Mao Zedong is trying to create equality throughout all of China. He wants for the people in the countryside to feel equal to the people who are living in the center of the city life. How he conquers this great mission is a big controversy right now. He has started a movement called the “Down to the Countryside Movement.” He is trying to send youth away to the countryside to observe the lives of the peasants and other country folk in the China region. He is hoping that these children will be able to come back to their own hometown and share everything that is happening in the lives of the peasants. Young adults from the inner city are going to rural China to stay with and follow the peasants and other farm people to live the lives that they are living. This is starting in the early 1960s and has now really began to take off. This is happening to fulfill the dreams of Mao Zedong.
The reason that this whole movement began in the first place was so that Mao could continue to create equality. He wanted everyone to feel equal and be equal. He thought that before he could accomplish this, he had to make the people in rural China feel equal with the people who were in the middle of the action in the big cities.
Jun Shan is a 14 year old young man who was sent away to be apart of the Down to the Countryside Movement. He lives in Hong Kong and is in the eighth grade. He described how he enjoyed being a part of the movement because he knew that it was pleasing to Chairman Mao. “The only reason that I went with the movement was so that I would please my family and my master, Chairman Mao.”However, it was hard for him to be away from his family for such a long period of time. He said that he learned a lot from the family that he was observing and the daily life that they go through. He explained how different the two families lives were.
Jinghua is a 15 year old young lady who was forcefully sent away. She did not want to follow through with the Down to the Countryside Movement, but her parents wanted her to so that she would please Chairmen Mao. She tried to make the best out of her situation, but did not want to displease her parents and Mao. “As much as I wanted to please Chairman Mao, I was really dreading leaving my family and friends.” This shows how some people did not want to do as the country wanted them to do, but followed through anyways to please their great leader Chairmen Mao Zedong.
The reason that this whole movement began in the first place was so that Mao could continue to create equality. He wanted everyone to feel equal and be equal. He thought that before he could accomplish this, he had to make the people in rural China feel equal with the people who were in the middle of the action in the big cities.
Jun Shan is a 14 year old young man who was sent away to be apart of the Down to the Countryside Movement. He lives in Hong Kong and is in the eighth grade. He described how he enjoyed being a part of the movement because he knew that it was pleasing to Chairman Mao. “The only reason that I went with the movement was so that I would please my family and my master, Chairman Mao.”However, it was hard for him to be away from his family for such a long period of time. He said that he learned a lot from the family that he was observing and the daily life that they go through. He explained how different the two families lives were.
Jinghua is a 15 year old young lady who was forcefully sent away. She did not want to follow through with the Down to the Countryside Movement, but her parents wanted her to so that she would please Chairmen Mao. She tried to make the best out of her situation, but did not want to displease her parents and Mao. “As much as I wanted to please Chairman Mao, I was really dreading leaving my family and friends.” This shows how some people did not want to do as the country wanted them to do, but followed through anyways to please their great leader Chairmen Mao Zedong.
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