The return of the Cultural Revolution: “Zhongzhi dance” in primary and secondary schools on the mainland

In a state-of-the-art stadium, a group of high school students are rehearsing the “loyalty dance”. (Screenshot of video circulated on the Internet)

As the Chinese Communist Party authorities continue to turn left, the Cultural Revolution seems to be returning step by step. The online video shows that some primary and secondary schools have started to teach students to do the “loyalty dance”. Many netizens have criticized the staff of these schools as foolish, because the next step in the “loyalty dance” may be for the students to criticize the principal and teachers.

This year is the so-called “centennial of the founding of the Party” and the Chinese Communist Party has ordered the whole country to step up “political education” for students, even in kindergartens. Some online videos show that more than one school has started to have students rehearse the “Zhongzi dance.

One of the videos was shot in a gymnasium and features a group of elementary school students wearing red scarves. On the steps behind them, there is a group of students standing neatly and singing the “Red Sun” song in unison. During the rehearsal process, there was a young male teacher on the scene to guide. The video was shared by a netizen who said it was the class teacher of an elementary school in Chongqing who was teaching the students to dance the “loyalty dance”.

The video was circulated on the Internet, saying that an elementary school in Chongqing is rehearsing the “loyalty dance”. (Web screenshot)

Another video shows the location is also a stadium, but the facilities are much more advanced than the above. The dancers are suspected to be a group of middle school students, and a group of students behind them are watching and singing a song touting the “Red Sun” in the music.

The online video shows a group of students rehearsing the “loyalty dance” in the stadium. (Web screenshot)

Although these students do not dance with the same “passion” as the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, during which there were laughs, many netizens who watched the video still exclaimed “horror”.

In recent years, there have been videos on the Internet of groups dancing the “loyalty dance”, but the dancers are mostly middle-aged and elderly “Maoist leftists”. It seems to be uncommon for the “loyalty dance” to appear in primary and secondary school campuses before.

The above video has sparked a lot of discussion on Twitter. While the “50 cents” were not yet visible in the comments, tweeters were overwhelmingly critical of the evil Chinese Communist Party and the brainwashed Chinese people.

Some netizens said, “The ghost of the Cultural Revolution has been around for 50 years, but it has returned to life again”, “The Cultural Revolution can be reversed. This is not the usual scary” “creepy, the next step is not to criticize the stinking old nine ah.”

Others said, “This is a mental hospital! Pathetic! The mentally ill do not know they are patients.”

Many netizens also criticized that the teacher who taught the “loyalty dance” was stupid: “Continue to play this way, the principal, the teacher is afraid to wear a high hat, stand on a high bench, shut the cowshed” “Teachers are not afraid? But also. Now teaching middle and high school teachers are not much older, and do not want to understand history, but only immersed in the dream of the rise of a great nation.” “Teachers nowadays have never seen the power of the copper headband.”

Some netizens also believe that the return of the Cultural Revolution is only a manifestation of the accelerated demise of the Chinese Communist Party, “This is called ‘backlighting’, and the time of departure will not be long.”