Attacks On the Four Olds (2a.3)

Question 1

What were the four olds?

Answer 1

Culture
Habits
Ideas
Customs

Question 2

Who was Confucius?

Answer 2

• 6th century BC
• China’s most influential philosopher
• Harmony, legitimate authority

Question 3

Targeting Western influences

Answer 3

• Fashion: high heels, winkle-pickers and so called ‘Hong-Kong style’ clothings and hairstyles
• Correction stations set up on street corners where offenders heads were shaved
• Street names changed to reflect new values (address of British Embassy became Anti-Imperialist Street)
• Some adopted new names (Red Hero, Militant’)
• Tried to change colour to traffic lights