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[1] This first section consists of words added by Mao Zedong to a letter from Hu Qiaomu, alternate secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Minister of the Propaganda Department, addressed to the editorial department of *People's Daily* on October 25, 1964 (later changed to December 5), regarding the publication of several poems. Sections two through ten consist of Mao Zedong's comments on and revisions to Hu Qiaomu's sixteen poems, with the text printed in Song typeface representing Mao's rewritten words. Additionally, Mao made some individual textual revisions. Section eleven is a comment Mao wrote on Hu Qiaomu's letter to him dated December 2. Sections twelve and thirteen are two letters Mao wrote concerning the publication of Hu Qiaomu's *Sixteen Poems*. The *Sixteen Poems* were published in the January 1, 1965 issue of *People's Daily* and the January 1965 issue of *People's Literature*.

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Basically still applicable.[

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A gathering of winds and clouds across ten thousand miles, using only a single martial garment.
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Long buried the jade-green blood.
First testing the blade's edge.
Xi Zi, ashamed, sullies her half-painted face.
Who joins me, dancing with a sword leaning against the sky, to sweep away this absurdity! [3]

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In Hangzhou and elsewhere, walking near the outskirts of the countryside, everywhere one dwells alongside ghosts, hardly to be swept clean even in several hundred years. Today, merely digging up a few piles of decayed bones, one assumes the problem is solved—this is too underestimating the enemy, and does not accord with the facts, so it is inappropriate to add that explanation. As for the temples, not a single one has been touched. Chuan

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The scene differs from tonight's splendor, a heavenly wind carries the ocean tide.
The hero knows not the word 'hardship.'
Auspicious air fills heaven and earth. 12

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No need to add a note; readers will not misunderstand. 3]

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The demons fallen, the song of triumph soars high, the endless sky's wind also howls. 1

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A spark of fire from the stars spreads eastward, this prairie blaze now lights up heaven and earth.
Joy that in the ancient red land, comrades formed ranks in battle.
Vitality flourishes.
The North Star looks down and up.
Winds and rains from all directions.
We must row together and strike the oars, must break the waves, listen to the wind and thunder roar.
Eyes drunk on jeweled towers, spirit racing through jade firmaments.
Suddenly fire flies, beams fall.
Ten thousand years of filth and dung.
Boiling each other like captives. {2
The sickness deep in the vitals is severe, new decoctions and old medicines, how can they endure much boiling. Hate parting, the bow startles, swallow the voice as the tree falls, calling out to each other,

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old companions. Fortunately, the good teacher's three paths, long snakes and great boars, perform demonic dances. Chuan 1]
Boiling each other like captives.

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Grease the claws and fangs.
Shake the rivers and mountains.
The demonic aura first swept away.
Ride the shaking void's snowy waves, sky-filling hail and rain, pointing at the iceberg's collapse! [2]

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This is merely a beginning, that is all. [3

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To Comrade Wu Lengxi of *People's Daily*:
Please publish on New Year's Day (January 1) as requested.
Mao Zedong
December 30
This short letter must not be published.

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To Comrade Liu Baiyu of *People's Literature*:
This item has already been sent to *People's Daily* for publication on January 1; you may reprint it.
Mao Zedong
December 30
This short letter should not be published.
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Qinyuan Chun
Impressions of Hangzhou
Touring near the beautiful outskirts, chasing the boat under the moon; fine scenery from all directions, osmanthus fragrance from the cassia garden. Snow wrapping...
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Divine bell, turning over the past waves, the head's intention slants toward the long mound. Most unbearable...
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Joy that the tide-shooting man is strong, unafraid of the wild waves. Heaven, always a place of vitality.
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Shaking this, testing the blade's edge. Clay idols bully the mountains, demonic skeletons bring calamity to the waters,

Xi Zi... , level...
Leaning against the sky, desolate...
Sweep away the truth...
Decisive, too much and inconsistent with reality
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A manuscript of Hu Qiaomu's "Qinyuan Chun - Impressions of Hangzhou" with Mao Zedong's handwritten revisions and annotations.

