Wake up（251）

 

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The "Naonao" alumni group founded by Li Aiwen, Qian Xiaojuan, and Sun Yulan became more and more lively.

Li Aiwen, Qian Xiaojuan, and Sun Yulan, three old alumni, started discussing things like "resuming classes to start a revolution".

Qian Xiaojuan said: Not long ago, I saw some reminiscence articles written by "69 middle school students" on the Internet. They entered middle school in October 1967 without any examination, according to their home address. I believe this is true, not a lie, and there is no need to fake it. I was just thinking that the things about "resuming classes and starting a revolution" have long been forgotten in my memory, and they are rarely mentioned in articles about the history of the Cultural Revolution. At that time, no matter whether classes were suspended or resumed, the focus was on "making a revolution." Whether classes were held or not, one could "come and go as soon as one was called" according to the needs of the revolution. In a big country with a population of 700 million, how simple and ideal it is to carry out an "educational revolution" in this way! To achieve the above, it is also required that "Chairman Mao's great instructions on fighting against selfishness and criticizing revisions must be conscientiously implemented, and every revolutionary teacher and student should be educated to fight against the word 'selfish' in their minds... For the sabotage activities of class enemies, All revolutionary comrades must remain vigilant...We must pay close attention to the political and ideological work of revolutionary teachers and students, and pay close attention to in-depth criticism of the revisionist education line, so that the resumption of classes and revolution can be done well, and the educational revolution will be implemented. It was at this time that factional struggles were raging in the school, so it was demanded that "under the principle of revolution, according to the system of teaching classes, grades, and departments, realize the great unity of the revolution, help the revolutionary cadres and teachers to stand up, and establish a revolutionary movement. The leading group of three combinations"; and "Revolutionary teachers and revolutionary cadres should always think that the career they are engaged in is related to the cultivation of successors of the proletarian revolution, and they should have the courage and determination to thoroughly criticize the old education system and fight with themselves. A complete break with the bourgeois world outlook. You should realize that you are both an educator and an educated person, and that students have many advantages over themselves. You must go among students, mingle with them, and establish a new type of socialist teacher-student relationship. "... It is precisely because of such a "heroic and great cause" that the requirements for "every revolutionary teacher and student" are so high! The problem is precisely that such a request is impossible to achieve.

Sun Yulan said: The propaganda at that time emphasized that "unswervingly implementing the policy of resuming classes and making revolution is an important issue in the current proletarian education revolution." It cannot be regarded as restoration and reformism; it neither clarifies what is radical reform, nor does it explain the difference between restoration and improvement. Therefore, this is not the case, and that is not acceptable. It is no wonder that the "resumption of classes and revolution" has been slow to make progress. In fact, in the era of flying hats and labeling, it is those big hats that can be put on your head at any time that accompany you like terrible ghosts. In fact, until 1968, there were still various and continuous campaigns to "clean up the ranks of the class" and so on. Although it is said that "most of them are good or relatively good", in fact, every unit is considered to have "bad people" or "class enemies", and there is no clean and peaceful place in the world. Vague words such as "most" and "some people" make teachers and cadres always panic.

Li Aiwen said: When the Cultural Revolution came, I went to the streets for a while to announce the news and publicity. Soon, I became bored and became a "happy party". When I was having a hard time at home, a classmate came to visit me. Me, I was asked to help transcribe the "Great Criticism Column", and I agreed. That was probably after the National Day in 1967. I can't think of any other reason for this that would have prompted me to become involved in the "Great Criticism Column" from the early winter of 1967 onwards. Now I understand that it was because of the publication of the editorial "resume class to cause revolution". It seems that I was really an obedient and good boy who followed me back then, no, I should be an "educable child".

Li Aiwen recalled: Do you still remember? The middle school we were in had a "revolutionary committee" established on February 18, 1968, and was ready to "resume classes to start a revolution," so we managed to "resume classes" for a few days. The class is no longer called a certain class of a certain grade, but a certain "red battalion" or a certain "red row". The class is called the Red Guard Platoon; the grade is called the Red Guard Battalion; the whole school is called the Red Guard Regiment. Since you have to go to the big playground to participate in the "early consultation" every morning, you must bring the "Little Red Book" to school, and the backpack-style "quotation bag" made of red plastic has become popular. In addition, it is enough to have a pen and a blank paper, because I am asked to write an "learning experience" from time to time.

Sun Yulan smiled and said: I remember, I remember. At the beginning of each class, I stood up and shouted long live or long life without bounds, abolishing the old custom of saying hello to the teacher. The classroom was always chaotic, and the high-spirited "revolutionary young generals" were all sitting in the front row. Several teachers were coaxed out of the classroom by "revolutionary students" because of various "problems".

Qian Xiaojuan interjected: There are no decent classrooms, textbooks, courses, and real teachers for this kind of "resumption of classes". It didn't last long, and they began to go to the countryside for three summers to work. Not long after I came back, I was "graduated" very quickly. I was crowned as a junior high school graduate at the level of the second year of junior high school, and went to the vast world to "receive re-education".

Li Aiwen, Qian Xiaojuan and Sun Yulan, three old alumni, talked more and more enthusiastically.

It seems that there will never be enough to say about the "resumption of classes and revolution". Such memories seem quite reasonable and logical. Although such memories are actually incomplete and incomplete. But taking this opportunity to look back and feel the general environment and atmosphere at that time, I feel that it was impossible to have an advanced awakening at that time, but I "joined the revolution" consciously or unconsciously.

