No Significance to Enlightenment in China!
By / Yi Feng
For the people in Chinese mainland, there has no been of any significance to enlightenment. For nearly a hundred years, there were many so-called enlightenment such as May 4th movement in 1919, New Culture Movement during the 1910s, Xidan Democratic Wall from 1978 to 1979,the June 4th movement in 1989,etc. I think all these enlightenment movements have a smaller power and a less gains for the Chinese people. Because all the enlightenments have been smashed by the Chinese traditional autocratic culture or the present communism authoritarian state machine. Since the June 4th movement was grinded into powder by the CCP’s tanks, there is no need to enlightenment in mainland. Everybody who experienced or has been experiencing the nonstop and devil cultural strangulation campaign, which has been engaging in all the time in the poor land by the Chinese Communist regime, should consider the "Cultural Revolution" as a dominant climax during the campaign which started from the year 1949.
For a person who is willing to obey the Authoritarian group, it is no use pretending not to see the obvious. Everyone’s palm could be greased by the current government. Because you can never wake up a sleeping person!
Therefore, I believe that there is not the so-called Enlightenment in Chinese mainland. Enlightenment is only a gimmick rather than a noble word for the people who are pursuing the fame and wealth to charm their vanity.
Primary school literacy courses may enlighten the virtue to the children; but to the children in China, this will be used for certain purpose of the autocratic groups. Education has become a tool to cheat and fool the people from the generation to generation. For example, when I came into the primitive primary school at the initial phase of my life, I opened the first page of my Chinese textbook, you must find the Chinese characters in your eyes: 毛主席萬歲(Long Live Chairman Mao),我愛北京天安門（I love Tiananmen In Beijing），and so on. To accept the education means to accept the ideological pollution from the autocratic communism government. Because you have to make your children recognize Chinese characters by means of accepting their textbooks, even though there are so much lies in politics, history and Chinese, etc.
But these poisonous textbooks have been edited by the teachers. The teachers all around the country who are so-called intellectuals execute the upper orders to poison the children. Don’t they really know the truth that the reading materials could do harm to their next generations? The answer is that most of them know it. They have become a member of the evil Group and they are holding a candle to the devil. Don’t you have the hope to the country-wide cultural executioners, putting down their axes or enlightening your children’s souls?Never!
Therefore, in the wholly totalitarian country, the Enlightenment itself is a pseudo-concept by their humanists! Indeed, a public can only arrive at enlightenment very slowly. I never trust the enlightenment, for it did not work at all in China history. If you really want to make an enlightenment movement, I think each person had better make a self-enlightenment. I have the views as follows:
1. If you reflect on the evils in your education experience? If so, make a list and find you a method to export them in the following actual action!
2. If you have a dependent sense on the totalitarian society system? If you have a great sense of loss when you break away from it or make a decision to refuse it？If you realize that you had become a screw of the system of autocracy intentionally or unintentionally? And are you willing to be a screw of the tyranny machine?
3. When you had to be a screw in the tyranny machine, do you have any condemnation of conscience or any self-reflection? Do you still continue to act as an evil accomplice of the tyrannical machine? Do you have the willing to leave the evil system and to meet a new one with an independent democracy and freedom tomorrow?
4. If you neither have the need of self-enlightenment nor the spiritual motive power, you will be a tragedy person all your life and your children will follow you. If you are unconvinced by my view, please refer to the father and son, Zhou Yongkang and his son Zhou Bin. Zhou Yongkang is now a prisoner who was once the senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC). If the enlightenment has no the power of questing for justice and truth, it will be a pale and weak one and lose any significance in the end.
5. After you completely realized yourself a victim of the authoritarian system, will you continue to make your own child follow your footsteps? Will you be content with the present status or be willing to make some changes?
6. If you realized that the whole education system of the CCP is only a machine to kill souls and an evil devil to poison creatures, would you like to let your child enter the soul-grinder once more?
7. Given three options: to teach your child at home, to study abroad or to strengthen examination-oriented education, which option will you make? Do you have another better option to make your child get a better education at present?
8. In addition to the above options, do you have a clear resistance sense to the present tyranny machine? If you were also aware of being a weak individual under the tyranny machine? Will you have the courage to tell the truth to the others bravely?
