Chapter 4 3. Politics or human desire?

The "Cultural Revolution" split the 1960s into two. Before 1966, it was one kind of situation, and after 1966, it was another situation that turned the world upside down. Chinese people and Chinese women before 1966 were a normal state, but after 1966 it was an uncharacteristically abnormal state. Therefore, the "Cultural Revolution" actually changed the world's common sense of chronology in China.It is simply impossible not to admit that 1966 was the middle year of the 1960s, but it was also the beginning of another crazy era.From 1966 to October 1976 when the "Cultural Revolution" ended—the 11 years that consisted of the "editing" of the last five years of the 1960s and the first five and a half years of the 1970s constituted an era of its own.Chinese women in this era are quite different from those in previous and subsequent eras.

As we all recognize, the level of human desire is pyramidal. And the lowest level is the desire for material pursuits, including instinctive desires. When people’s material desires are almost the same, or when they think they are the same——the ten years before the “Cultural Revolution” after the founding of New China, this is exactly the situation. The incomes of people of the same age are almost the same, and the commodities are extremely scarce. It determines the close consistency of people's spending power.In addition to living conditions and the level of living standards shown by the number of income earners in the family population, it is actually relatively difficult for some people to be luxuriously superior to other people in other aspects of material possessions.

Then, will the general human desires naturally stop at the lowest level, and no longer try to pursue other pursuits? The history of the ten years before the "Cultural Revolution" after the founding of New China seems to answer us exactly like this. However, when we analyze carefully today, we will suddenly realize the error of that conclusion, and find that what is recorded in that page of history is only the superficial appearance of society. It turns out that people's desires can be shrunk in their shells like hermit crabs.Its pincers are quietly growing in the shell, hard, and reserve strength, waiting for an opportunity to come out of the shell.Desire is extremely ambiguous at this time, the motive is unclear, and it does not know what it wants.This is quite different from hermit crabs.Hermit crabs fight for food, or similarly superior shells of their own.People's curled up and dormant desires are in the hazy stage at this time.Although I don't know what I want, I can feel the internal harassment it caused to me.Just like the sex hormones in boys and girls reach a certain level, they will have nocturnal emission or yearning for spring, people can't find a way to satisfy their desires, and they look forward to the opportunity to allow public masturbation.On the surface, such boys and girls are restrained and easy to be ashamed, while such adult men and women are obedient, law-abiding, "gentle, courteous and thrifty" on the surface.

The "Cultural Revolution" made such a declaration to the Chinese people - politics can satisfy many desires of those it relies on and favors. So in a very short period of time, millions of Chinese people became crazy about politics. But the vast majority of housewives did not get carried away with the "breakthrough" of the rush of desire.The reason why housewives are housewives is that no matter in any era or in any social situation, what they pay close attention to first and foremost is the gain and loss of family interests and safety.During the French Revolution, many housewives also rushed out of their homes and bravely ran to the streets to fight side by side with the commune fighters.But that was because, under the exploitation and oppression of the dynasty, their home was no longer their home, and it was their husband and son who died behind the barricades.

Once the vortex of politics sucks in a large number of housewives, then politics is magic politics. Although the "Cultural Revolution" was politically magical, if everyone who experienced it calmly recalls it, they have to admit that it did not actually make housewives forget themselves and look like housewives.At the very least, it should be admitted that they are often just temporarily sucked in, rather than fanatical and active intervention.Moreover, they often retreat instinctively and turn to take care of their own home.Or use taking care of your own home as an excuse to retreat.Taking care of the home is an ever-sacred excuse for housewives.

But this does not mean that the housewives during the "Cultural Revolution" lived in peace and harmony with each other as before.There are also cases of middle school students going to the community to raid someone's house, or taking some small "capitalist roader" to the residential community to roam and fight.In the latter case, housewives are forced to join in.But if the middle school students humiliate the fighters in an overly despicable way, or even beat the fighters cruelly, they often don't look down on them, and they will be very disgusted. "What kind of revolutionary act is this? I don't care about it!"

