Bao Yu Kang
Origin of the interview
It had been more than a year since the “revolutionary school suspension”. As a child who had not yet graduated from elementary school, I was not yet able to go to the production team to grab work points, so I naturally became a teenager who wandered around all day with nothing to do, going wherever the action was.
On the morning of December 25, 1967, the news suddenly came that a corpse was thrown in a mulberry field in Yangjiali, a brigade in the southwest of Wuxi County’s Dongjiang Town. Instantly, people from the front and back of the village ran with curiosity to the mobbed corpse to see what was going on. To the mulberry field, has been surrounded by three layers, I peeled away the crowd, only to see the stiff body of the deceased covered with a thick layer of white frost, face to the sky, like a sculpture pushed down, the right hand tightly codified fist stretched over the head. Some of the onlookers recognized the identity of the deceased – the East Drop Supply and Marketing Society, the Department of daily use accounting Bao Yu Kang, only 37 years old.
A few years ago I came to work in Nanquan town, I learned that Bao Yu Kang’s wife Gu Minxia is still alive, in order to let the younger generation remember this past, in early June 2008, I came to Nanquan Bao Family Zhuang, in that quiet flow of the river found now 78-year-old Gu Minxia old man, more than 40 years have passed, the former young woman Gu Minxia has become an old woman, the forehead wrinkles written traces of the years, full of vicissitudes of the face to confirm the The wrinkles on the forehead are the traces of the years, and the vicissitudes of the face are the evidence of the past. For more than 40 years, the unjust death of her husband, six months after his death and the opening of the coffin whipped body often appear in her Dreams, until she woke up from the nightmare ……
Two factions: two lanes running on the road
In order to make this history as understandable as possible for today’s young people, I would like to give a brief introduction to the situation here at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
After the Cultural Revolution began in June 1966, there were different factions, whether in institutions, factories, schools, or rural areas. Even a family could be divided into two factions, and families often argued over a single issue at the dinner table (called debates in those days), and even “martial arts” fights between brothers and even husbands could end in such scenes, which were common in those days. Each place also gave its own faction a clear and concise symbol: Nanjing had “good faction” and “fart faction”; Suzhou had “kicking faction” and “branch faction”; Wuxi had “good faction” and “fart faction”. The two main factions in Wuxi were marked by the day they started the rebellion, led by Pu Xianghai, the student leader of Wuxi Light Industry College, who launched an attack on the “capitalists” on June 26, 1966, called the “6 Faction”. On September 2 of the same year, the students of the Wuxi Radio Industry School united with thirteen systems in the city (i.e., the light industry system, the textile system, etc.) to form the September 2nd Revolutionary Caucus, called the “9 Faction. In such a structure, the Good Faction in Nanjing, the Kicking Faction in Suzhou, and the 6 Faction in Wuxi were one faction and revolutionary comrades, while the P Faction, the Branch Faction, and the 9 Faction were another faction.
The question of what caused the “two lanes of traffic” has been explored by many parties to the Cultural Revolution for decades. Mr. Wang, who was the head of the 6 faction in Dongjiang during the Cultural Revolution and retired from the Dongjiang Central Primary School, summarized the reasons for this as two major points: interests and emotions. Old He, who was the head of another faction at that Time, also agreed with this statement. He said that in our place, the so-called earliest people who came out to rebel were those who were far away from the power structure and who, due to various factors, had suffered some losses from the cadres for more than a decade and saw the Cultural Revolution as an opportunity to retaliate and take out their anger.
The death of Bao Yu Kang occurred at a time when the mass martial fighting had ended and the central government had signaled and, through a grand coalition, formed the newborn Red regime: the Revolutionary Committee. How could people still die when both sides were shouting for unity? Was the whole incident a coincidence, or was this unity unreliable?
In order to get a favorable position in the grand coalition and to get a bigger share in the process of power redistribution, the “Poor Revolutionary Union” of the Eastern Descent took advantage of its strong organizational function and its proximity to the power structure and, with the authorization and support of the garrison, organized a four-day study course from December 21 to 24, 1967. A four-day workshop was held from December 21 to 24, 1967, with the authorization and support of the garrison, to study Mao’s instructions on the Great Alliance and the establishment of revolutionary committees, and to unify ideas and actions. About 150 people participated in the study class, reporting in the afternoon of the 21st and bringing their own Food and quilts. The participants were mainly the head of the organization and the relevant personnel of the production brigades under it, the head of the municipal unit with the same viewpoint and some of the backbone. The meeting and meals were held in the hall of the old school building of Dongjiang High School, while group discussions and accommodations were held in the office of the constitutional support brigade and in places such as Yu A-li and Yang A-li.
