The Four Olds

This poster symbolizes the Four Olds being removed from society. The words being crossed out are as listed from left to right: Collective Memory, The Old City, Cantonese, and Old Guangzhou Natives. The item that the man is pointing out is a ram; the ram is a symbol of Guangzhou.

Chairman Mao wanted to destroy the Four Olds in order to "build a strong socialist country." The Four Olds stood for old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. He made the people believe that the Four Olds lead to evil and that they had to be removed. 
 

We can relate this to Red Scarf Girl because in Chapter Two, they witness the campaign to destroy the Four Olds in Action. They took part in destroying the sign board of a store and they thought that it was the right thing to do. Then, on their way home, they changed the slogans on other signs because they thought it was a fourold. In the end, Ji-Li thinks to herself that they were proud of what they had done and they thought it was bringing a new life to China. (25)

Welcome!

I welcome you all to my virtual museum. I hope that you enjoy what you see here. I would like to introduce this as a place for you to come and look at several examples of artifacts. What I will be mainly focusing on are Chinese artifacts. These artifacts will be tied to the Cultural Revolution, which happened in 1966-1976; it was set into motion by Mao Ze-dong. Mao Ze-dong was trying to increase/advance socialism while reducing capitalist elements from the Chinese society.

The Chinese Revolution brought chaos to China as social norms evaporated and the established political institutions came apart at the seams, in other words, anarchy became the norm.