Former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao took the opportunity of the Qingming Festival to publish a lengthy serial article in the Macau media in memory of his mother. But the article was banned from being shared on WeChat, and its reprint was deleted from the media, for reflecting on the Cultural Revolution and saying, “The China I have in mind should be a country full of fairness and justice. However, on May 9, Mother’s Day, the official media disclosed a rare story about how Xi’s mother Qi Xin taught Xi, including a warning that Xi Jinping “can’t win in high places.
On May 9, CCTV published an article recalling Xi’s mother Qi Xin’s so-called revolutionary biography in March 1939, when she joined the Communist Party in Taihang Mountain at the age of 15, and said Xi Jinping also went to the countryside for seven years at the age of “15” in Liangjiahe.
According to the article, Qi paid attention to family education and often wrote letters to Xi Jinping, who was working in the field and had taken up a leadership position, warning him that “it is not easy to win in high places” and instructing him to be strict with himself.
According to the article, when Qi Xin worked at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, her unit was far from home, and she and her family were always away from each other more than once. Only on weekends she could take the bus home once, arriving home at eight or nine o’clock in the evening, and on Sunday night she had to rush back to work. But Qi Xin never considered whether to spend more time with the children, or even whether to switch jobs to be closer to home. At that time, what she had in mind was the so-called “obedience to organizational arrangements”, and even when her children were seriously ill, she did not take any time off.
Xi’s family victimized by the Cultural Revolution: Qi Xin’s “party spirit” had a big impact on Xi Jinping
According to public information, the Cultural Revolution began on May 16, 1966, when Mao Zedong, then chairman of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, and the Central Cultural Revolutionary Group mobilized thousands of “Red Guards” from the top down to launch a campaign on all fronts in mainland China. Officials encouraged criticism, house raids, and denunciations, which led to a decline in traditional Chinese culture and morality, a severe impact on the overall economy, a huge number of victims, and the destruction of a large number of cultural relics during the “destruction of the Four Olds”. This movement lasted for ten years and is therefore known as the “Ten Years of Unrest” or “Ten Years of Catastrophe”.
During the Cultural Revolution, some 17 million high school students and high school graduates, including Xi Jinping, were sent to the countryside during the “youth movement to the countryside. The movement wasted the youth of tens of millions of young people, forcibly broke up countless families, and caused social chaos at every level.
The family of Xi Zhongxun, one of the founding fathers of the Communist Party, suffered badly during the Cultural Revolution and was left in a miserable situation.
In December 1965, Xi Zhongxun was sent down to Luoyang Mining Machinery Factory as deputy director. In 1968, Xi Zhongxun was taken back to the “custody” of the Beijing garrison.
In January 1969, Xi Jinping, who was not yet 16 years old, went to Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province, to join the Liangjiahe Production Brigade, where he spent nearly seven years and suffered a lot of hardships. Later, Xi’s fate changed when his father was “rehabilitated”.
But the Chinese Communist Party authorities under Xi Jinping’s rule have taken a more “positive” approach to the Cultural Revolution. This year, on the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party’s so-called founding, a new 2021 edition of the “Brief History of the Communist Party of China” (CPC History) was officially launched, downplaying the sins of the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong. Xi Jinping’s close associate Zhuang Rongwen, vice minister of the Propaganda Department, even blatantly claimed that the so-called “first 30 years”, including the Cultural Revolution, had been a “great achievement”.
Xia Yeliang, a former associate professor at Peking University’s School of Economics who now lives in the United States, said in an interview with Voice of Hope on April 22 that because Xi’s entire ideological heritage comes from Mao Zedong, his education and intellectual vision have great limitations, which are related to his personal experience. Xi Jinping was 9 years old when his father was arrested and imprisoned by Mao Zedong, but this did not seem to affect his admiration for Mao. Although he is the son of Xi Zhongxun from a physiological and genetic point of view, what he inherited from Xi Zhongxun is very little and does not reflect at all some of the basic characteristics and traits that his son was able to inherit from his father, which is regrettable.
Xi Jinping, according to Xia Yeliang’s analysis, inherited more from his mother Qi Xin. Because Qi was a female Communist Party member known for her strong party spirit, she even had an inhuman side that bordered on cold-bloodedness. For example, during the Cultural Revolution, Xi Jinping was arrested and sent to a juvenile detention center at the age of 14, and managed to escape. His mother completely disregarded her son’s pitiful appearance at the time and was determined to send him back immediately.
The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the actual situation. I think this part of him inherited this characteristic from his mother. And a few years ago, a video circulated on the Internet, is Qi Xin called Xi Jinping, the old lady is talking, said you now higher position, the responsibility is more important, said you have to adhere to the principle, also do not consider the family what so and so on, said a set of grand words. I don’t know if this mother-son love has been replaced by party spirit and class. So now, it would not be surprising if Xi Jinping were to engage in this kind of brainwashing education in the country from the Maoist era.”
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