Mao Zedong's Intellectual Youth Career
30. Intellectual Youths
December 31, 1968, the day was so gloomy, the wind was so bitter, but also tucked snow.
Tomorrow would be the New Year's Day, but those of us junior high school "graduated""Intellectual Youths" faced with important choice, decision, must act, could not wait.
Mao Zedong's the highest order of "the intellectual youth moves to the countryside, to accept the poor and lower-middle peasants re-education" had already seen in various newspaper headlines. Huge banners, sharp slogans were posted everywhere. Every family, every one knew that the “Intellectual Youth” go to the countryside to live and work with peasants had become a trend, unstoppable.
Ancient city's junior high school graduated students were all on the …show more content…
The first night, we casually ate some food, crowded slept in the production team leader's home. From that moment, none of us teens (15 to 17 years old) even completed junior high courses, overnight were transformed into "Intellectual Youths", began a countryside youth career.
Our arrival, let the 60 year old captain Zhang -- the production team leader a mixed feeling. Joy was that five young men would be a few good laborers, used properly, could help the team a lot; worried the housing, buying working tools and living facilities. The production team was poor chink, did not know what to do.
The next day, also was the New Year's Day of 1969. The first day of the year, God was a doleful frown, overcast, continued to blow wind, flutter snow. Captain Zhang took us for a tour, on the ridge, bank of canal, cotton field, rice paddies, walked around the village, introduced the production team situation. Captain Zhang with black skin, wrinkled face, was looked as a honest, weather beaten old farmer. Of course, he was the member of the Communist Party, the agrarian reform roots (special term for those were the main driving force in 1950's communist land reform), knew the party's policies. Gave us information about the production team, class compositions, who were landlords, rich peasants, who were poor peasants, farm laborers, and asked us a firm class
December 31, 1968, the day was so gloomy, the wind was so bitter, but also tucked snow.
Tomorrow would be the New Year's Day, but those of us junior high school "graduated""Intellectual Youths" faced with important choice, decision, must act, could not wait.
Mao Zedong's the highest order of "the intellectual youth moves to the countryside, to accept the poor and lower-middle peasants re-education" had already seen in various newspaper headlines. Huge banners, sharp slogans were posted everywhere. Every family, every one knew that the “Intellectual Youth” go to the countryside to live and work with peasants had become a trend, unstoppable.
Ancient city's junior high school graduated students were all on the …show more content…
The first night, we casually ate some food, crowded slept in the production team leader's home. From that moment, none of us teens (15 to 17 years old) even completed junior high courses, overnight were transformed into "Intellectual Youths", began a countryside youth career.
Our arrival, let the 60 year old captain Zhang -- the production team leader a mixed feeling. Joy was that five young men would be a few good laborers, used properly, could help the team a lot; worried the housing, buying working tools and living facilities. The production team was poor chink, did not know what to do.
The next day, also was the New Year's Day of 1969. The first day of the year, God was a doleful frown, overcast, continued to blow wind, flutter snow. Captain Zhang took us for a tour, on the ridge, bank of canal, cotton field, rice paddies, walked around the village, introduced the production team situation. Captain Zhang with black skin, wrinkled face, was looked as a honest, weather beaten old farmer. Of course, he was the member of the Communist Party, the agrarian reform roots (special term for those were the main driving force in 1950's communist land reform), knew the party's policies. Gave us information about the production team, class compositions, who were landlords, rich peasants, who were poor peasants, farm laborers, and asked us a firm class