At that time, the advantages and disadvantages of the two factions depended mainly on the support of the PLA for their own organizations. The so-called “three unions” were a power structure composed of the two sides of the rebellion, the army and the cadres, but at that time many cadres were still in a situation of “standing on the sidelines” and their identity as “capitalists” had not yet been bleached. The army was like a weight on the scale, which side it was placed on, and which faction gained an advantageous position, so both factions tried every possible way to get the support of the PLA, but the PLA also had different views on the local Cultural Revolution. Both factions went to their nearest and dearest people. The headquarters of the East Surrender Rebels (faction 6) went to Shuofang to support the Air Force, while the Poor Revolutionary League went to the camp of 6322 troops near the tomb of the martyrs in Huishan to support the troops and carry out joint activities. After the military support, each side attacked and scandalized the other side’s military support activities, and tried every possible way to belittle the other side.
On December 22, 1967, the “Poor Revolutionary Alliance” put up a large-character poster titled “The “Military Support” that “screams for pain and suffering”. In order to retaliate to the large-character poster of the “Poor Revolutionary Alliance”, on the afternoon of December 24, the headquarters of the rebel soldiers also put up a large-character poster on the wall in front of Dongjiang Middle School, entitled “Habu Dogs Support the Army”.
According to the person’s recollection, the word “pug” is drawn like a dog, followed by the word “support the army”. For decades, people in the Dongjiang area have mistakenly believed that Bao Yucang was the original author of “Habu Dogs Support the Army”, which angered the opposition and brought about the disaster of death.
In fact, Bao Yucang did not know anything about the large-character poster from the time it was written to the time it was posted. It was only a few years later that he realized that the original author of “Habu Dogs Support the Army” was a teacher named Wu, who wrote it at Yutian Primary School and gave it to He Fuquan, a pastry worker at the supply and marketing agency, who was too lazy to post it himself, and then handed the large-character poster to Fang Harexiang, who was a salesman at a mountain goods store, and asked him to post the large-character poster. The newspaper was posted upside down, because it came from a poor background and could not read or write. The “Poor Revolutionary Alliance” found that Fang Harexiang had posted the big-character poster, and arrested him on the spot and put him in a study class. I found this paragraph in the middle of the mimeo copy of the interview with Fang Harexiang on January 20, 1968.
I was beaten down and then got up with pain, but before I could stand up, I was beaten again, and I fell down and got up and fell down five or six times before the garrison arrived. When the garrison saw me on the ground, they went up and picked me up and told me to wipe the blood off my face. I said it hurt, so I couldn’t wipe it. Then, the garrison told me to sit on a bench and immediately brought a basin of water to help me scrub.”
Fang Harexiang said, “Wang Moumou, the deputy director of the supply and marketing agency, who was in charge of the ‘Poor Revolutionary Alliance’ at the scene, asked me at the head, ‘Did Bao Yu Kang write this large-character poster?’ I replied, ‘He Fuquan asked me to put it up. Wang Moumou did not ask me again, turned around and left. In less than five minutes, Bao Yu Kang was arrested and taken to the patio of the old high school, where the study group beat him severely, no matter what, and heard him screaming and yelling.
The garrison asked Bao Yu Kang, “Did you write the big-character posters?”
Bao Yu Kang replied, “I don’t know!”
Hare Fragrance said, “The garrison then asked me to confront Bao Yu Kang again. I reiterated: ‘Bao Yu Kang didn’t write the posters, someone from headquarters gave them to He Fuquan, who asked me to put them up. Bao Yu Kang went back every day after four o’clock in the afternoon, he did not know …… ‘I have not finished, Wang Moumou thundered that Bao Yu Kang this person dishonest.”
At this time the clock struck five, it was time for the “Poor Revolutionary Union” people to eat dinner. The flesh and blood of Bao Yu Kang drooped and snuggled up to the east wall of the auditorium, and the house rabbit sitting in the middle of the auditorium was separated from Bao Yu Kang.