"I'm afraid of retribution! I'm leaving!" So some of them will go away. So they often break up in a herd. It is no wonder that housewives are not motivated to participate, let alone middle school students? During the "Cultural Revolution" period, I saw with my own eyes a group of housewives besieging and scolding some "Red Guards" until they fled in embarrassment.If there were sons from nearby families among the "Red Guards", the parents of this family would be condemned mercilessly by the housewives.If there is someone else's daughter, then her image in the eyes of aunts and aunts will be confessed from now on.Therefore, even those "Red Guards" who are most keen on ransacking their homes and fighting, often avoid "revolutionary actions" in the communities where their homes are located.

Fortunately, most of the Chinese housewives back then were not crazy, and they disciplined their middle school students not to do evil things, and often taught their high school children not to participate in looting, otherwise, China would not know how chaotic it would be. On this point, the first-generation mothers in New China have contributed a lot.When I think that the vast majority of them are still illiterate, I can't help but feel admiration. Of course, in residential communities, it has also happened that housewives themselves hold criticism meetings.The targets of criticism are nothing more than small street cadres and leaders of small street factories.But generally they will not go too far, counting them or their bureaucracy, malpractice, injustice, and bullying others is just killing their usual prestige and expressing the hatred that has been sympathetic for many years.Inevitably, some of them used the name of "revolution" to vent their personal anger, expose people's privacy, and spit on people's face, but that's all.It's too radical, and it will greatly lose the hearts of housewives.

The "Red Guards" of high school and college students generally don't go deep into ordinary residential communities to harass, that would be too expensive for them. As students, whether middle school students, high school students, or college students, many people in the "Cultural Revolution" had selfish motives. This is especially true of the "old three". After the "Cultural Revolution", when entering a higher school or assigning a job, the first thing to consider is the performance during the "Cultural Revolution". This is the public promise made to the students at the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution". This promise was published in "two newspapers and one magazine" - "People's Daily", "Liberation Army Daily", and "Red Flag" magazines.

Later, they called for "going to the mountains and going to the countryside", but the promises did not count. Moreover, it was emphasized at the time that the focus was on performance during the "Cultural Revolution", and the performance before the "Cultural Revolution" was for reference only. It is related to the future life and destiny, so all middle school students, high school students, and college students are firmly held in the political hands of the "Cultural Revolution".You don't want to go to school, but you still want to have a job, right?So good, please show your performance in the "Cultural Revolution".The more outstanding performance, the closer to your hope.

