Wake up（247）

 

247

 

Qian Xiaojuan, Sun Yulan, and Li Aiwen, three alumni from the same school, accompanied by the school’s academic director, Ms. Zhang, visited the former teacher Han Erniang, and chatted a lot about the Cultural Revolution in Han’s hometown. Li Aiwen decided to establish an alumni group with Qian Xiaojuan and Sun Yulan. This group took a special online name called "Naonao".

As soon as the "Nao Nao" online group was established, Li Aiwen received a text from a guy named "Nao Zai".

"Naozi" posted:

During the Cultural Revolution, when "classes were resumed to create a revolution", there were also Chinese classes, and they learned Chairman Mao's poems and Lu Xun's things. Mathematics class talks about positive and negative numbers, and I get annoyed as soon as I hear them. If you count properly, you must give them a negative number. Isn’t this just asking for trouble? Stop listening, go home!

There are also foreign language classes, the Russian language that I learned first, and things like 'down with Soviet revisionism'. It's hard to learn, and the tongue can't turn the corner all the time. Especially those letters, what are the accents, light sounds, and unpronounced ones, why do they need them if they are not pronounced? It just doesn't make sense. The Russian teacher always thought that our pronunciation was not accurate, so he repeated it over and over again, his face straightened with anxiety. This is a bit interesting, okay, didn't you tell me to read it lightly, and I will give you a heavy one, let's see how anxious you can be. We read at the top of our voices while watching the teacher laugh. But after a while, the Kung Fu teacher thought about it, so he was not in a hurry. It's boring again, go home!

Later, I switched to English again. I really learned a few words about "Long live Chairman Mao", "Long live the Communist Party", and "Long live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution". One buddy was afraid that he would not be able to remember it, so he used Chinese characters to annotate it with pronunciation, another buddy looked over his head and said 'reactionary'! Seeing what was going on, that person bet 'Qianmen cat' under 'Chairman Mao'. Front door cat? It sounds like the nickname of a hooligan in the Qianmen area, like 'Xiwai Iron Head', 'Changqiao Dog', 'Houhai Silly Liuer', good people would never call this. We hasten to echo: reactionary, reactionary. The buddy was in a hurry, first tore the paper into pieces, then stood up and yelled: 'Fuck you! Who is reactionary? Who the hell is reactionary? ! ’ It looked like we were going to risk our lives, so we had to forget it.

The days of sitting on an equal footing with the teacher are not long, only a few months. Our freedom is lost without knowing it.

At that time, there was military training first, and three or four people from the People's Liberation Army came. The biggest one was a company commander, surnamed Xi. As soon as they came, they asked us to practice the team, walking up and down the playground day after day, one two one, turning left, turning right, walking forward, taking a slow step, tired and annoying. But this is the People's Liberation Army, not the teacher, and none of us dare to rush. If I want to go home, I dare not turn around and leave, so I can only slip quietly. Chairman Mao said: "The whole country learns from the People's Liberation Army", which means that the People's Liberation Army is the number one leader in the whole country, and everyone else has to listen to them. Company Commander Xi likes mischievous students the most, because he can kick their butts with leather shoes, and they don't care much.

The People's Liberation Army transferred us back to the teacher after training us to be honest, and we were embarrassed to turn our faces again. Besides, those teachers are also very resourceful, starting with political studies, criticizing selfishness and criticizing anarchism. This cannot be objected, because newspapers and broadcasts also criticize it. The insidiousness of the teacher is not to let us "connect theory with practice", that is to say, we must find out "selfishness" and "anarchism" from ourselves to criticize.

We can't figure it out even if our heads are too big, so the teacher reminds us step by step: Does smashing and looting count? Of course it counts, the newspapers say so, does fighting and smashing glass count? It has to be counted, and in the end, even absenteeism, failure to observe discipline, and casual talking in class are all considered anarchism. The more we criticize, the more we realize that we are not a good thing.

Although the teacher is a "stinky intellectual", we seem to be even worse, called "little intellectuals", and we can only reform our minds together under the leadership of the "stinky intellectuals". In this way, we have unknowingly reduced from "revolutionary young generals" to inferior goods who must be "re-educated" by workers, peasants and soldiers. A few smart students realized that this was a trap, but it was too late, and the situation was gone. Without the backing of Chairman Mao, it would be impossible for the students to defeat the teachers by themselves. They are grown-ups and generally very cunning.

In order to warn us not to go astray, we are often sent to public trial meetings. First line up to go to other schools, such as Tie No. 2 Middle School or No. 44 Middle School's big yard. There were also students from several other schools, all lined up in rows, sitting on the ground as soon as a password was given. Once again, the dust will fly, and thousands of people will slap their butts together. Most of those sentenced were in their teens and twenties, and they were also students, which was especially suitable for us.