In this process, why did Wang Moumou focus on the innocent Bao Yu Kang? Later by multiple narratives, Wang Moumou and Bao Yu Kang long-term work together in a unit, the two have some literary talent, but Wang Moumou’s talent in Bao Yu Kang under, so produce some problems, at this time Wang Moumou is finding an opportunity to vent. Wang Moumou at this time exposed only a selfishness, a previous suppressed jealousy, and the conditions at the time, to this distorted mentality provides a good time to expand and develop.
Eastfall is an ordinary township, and business was even more depressed in the troubled times, and there were no customers at 4 pm. At that time, the place where the “Poor Revolutionary Alliance” interrogated Hare Xiang was only one house away from where Bao Yu Kang worked. He decided to leave work immediately because he wanted to avoid disasters. He put on the row of doors and pushed his bicycle 200 meters away, when five or six people behind him came from the west to the east to arrest him. After the interrogation of Fang Harexiang and the arrest of Bao Yukang, the participants of the study class were so agitated that their emotions were fired to the boiling point. I guess that the people who extended their fists and feet were indignant at the slanderous words in the big-character posters, and also venting their usual opinions, but more out of the mentality of “paying the credit” for the performance.
Unjust souls under lynching
According to Mr. Wang’s recollection, after Bao Yukang was arrested, the air in Dongjiang Township suddenly became tense. As the head of the headquarters of the rebel soldiers, Mr. Wang, upon learning that his men had been arrested, immediately communicated with Liu Hu Bang, the company commander of PLA Unit 5351, by hand-cranked telephone, asking the garrison to take measures against the “Poor Revolutionary League” and release Bao. Liu Hu Bang’s attitude was that the large-character poster “Habu Dogs Support the Army” was very bad and should be investigated, while taking the position that after one hour, the other party would be responsible for releasing him. After an hour, Mr. Wang talked to Company Commander Liu on the phone again, and Mr. Liu said that the people had been released, but Mr. Wang said we didn’t see anyone, and the actual situation was that the garrison didn’t put pressure on the “Poor Revolutionary Alliance”, and due to the inconvenient traffic, Mr. Wang didn’t know whether Bao Yu Kang had been released or not. This mistake turned a Life into an unjust soul.
Recently, I found an eyewitness, Old He, who was a militia battalion commander of the Linong Brigade at the time, and he remembered the scene vividly and gave a detailed recollection of the situation after Bao Yu Kang was arrested and beaten in the study class. He said: “When eating dinner, told Bao Yu Kang to eat, he shook his head not to eat, the blood on his face has been wiped away, but looks weaker. When everyone had eaten and returned to their place of residence, the people of the study class took Bao Yu Kang to the office of the constitutional brigade, which was the place where the heads of the study class met. In order to prevent Bao Yu Kang from escaping, he was ordered to sit on a back stool, and his hands were tied behind his back. In order to keep him from knowing that other people were coming and going, Bao Yu Kang’s face was wrapped in paper and tied with a band. A small number of people in the study class went Home, but most of them were still like before, some playing cards, some laughing, and no one paid attention to Bao’s affairs. At about 9:00 p.m., someone noticed that Bao’s head was slumped to the side and felt that something was wrong, so they reported to the leaders. The people present were a bit panicked, and then someone reminded to call a doctor to save. Because of the chaotic situation, the doctors of the Eastern Hospital were staying at home after work, so they went to the hospital to look for a doctor and did not find one. After discussion, he went to find a doctor not far from the office of the constitutional brigade Ma Xieren, Ma Xieren is also a bit afraid, with him to explain the situation, Ma proposed to take medical equipment to the hospital, rushed to the office of the constitutional brigade then immediately to Bao Yu Kang resuscitation, after a thorough examination, Ma Xieren shook his head and whispered: ‘useless, has died. “
The news of Bao Yu Kang’s death soon spread, the personnel of the study class all rushed to the scene of death, saw that they were more worried, some timid people went home overnight. The dead man’s situation was immediately reported to the garrison, and the head of the garrison arrived immediately and severely criticized the killing to his face, proposing that the body should be properly disposed of. After the garrison left, an emergency meeting was held with the head of the garrison, at which opinions could not be unified and it was finally decided to prevent the other side from organizing reprisals, to evacuate the female comrades and unrelated people, and to prepare the comrades left behind to prevent a conflict.