Even so, female high school students are generally less unscrupulous than some male high school students.This is determined by their teenage age, but also by the fact that they are women.They are generally and naturally unwilling to be very inactive, but they are also unwilling to compete to be extraordinarily active.What's more, some boys are actively expressing themselves, leaving them with limited political space for expression. Middle school boys are divided into two categories. One category spares no effort to perform for a clear purpose, and in unison, moves closer to the political forces that may determine their own destiny in the future; the other category is quite realistic. Dajia will start the "revolution" first, and I have to find a place to earn some money for my family.Therefore, during the "Cultural Revolution", in Harbin City, an interesting phenomenon was that there were more girls and fewer boys at any large-scale gathering.Girls are in the "revolution" and their hearts are outside the "revolution". They are not shouting slogans for who the country belongs to, but to prove their participation to others.Only one year later, many of them also disappeared from the "revolution". In the first two years of the "Cultural Revolution", many mothers of the common class were exposed to the light of the "revolution" - their daughters were tired of being "little generals" early on, and most of them simply forgot from the second year As a middle school student, of course, he does not want to continue the "mission" of a "teenager" and return to the family, replacing the mothers who are housewives to manage the housework in an orderly manner, and take on the family role of the big girl in the 1950s. Almost all the girls in the first and second grades of high school are like this.While being a big girl, she pays attention to the movement in the school, looking forward to the news of her destiny. There are evil female junior high school students and high school students.People later often attribute their evil to "foolish loyalty", which is a very incomplete conclusion, and it can even be said to be quite a wrong conclusion.In my opinion, their evil back then contained more personal utilitarian content and complex psychological content than political content, and it is by no means explained clearly by the word "foolish loyalty". I observed such a phenomenon back then—among girls with excellent academic performance and girls with extremely mediocre looks, girls whose parents "stand aside" and girls whose parents are very popular often have worse outbreaks. "revolutionary" behavior. The first category, because their excellent academic performance in the past was not taken seriously, and the sense of loss was extremely strong.It's like my usual savings were suddenly declared expired and useless, but I didn't have time to spend smartly at all, and I was very annoyed in my heart.Didn't you accuse me of being a typical "white specialist"?Then I will show you the "revolution"! Isn't "revolution" just such a popular thing?So much easier than getting an excellent academic grade!Just like starting another short-term high-interest savings, their "revolution" is very eager and venting.The targets of their "revolution" are often aimed at cultural intellectuals.In their subconscious, the object of their "revolution" is regarded as a goal that is different from theirs. Since I can no longer achieve it, let the cultural intellectuals "go to hell"! The second category, whose "revolutionary" eyes are exclusively on those beautiful women and elegant men.When they cut the hair of a beautiful woman, splashed ink on the face of a beautiful woman, or humiliated a refined man to make him look down, they felt great pleasure in their hearts.They have never been noticed, and have never been appreciated as women, but their psychology of trying to attract others' attention and hope to be appreciated as women is very strong.Their long-term distorted, abnormal and even pathological sexual psychology practice evil in the name of "revolution". The third category, whose "revolutionary" behavior is retaliatory.Now that my parents were "stepped aside" and "overthrown", no one else's parents could be "combined" or safe.By viciously "revolutioning" the "life" of other people's parents, he not only proved that he was still worthy of being a famous "rebel", but also showed a gesture of drawing a clear line with his family, killing two birds with one stone.Their "revolution" targets are cadres. The fourth category, whose "revolutionary" behavior is performative.Now that my parents have been "combined" or "relying on" by the "revolutionary committee", I must be more "revolutionary" than my parents to prove that "revolutionary" parents are worthy of a "revolutionary" daughter like myself.For a daughter of a "revolutionary" like myself, her parents must be "revolutionary", as the so-called "revolution has its own successors".The goal of their "revolution" is extremely uncertain. They attack here today, smash there tomorrow, and destroy another place the day after tomorrow.In short, we must continue to show its "revolutionary" nature, and we will never tire of it. If there is a fifth category, it is the category of evil nature. Such female junior and senior high school students in the "Cultural Revolution" existed in varying numbers in all major, medium and small cities.There are also these types of girls among the "Red Guards" of college students.They especially have a cruel "revolutionary" mentality towards female "revolutionary" objects. The "Red Guards" in the third year of high school and the "Red Guards" in the university, their "revolutionary" purpose has since been combined with the word "quan" to varying degrees.Once the organization I belong to takes power, I will be taken care of in the future, whether I will go to school or work.Today's "bloody battle" is tomorrow's "revolutionary capital".It's like the revolutionary predecessors who were born and died, and later enjoyed the fruits of the revolution.Therefore, the "Red Guards" in the third year of high school and university, after fighting in the society for a while, returned to school without delay to seize power, and did not hesitate to fight for power.Whichever faction seizes power means that which faction's "revolution" succeeds. If the "revolution" is successful, benefits can be shared.The so-called "first establish the big ones, then the small ones can't take it", the so-called "whoever can raise the flag, one can take the city of Longcheng". The "Cultural Revolution" used students, and students used the "Cultural Revolution". The word "foolish loyalty" is 70% pretending to be stupid, 30% being really stupid; 30% being loyal to a great leader, and 70% being loyal to personal desires. The "Cultural Revolution" implemented another kind of education for Chinese youth.It has succeeded in making young people understand from then on that many of the good things in life can be obtained through speculative politics.The way to achieve the goal is easy to learn, fast and convenient.This kind of bad influence is still lingering in today's China, and "does a lot." Some female workers during the "Cultural Revolution" were no less "rebellious" than men.His "courage" of "willing to cut himself to pieces and dare to pull the emperor off his horse" can be compared with some female "Red Guard" leaders in colleges and universities who "I am the best in the world". This is because they have been exposed to various contradictions for a long time.For example, the contradiction between management and being managed, the contradiction between suppressing and being suppressed, the contradiction between authoritarian power and fairness requirements, etc.Among all kinds of contradictions, they have heard and witnessed the existence of many injustices.Such as promotion, such as promotion, such as salary increase, such as housing distribution... They have long been extremely dissatisfied with some cadres who use power for personal gain, but no one supports them to challenge and resist.Once Mao Zedong personally supported them, they would of course "fear nothing and fear nothing".The targets of their "revolution" are not only those who have long and steadily seized power over their vital interests, but also those who cultivate and value them, especially women. "Take out so-and-so's big hit and expose it to the broad daylight!" Such slogans abounded in factories back then. If the "big red man" is still a woman, if the woman is revealed to have had a sexual relationship with her male boss, her fate will be very sad, and her male boss will not only be trapped in all directions, but will hardly be able to arouse any attention at all. Sympathy can only be spurned and despised by the female workers. Back then, the female workers hated nothing more than other women relying on their looks to curry favor with their male bosses and achieve their personal goals with physical pleasure. They would often do their best to insult such a woman. Their "reasonable rebellion" sometimes has a legitimate side in terms of specific people and things.But in the context of the "Cultural Revolution", it is undoubtedly fueling a political disaster that has caused serious harm.But it was impossible for them to have such awareness back then.People who have experienced the "Cultural Revolution" can only gradually develop such introspection in the later period of the "Cultural Revolution". Before the Cultural Revolution, politics in China, like in every other country, was mainly a man's business. The "Cultural Revolution" encouraged women to show their talents in politics.When women are born at the right time, once they are reused by politics, they will naturally taste the sweetness, become pretentious and arrogant. For example, an ordinary female worker was transferred to a "special task force" just because she was active in "rebellion", and had the right to interrogate some men who used to be superior to her, or their female "big celebrities".And the conclusion she made in black and white determines whether the other party has a slight chance to be a man again or has no chance at all and can only be a "ghost" forever. So could the female worker's psychological feeling be bad? Another example is that because of her meritorious service in "special projects", she was more highly valued, and was "incorporated" into a certain level of "revolutionary committee" as a member. Is it worth it? Another example is that she actually has a car to travel in and out, and moved into the big house of the "capitalist roader". People began to ask her for instructions respectfully, began to review documents, started to have a secretary, and the family followed suit. , the family status of her children has also been changed from a worker to a "revolutionary cadre" due to her change in status. Will she think that the "Cultural Revolution" was wrong and a farce?Will she tolerate others denying the "Cultural Revolution" or even opposing the "Cultural Revolution"?Of course she swears loudly that anyone who tries to negate or oppose the "Cultural Revolution" is her sworn enemy, and this is not just talking. In a country, a nation, if politics becomes almost the only way for everyone to pursue life changes, then almost all men and women will initially respond to this kind of politics psychologically and speculate on this kind of politics.From the age of middle school