Chapter 32 Letter to Li Dingming[1]

(April 29, 1944) Old Mr. Ding Ming left and right: "The Romance of Yongchang" was borrowed by many people in the past few years; recently, I have read it and benefited a lot.A copy has been copied for future use.The author, Mr. Li Jianhou[2], has spent a lot of effort in managing this book. Please express my deep respect to the author on my behalf.The book praises Li Zicheng's personal virtues, but belittles his entire movement.In fact, in our country since the Qin Dynasty, the people who have promoted the progress of the society for more than two thousand years are mainly peasant wars. The great peasant war led by General Li Zicheng, Emperor Dashun, is the most famous of dozens of such wars in the past two thousand years. once.This movement started in northern Shaanxi, and it is indeed the glory of the Shaanxi people, especially the glory of Mr. and the author Mr. Jianhou.If this book is modified according to the above-mentioned new historical viewpoint, it will be extremely useful for educating the people. I don’t know if the author will agree. How is Mr. Jianhou’s health recently? Can you come to Yan’an for a visit? All prayers will be forwarded to Mr. Jianhou for prayer!

Praise Da'an! Mao Zedong It was published on April 29 based on "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Li Dingming (1881-1947), a native of Mizhi, Shaanxi.At that time, he was the vice chairman of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government. [2] Li Jianhou, a native of Mizhi, Shaanxi.At that time, he was a senator of the Senate Council of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and worked in the Documentation Committee of Mizhi County.