The imprint of the times in personal archives

Recently, when I looked through my personal data, I could vaguely see the marks of the times in the 1960s and 1970s.

I attended the first grade in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province at Donglin Primary School (renamed Red Little Soldier Primary School during the Cultural Revolution); and the second to fourth grades at Huangxiang Primary School in Xilin Brigade, Benniu Commune, Wujin County, Jiangsu Province, which was housed in a temple. The report card for the first semester of the fourth grade. The left half begins with the supreme instruction (i.e., Chairman Mao’s quotation) “Our educational policy should enable the educated to develop in several aspects: moral, intellectual, and physical Education, and to become educated laborers with socialist consciousness.” Here is the letter to Parents: The rolling current of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has completely destroyed the revisionist education system, and the invincible Mao Zedong Thought has illuminated the cultural and educational positions, and a new proletarian education system is taking shape. Our school is under the management of the poor peasants, and a new generation of proletarians is growing up under the nurturing of Mao Zedong Thought …… stamped with the seal of the Xilin Brigade Educational Revolutionary Committee; the right half of the student’s name under the teacher’s comment: this semester, holding high the great red banner of Mao Zedong Thought, making a good resumption of classes and revolution, progressing faster, able to actively lead the red little soldiers to carry out Propaganda activities, learning achievement has also improved significantly, can actively participate in the great criticism …… language: excellent, mathematics: good. Notes for the holidays: 1. insist on studying the writings of Chairman Mao every day; 2. actively participate in the activities of the Red Little Soldiers and be a red propagandist; 3. work hard to exercise and play legitimate games. Parents’ opinion (my grandfather filled in): Zhang Xiaoliang is not very modest at Home, arrogance and impatience still exist, and homework is not very serious.

From the fifth grade to the second grade of junior high school in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, Wuhan Water Conservancy and Electric Power College attached to the primary school and attached to the middle school. The grade notification letter for the first semester of the fifth grade. The highest instruction on the notice is still “Our education policy ……” Politics: (see Appraisal), Language: excellent, Mathematics: good, General Knowledge: excellent, Labor: (see appraisal), Military Sports: good, Revolutionary Literature is divided into Music: good, and Drawing: excellent. In the personal summary section, three supreme instructions are quoted: to fight against the private sector and criticize revision. To study well and improve every day. To seriously summarize the experience. First list 8 disadvantages: classmates beat me I also beat classmates, talk is not harmonious, sometimes late, do not submit homework on Time …… then list 6 advantages: every day adhere to the three bands (i.e., with Chairman Mao’s badge, Chairman Mao’s quotation, rectangular red little soldier badge), good things to do more, to bad people dare to expose bad things, speak with positive (study Chairman Mao’s writings speak with will) …… class committee and teacher appraisal: can learn and use Chairman Mao’s works, actively participate in “lecture and use”, sometimes can fight against bad people and bad things, work better, can actively participate in physical exercise, can comply with classroom discipline, can carefully complete all subject assignments, at the beginning of this semester evaluation The company was praised at the beginning of this semester (the school is militarized, the grade is a company, the class is a platoon, and the group is a class). I hope to continue to make efforts to live and learn the writings of Chairman Mao, to do good deeds, to accept others’ opinions with an open mind, to strengthen revolutionary solidarity, to further improve the consciousness of carrying out revolutionary discipline, and to be a good student of Chairman Mao.

In July 1976, in the second semester of senior high school, he was awarded as the third best student, with a certificate stating that “Zhang Xiaoliang took the theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat seriously, took the class struggle as the outline, actively participated in the struggle against the rightist revisionist wind, insisted on educating the revolution, and performed outstandingly… …”; February 1977, the first semester of the second year of high school, the third best student award certificate reads “Zhang Xiaoliang students follow the Party’s education policy, read the writings of Marx and Lenin and Chairman Mao, study hard in socialist Culture, and actively exercise… …”; July 1977, the second semester of the second year of high school, the third best student award certificate reads “Zhang Xiaoliang, under the guidance of Chairman Hua’s strategic decision of ‘grasping the program and ruling the country’, carefully read Marx, Lenin and Chairman Mao’s writings, studied hard in socialist culture classes, and actively exercised. Cultural lessons, active physical exercise ……”.

On July 20, 1977, I received a good news report, “Zhang Xiaoliang: Under the great victory of the wise leader Chairman Hua’s strategic decision to grasp the program and rule the country, you enthusiastically responded to Chairman Mao’s great call that ‘it is necessary for the intellectual youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from the poor peasants’. Actively register to go to the countryside, take the path of combining with workers and peasants, and contribute to narrowing the three major differences, limiting bourgeois legal rights, and building a new socialist countryside. I hereby report my happiness.” In December 1977, he received an award certificate from the Party Branch of the Golden Harbor Comprehensive Field of the Revolutionary Committee of Shili People’s Commune in Jingmen County, Hubei Province, “Comrade Zhang Xiaoliang has made remarkable achievements in the great struggle to expose and criticize the ‘Gang of Four’ under the strategic decision of the wise leader, President Hua, to grasp the outline and rule the country ……”; on December 10, 1978, he received a letter of enlistment, “Comrade Zhang Xiaoliang: In compliance with the teachings of the great leader Chairman Mao to raise your vigilance and defend the motherland, you have requested to join the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and have been approved… …”.