Dazhai is a classic example of fudging, with peasant secretary Chen Yonggui bursting onto the scene as vice premier of the Chinese Communist Party. (Web Photo)
Abstract: Dazhai is a typical example of falsification, peasant Chen Yonggui is a chameleon in that barbaric and absurd era, bursting to become the vice premier of the Chinese Communist Party. Zhang Tiesheng turned in a blank exam and was set up as a hero with unquestionable qualifications, a thick callus on his hand is a qualification for university!
Peasant Vice Premier Chen Yonggui’s path to fortune
Chen Yonggui, born in February 1915, a native of Dazhai, Xiyang, Shanxi Province, was a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and Vice Premier of the State Council.
Chen Yonggui never received any formal education. During the war against Japan in 1942, The Japanese forced the villagers to set up a maintenance association, and he was elected as a representative of the pseudo-maintenance association in Dazhai village. This is the reason why some people later exposed Chen Yonggui as a traitor. After the surrender of Japan, Xiyang county-wide anti-traitor revenge liquidation of blood debts campaign. Chen Yonggui was detained by the Communist Party and finally classified as a “general historical problem”.
During the “land reform” movement, Chen Yonggui led the poor peasants of Dazhai to share the landowners’ land as an “oppressed person”. In 1948, Chen Yonggui joined the Communist Party. He showed his chameleon nature. In 1952, Chen Yonggui became the secretary of the Dazhai Party branch.
During the Cultural Revolution, Zhou Enlai met with Chen Yonggui and instructed him to organize the Red Guards. Chen Yonggui then started a rebel group called “Jinzhong Field Army” and started a large-scale armed fight with another faction called “General Secretary Faction”. In 1969, Chen Yonggui was elected as a delegate to the 9th CPC National Congress and a member of the Central Committee.
In 1972, on the pretext that Chen Yonggui had participated in the “Xing Ya Hui”, a Japanese-fake organization, Xie Zhenhua, a military delegate, tried to put him out of office. However, Chen Yonggui was supported by Mao Zedong and Xie Zhenhua was transferred out of Shanxi. In 1973, at the Tenth Congress of the Communist Party of China, Chen Yonggui was promoted to the Politburo and became a “leader of the Party and the state”.
Chen Yonggui’s promotion was not due to his and Dazhai’s remarkable performance, but was entirely the result of Mao’s desire to realize the “utopia” of the worker-peasant state. Chen Yonggui was also promoted by Wu Guixian, a weaver, Sun Jian, a mechanic, and Li Suwen, a salesman.
Chen Yonggui’s political capital became invincible with Mao’s phrase “learn from Dazhai in agriculture”. Chen Yonggui’s work in the poor mountains and rivers, fighting against the sky and the earth, turning rocky mountains into good fields, storing water to preserve food, improving the soil, and increasing food production year by year. In fact, Dazhai is a false example, in order to tree the red flag, to please the old Mao, from the central to the province, for Dazhai to send a lot of money and materials, to start this “model”. He also called on the whole country to send people to visit Dazhai to “learn from the experience”, deceiving himself and the world, and Zhou Enlai brought foreign guests to visit many times, and Jiang Qing personally worked as a show.
In 1976, Mao died and Deng Xiaoping came to power. Chen Yonggui was forced to resign from all his posts in 1980 and was assigned to a farm in the eastern suburbs of Beijing as a consultant. Then, the Party media began to criticize Dazhai, and the “Learn from Dazhai” movement finally came to an end! In March 1986, Chen Yonggui died of lung cancer in Beijing at the age of seventy-one. Only Hua Guofeng attended the memorial service.
Some people say: Chen Yonggui is also a wonderful combination of the revolutionary spirit of the Mao era and personal ambition. The history of the Cultural Revolution is epitomized by his ups and downs. In my opinion, Chen Yonggui was a chameleon of that barbaric and absurd era, not even a political speculator, but a mere plaything in the hands of a peasant “emperor”. In the end, he was played to death and gave his surviving family a reward of 20,000 yuan to pay the bill.
