The Chinese Communist Party’s Institute of History recently issued an article emphasizing that the tens of millions of Red Guards who were driven by Mao Zedong to the poor countryside in the 1960s and 1970s to settle in squads (known as “going to the countryside”) was a “great feat of social progress”. The article claims that it is wrong to deny the movement of going to the countryside, that it is a “false statement” to say that the youths were persecuted, and that it is “nonsense” to describe them as a “ruined generation”!
Ever since Xi Jinping came to power, he has been going backwards politically. The first thing he said was that “the first 30 years should not negate the next 30 years, and the next 30 years should not negate the first 30 years”, which is simply illogical “nonsense”. If the first thirty years of politics almost ruined the economy, and the second thirty years of economy basically did not engage in large-scale political campaigns, if the first thirty years cannot be “negated”, then why not follow the same set of the first thirty years? Why do we need to reform and open up? Negation of the first thirty years is precisely the basis for the second thirty years, no negation of the first thirty years, the second thirty years of the right or wrong is in doubt.
The author is a veteran of the Cultural Revolution and the descent to the countryside. I have the most right to say how bad the Cultural Revolution was and how harmful the descent to the countryside was. Without the Cultural Revolution and going to the countryside, we can study properly, can’t we? After graduating from secondary school, we can go to university, and after graduating from university, we can go into society and establish our own lifelong ambitions. But we had at least ten years ruined by the Chinese Communist Party, and many people lost the opportunity to further their education in time, and their lives were ruined.
Xi Jinping also went to the countryside in the mountains, and he knows firsthand what it is like to go to the countryside. If going to the mountains is so good, then why didn’t he send his daughter to a poor mountain village to dedicate her youth to building the motherland, but sent her to Harvard to platinum-plated?
The Chinese Communist Party has dug out the garbage of “going to the mountains and going to the countryside” from the landfill of history and advocated it with great fanfare, because the economic situation is not good and the employment of millions of college graduates has become a big problem. Earlier it was reported that graduates of Peking University and Tsinghua University with master’s and doctoral degrees were scrambling to work as temporary clerks in urban street offices because of the acute shortage of professional positions, so how bad is the job market?
When the Cultural Revolution was just over, tens of millions of Red Guards retreated from the political battlefield and spent their days idling in small, medium and large cities. Young people just in the developmental age, eating a lot, the state has to spend a lot of money to feed them; young people and blood, in the Cultural Revolution developed a brutal habit, free to do nothing to engage in politics, sooner or later will gather to cause trouble; young people and the right sexual maturity, male and female mixed, inevitably do something embarrassing, on family planning work, invariably cause additional pressure.
Mao Zedong “far-sighted”, has long anticipated that the Red Guards used up and abandoned, should find a place to resettle them, to reduce the burden on the government. The old Mao is very clever, he immediately thought of the “good bridge” to the countryside, so the highest instructions down, the Red Guards are eager to “respond to Chairman Mao’s call”, automatically to the “wide world “To die.
Today’s reintroduction of the mountains to the countryside is tailor-made for fresh college graduates, and later on the slogan “we all have a pair of hands, not in the city to eat idle rice” shouted up, the Chinese pinkies, or will be filled with tears, a carload to the mountains and countryside to do farmers. A few years of suffering, if you are lucky enough to wait until the environment improves, and then transfer them to the city to work. At that time, these young people, who are automatically sent to their death, will still be grateful for the “care” of the party.
A mainlander recently revealed on Weibo that he went to the post office to send three books, but they were all rejected by the post office: one was “Sinful Sea Flowers”, which was not allowed to be mailed because the cover stated that it was a “Qing Dynasty condemned novel”; one was “World Sexual Culture Illustrated”, which was not allowed to be mailed because the picture was “pornographic”; and one was “The Chrysanthemum and the Knife”, which was not allowed to be mailed because it was written by a foreigner.
The clerk was afraid that he might not be accurate in his grasp of the situation, so he asked his superiors, who upheld the original decision.
The so-called “condemnation” is just a general term, but a novel of the Qing Dynasty condemning the society of that time, could it also shake the Chinese Communist regime? Is the Chinese Communist regime that fragile? In the “World Sexual Culture Book”, there is a collection of pictures of sexual life in different countries, which is a kind of curiosity and not harmful at all. As for “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”, it is a popular book that was translated in the 1980s to talk about the duality of Japanese culture, and even discussing Japanese culture has become taboo.
If post offices are not allowed to send them, are bookstores still allowed to sell them? The bookstores have also returned to the Cultural Revolution, which means that 90 percent of the books would have to be burned in order for Xi Jinping to sleep. But Xi Jinping once bragged to foreigners that when he went to the countryside, he walked dozens of miles to borrow books from the youths in the neighboring villages and read them.
Xi Jinping read forbidden books when he went to the mountains and the countryside, and today he is engaged in a “burning of books and burying Confucius”, he is really something.
Old Mao’s visit to the countryside woke up a whole generation of us, and since then, the Red Guards have been reflecting comprehensively on the falsity of communism. Unfortunately, the environment back then was closed and did not provide us with a broader space for thought, and our introspection was abandoned halfway. Today, the “going to the mountains and going to the countryside” and “burning books and burying Confucian scholars” must have produced many more gravediggers for the Chinese Communist Party.
The authoritarian culture on the mainland will soon go south, and Hong Kong will burn books and bury Confucius, and the city will sing praises of President Xi.
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