Tomorrow is international working women's day on March 8. Women's Day originated in the United States and then became an international festival. Therefore, women's Day was established earlier in the world, while China started women's day later. So what is the international 38th women's day this year? What is the first women's day in China? Let's talk about the first time to celebrate Women's day in the world and the first time to celebrate Women's day in China.
2019 is the 38th International Women's Day: 109
On March 8, 1909, women workers in Chicago, Illinois and workers in the national textile and garment industry held a large-scale strike and demonstration, demanding higher wages, the implementation of the 8-hour working system and the right to vote. This is the first organized mass struggle of working women in history, which fully shows the strength of working women. The struggle was widely sympathized and warmly responded by the women of the whole country and even other countries in the world, and finally won the victory.
Before World War I, the shadow of war shrouded the world, and imperialism tried to carve up colonies. In August 1910, the second women's Congress of international socialists was held in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The meeting decided to take March 8 every year as the struggle day for women all over the world, which was unanimously supported by the participants. Since then, 'March 8th' women's day has become a festival for women in the world to fight for rights and liberation.
March 8, 1911 was the first international working women's day. Since the International Year of women in 1975, the United Nations has held activities to celebrate International Women's day on March 8 every year.
What is the first Chinese women's day in 2019: 96
Since the Chinese first celebrated the international women's day on March 8 in 1924, the festival has become an important field for the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to lead the Chinese women's movement. " International Women's day represents the revolutionary tradition and its special public cultural space as China's Centennial women's movement. The first public and official celebration of the "March 8th" International Women's day by the Chinese people was in Guangzhou in March 1924, when it was the first honeymoon period of Kuomintang communist cooperation.
The initiator of China's first celebration of women's Day
He Xiangning, one of the pioneers of the feminist movement, the main founder of the democratic revolution, the veteran of the Kuomintang, the hero of the founding of the Republic of China, the faithful executor of the 'three major policies', a front army of the Anti Japanese United Front, and one of the founders of new China.
In late February 1924, at the cadre meeting of the women's Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, He Xiangning proposed to hold a general meeting to celebrate the international women's day in Guangzhou. The women's Department of the Central Committee was responsible for launching rallies and demonstrations. On the morning of March 8, China's first public commemoration of March 8 International Women's Day was held in Guangzhou. Taking this as an opportunity, the women's movement in Guangdong was gradually carried out, and more and more women took part in the torrent of women's Liberation and national revolution.