Re: repost- The myths of chinese long march


PaPaPeng wrote:
On 24 Mar 2006 11:04:55 -0800, "rst0wxyz@xxxxxxxxx"
<rst0wxyz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The "Long March" was survival or death under Chiang Kai Sek's army.
Probably, most of the low-ranks didn't know the reason. You bet Mao
Zedong and his high-up people knew very well what they had to do to
survive. And they did survived.


What the Commmunists guerillas went through and achieved is an epic
that will outshine anything our planet's past civilizations can come
up with. The Long March is an epic a future civilization will find
impossible to better. Had it not actually occurred, and if it is not
us now living with the consequences of their achievements, men would
justifiably call them and us liars.

There is without doubt many embellishments in the details of their
adventures. There will be without doubt even fictional tales and
many romanticizations in future retellings of this epic. Just as
certain future research will uncover and debunk many of the tales of
heroism and impossible deeds. But you know what? Millions, and I
included, will not care.

Washington crossed the Delaware. But he did not chop down a cherry
tree. Both contribute to his legend but what is true is more important.


On this very real and epic story we will
build an even more inspiring body of literature. Nobody calls the
Chinese classics such as The Romance of the Three Kingdoms factual
history. But "Romance" has indelibly etched into the minds of
countless generations of Chinese our knowledge of those times and
mores. These classics are what makes us unmistakably Chinese in body
and in soul. The Long March will do that and more. This epic has yet
to be written in its final form. When that happens we will tell and
retell it to our children as long as there will be a people.

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