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--- Notes

[1] In his letter to the editorial department of *People's Daily*, Hu Qiaomu wrote: "One poem about Hangzhou alludes to the Cultural Revolution. But within the country, there are still so many temples and graves to this day, poisoning the masses, and I feel they must be castigated. What is heartening is that the clusters of graves around the Gushan area of Hangzhou, after fervent discussion by the broad masses and a decision by the leadership, were already relocated or leveled according to circumstances on December 2. Various reactionary, feudal, superstitious buildings and furnishings of no preservation value within the West Lake scenic area are also being systematically cleared and renovated. Some of the lines in the poem are now basically no longer applicable to Hangzhou." Mao Zedong wrote this comment in response to the last sentence.
[2] This is a revision to the poem "Shuidiao Getou - Recording Events on National Day Eve." The original text read: "A burden of a thousand catties over ten thousand miles, not a single worried frown."
[3] This is a revision to the poem "Qinyuan Chun - Impressions of Hangzhou." The original text read respectively: "Long buried tears of blood." "Small test of the blade's edge." "Xi Zi still sullies her half-painted face." "Heaven joins me, dancing with a roaring wind strange sword, sweeping away your brilliance!"


[1] This comment was written beside the poem "Qinyuan Chun - Impressions of Hangzhou."
[2] This is a revision to the second poem of "Pusaman - The Atomic Bomb Explosion on October 16, 1964." The original text read respectively: "The scenery differs from tonight's splendor, a long song with boundless spirit." "This life knows not the word 'hardship.'" "Heaven and earth fill with auspicious air." The original title of this poem was "China's Atomic Bomb Explosion"; Mao Zedong changed it to the current title.
[3] Beside the lines "Banners of rosy clouds fly over the four seas, grand aspirations startle a thousand years: willing to perish together with the mist, dissolving into the light of sun and moon!" in the fourth poem of "Pusaman - The Atomic Bomb Explosion on October 16, 1964," Hu Qiaomu added a note saying: "The 'willing to perish together with the mist' here means we advocate destroying our nuclear weapons together with the imperialists' nuclear weapons. It cannot be interpreted otherwise." Mao Zedong wrote this comment after reading it.


[1] This is a revision to the fifth poem of "Pusaman - The Atomic Bomb Explosion on October 16, 1964." The original text read: "Demons exhausted, the song of triumph ceases, washing tassels in a flow of ten thousand miles."
[2] This is Mao Zedong's revision to the first four stanzas of "Shuilong Yin." The original text read respectively: "In that year a fire seed spread eastward, how could one expect this day to light up heaven and earth." "Joy that green shade stretches a thousand miles, where once the red land lay bare." "Vitality strong." "The North Star looked up to together." "Clearing rains from all directions." "But row together and strike the oars, must break the waves, listen to the wind and thunder roar." "Eyes drunk on a thousand pearls, soul startled by nine deaths." "Suddenly fire flies, beams fall." "A hundred years of filth and dung." "Boiling each other like cauldrons."


[1] This is Mao Zedong's revision to the fifth stanza of "Shuilong Yin." Upon publication, this passage was further changed to: "The sickness deep in the vitals is severe, new decoctions and old medicines, how can they endure much boiling? Hate parting, the bow startles, swallow the voice as the tree falls, calling out to old companions. Watch the rear cart repeat the overturning, gazing around the city of sorrow, all red flags dancing."
[2] This is a revision to the seventh stanza of "Shuilong Yin." The original text read respectively: "Punish the claws and fangs." "Shake the mountains and rivers." "The demonic aura swept straight away." "Ride the shaking void's fierce waves, surging forward and rushing behind, pointing at the iceberg's collapse!"
[3] In his letter to Mao Zedong dated December 2, Hu Qiaomu said that the poem "Qinyuan Chun" had been shown here (referring to Hangzhou) to Lin Hujia and Chen Bing, and later the opinions raised in it were discussed with Huo Shilian and Cao Xiangren, gaining their complete agreement. The provincial party committee had decided to renovate the West Lake scenic area. *Zhejiang Daily* had already published over a dozen readers' letters demanding that scenic areas also destroy the old and establish the new, thoroughly rectify, and clean up things like the so-called Su Xiaoxiao tomb that poison the masses. This is a proposition you put forward many years ago, and in the current new high tide of socialist revolution, there is finally hope for its realization, so I report it here in passing. Mao Zedong wrote this comment beside this passage.


Liu Baiyu, then Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association.