Five four youth day is to commemorate the May 4, 1919Chinese patriotic student movement and the establishment of the festival. In order to inherit and carry forward the " five four" Chinese youth movement since the glorious revolutionary tradition, in 1939, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region of the Northwest China Youth Federation set May 4th as the youth festival.
五四青年节是为纪念1919年5月4日中国学生爱国运动而设立的节日.为了继承和发扬“五四”运动以来中国青年光荣的革命传统,1939年,陕甘宁边区的西北青年救国联合会规定5月4日为青年节.