During this year's sessions of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) National People's Conference (NPC) and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Zhang Lifan,a historian researching the CCP's history, and Beijing laywer Pu Zhiqiang published an Internet motion for cremating Chairman Mao Zedong's dead body and stated this was Mao's lifelong wish. Pu Zhiqiang told our reporter, Mao Zedong's dead body should be incinerated either from the view of realizing the unfulfilled wish of the deceased, or following the traditional ritual "Burial brings peace to the deceased", or even examining history. On April 27 of 1956, Mao Zedong wrote an article "Call for Implementing Cremation"and signed an initiative of cremation.The initiative says, "all public employees agreeing to cremation are requested to sign. All those people with signatures on the initiative agree to allow cremation for themselves after death.The later deceased must secure the cremation wishes of the earlier deceased." Mao Zedong first signed himself on the initiative.Following Mao, Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Deng Xiaoping etc.all signed with a total of 136 signatures. The initiative is compiled into the sixth volume of Mao Zedong's Manuscripts After 1949. The motion says, the current way of dealing with Mao's remains violates Mao's wish"must execute the cremation after death".In addition, all other co-signers have not fulfilled the agreement "The later deceased must secure the cremation wishes of the earlier deceased". Such a result not only violates the agreement from a legal perspective, but also disobeys the traditional rituals "Dead men are heavier" and "Burial brings peace to the deceased." Either in ancient society or in modern society,to publicly exhibit a dead body for a long time is uncivilized and inhuman. Pu Zhiqiang: "As the central axis of China,Tian'Anmen is located with such a building Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall, which is actually not compliant with Chinese traditional culture. In the past, in Beijing there is almost no such sort of tomb on the central axis from Jiang Hill's Bell & Drum Building to Tiantan & Tian'Anmen.The emperors of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were buried in Ming Tombs and Eastern Qing Tombs, which are exclusively used for burying emperors.So putting Mao Zedong's remains in such a place first violates Mao's wish, and secondly disobeys Chinese traditional rituals and rules." The motion also points out, after Mao took power,he broke the original promise of implementing democracy and constitutional politics which was made before the CCP took power.He rejected the "Common Program" of establishing a new country and the National Constitution,and then developed his personal monocracy and adoration.For a long time he ruled the country via class warfare and all sorts of political movements, which resulted in the economic disaster of "Big Leap" and the Great Famine with the unnatural deaths of millions and millions of Chinese people. He also plunged the entire country and people into the havoc of the Cultural Revolution for a ten-year period. The motion points out, the authorities maintain Mao's remains and evade the historical questioning, which is adverse to examining history and deepening reform, as well as to the social progress of China. Pu Zhiqiang: "In China, all major political movements including Anti-Rightists, Suppressing Anti-Revolutonists Cultural Revolution and a series of other movements of going against the historical trend were all launched by him. Mao's body has been put there without cremation,and this actually produces a sort of split into the people's psychological thinking.In my heart, Mao Zedong is not better than Hitler.In fact, when we criticize Japanese not wanting to examine history, we tend to say that Germany reflected on the history of Nazis slaughtering Jews.However, does China reflect on the history of Mao Zedong poisoning the world? Actually, no." The motion suggests cremating Mao's remains and the ashes passed to his family to bury in his hometown.The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall will be transformed into "China's Museum of Cultural Revolution". Pu Zhiqiang says, they hope the representatives of NPC & CPPCC will consider the motion.But till now there is no representative to liaise with them. According to investigation, four national leaders'dead bodies of monocratic countries have been moved out from crystal coffins.Czechoslovakia's leader Gottwald's remains were cremated in 1956 by the new leaders of the country. In 1961 the 22nd Plenary Session of the Soviet Union Communist Party approved a proposal: Stalin's dead body was moved out from the crystal coffin. Bulgaria Communist Party leader Dimitrov was moved out and cremated by his family in 1990.Mongolia leader Choibalsan's dead body was cremated in 2005,.

• published: 08 Mar 2014
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