celebrities in the new culture movement, were screened in the video hall TV feature film.

In 1961, Beida Red Mansion was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council. The memorial hall of the new culture movement is affiliated to the National Museum of China. It is an excellent classroom for patriotism education to the audience, especially the young people. The red building of Peking University, the sports center, attracted a large number of relatives of celebrities and celebrities from all walks of life, including Zhou Haiying, the son of Lu Xun. The opening ceremony of the Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial Hall, which was built by the Chinese Revolutionary Museum, was held here.

In September 1915, marked by Chen Duxiu's new youth, China launched a new culture movement of unprecedented scale. With evolutionism and personality liberation as the main ideological weapons, the movement held high the banner of science and democracy and set off the first ideological liberation trend in modern China. In order to remember this period of history, the Chinese Revolutionary Museum specially selected the red building of Peking University, which was once the center of the new cultural movement, as the memorial hall of the new cultural movement. In the newly established Memorial Hall of the new cultural movement, visitors will see the restored Li Dazhao's office, the newsprint reading room where Mao Zedong worked, and the large classroom for students in the first floor of the red building. The exhibition of the new culture movement is divided into three parts: "Chinese society after the 1911 Revolution", "the rise of the New Culture Movement", "the May 4th Movement and the deepening of the New Culture Movement". Through more than 90 pictures and more than 60 cultural relics, the historical features of the new culture movement are truly reproduced. These cultural relics and pictures include: Cai Yuanpei's appointment as president of Peking University and his manuscript of putting forward the idea of "inclusiveness"; letters from Li Dazhao, Lu Xun, Yang Changji, Gao Junyu and Guo Moruo; Diaries of Li Jinxi and Wu Yu; vernacular poetry manuscripts of Chen Duxiu and Hu Shi; silver cup given to Lawyer Liu zuosheng by Peking University Students; leaflets distributed by patriotic students during the May 4th Movement; and Qian Xuantong A large number of precious cultural relics, such as the group photo of Liu Bannong, Shen Yinmo, etc.

Li Baohua, son of Li Dazhao and former Secretary of Henan provincial Party committee, Zhou Haiying, son of Lu Xun and member of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, Cai ang, daughter of Cai Yuanpei, and CAI yingduo, son of Cai Yuanpei, as well as Yang Rudai, vice chairman of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and Zhang Wenbin, director of the State Administration of cultural relics, attended today's opening ceremony.

The "Peking University Red Mansion" was completed in 1918. At that time, many innovative groups, such as the new trend society and the New Literature Research Association, were gathered. The progressive publications, such as the new trend, were printed in the Red Mansion printing house in the basement. In Beijing, when we talk about the red chamber, we can all say something about it: for example, the famous May 4th movement, where students started from the gate; for example, Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi, Lu Xun and other famous figures in modern China, who worked and studied here; and Mao Zedong, whose first job was to be a librarian here. The 84 year old building is one of the landmarks of the new culture movement, which nourished the earliest intellectuals in modern China. In these 84 years, the Red Mansion has been an office for 50 years, and outsiders have no chance to see its interior. With the opening of the New Culture Movement Memorial yesterday, people can remember history here.

The sky is drizzling, and the front of the red chamber is still bustling. More than ten teenagers dressed as May 4th students sang the "patriotic song" created in 1919. The old alumni came to visit with tears in their eyes and shook hands with each other. The descendants of Cai Yuanpei, Li Dazhao and Lu Xun made a special trip to the north from other places

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