I think its spirit has three main points: first, patriotism. Beijing students demonstrated because China's diplomacy failed at the Paris Peace Conference. The Paris Peace Conference led by Britain, the United States and France did not return the defeated German rights and interests in Shandong to China, but to Japan, which greatly violated China's sovereignty. Therefore, the slogan of patriotic students is "Fight for national rights abroad and punish national thieves at home", and the direct purpose of their demonstration is to prevent the China government from signing the agreement of the Paris Peace Conference. The direct background of Chen Duxiu's founding New Youth and launching the New Culture Movement was that the Japanese put forward "Twenty-one Articles" aimed at destroying China, and the national crisis deepened unprecedentedly. In other words, saving the nation is one of the aims of Chen Duxiu's New Youth and the New Culture Movement. The second is ideological emancipation. The May 4th Movement was a profound ideological emancipation movement. I quite agree with Professor Zheng Shiqu's point of view that the ideological liberation of the May 4th Movement includes two kinds of liberation: "seeking liberation from tradition" and "seeking liberation from the west". "Seeking liberation from tradition" is mainly manifested in introspection, criticism and re-evaluation of all the values of traditional culture. "Seeking liberation from the West" was mainly influenced by the First World War and the October Revolution. On the one hand, Chinese people demand to re-examine the cultural relationship between China and the West, and question and criticize the cultural view of "Westernization"; On the other hand, we no longer think that the western capitalist road is the only choice for China's future development, but advocate taking Russia as the teacher and taking the socialist road. The third is democracy and science. 19 15 In September, Chen Duxiu published an article "Tell Youth" in the first issue of Youth magazine, which marked the rise of the May 4th New Culture Movement. He shouted to the Chinese people: "If you want to get rid of the ignorant era and be ashamed of being a shallow person, you must catch up quickly and pay equal attention to science and human rights." Not long after, he vividly called democracy and science "Mr. De" and "Mr. Sai" in Answering the Crime of the New Youth, and clearly stated that "only these two gentlemen can eradicate the darkness in which China thinks about everything politically, morally and academically." In particular, the democracy advocated by the May 4th Movement not only refers to the democratic system, but also includes the democratic concept and spirit. The science advocated by the May 4th Movement is not only scientific technology or scientific thought, but also a broad world outlook and methodology. The May 4th Movement advocated democracy and science, which greatly promoted people's ideological emancipation and promoted ideological and cultural changes. It was from the May 4th Movement that democracy and science began to take root in people's hearts and became a kind of social consciousness or values.