Several sentencing conferences have been held, and our legal knowledge has greatly increased. We can guess the result before the verdict is finished, and we all rush to speak first, and compete with who can guess more accurately.

Just fighting, sliding doors and sledding locks, without adding "especially serious circumstances", within 5 to 10 years.

If it is robbery and commits a crime with a knife, it will take more than 10 years. If someone is injured with a knife and the sentence "the circumstances are particularly serious", then say at least 20 to 30 years, and life imprisonment and death reprieve are not new.

There are several classes for hooligans, and the lightest one is called "obscene women". Although we still don't know the exact meaning of "obscene", we all know that "obscene offenders" can last for 10 years or 8 years in the lightest cases, and can be indefinite in severe cases.

If a woman is raped only once, most of them can save their lives, often with a reprieve. If the crime is committed multiple times, it is over and executed immediately. The most serious thing is to rape a girl or a young girl, as long as it happens once, it will be shot.

Everyone knows that rape is the "fuck" we say many times every day. "Fucking" once is the death penalty, which fully shows that this is a very powerful move. Although we talk about "fucking", not everyone is clear about the actual operation process. So every time it comes to criticizing hooligans, they all prick up their ears, hoping to hear something. Some of the speeches were really good, mentioning nouns such as "breast" and "pubic area" from time to time. The male students felt very stimulated, because at that time such vocabulary was strictly controlled, just like today's pornographic films.

One case happened not far from our school. Critics said that the criminal climbed into someone’s house through the window at two o’clock in the middle of the night. There happened to be only one girl in that room, so he “ravaged” the girl many times until five o’clock in the morning. This time it was changed to "ravaged". We couldn't figure out what the relationship with rape was for a while, so it was not easy to judge. There is only one classmate who understands it very well, counting with his fingers: three, four, five, three times! "Three times" is not difficult to understand, from two o'clock to five o'clock, once an hour, but once what? I didn't make it clear, and I was too embarrassed to ask, as if I was ignorant.

Class time is very limited because there are so many big things to do. There will be a parade every few days. Whenever Chairman Mao issued the latest instructions, or took a swim in the Yangtze River, or the Central Committee convened some plenums, or expelled Liu Shaoqi from the party, or the US imperialists bombed Vietnam, Soviet revisionists provoked, or the reactionaries of a certain country smashed our embassy, etc., we will parade . From time to time, I went to the streets to welcome foreign distinguished guests. The distinguished guests are usually from unknown small countries, and I can’t even remember them. I only remember shouting "Warmly welcome, Lieutenant General Lon Nol!", but it didn't take long for the newspapers and radio to change the name to "Lon Nol Reactionary Group".

The "troublemaker" also posted:

The scene that I remember most is Xuenong in a dilapidated room in the countryside of Conghua. Because the house is low, in order to see the portrait of the leader clearly, the teacher led us to kneel and shouted seriously in the dim light of the oil lamp. : "Respect... Respect..." How can the teacher in our mind be like a believer or like a rural old woman piously leading the leader's portrait every day? A teacher who promotes atheism, we are extremely impressed by his theistic philosophy, skillful use of various political terms, and fluent expression in his classroom. How can he believe that people can live forever or be healthy forever? If you don't believe it, then why is he so pious and careful when leading the shout, every word and every word?

Either the teacher's political identity was suspicious, or he violated his conscience out of helplessness. Anyway, we feel uncomfortable because he ruined the good impression of teachers in our hearts as a teacher. So should we sympathize with him or pity him? I had this vaguely tangled thought at the time. I don't know how many people on the Internet believe it. Based on my intuition, I guess the netizens will definitely not believe it, because even I won't believe it.

  There are many follow-up comments on "Naozi"'s post.

A netizen named "Hu Nao" followed up and said:

  The real history of "resuming classes and making revolution" is full of coincidences like a vicious prank!

A netizen named "Xiao Nao" followed up and said:

In February 1978, students who passed the college entrance examination entered the university. From 1966 to 1978, the age gap between students was as long as 12 years. Teenagers aged 17 and 18 and middle-aged men and women in their 30s became the same class. Classmates, the trap of history makes them fall into the same classroom to study, forming an absurd landscape that makes people laugh at all countries in the world.

Another netizen named "Wukong" followed up and said:

The Chinese nation must have a sense of shame about its own wrong history. During the "Cultural Revolution", education was the most severely affected, and the disaster will affect future generations. Therefore, "October 14" is eligible to be selected as "National Shame Day".

As soon as the "Naonao" online group was established, Li Aiwen was attracted by the posts and followers of netizens. It turns out that there are still people in this world who do not want to forget the history of the Cultural Revolution.