The “Poor Revolutionary Alliance” did not listen to the opinion of the garrison on how to dispose of Bao Yukang’s body. The corpse of Bao Yukang was first dragged to the vegetable field in the low place beside the highway at the Yangjiali bend of the eight-way highway, and then in the middle of the night it was dragged to the mulberry field in the north of the road, 50 meters away from the original place where the corpse was put. Mulberry field corpse the next day at dawn was discovered, attracting many people onlookers.
At dawn on the morning of December 25, Bao Yu Kang’s father-in-law ran from his home in Xuelang Ge Daiqiao to his daughter’s house and asked her, “Did Yu Kang come back yesterday?” The daughter replied, “No.” The old man’s face suddenly changed and he shouted, “Something is wrong”, and then collapsed on the ground.
Upon learning of Bao Yu Kang’s death, many folks from the Bao family gathered together and rushed to Dongjiang. The head of the Dongjiang Rebel Headquarters held an emergency meeting to study countermeasures, and then went to the garrison’s location, Dongjiang Cocoon Line, to discuss with the garrison’s representative how to embalm Bao Yu Kang and severely punish the murderer and other requirements. Before the coffin was put into the coffin, a “post-mortem” was conducted by a doctor representing the army, the head of the rebel faction and representatives of the family for Bao’s injuries. Before and after the coffin, the two sides clashed, and the “Poor Revolutionary League” tried to snatch the body and threw away the black veil and other things.
In the afternoon of December 26, a memorial meeting was held for Bao Yu Kang in the square south of the commune, called by the headquarters of the rebel soldiers, and the venue was so crowded that even the walls around it were filled with people. The body of the deceased was carried on the podium, and many people were in tears, accusing the “9 faction” of crimes. Gu Minxia, who had suddenly lost her husband, was in a state of semi-consciousness as her guts and liver were split.
Grave exhumation and coffin opening
On December 28, 1967, the casket containing the remains of Bao Yu Kang was transported to the ancestral grave of Bao family in Nanquan, so that the leaves could return to their roots, but what happened later did not allow Bao Yu Kang to be laid to rest.
On June 26, 1968, just half a year after the memorial meeting of Bao Yu Kang, the situation of Cultural Revolution was becoming stable. At the beginning of the summer solstice, it was the busy season for rice planting in the rural areas of Jiangnan, and according to farming habits, Wuxi usually started mass dilling rice seedlings on June 23, and the whole period was about 10 days. In this season, there is a mantra that “even a flower girl has to catch up with the busy head for three days”, which means that anyone must put in a busy time and obey the busy time, and the season is unforgiving. But after more than two years of “Cultural Revolution”, some people have become full-time “professional revolutionaries” who have stepped out of the manual labor force, and some semi-deprived people are fighting for the goal of being completely free from manual labor. On this day, the “Poor Revolutionaries” gathered hundreds of people, holding red flags and banners, carrying agricultural production tools such as shovels and rakes, and at the front of the procession, inexplicably holding a standard statue of Chairman Mao, meaning that Chairman Mao was leading us to march forward and run to Bao Yu Kang’s grave in a great hurry. They used agricultural tools to quickly dig up the soil on Bao Yu Kang’s grave, lift off the coffin lid, and carried out an open grave robbing operation. The coffin was well sealed and the body was not yet deformed and decayed, but the skin of Bao Yu Kang’s face was black and his beard seemed to be longer. After lifting the lid of the coffin and seeing the body of Bao Yu Kang, a demobilized soldier, Yang Moumou, straddled the wooden planks on both sides of the coffin, holding a stall field iron rake, (the spines of this iron rake are curved to facilitate fishing), stabbed down hard towards the body, and yelled, “Bao Yu Kang you son of a bitch,” and then dragged the body out of the coffin. Immediately, a huge stench of corpse spread around, and many people sprayed soju on their faces and bodies to counteract the stench.
Bao Yu Kang’s wife, Gu Minxia, was in the field at this time dilling rice seedlings, three girls ran to the ridge and told her mother, “Many people from Dongjiang have come to my father’s grave and are digging up my father’s coffin ……” Hearing the news was a bolt from the blue, “I I was in front of a darkness, my husband died more than half a year ago, there is not a statement, I am a woman in the eyes of the people’s discrimination pulling five children who do not understand, the oldest was only 11 years old, and today encountered the world’s rare evil things, door-to-door digging graves.” Gu Minxia said, I endured the heartache in grief and fear to run to the grave. When I arrived at my husband’s grave, someone shouted, “Arrest the wife of the counter-revolutionary” before my legs could kneel down.
