206. The origin of independent great mind, Chairman Mao.
In China, Chairman Mao was a hero of his people from 1922 to 1949. Ever since 1949 to 1976 that his noble contribution to the nation was muted by the complication of his possessive mind of rigid communism. The ineffectiveness in executing his vision might be due to his over graving for power, status, insecurity and lacking the full knowledge of economy, instead at that time China was too poor to do anything constructive to a nation building. His time was no right. However together with Premier Deng Xiaoping , they found a solution for China new development after 1978 which in few thousand years of China history, no any wise men ever found the solutions, a socialist China style of political system which is unique to China only.From there onward they didn't sell their ideology to the world.
During the civil and Japanese war of first half of 20th century (1901-1949) in China, If Mao didn't control China but instead Chiang Kay Sek and his general Chang, then the China we know now would been a much different China all together because as weak leaders behaved like great leaders like Chiang would bring poor outcomes to the nation because Chiang encouraged enemies fighting each others so as to benefit his warlord status. If under Chiang control, may be now China still in civil war state.
The desire for China to owe back south china sea territory would be their bottom lines. To the present China Government, Chinese historic navigation of south China sea there have been some 1000 years ago, however westerner and Japan painted it an aggressive China.
Below reference Video is someone who knows China well in a full historic picture.
In the whole 20 century, there was a conflict of ideology war between freedom fighters and communist fighters. Mao was also a poet, some of his battle strategy can be seen from his poems. Mao beside a communist fighter , he had a great talent in poem writing. Now let's look at the artistic part of Mao and some of his famous and fabulous poems during those glorious and turbulent revolution years, between 1935 and 1949.
1) Crossing the DaDu river. Survival in Civil War, 1935. Long March
The Red Army fears not the trials of the March,
Holding light ten thousand crags and torrents.
The Five Ridges wind like gentle ripples,
And the majestic Wumeng roll by, globules of clay.
Warm the steep cliffs lapped by the waters of Golden Sand,
Cold the iron chains spanning the DaDu River.
Minshan's thousand li of snow joyously crossed,
The three Armies march on, each face glowing.
2) Victory in Nanjing, 1949
Over Chungshan swept a storm, headlong,
Our mighty army, a million strong, has crossed the Great River.
The City, a tiger crouching, a dragon curling, outshines its ancient glories;
In heroic triumph heaven and earth have been overturned.
With power and to spare we must pursue the tottering foe
And not ape Hsiang Yu the conqueror seeking idle fame.
Were Nature sentient, she too would pass from youth to age,
But Man's world is mutable, seas become mulberry fields.
3) Civil War time. Reaching The Great Wall. 1936
North country scene:
A hundred leagues locked in ice,
A thousand leagues of whirling snow.
Both sides of the Great Wall,
One single white immensity.
The Yellow River's swift current,
Is stilled from end to end.
The mountains dance like silver snakes.
And the highlands* charge like wax-hued elephants,
Vying with heaven in stature.
On a fine day, the land,
Clad in white, adorned in red,
Grows more enchanting.
This land so rich in beauty,
Has made countless heroes bow in homage.
But alas! Chin Shih-huang and Han Wu-ti
Were lacking in literary grace,
And Tang Tai-tsung and Sung Tai-tsu.
Had little poetry in their souls;
And Genghis Khan,
Proud Son of Heaven for a day,
Knew only shooting eagles, bow outstretched.
All are past and gone!
For truly great men,
Look to this age alone.
1)红军不怕远征难 万水千山只等闲
五岭逶迤腾细浪 乌蒙磅礴走泥丸
金沙水拍云崖暖 大渡桥横铁索寒
更喜岷山千里雪 三军过后尽开颜
2)钟山风雨起苍黄 百万雄师过大江
虎距龙盘今胜昔 天翻地覆慨而慷
宜将剩勇追穷寇 不可沽名学霸王
天若有情天亦老 人间正道是沧桑
3) 北国风光 千里冰封 万里雪飘 望长城内外
惟余莽莽 大河上下 顿失滔滔 山舞银蛇
原驰蜡象 欲与天公试比高 须晴日 看红装素裹
分外妖娆 江山如此多妖 引无数英雄竞折腰
惜秦皇汉武 略输文采 唐宗宋祖 稍逊风骚
一代天骄 成吉思汗 只识弯弓射大雕 俱往矣
数风流人物 还看今朝
Long March 1935. Crossing the DaDu river.
