Jiang Qing[1]:
The letter received on June 29. You might as well live there for a while according to the opinions of Comrades Wei and Chen 2[3]. I have two interviews with foreign guests this month [4], I will tell you after I see you. Since leaving Wulin on June 15th[5], I have lived in a western cave[6] for more than ten days, but the news is not well informed. It has been ten days since I came to the place of Baiyun Yellow Crane on the 28th. It is very interesting to read the materials every day.
The world is in chaos, and the world is ruled. I will do it again in seven or eight years. The ghosts and monsters jumped out by themselves. They are determined by their class nature, and they have to jump out. My friend's speech [8] was urged by the central government to send it out, and I am going to agree to it. He is devoted to the issue of coup d'etat. This question has never been taught in the past like this. I always feel uneasy about some of his formulations. I have never believed that my small books have such great magical powers. Now after his blow, the whole party and the whole country are blowing up. It's really the Wang Po selling melons and boasting. I was forced to go to Liangshan by them. It seems that I disagree with them.
It is the first time in my life that I agree with others against my will on a major issue. Let's call it not subject to human will. Jin Dynasty people Ruan Ji opposed to Liu Bang , he walked from Luoyang to Chenggao, and sighed: There is no hero in the world, so he made him famous. Lu Xun once said the same thing about his essays, and Lu Xun and I are connected. I like his frankness. He said that anatomy of oneself is often stricter than anatomy of others. After a few falls, I often do the same. But comrades often don't believe me. I am confident and a little unconfident.
When I was a teenager, I once said: I am confident that I will live for two hundred years, and I will be hit by water for three thousand miles. It can be seen that it is full of air. But I am not very confident, I always feel that there are no tigers in the mountains, and the monkey is the king.I have become such a king. But it's not eclecticism. I have a tigerish air in my body, it is the master, and there is a monkey-like air in me, it is second. I once cited a few words from the post-Han man Li Gu's letter to Huang Qiong: Those who are majestic are easy to break, and those who are Jiaojiao are easy to defile. In the spring and white snow, the peace is overwhelming. Under the prestigious name, it is actually difficult to match [9]. These last two sentences refer to me exactly.
I have read these few sentences on the Politburo Standing Committee. It is important for a person to know himself. At the Hangzhou meeting in April this year, I expressed my disagreement with my friends. But what's the use? He still said that at the May meeting in Beijing, and the newspapers and magazines said it was even more fierce, and it was almost fascinating. In this way, I had no choice but to go to Liangshan. I guess their intention was to use Zhong Kui to fight ghosts. I became the Zhong Kui of the Communist Party in the 1960s.
Things always go to the opposite side. The higher the blow, the heavier the fall. I am ready to fall to pieces. It doesn't matter, the matter is immortal, but it is crushed. There are more than one hundred parties in the world. Most of the parties do not believe in Marxism and Leninism. Marx and Lenin have also been crushed by people. What about us? I advise you to pay attention to this issue too, don’t be dazzled by victory, and always think about your weaknesses, shortcomings and mistakes. I have talked to you about this question many times, do you remember, I talked about it in Shanghai in April. What has been written above is quite a bit of arrogance. Some anti-Party elements say that is not it? But they wanted to bring down our party and myself as a whole. I only said that for my role, I felt that some of the formulations were inappropriate. This is the difference between me and the gangs.
This matter cannot be made public right now. The whole leftists and the masses are saying this. The openness poured cold water on them and helped the rightists. The task now is to basically (impossibly all) overthrow the rightists in the whole party and the whole country. And there will be another movement to sweep the monsters, ghosts, and monsters in seven or eight years, and there will be many sweeps in the future. Therefore, my words that are almost arrogant cannot be made public now, and they may not be made public. I welcome what I said. Maybe at some time after my death, when the rightists are in power, let them make it public. They will use my way of talking to try to hold high the black flag forever, but if they do this, they will be unlucky.
Since the emperor was overthrown in China in 1911, the reactionaries have never been in power for long.The longest period was only 20 years ( Chiang Kai-shek ), and he fell as soon as the people rebelled. Chiang Kai-shek took advantage of Sun Yat-sen's trust in him, opened another Whampoa school, and recruited a large number of reactionaries, and thus started his business. He was anti-Communist, and almost the entire landlord bourgeois supported him. At that time, the Communist Party had no experience, so he happily gained power temporarily. But in these two decades, he has never reunified. The war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the war between the Kuomintang and various warlords, the Sino-Japanese War, and finally the four-year civil war, he rolled onto a group of islands.
If an anti-communist rightist coup occurs in China, I conclude that they will also be uneasy, probably short-lived, because all revolutionaries representing the interests of more than 90% of the people will not tolerate it. At that time, the rightists might use my words to gain momentum for a while, while the leftists will definitely use my other words to organize and bring down the rightists. This Cultural Revolution was a serious exercise. In some areas (such as Beijing), the roots are deeply entrenched, and they have been destroyed overnight. Some institutions (such as Peking University , Tsinghua ) are intertwined and collapsed. Wherever the rightists become more arrogant, the more miserable they fail, and the more vigorous the left will be. This is a nationwide exercise. The left, the right, and the vacillating centrist will all learn their own lessons.
Conclusion: The future is bright, the road is tortuous, these two old sayings.
No communication for a long time, it will be very long once you write it, let's talk about it next time!
Mao Zedong
July 8, 1966
This is a letter from Comrade Mao Zedong to Jiang Qing in Wuhan. After it was written, it was written in Wuhan to Zhou Enlai and . Wang Ren, the first secretary of Hubei Provincial Party Committee Rewatched. The original was destroyed by Mao Zedong.
〔1〕 Jiang Qing: Madam Mao Zedong, then deputy leader of the Central Cultural Revolution Group.
[2] Comrades Wei and Chen: Wei: Wei Wenbo ,He was Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and Secretary of the East China Bureau. Chen: Chen Pixian was the first secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, secretary of the East China Bureau, and the first political commissar of the Shanghai Garrison District.
[3] It is better to live there for a while: "There" refers to Shanghai.
〔4〕There are two interviews with foreign guests this month: on July 12, 1966, they will meet with Nepalese Crown Prince Birendra (later the King of Nepal) and on July 17, they will meet with representatives and international representatives attending the emergency meeting of Asian and African writers. Observer of the organization.
[5] Wulin: the old name of Hangzhou.
[6] refers to the Shaoshan Dishui Cave.
〔7〕 The place of the yellow crane in the white cloud: refers to the seven-character poem " yellow crane tower" written by the Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hao of the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan. Thousands of years empty leisurely".
[8] My friend's speech: Refers to Lin Biao's speech at the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on May 18, 1966, in which he proposed "preventing counter-revolutionary coups."
〔9] Those who are 峣峣 are easy to break, and those who are Jiaojiao are easy to get dirty. In the spring and white snow, the peace is overwhelming. Under the prestigious name, it is actually difficult: tall things are easy to break, and clean things are easy to become dirty. When singing the elegant ancient song " Yangchun Baixue ", few people can sing together, and the reputation is often greater than the actual talent.
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