Chapter 44 Preface to "The Cultural Revolution in Children's Hearts"

Comrade Evening News sent more than a dozen manuscripts of "The Cultural Revolution in Children's Hearts" and asked me to write the preface.Just a few days ago, a friend from Shanghai sent me Ba Jin's article published in the "Xinmin Evening News", which also talked about his personal experience during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution.The "unforgettable events" written today by an old man in his eighties and a hundred children at that time all record the tragic situation of the people in the "Cultural Revolution".At that time, millions of vigorous, curious and ignorant young men and women across the country, under the instigation of Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" clowns, just because they were received by great leaders a few times, they felt as if they were dressed in green uniforms. A belt, a Red Guard armband, can have greater authority than the Constitution passed by the National People's Congress back then!Ba Jin said, "...During those ten years, everyone had a painful experience that could not be written down. To say that suffering is too common, it is really a torture with Chinese characteristics. Going up the knife mountain, going down the oil pan, and all kinds of things that non-humans may endure The insults and tortures of 'touching the flesh' and 'touching the soul', because they couldn't stand them, how many people died..." Among the children's "unforgettable incidents", there was the tragic scene of Wu Han and Tian Han fighting, and a principal made the students Facts such as hitting the face with a thumbtack make me angry to see and remember!

I think that among the three mountains, "feudalism" was never completely defeated in China at that time, and the thoughts of emperors, gods and saviors also existed.The "democracy" we demanded in the "May 4th" parade more than 60 years ago has only emerged in the last eight years. Children are China's hope and future, as long as they keep their "unforgettable event" in their hearts forever, as the French thinker Montesquieu said, "There is neither law nor rule, and it is up to a single person to follow his own will and capricious Mood leads everything" will never happen again! Morning rush on October 3, 1986