For
Writing the Headline for the “Rural Four Cleansing News”
(1964)
Rural Inquiry News
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Sixteen-Character Mantras · Eight Poems
Sichuan
Dragon, refers to revolutionaries.
(1964)
Dragon II l,
Concealed in mist, dispelling clouds on the long wind;
Sudden rain falls,
And a rainbow rises at the horizon.
Lamp (2 1 '
In dark delusion, it points the way home;
A red light flashes,
And countless people are reborn.
Spring l習，
Bottomless and profound, it is the spiritual source;
Crystal clear,
Who hides within their heart to inquire?
[2]
Lamp refers to revolutionary action.
[3]
Spring,
Refers to revolutionary passion.

Sichuan
Water, represents revolutionary theory.
(2)
Thunder, represents the revolutionary movement.
Water II l,
The masses, parched and thirsty, drink and become intoxicated;
In a world turned upside down,
From that night onward, brilliance emerges.
Thunder 121 ,
On a solitary, deep night, unable to sleep,
With rumbling thunder,
It shatters the monument of ten thousand years—l.
Hand Sun,
Even after all the flowers have been destroyed, it still does not cease;
Wildly swirling,
The land of Shenzhou is left in utter chaos.
Gun l fly
Fluorescent light glimmers with a cold radiance;
Suddenly erupting in fury,
It raises waves three feet high from the ground.
(3)
Monument refers to “old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.”
(4)
Autumn signifies the revolutionary era.
(5)
Gun stands for revolutionary armed forces.
Sixteen-Character Mantras · Eight Poems