9. Living in a society full of lies, can you make your next generation learn to tell the truth? We all know the fact that you will pay huge for telling the truth in an evil society. For example, perhaps you would be put into prison or be shot to death; will you still make a choice to tell the truth?
10. If you are the person who hates to hear the truth of others, will you have the qualification to do the Enlightenment? If you refuse to the common sense of life and social, all your enlightenment will be nothing but another kind of deception.
11. The enlightenment are not all at work because of the repeated changes in authoritarian regimes for millennia in China, but only the violence and the guns did work. There are so many typical persons in Chinese history such as Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, Yihetuanee (義和團民)and the Red Guards（紅衛兵）, Hong Xiuquan and Mao Zedong. These people created the Chinese history, but the textbook tells you that people did. The lies were decorated much more beautiful than ever before. Will the enlightenment be at work in Chinese history? No, absolutely not! The people’s brains are only the products of the authoritarian! You could find that thousands of so-called well-educated people are editing textbooks full of lies choicely and diligently for their own next generations in the mainland China.
Just like the rural elections in China, a ballot price of a villager is nothing but a bag of washing powder. Most of the villagers don’t have any democracy views in their minds, but the clan ideology deeply. The tragedy of the features of Hua Laoshuai and Hua Xiaoshuai, whose names could be found in Lu Xun’s famous novel Medicine, was repeated all the time in mainland China. Because the people such as Hua Laoshuai and Hua Xiaoshuai like to drink the blood of the enlightener, patriot and pioneer of China.
To face the facts isn’t easy. Because there are so a huge number of bottom-society people who are always insulted and ravaged throughout the country. Your enlightenment to these people is very ridiculous. On the progress of human civilization, Lu Xun, who is a great Chinese thinker, summarized very completely: “The history of a bloody battle in life, move on, as the formation of coal, with plenty of wood at that time, the result is a small lump coal.”
I am not pouring purposely cold water on those who are keen on enlightenment. I think that the falling down of an authoritarian regime must be the result of its own corruption and insurrection. The CCP’s present "punishing corruption" movement cannot change its destined life number. A large number of well-armed Armed Police Force units are merely to prevent the mobs from attacking the governments. Facing to so much SINS of the mainland China, everybody should recognize; if you don't want to recognize, history will also help you to recognize. Justice will be late sometimes, but never miss.
Evil can only produce evil, hate can only produce hate, and love produces love forever! The CCP is continuing to use violent machine to keep on its dictatorship and to crack down many Hong Xiuquans’ rebellions which are still weak now. According to the Chinese textbooks, any new thing has its reversal process. That means there will be so many more Maoists to upset the entire CCP group in the near future. We, the so-called democratic activists, won’t at much work.
If China wants to avoid another Boxer Rebellion and the Taiping-style process, the CCP must consciously abandon the one-party dictatorship, follow Gorbachev, dissolute the CCP and nationalize the armed forces. Otherwise, the CCP will inevitably bring the entire nation into the disaster abyss.
On the current mainland, the enlightenment has become a gimmick already. Perhaps Enlightenment will become a farce arranged by the CCP to lead the media in order to delay its end time. So we can no longer trust it because it lost any meaning. Even the CCP’s RED MISFORTUNE relies on its policy of Great Publicity to extend outreach to the whole world. Many countries (including some Western Powers) are being captured and bribed by the given interests of the CCP.I wish they don’t become the evil regime’s partner in crime against the Chinese people. At present, to guard against the CCP’s RED MISFORTUNE should be the common duty of all the countries on the earth which still love justice and truth. If not, the red communist will spread to all the world implicitly and explicitly in the very near future!
Then, where is the hope of China? As a Christian, my opinion is that every person should repent turning to Jesus. Let God’s holy light enter your soul to help you do the self-enlightenment. Otherwise, all will be late! (20161003)
About the author:
Yi Feng (Lu,Taizhi)
A Chinese Poet,Writer & translator in Exile in Thailand; board member & International Secretary of Independent Chinese PEN Center(ICPC) ;a member of PPdM
email:lts8964@gmail.com