“Zhang Tiesheng, the “hero of white papers
Zhang Tiesheng, who could not answer most of the questions on his university exams, was established as a “heroic model” by the Chinese Communist Party. (Internet photo)
Mao Sun Xinyu, born in January 1970, is the son of Mao Anqing and Shao Hua. He was sponsored to Renmin University of China and graduated from the Department of History, focusing on the study of Mao Zedong Thought and Ming History; in 1992, he entered the Central Party School for his master’s degree; in 2000, he entered the Academy of Military Sciences for his doctorate, studying military strategic theory and Mao’s military thought: in 2003, he received his doctorate; he was appointed as a full divisional researcher with the rank of major; in 2008, he was appointed deputy director of the Strategy Department of the Academy of Military Sciences, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Youth Federation and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference; in 2010, Hu Jintao promoted him to major general – another “hero” making history.
We do not know how much weight Mao “doctor” and “major general” actually has, but we can appreciate two or three by looking at the calligraphy he wrote. In September 2011, he inscribed twenty-five characters at Guangzhou University: “Guangzhou University is a good university, I am a good class teacher, you do not envy and hate. Mao Xinyu”. I can’t write the word “jealousy”, so I used hanyu pinyin instead. With this calligraphy, it’s even worse than the ten-year-old little sister (in third grade) I’m currently tutoring. Can you believe that a doctor can write like this?
I can’t help but think of Zhang Tiesheng, the “hero of the white scroll” during the Cultural Revolution. It was in 1973, at the end of the Cultural Revolution, when a national “college entrance examination” was held (which was subsequently cancelled). As a peasant and worker student, Zhang Tiesheng was recommended by the county to take the exam.
Zhang Tiesheng was a junior high school graduate and a youth in the army. Of course, he was not able to take the university entrance exam. He couldn’t answer most of the questions, so he whimsically wrote a letter to the respected leaders on the back of the paper to the effect that: “I have always been keen on agricultural production since I went to the countryside in 1968… To be honest, I am not convinced by those nerds who have been doing nothing for many years and have been wandering around… I hope that the leaders at all levels will consider me among the students entering the examination. I hope the leaders at all levels will consider me as a captain in this examination. Zhang Tiesheng’s final exam results were: 38 points in language, 61 points in mathematics, and 6 points in physics and chemistry.
In those days when people and demons were upside down, Zhang Tiesheng was not only admitted to the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of Tieling Agricultural College, but also won the name of “hero of the white paper” and was exceptionally developed into a member of the Party. The Liaoning Daily published Zhang Tiesheng’s letter of entrance examination under the title of “A thought-provoking answer sheet”, which was favored by Mao Yuanxin, Mao’s nephew (then deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Revolutionary Committee and secretary of the provincial party committee).
In 1975, he was elected to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and was received by Jiang Qing and Wang Hongwen. Jiang Qing called him an “angular stone” and said, “I’m going to use this stone to beat people up!” In August, Zhang Tiesheng was promoted to deputy head of the leading group of Tieling Agricultural College and deputy secretary of the party committee.
I remember one of the episodes of the Cultural Revolution movie “Duel”, which insulted intellectuals: when a principal talked about the qualifications for entering university, he held up the calloused hand of a young blacksmith and said, “This is the qualification.” The calloused hand is the qualification for university – and the white paper “hero” resonates.
Mao died in 1976, Zhang Tiesheng was dismissed as a “Gang of Four henchman”, expelled from school, arrested and prosecuted, but only in March 1983 was the Jinzhou City Intermediate Court sentenced to 15 years in prison for “counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement” and “conspiracy to subvert the government”.
The rise of Zhang Tiesheng was a child’s play, and the sentence was even more of a child’s play. He became a powerful official, it was arranged by your party committee at all levels, why what counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement, conspiracy to subvert the government crime? Have the guts to go after Jiang Qing old Mao Communist Party ……
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