China, My Sorrow (Niu Peng)

"A COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY"

"PEASANTS AND SOLDIERS ARE THE MAIN FORCE OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION"

Long live Chairman Mao! Long, long live!

"EVIL PEOPLE OF ALL KINDS"

Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

on August 8, 1966.

1. A New Stage in the Socialist Revolution

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution now unfolding is a great revolution

that touches people to their very souls

and constitutes a new stage in the development of the socialist revolution in our country,

a stage which is both broader and deeper.

At the Tenth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party, Comrade Mao Tse-tung said:

to overthrow a political power, it is always necessary first of all to create public opinion,

to do work in the ideological sphere.

This is true for the revolutionary class

as well as for the counter-revolutionary class.

This thesis of Comrade Mao Tse-tung's

has been proved entirely correct in practice.

Although the bourgeoisie has been overthrown,

it is still trying to use the old ideas, culture, customs and habits of the exploiting classes to corrupt the masses, capture their minds and endeavour to stage a comeback.

O my man,

Your heart is my heart...

Open the door!

Open the door! Hurry up!

My name is Tianben...

Speak louder!

"CONVICTED OF PLAYING A RECORD OF FORBIDDEN MUSIC"

I'm 13 years old.

My late father was a right-winger.

My mother is under isolated examination.

I have sinned against the Party by playing a record of forbidden music.

I will be sent to a cowshed on Mount Wanshou tomorrow

to receive re-education.

I'm lucky as I heard there are no Red Guards, walls, or barbwire

in that cowshed

that imprisons the "evil people".

"CONVICTED OF ACCIDENTAL GUN DISCHARGE DURING A FIGHT"

Attenion!

Look to the right!

Look forward!

Now let's atone for our crime to the Red Sun.

Let's sing a redemption song!

Make trouble and fail, make trouble again and fail again till ruination...

We must sing this song every morning.

And we must sing again before sleep at night.

Yes.

You should say "Yes sir!"

Yes sir!

To sing or not to sing?

Make trouble and fail...

Sing attentively!

Make trouble and fail, make trouble again and fail again...

Pour some into it.

Give me more.

I would give you more if you'd work more.

Don't you move, Four Eyes!

- What are you doing? - You wasted the food.

But I have never eaten that food.

No one is allowed to go away. That's our old rule.

Everyone should take responsibility for someone's fault.

Everyone should take a bite.

Once upon a time, an engineer has escaped from here,

but his whole family was arrested and put into prison.

Why do you tell me that?

Nothing serious.

That's foolish. Only a fool would escape from here.

Hey, do you know of a way to escape?

Why did you point at the sky?

Forget it, old taoist priest, I will escape by following this river.

Have you heard that Four Eyes has came back?

I knew it that he will escape.

Every newcomer wants to escape.

Where would you escape to? There's no place for us.

Staying here is better.

Ouch, it's too painful.

You've just been here for three months.

It is too early for you to correct your own's thought by the labour, little boy.

Make trouble and fail...

Make trouble again and fail again...

Make trouble again and fail again...

till ruination...

Officers from the City Committee will inspect us this morning.

We should clean up and welcome the officers.

Tie it up.

Dismissed! No need to stand here.

Let's go to work.

So bored! Who knows what's the hell going on!

Oh gosh, I think I will lose.

I won.

I am free now.

If the brick have fallen, you should play till supper.

Attention!

Look to the right!

What's going on?

I have cricked my neck last night.

Look forward!

Let's sing a redemption song! One, two, go...

Make trouble and fail,

make trouble again and fail again...

make trouble again and fail again...

till ruination...

till ruination...

During the face-washing this morning, they talked and smoked.

And I did the same.

You wanted to smoke?

I was just mimicking him.

Aha, and then?

Then they thrown the cigarette butts into the river.

Hey, look at this!

What's that?

Tomorrow is Qingming Festival.

What's going on?

Today is Qingming Festival.

If you don't wear willow leaves during Qingming Festival, you will be reincarnated as a yellow dog.

I want to light incense for my father.

I have just stolen a pack of cigarettes from boss.

I don't want stolen things.

What?

- I don't want any stolen things. - It makes no difference!

No, I must not steal!

This money is "clean". My elder sister gave it to me.

Buy some cigarettes for your father then.

Boss...

Could you please sell me a cigarette?

Who do you regard me as?

"FATHER"

Dad, I have nothing else to give you, please have a smoke.

Father of Four Eyes, I'm a good friend of your son.

I have nothing else to give you but a cigarette. Please don't laugh at us.

If I see better days I will properly honour you.

If you don't wear willow leaves during Qingming Festival,

you will be reincarnated as a yellow dog.

I know who made you guys worship the ghosts.

That's good!

Awesome!

So bad!

Stop that.

- Did you see that? - Ashao, you got good eyes.

I've found something.

What you have found?

Oh, I see! It's edible.

Sleeping with Shankong,

Big brother scratched the second brother's leg. His leg was bleeding.

He found that his leg was wet.

He also found that the third brother was peeing.

When he was peeing, it was raining outside.

The third brother stood outside till dawn, then he asked, "Why can't I stop peeing?"

Did you have diarrhea?

- Yes, what about you? - Me too.

Hey, you guys had diarrhea.

What were you eating?

The potatoes that we ate in the morning.

You too got diarrhea?...

Hey, come to see my wife.

She had a stomachaches.

Get up fast! Listen!

Get up! I don't know what's going on outside.

Hey, war has broken out. Get up fast.

Hey, chef! War has broken out!

Comrades of the Commune,

poor and lower-middle rank peasants fighting at the front line of the three Great Revolutionary Movements.

Thank you for all the trouble you've taken.

We are a regional acrobatics troupe passing by,

and we have a debut performance for this special purpose.

If you've a friend who knows your heart, distance can't keep you two apart.

Poor and lower-middle rank peasants are great allies of the working class

and our good teachers.

Learn from the acrobatics troupe!

Learn from the poor and lower-middle rank peasants! Salute to the poor and lower-middle rank peasants!

Learn from the poor and lower-middle rank peasants! Salute to the poor and lower-middle rank peasants!

- Learn from the acrobatics troupe! - Salute to the poor and lower-middle rank peasants!

- Learn from the acrobatics troupe! - Salute to the poor and lower-middle rank peasants!

Learn from the acrobatics troupe!

- Learn from the acrobatics troupe! - Salute to the poor and lower-middle rank peasants!

Learn from the acrobatics troupe!

Long live revolutionary acrobatics troupe!

Long live revolutionary acrobatics troupe!

Chief, the audience is so small. Should we perform at all?

Even if there's only a single person, we must perform!

It is part of our service to one billion people. That's a major policy!

Their hands are dirty, but their hearts are clean.

Perform at once!

Dear peasants and comrades,

The whole country's revolutionary situtation is very good.

The whole country is red.

The wind and thunder are all over the country!