students and high school students, I will also learn from adults all kinds of bad experiences to please this kind of politics.Even, it will definitely pollute the pure ideology of the children. During the "Cultural Revolution", children's behaviors of "revealing" and "informing" adults, as well as using political charges to harm or even frame children among children, are really ugly and sad when I think about it today. During the "Cultural Revolution", some women who made their fortunes through speculative politics, their merciless indifference to the "revolutionary" targets, and the naturalness and righteousness of "driving others into the 18th hell" and then make men feel that they are simply not Women, doubt whether their hearts are iron or stone. But the vast majority of female workers in the "Cultural Revolution" "rebelled" for a while, and won a little fairness in public opinion for the unfair treatment they had suffered before, so they stopped staring at the "capitalist roaders" all day long. "'s every move.Later, they gradually developed sympathy for certain "capitalist roaders".They apologize secretly, not because they are afraid that the "capitalist roaders" will come back to power to retaliate against them, but simply because they feel that what they did should not be done by women. The word "woman", the binding force on their words and deeds, was removed by politics for a period of time, and they were unwilling to lose it completely and regained it.Those who have not apologized secretly have long repented in their hearts. The factionalism of the workers led to increasingly deep emotional antagonism and serious mutual harm among the workers.Many female workers and female workers, and between female workers and male workers, are treated as strangers all their lives, and never communicate with each other.Many classmate relationships, master-student relationships, and partnerships that grew up together have since broken up, and even turned against each other. This situation even aroused the attention and concern of Mao Zedong, who directed the "Cultural Revolution", so he issued the "newest instruction": "There is no fundamental conflict of interest within the working class." Mao Zedong was right.But since "there is no fundamental conflict of interest", why is there such a conflict between you and me, me without you, and irreconcilable power? Explaining it politically will also lead to an embarrassing situation where the more you explain, the more confused you become. In fact, it is very simple to say, the formation of faction is like the gathering of fans today to "la la".You cheer for a certain team's victory, and he cries for a certain team's loss. There is neither conflict of interest nor great reason in it.In the final analysis, if a player scores or concedes a goal, he won the bonus and does not distribute it to the fans. If he loses the bonus, the fans do not need to spend their own money to comfort him.It’s nothing more than that this team represents our province, and that team represents another province; the players I like are on this team, and the players I hate to be weak or who don’t like me are on that team, that’s all, that’s all. .The most worth mentioning is nothing more than how many morbid sense of vassal honor is still causing psychological trouble. The same was true of the factionalism among the workers back then.It is nothing more than that this group thinks that this cadre is "revolutionary" and should be "united", while the other group thinks that cadre is "revolutionary" and should be "united".This group believes that the cadres who have been defeated by us can be allowed to be "combined" again?Doesn't that mean we were all wrong to take him or her down?And that group thinks that the cadres you support are "revolutionary"?In our eyes, you are "hardcore royalists"!Or, why are there only one or two leaders from our faction in the "revolutionary committee", but three or four leaders from your faction?Aren't you picking too many "revolutionary" peaches? ... Anyway, that's all.It only concerns the vital interests of cadres or leaders, but the workers are in fierce conflicts there, which is the psychological trouble caused by the abnormal political honor of factions in this very era. My favorite team is the best, and I am also depressed when the game loses. The organization I joined was the most "revolutionary", and I was not happy that there were no or few seats in the "Revolutionary Committee". If they all go for psychological counseling, the conclusions are the same, which can be called "blindly following psychological obsessive-compulsive disorder". Just as many workers in Heilongjiang Province participated in the downfall of Governor Li Fanwu, Pan Fusheng, the director of the "Revolutionary Committee" who came to power, was only meaningful to Chairman Mao, and was meaningless to any group of workers and students. That kind of abnormal political psychology will naturally develop into "whatever the enemy opposes, we must support; whatever the enemy supports, we must oppose." Unconditionally support the support of my faction, and unconditionally oppose the opposition of my faction. Not for anything else, nothing to do with interests, just to prove that one is right in support and right in opposition. Back then, I supported the "88th Regiment", the largest "royalist" organization in the province with the "Red Guards" of the Kazakh military industry as the core, and opposed "all overthrow" and believed that "more than 95% of the cadres are good of". Later, the "88th Regiment" was ordered to disband by the "Central Cultural Revolution Group". I cried a lot. Later, the "Eighth and Eighth Regiment" also simply pursued "defeat