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Our newspaper’s special correspondent in Tucson: Huiming has seen in the past few days that the definition of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese high school textbooks has changed again, from "difficult exploration" to "disaster...

Our newspaper’s special correspondent in Tucson: Huiming

In the past few days, I have seen that the definition of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese high school textbooks has changed again, from “difficult exploration” to “disaster” and “mistake”. It is a good gesture to correct mistakes when you recognize them, but correcting may not eliminate the impact of the Cultural Revolution on China and the world, especially on the changes in human nature.

There are probably very few people in the Finger Tribe who have experienced the Cultural Revolution. Most of those who were devastated by the Cultural Revolution have gone away and no longer have to watch all the living beings on the ground - the survivors and beneficiaries of the Cultural Revolution mess around. They have been liberated.

But the spirit that was destroyed by the Cultural Revolution - the spirit of the scholar-bureaucrats that the Chinese people were once proud of has been almost wiped out, and it is difficult to hear their voices in today's prosperous Skynet.

After burning books and humiliating scholars, the publishing industry can be reopened, and the style of respecting teachers can be restored, but the style of scholar-bureaucrats cannot be easily returned by making a mistake.

In fact, a book can be written about the spirit of scholar-bureaucrats, but in layman's terms, they are people with a bit of independent thinking spirit. For example, people like Li Bai and Du Fu.

Li Bai and Du Fu were also ordinary people. They also wanted to be named on the gold medal list, achieve fame and live a good life. But tired of the flattery of corrupt officials in the secular society, they all gave up all this, either singing praises of the great mountains and rivers, or hating evil as much as hatred.

They like to sing about romance, but they also pay attention to the trivial matters of public life. But what makes future generations admire them is that they all have a kind heart that respects nature, is considerate of the people, and has an independent personality that is not flattering.

But today it is not easy for you to be Li Bai and Du Fu. Even if you cannot be Lu Xun, even if you are not overwhelmed by those peace poems and your food rations are cut off, you will not be able to make a living.

You still don’t have the two brushes of Li Bai and Du Fu, and you can’t write with an independent spirit! There will only be a bunch of war wolves with charming smiles on their faces! Against the background of ups and downs and magnificent times, has anyone come up with a new era of "military chariot dealers" and "charcoal sellers"? In the final analysis, the loss of spirit was the most cruel blow the Cultural Revolution dealt to Chinese culture.

The reason why a change in Chinese textbooks arouses such concern among brothers is because of some things happening around us. The most ridiculous and sad thing about the Cultural Revolution is that hundreds of millions of people across the country actually believed the nonsense of a powerful person and waved the red book, just like Germany worshiped a person back then! Today in the United States, we see the scene in China again. It is difficult for a person to experience two major events of the same era in his life, but I feel that I am a little lucky and a little behind the times. What is determined to be corrected over there is being implemented here in the election!

There are many red necks in the United States, and it is easy to believe the nonsense of those in power. What is puzzling is that the Chinese who come to the United States will die as Sichuan fans and white fans! Maybe I have reached an age where I no longer worship idols and cannot dance with wolves.

It is said that a person cannot fall down twice in the same mud ditch. This time I am determined to watch the tiger fight on the shore and chant "The dead are like a husband"...