Desolate tribe

Author: Yang Zhijun
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Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Features: The vast, desolate, sorrowful, and fierce hinterland of Qinghai Plateau is a forbidden zone for life. In 1965, tens of thousands of sent-down youth flocked to this land with a lunar-like terrain, starting a unique, turbulent, and agonizing life and fate on our planet. From then on, all labor was an ecological imbalance, all thoughts were self-slaughter, all love was doomed to misfortune, and all youth and life were fraught with shame, terror, and killing. All ignorance, darkness, absurdity, and cruelty were justified under the banners of revolution and holiness. Saying one wrong word could lead to arrest; writing one incorrect character could result in three years of labor reform; a joke could lead to ten years in prison; a single act of love could cost one's life a hundred times over. Lovers betrayed each other, and love letters were like battle cries. baseless allegations of a youth underground revenge army, a youth homeless counter-revolutionary group, youth riots, youth founding the Great China Empire case, youth plotting to usurp Chairman Mao's position, and many more. Endless class struggle led to wails filling the air and. As a result, the sent-down youth collectively degenerated, became ignorant, enslaved, and animalistic, turning everyone into fragile, blind, petty, heartless, and defenseless creatures. The desperate pleas that sold both soul and body, the suicide by wrist-cutting towards distant hometowns, and the hollow and decadent affairs of escaped youth in the desert, Tibet, and the China-India border were all true in their essence, color, and meaning, elevating the earth-shattering tragedy and the unprecedented crimson of history. This is an unbearable requiem for the spiritual journey of China's sent-down youth. This is a grand chorus of the wild and desolate land of the ancient eastern continent. The author's writing with the force of a bas-relief and the sharpness of a surgical knife gives this history, unprecedented in ages, the grandeur, character, and significance of a fossil.