Then countless hands, feet and sticks rained down on Gu Minxia ……
Some people recall that Gu Minxia’s voice was a miserable scream. The gravediggers then forced a battered Gu Minxia down next to the body and told her to kneel and untie the clothes Bao Yu Kang was buried in, searching for what they wanted to see.
Even though they were in the midst of the “catastrophe”, “there is a way to steal”! What exactly did the leaders of the “Poor Revolutionary Alliance” want to search for on the dead body? Why can they dig up graves? It turns out that a woman surnamed Zhou from Binhu Village in Nanquan reported to the “Poor Revolutionary Alliance” that when Bao Yukang’s body was buried, two national flags of the Republic were placed in the coffin, and there was also a badge of Chairman Mao on his body. According to the rules of the time, this was more than enough to give the funeral director a “counter-revolutionary” hat.
Gu Minxia recalled that after her husband’s death, Bao’s nephew, who worked in Suzhou, did bring back two national flags, but everyone understood the relationship between the people and the motherland, and the flags were always placed on the long platform, under the standard statue of Chairman Mao. But the fact is, the coffin was not found in the national flag, the deceased also did not have Chairman Mao badge, buried with the chest, only a small aluminum plaque “for the people”. They knocked the coffin to pieces, dragged the body to the original pit, and moved on to the next “revolutionary target”, to Bao Yu Kang’s former home to raid the house for a reason made up on the spot: Bao was a counter-revolutionary and had guns hidden in his house. The reason was that Bao was a counter-revolutionary and had guns hidden in his house. When they said they were raiding the house, it was actually no different from robbery, as some people saw good things and took them by the hand. Gu Minxia said, “Some of the silver foreigners and rings I had in a box, and a silver hoop for my son’s ‘evil suppression’ were all taken away by them, and not even a pair of socks was left. Only a red yuan and a catty of food stamps were left behind. After the sweep was over, they went to eat at the South Spring Hotel.” Old He, an eyewitness at the time, recalls, “I was feeling a little overwhelmed, but could not show it. At noon on Nanquan Street, facing the meal, floating thinking about the scene at the time, I felt a stench all the way to my nose, where I could eat ……”
Why did the person in charge of the “Poor Revolutionary Alliance” do such a thing that even he felt excessive? Bao Yu Kang is an innocent person, a person who died unjustly, in fact, the person in charge of the “Poor Revolutionary Alliance” also knows it very well. Why? There seemed to be a lot of reasons, but none of them seemed to hold water: for example, Bao was the son of a capitalist, but there was no document that said that the son of a capitalist could be killed. The graves were set on June 26, the birth day of the “6 faction” two years ago, in order to suppress the opposing faction, in an extreme way, to force the opposing faction out of the political arena, and the people responsible wanted to finally find evidence in the coffin to justify their actions; or individual “living injustice “feel that although people died in, not yet solve the heart of the hate, to be whipped before the rest …… can only say that in the atmosphere of evil, the evil of human nature will also follow the expansion to the extreme. History has seen similar cases countless times, and will not be extinct in the future.
Wife: a lifetime of unresolved wounds
On June 27, with the intention of seeking justice for her husband, she embarked on a long road of petitioning. In Gu Minxia’s mind, there is still a Qingtian lord in Beijing, and only when she goes to Beijing will she be able to clear her husband’s name. The way to Beijing was very far, so she first went to her relatives’ house in Shanghai to raise money, took a ship to Qingdao, and then changed trains from Qingdao to Beijing. After inquiring, she found out that there was a reception station for letters and visitors at the west gate of Zhongnanhai. When I went to the reception station, I saw that there were many petitioners. For example, a famous employee of Bashi Supply and Marketing Agency in Wuxi County, whose wife was killed by the rebel faction, went to Beijing with his five children to petition, and was in a very difficult situation. In the crowd of petitioners, people also communicate with each other. After Gu Minxia handed in the materials, she learned that Deng Xiaoping’s oldest son, Deng Pufang, was working as a worker in a TV factory in Beijing, while Deng Xiaoping was beaten down as the number two capitalist in China and was working as an ordinary worker in a tractor factory in Jiangxi. Even so, Gu Minxia tried to poke her story upward through the channel of the cadres’ children. One morning at work, Gu Minxia met Deng Pufang, who came to work in a wheelchair. Decades later, Deng left this memory in Gu Minxia’s mind: he looked like his father and treated people with great humility. “When I was about to tell Deng Pufang about the situation, he got up from his wheelchair, propped up his cane and stood to listen to me.” Gu Minxia recalled, “After listening to my cries, Deng said to me, ‘This is a movement, there is really nothing you can do about this movement, not to mention you common people, the children of our cadres, now also made this way, you can only think for yourself, the husband dropped to your five children, no matter what to cultivate them, so as to be worthy of the This is how to repay the grace of the dead.'” The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. When some people saw that I could not survive with five children, they advised me to give away my youngest two children out of kindness, but they were my flesh and blood. In my most difficult days, the conversation between Deng and me became my spiritual pillar.”
