Cultural Destruction

Question 1

When did the Red Guards emark on a frenzy of destruction of cultural objects?

Answer 1

Mid-Aug to late Sept 1966

Question 2

How many of the places of historical and cultural importance in Beijing did they destroy?

Answer 2

2/3s of the 7000

Question 3

How many homes did they break into searching for ‘old’ artefacts?

Answer 3

100,000

Question 4

How did Zhou Enlai show be did not support this cultural destruction?

Answer 4

He prevented the Red Guards from attacking the Forbidden City by bringing in a PLA unit to defend it

Question 5

Who on the radical left of the Party even expressed reservations about the scale of cultural vandalism?

Answer 5

Chen Boda

Question 6

What was the RG’s greatest single act of desecration?

Answer 6

Attack on Confucius home town of Qufu in Shandong province- RGs spent 4 weeks vandalising countless books, paintings, statues, graves and monuments with connections to Confucius.
Some local ppl intervened to protect some