Li Aiwen said: Although my family was the "revolutionary object" of the Cultural Revolution at that time, and I belonged to the "six types of black children", I could indeed continue to use this as a reason to be a "free and unfettered school", but in such a super-revolutionary era, it is really true not to want revolution. Disaster. I still remember that before the Cultural Revolution, the group that participated in the study of the Constitution of the Communist Youth League knew the "class policy" that "focused on performance" and understood the need to actively "closer to the organization". "I took the initiative to come to my door and invited me to "participate in the revolution". Isn't it a "bestowed opportunity"? Therefore, it is neither realistic nor honorable to be a "free and unfettered faction", but to "join the revolution".

Qian Xiaojuan said: I was in such a state back then. Only when they voluntarily signed up to join the queue and settled down did they "gloriously join the Red Guards". Looking at it now, restoring this experience made me, an illiterate student who was involved in the revolution without knowing what was happening, have to think deeply: did the initiator of the Cultural Revolution really have a blueprint for the educational revolution that could be operated? Did the "headquarters" of the Cultural Revolution really have a strategic plan for "fighting, criticizing, and reforming"? Were the latest directives during the Cultural Revolution, such as "cleaning up the ranks of the class," really aimed at "a handful of capitalist roaders"? ... After more than half a century, looking back at the traces left by me, recalling my own personal feelings, and re-reading the People's Daily of that year, it is indeed a special taste of "reviewing the past and learning the new".

Sun Yulan said:

Looking back on the "Great Revolution" I experienced, I saw a document, which was a special report on studying Li Wenzhong. There are about 3 items: Comrade Li Wenzhong's visit to his hometown; four rows of heroic words; I miss Chairman Mao day and night. In fact, these contents are not new, because reports on Li Wenzhong's deeds began to appear in the People's Daily in late September 1967, but after more than two months, a major "leap" occurred. People's Daily reported on December 8, 1967: Our great commander Chairman Mao and his close comrade-in-arms Deputy Commander Lin Biao personally approved the award to the 6011 Unit of the People's Liberation Army who swore to be loyal to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line in the great struggle to support the left. The fourth platoon of the Sixth Company of the Department was awarded the honorable title of "Model Supporting the Left and Aiding the People" and Comrade Li Wenzhong, the leader of the platoon, was awarded the honorable title of "Model Supporting the Left and Aiding the People".

It is conceivable that with the personal leadership and command of the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief, how could there not be a new climax of the heat wave? Although the newspapers were full of "three loyalties" and "four infinities" before this, that is, loyalty to Chairman Mao, loyalty to Mao Zedong Thought, and loyalty to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line; However, in another wave of learning from Li Wenzhong, the newspapers are becoming more and more overwhelming, and rhetoric that is similar to the "Three Loyalties" and "Four Unlimited", and comparable to them, is endless, such as: use Mao Zedong Thought to command everything, analyze everything, and criticize Everything, transform everything. Another example: put the active learning and application of Chairman Mao's works above everything else, greater than everything, prior to everything, and more important than everything else. Another example: read Chairman Mao’s books for a lifetime, and never relax for a minute; implement Chairman Mao’s instructions for a lifetime, without any deviation; What's more: Unlimited loyalty to Chairman Mao, absolute belief in Chairman Mao, always following Chairman Mao closely, and defending Chairman Mao to the death. ... This is the most popular parallel sentence during the Cultural Revolution.

Li Wenzhong's most famous quote is "Chairman Mao loves me, Chairman Mao supports me, Chairman Mao instructs me to follow, Chairman Mao waves me forward."

Sun Yulan said: In my memory, the most popular revolutionary slogans at that time were nothing more than long live long live or sea sailing depends on the helmsman. But in the traditional education we received before the Cultural Revolution, we learned that in the 1950s there was a rule not to celebrate the birthdays of leaders, so the calendars before the Cultural Revolution only printed the birthdays and death dates of Marx, Engels and Sun Yat-sen. However, after the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, that regulation was quietly abolished. Although there was no birthday celebration content on December 26 in public places, including regular newspapers and books, the "spontaneous" birthday celebrations began in 1966. The tabloids and materials sponsored and issued by the "Guard" and "Revolutionary Mass Organization" all "fueled" the birthday heat wave. The day before December 26, 1967, the Xinhua News Agency issued a message: The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a commemorative stamp of "Sailing the sea depends on the helmsman, making revolution depends on Mao Zedong Thought". Xinhua News Agency said that Vice Chairman Lin Biao, a close comrade-in-arms of our great leader Chairman Mao, wrote an inscription for the Navy's first study of Chairman Mao's works by the Activist Congress, "Sailing the sea depends on the helmsman, making revolution depends on Mao Zedong Thought", expressing the wishes of the people of the whole country and the world. Words from the heart most concentratedly and fully express the deep feelings of the people of the whole country and the world for the great leader Chairman Mao and the great Mao Zedong Thought, boundless love, boundless belief, boundless admiration, and boundless loyalty.

The purpose of this set of stamps is self-evident and well-known. The newspapers made a lot of publicity, adding fire to the god-making movement. On that day that year, the front page must have been a large photo of a great man, with a popular slogan, and a record-setting news of 80 million copies of Mao's book was published throughout the year. This brilliant achievement is a great victory of the unprecedented Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a great victory of Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line, and a great victory of the invincible Mao Zedong Thought.

Li Aiwen smiled: The second Cultural Revolution has come. The number of books published by today's top leaders and the scope of distribution are unprecedented. Far beyond Lao Mao. The 70th birthday ceremony recently held in the Longevity Palace is also incomparable to Lao Mao. Fanatical creation of gods is a characteristic of China.