Remant Cultural Revolution Slogans

The following signs (some VERY faded!) are still plastered on the walls of the towns of Tuanshan and Jianshui.  Sitting down with one of the Chinese teachers, the two of us did our best to piece together the general meanings.  Some of these are fantastic historical remnants of time gone by in China's history!

Chairman Mao says, "To lead with strength, this is our guiding principle"

Chairman Mao says, "Existing society determines our thinking.  ??????????.....advanced thoughts become the power to change society and the world."

Chairman Mao says, "Bai Qui En's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his great sense of responsibility in his work and his great warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the people ... We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him. With this spirit everyone can be very useful to the people. A man’s ability may be great or small, but if he has this spirit, he is already noble-minded and pure, a man of moral integrity and above vulgar interests, a man who is of value to the people"

Chairman Mao says, (this one is from Google translate and makes me go HUH?), "Dialectical materialism of Marxist philosophy have two notable features: one is class nature, openly stated that dialectical materialism is at the service of the proletariat; the other is its practicality, emphasizing the dependency theory for practice and theory is based on practice and in turns serves practice." 

Chairman Mao says, " The freedom among the group does harm, is a contaminant, it will harm relationships, makes work negative. To have different opinions makes groups lose its organization and discipline.  The policy can go through to the individual, the party and people and are separated.  Individualism and self-opinion and detrimental."

"Revolution Forever!"

The second word, the one in quotations is "Si" meaning selfishness.  "The world 'si' should be regarded as a bomb.  We need to discard it and bury it"

"The basic moral rules of the citizen are love thy country, obey rules, know etiquette, have good credit with peers, good relations and kindness to others, be frugal, self-improvement, work hard and give one's best effort"

Part I "Go forth without hesitation...."

....raise the flag of the ideas....

...of Mao Tse-Tung"

And lastly, probably a more modern slogan refuting the Cultural Revolution "Cultural relics are cultural items that can no be reborn."