Gu Minxia was alone in her petition, and her children were bullied and bad-mouthed, and relatives and friends simply cut off contact with each other to get rid of the problem.
From 1968 to 1969, Gu Minxia did not go home for more than a year, and her life was difficult. In order to make a living, she went to the coal mine to help burn rice to earn money with her physical strength and skills on the way to petition, and went to Beijing to petition when she had enough money to travel to Beijing. Gu Minxia said, “I left Beijing and went directly to Nanjing, the provincial capital, and after a few twists and turns, I found Fan Yanhua, who was working in the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Bureau at the time, because Fan Yanhua had served as the first chief of Nanquan police station after 1949, I knew him during the ‘liberation celebration’ activities, Fan Yanhua on my husband’s case on had given instructions to the Suzhou Regional Committee, but in the end there was no response.”
When Gu Minxia returned to Wuxi a year later, the local police station and other departments issued summonses asking Gu what he had been doing away from home for more than a year and whether he had participated in the “May 16” counter-revolutionary activities in Beijing. Until the “Gang of Four” was crushed, Wuxi County set up the Office of Policy Implementation and began to gradually clear up the backlog of cases from the Cultural Revolution.
The only purpose of his petition was to clear Bao Yukang’s name and make those responsible for the case take responsibility. For this reason, from 1968 to 1972, Mr. Wang was stalked and imprisoned countless times and gave up the conditions for the transfer of substitute teachers, and had financial difficulties, even using methods such as “escape tickets” to Beijing.
In 1977, a female comrade from the Wuxi County Office of Policy Implementation received Gu Minxia, probably as a temporary transferee, and everyone called her Ms. Huang. The case of Bao Yu Kang, we have put on the first place in the county, now there are many similar cases, after preliminary statistics, our Wuxi County like Bao Yu Kang was killed, fight to death, suicide on 547 people, like your East drop on the county picket Xie Furong died, in the South Bridge house jumped to suicide Zhou Huxiang, etc. 547… …547 lives, how many years, Gu Minxia said: “I remember this number like a book. This number is close to one thousandth of the total population, and it is still in a relatively calm place in the ‘ten-year catastrophe’.”
In the legal perspective, those responsible for the death of Bao Yu Kang were not legally sanctioned, and others were only subjected to symbolic treatment such as party disciplinary action, but looking back, some were struck by sudden bad luck or left the world, like Yang Moumou, who died of cancer in his prime, and Yang Moumou and I were colleagues for three years from 1984 to 1986, when I was factory director of Wuxi County Chemical Fiber Factory. Yang was the director of the printing and dyeing workshop and the head of the general affairs section. During the three years, I met with Yang every day, and the employees evaluated him as honest, hardworking, loyal and honest. More than ten years ago, what was his demon, what turned him from a truly loyal and good man into a beast unrestrained by morality and ethics?
The five children of Bao Yu Kang are all doing well now. The second one, the only boy in the Bao family, suffered from congenital nephritis when he was a child, and everyone thought it would be difficult for him to survive, but he survived and miraculously recovered during the extremely difficult days, and now runs a grain and oil store and a tiger stove. Gu Minxia is in her eighties and still runs a small store. When asked why she has to work, she said that it was too hard for her children to follow me when they were young, so I had to work more to make up for the uneasiness in my heart.
The traces of the Cultural Revolution movement have been buried for more than 40 years, and replaced by many towering and beautiful buildings, but the pain of the Cultural Revolution is not far away from us.
August 13, 2008
Gu Minxia, who is nearly 80 years old, also runs a small grocery store.
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