Most politicians were/are trapped in this power/status/fame/insecurity possessive mind. Only a few wise ones escaped from it like Deng Xiao Peng, Winston Churchchill, William Penn of Pennsylvania, Franklin D Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, James Martin Pacelli McGuinness . -- Simon Kong
During the civil and Japanese war of first half of 20th century (1901-1949) in China, If Mao didn't control China but instead Chiang Kay Sek and his general Chang, then the China we know now would been a much different China all together because as weak leaders behaved like great leaders like Chiang would bring poor outcomes to the nation because Chiang encouraged enemies fighting each others so as to benefit his warlord status. If under Chiang control, may be now China still in civil war state.
The desire for China to owe back south china sea territory would be their bottom lines. To the present China Government, Chinese historic navigation of south China sea there have been some 1000 years ago, however westerner and Japan painted it an aggressive China.
Below reference Video is someone who knows China well in a full historic picture.
In the whole 20 century, there was a conflict of ideology war between freedom fighters and communist fighters. Mao was also a poet, some of his battle strategy can be seen from his poems. Mao beside a communist fighter , he had a great talent in poem writing. Now let's look at the artistic part of Mao and some of his famous and fabulous poems during those glorious and turbulent revolution years, between 1935 and 1949.
1) Crossing the DaDu river. Survival in Civil War, 1935. Long March
The Red Army fears not the trials of the March,
Holding light ten thousand crags and torrents.
The Five Ridges wind like gentle ripples,
And the majestic Wumeng roll by, globules of clay.
Warm the steep cliffs lapped by the waters of Golden Sand,
Cold the iron chains spanning the DaDu River.
Minshan's thousand li of snow joyously crossed,
The three Armies march on, each face glowing.
2) Victory in Nanjing, 1949
Over Chungshan swept a storm, headlong,
Our mighty army, a million strong, has crossed the Great River.
The City, a tiger crouching, a dragon curling, outshines its ancient glories;
In heroic triumph heaven and earth have been overturned.
With power and to spare we must pursue the tottering foe
And not ape Hsiang Yu the conqueror seeking idle fame.
Were Nature sentient, she too would pass from youth to age,
But Man's world is mutable, seas become mulberry fields.
3) Civil War time. Reaching The Great Wall. 1936
North country scene:
A hundred leagues locked in ice,
A thousand leagues of whirling snow.
Both sides of the Great Wall,
One single white immensity.
The Yellow River's swift current,
Is stilled from end to end.
The mountains dance like silver snakes.
And the highlands* charge like wax-hued elephants,
Vying with heaven in stature.
On a fine day, the land,
Clad in white, adorned in red,
Grows more enchanting.
This land so rich in beauty,
Has made countless heroes bow in homage.
But alas! Chin Shih-huang and Han Wu-ti
Were lacking in literary grace,
And Tang Tai-tsung and Sung Tai-tsu.
Had little poetry in their souls;
And Genghis Khan,
Proud Son of Heaven for a day,
Knew only shooting eagles, bow outstretched.
All are past and gone!
For truly great men,
Look to this age alone.
1)红军不怕远征难 万水千山只等闲
五岭逶迤腾细浪 乌蒙磅礴走泥丸
金沙水拍云崖暖 大渡桥横铁索寒
更喜岷山千里雪 三军过后尽开颜
2)钟山风雨起苍黄 百万雄师过大江
虎距龙盘今胜昔 天翻地覆慨而慷
宜将剩勇追穷寇 不可沽名学霸王
天若有情天亦老 人间正道是沧桑
3) 北国风光 千里冰封 万里雪飘 望长城内外
惟余莽莽 大河上下 顿失滔滔 山舞银蛇
原驰蜡象 欲与天公试比高 须晴日 看红装素裹
分外妖娆 江山如此多妖 引无数英雄竞折腰
惜秦皇汉武 略输文采 唐宗宋祖 稍逊风骚
一代天骄 成吉思汗 只识弯弓射大雕 俱往矣
数风流人物 还看今朝
Long March 1935. Crossing the DaDu river.
Most politicians were/are trapped in this power/status/fame/insecurity possessive mind. Only a few wise ones escaped from it like Deng Xiao Peng, Winston Churchchill, William Penn of Pennsylvania, Franklin D Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, James Martin Pacelli McGuinness . -- Simon Kong
