Chairman Mao's Legacy?

Question

I went to the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in @Beijing last month. The sheer scale of the place was overwhelming, the crowds, the portraits...it felt like a pilgrimage, even though I'm not exactly a communist. What I found fascinating though, was the quiet reverence some visitors showed. It wasn't just rote patriotism

susen · Answer

the queue starts moving around 7am, before that it's mostly tour groups from other provinces. i went on a tuesday in november and waited maybe 40 min, way better than summer when it's 2+ hours. what got me was the mausoleum itself, the wax figure thing, people shuffling past in total silence with tears on their faces. that reverence is real, it's just not really about ideology for a lot of them

annalena · Answer

my grandpa went in 2007 and he said the same thing about the silence. he grew up in a village near Zhengzhou, whole family was basically starving in the 60s, and he still calls Mao "the savior" without blinking. i used to argue with him about it but honestly for his generation it's less politics and more like... the guy who ended the chaos they were born into. that reverence you saw is prob a lot of rural folks carrying that same thing, not ideology exactly

luciaweiss · Answer

Dunno, maybe google the queue times before you go.

Neu aus Beijing