Recently, it was reported that the words “during the Cultural Revolution” were removed from the introduction of the Song Dynasty stone lion in a Beijing park (in the white box on the left of the picture). (Taken from Gao Yu’s Twitter account)
The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating its centennial, and a new edition of “A Brief History of the Chinese Communist Party” was launched last month. The three words “in the Cultural Revolution” were taken out.
The Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Zedong caused a lot of damage to China and was called the “10-year catastrophe,” but in the new edition of “A Brief History of the Communist Party of China” launched last month, although the Cultural Revolution is still characterized as a “serious civil unrest But in the new “Brief History of the Chinese Communist Party” released last month, although the Cultural Revolution is still characterized as “serious civil unrest,” it is no longer a separate chapter, and the accusations against Mao Zedong have been significantly watered down, with the party’s history mainly highlighting the rule of current Communist Party leader Xi Jinping.
Gao Yu, a senior Chinese journalist, tweeted yesterday that a pair of Song Dynasty stone lions at the main entrance of Beijing’s Zhongshan Park were buried deep by park employees during the Cultural Revolution to protect them, but now the history has been revised, with the words “during the Cultural Revolution” taken out and only “in the 60s” left. “, so she could not help but question, do you want the stone lions also “know the times”? Many netizens sighed, the stone lion must also be politically correct, “powerful, my country, the stone lion also have to change their mouths”.
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