everything", raised another banner, and became the "bombardment faction".Even the "Provincial Revolutionary Committee" approved by Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee also followed suit. So I supported the "bombardment faction" again. Back then, the whole class knew that I was the one and only one who was a staunch "bomber". The military propaganda team taught and sang: "A small group of artillery bandits, their nature cannot be changed, they are sharpening their knives day and night, trying to counter-seize power..." I angrily left the classroom in protest. A squad leader of the military propaganda team came to talk to me, hoping that I would "fight back" and take a "revolutionary" stand, otherwise I would have to be dismissed from the position of "servant" in my class.The squad leader's surname is Qu, a very respectable and lovely member of the People's Liberation Army.However, I was not moved by his persuasive temptation, so I wrote a "resignation statement" and posted it in the classroom the next day.It was on that "statement" that the alias "Liang Xiaosheng" was used for the first time. "Bombarders" and "bandits" are naturally "reactionary". So it was finally suppressed by armed forces.Machine guns rang out in the middle of the night. The downfall of the "Bombarders" made me cry again. But back then, the "Eighth and Eighth Regiment" and the "Bombardment Faction" in the university did not know that an ordinary third-year student in an ordinary middle school cried twice for its disintegration? Just like today's players, who would have thought that a so-called fan would lose his nerve alone because his kick missed? Fortunately, today's disease is a ball, not politics. Many female workers during the "Cultural Revolution" were not keen on politics before, and they have not been interested in politics since then, but they have left deep or shallow political scars on their bodies, and the politics are not for any of their interests. All the turmoil.They were just born in that era and inevitably contracted a disease caused by it. This is what is most different from Chinese women workers before and after. Some female cultural intellectuals and researchers during the "Cultural Revolution" and many female cadres in the "Cultural Revolution" used political charges to fight each other, frame each other, and retaliate against each other from time to time.Of course, they tend to use the same tactics against almost any man who stands in the way of their goals.Even if they don't intend to block them, even if they are only regarded as stumbling blocks by their subjective imagination, but in fact they shy away for fear of not being able to make it.If the person they regard as an obstacle is a woman, their way of "kicking away the stumbling block" is even more despicable, which often catches the opponent off guard, unprepared, and has the nature of an attack.Moreover, they often aim at people's political vital points, attempting to achieve success with one blow and put people to death.In those days I had heard of many of these horrible women.They often remind me of the title of an American film I watched later - "Women Are More Cruel than Men". Their behaviors of quarreling, framing, retaliating and betraying their friends back then had the following characteristics: the phenomenon of young people suddenly attacking the old was more than the old against the young, and the phenomenon of women suddenly attacking women was more than that of women turning against men More often, those with weak majors turn against those with strong specialties more than those with strong specialties suddenly turn against those with weak specialties, those with good backgrounds turn against those with problematic backgrounds more often than the latter turn against the former, and the same generation suddenly turns against the same generation There are many phenomena of conflicts, such as sudden conflicts between people in the same profession, field, or even neighbors... All these attacks have targeted targets, and directly relate to the political framework of the two classes and two lines fighting to the death.The so-called "make a move when you have to make a move", the so-called "if you don't make a move, you don't make a move". "Shoot" is ferocious, accurate and ruthless. Sometimes, it is to achieve their own political goals. Sometimes, the purpose is not really about politics, it may just be because—is it you or is someone else starring in a show?Is it yourself or someone else who is the backbone of a not-so-advanced scientific research?Are you the organizer of an event or someone else?Is it yourself or someone else who should report the reward after the achievement?Is your name first or someone else's? ... The ugly phenomenon of grabbing fame and fortune in the fields of literature, art, culture, scientific research, and education through political means emerges endlessly and is commonplace.And, often it works. The "Red Guards" have "goed to the mountains and went to the countryside", and the workers have begun to promote production. Intellectuals, including female intellectuals, still use politics to fight openly and covertly, and continue to perform various sketches and dramas. This kind of performance did not have to end until the end of the "Cultural Revolution". Chinese intellectuals, including female intellectuals, have caused no less harm to each other than the "Worker Propaganda Team", "Military Propaganda Team", and "Red Guards" did to them and them.In many cases, in many cases, the evidence was provided by them and others, and the crime was established by others. The root of the suffering came from both the politics of the year and the despicability of the same kind.