My Field-trip to Dagu Glaciers

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— please ignore my title

Few days ago grade 9 and 10went on a field-trip to Heishui and the glaciers there.Everybody was excited and curious about the glaciers.I’ve lived in Chengdu for 15years but I’ve never been there.Sunday morning I carried my luggage out of my house thinking:” this is going to be a da** good trip.” and I just get hyper at 6:30 in the morning and the bus was so early that it is even earlier than schooldays.

On our way to Heshui we went to Yinxiu first to visit the earthquake museum there,I’ve been in Yinxiu in 2009 when the rebuild was just starting,and every thing is different now since the museum was built.It’s been a hard time for Sichuan to overcome this, but we did it,and this visit reminded us how human can be.The museum was kind of small but by the side of it there is a cemetery for those victims of 5.12 earthquake. It is rally holy and sad because Chinese people never wanted to share such a big grave.The reason that people are buried here is that we couldn’t identify the dead because the power of the earthquake was huge , so all we could do is bury them immediately to avoid disease.

The second spot of our trip was a Qiang village where the minority of Qiang people still remained in the village. After settling in a guesthouse we took our first hike in a near small hill there (and my last one).The most impressive thing I remembered is the wind up there, because the village is placed in a valley,and the mountain beside was high so the wind was a kind of…uh…. Naughty. All of us were so excited and a lot of photos were taken,the view up there was great.On the top pg that hill, Mr.B told us a lot about the formation of those hills and the recycle of rock on earth. For the first time I realize the explosion of volcano is powered by pushes between continent and the magma is actually melted recycled rock.This talk was really lively because we actually saw some quartz in the crack of a huge rock, and this quartz was melted SiO2 long time ago, and in the formation of hills it filled into those cracks.The ancestor of Qiang people used those quartz to make fire, and now Qiang people worship this “white stone” as a special religion symbol.

After hiking up to the hills we visited a old Qiang house, and it has a huge basement and the water of whole ancient village was controlled by this old family.Our guide is the 54th generation of this old family.He said this family has existed for 1200 years, and the house has 72 doors in total.This building impressed me a lot because it experienced the 5.12 earthquake in 2008 however it didn’t break even a little bit, and the two wooden columns at the center of the house was made from two old deodar trees, and these are really tall that they actually go through 6 floors(about 20 meter’s tall).

After lunch we went up to the roof trying to see any stars, however we forgot we were at the bottom of a valley,so we failed .At that night I made a mistake, and I truly regret it now.I drank some beer and the next morning when Mr.B found it he was rally mad at both my roommate and me. So we were both sent home because I sighed a form that said we were nit allowed to drink any alcohol and it is also illegal to drink it at my age in China.When I was on my way home, I truly understood the rules I have to obey.And I realized what a beautiful view we had outside of the bus windows.I was always looking at my phone at the first day, and I missed so many beautiful views!My heart began to hurt so deeply.

“And you only need the light when it’s burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

………………………………….

Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low

Only hate the road when you’re missing home”
With this song playing in my phone , I gradually fall asleep on the bus home.

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Students power in 1970s of China

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Cultural revolution :Between 1966 and 1976, the young people of China rose up in an effort to purge the nation of the “Four Olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits and old ideas.

Students power in 1970s of China

In August, 1966, Mao Zedong called for the start of a Cultural Revolution at the Plenum of the Communist Central Committee. He urged the creation of corps of “Red Guards” to punish party officials and any other persons who showed bourgeois tendencies.

Mao likely was motivated to call for the so-called Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in order to rid the Chinese Communist Party of his opponents after the tragic failure of his Great Leap Forward policies. Mao knew that other party leaders were planning to marginalize him, so he appealed directly to his supporters among the people to join him in a Cultural Revolution. He also believed that communist revolution had to be a continuous process, in order to stave off capitalist-roader ideas

Students in that period had such a tremendous power The Guards conducted so-called “struggle sessions,” in which they heaped abuse and public humiliation upon people accused of capitalist thoughts (usually these were teachers, monks and other educated persons). These sessions often included physical violence, and many of the accused died or ended up being held in reeducation camps for years. According to the Mao’s Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, almost 1,800 people were killed in Beijing alone in August and September of 1966.

This revolution is one of the worst memory of our old generation.Because they had to go to farms instead of schools, but before they go their power reached the peak. Students regarded all the ancient things as the old bad things.However Mao found that those crazy people were destroying cities, so he said:”let’s go to the country to educate farmers and let farmers educate us!” Students that time were so naive and crazy so they desire to go, but after staying there for on week, a lot of people found that tiring and meaningless.As they just help farmers doing the dirtiest jobs.As a consequence of this revolution a whole generation lost their right/power to study,and thousands of educated people were killed.

From this revolution we can see that students’ power is also easy to take away, as students were so superstitious with Mao and their power was actually given by Mao,they were just puppets! And this revolution is regarded as the biggest fault that Mao had ever made.

Power within students

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Since last week, I’ve been working on researching Burma in early 20th century,and the main person I am looking for is General Aung San, who was the father of Burma and AungSan Suu Kyi .

Burma was under control of the great Britain, and as a university student, obviously AungSan did not have so much power.However he joined the student union and became the editorof students’ union magazine.As a result he published an essay that point out the rascality of British professor.The university asked the name of writer but Aung San denied.Consequently he was expelled.And this is the time when his power showed up. On third ofthe students in university protested on the stairs of Shuadagon Pagoda, from that moment, AungSan got in his way of politician, he sooner became thesole student representativeto correct injustice in the university’s policies. When people started the revolution he sensed Japan can help against Britain,so he sent 30soldiers to Japan to study and when they returned, he and his friends built the rebels.Finally the Burma was independent.

It is such an amazing life of Aung San and also it’s impressing to see students without power as individuals became so powerful that can let the government concess.It remindsme how easy you can get power from students as they are so easy to enrage.Because they lacked resources of information,students can be easily brainwashed.Talking about brainwashing,Taiwan is a great example.Recently Taiwan students had a movement against high school history textbook changes.They said they are fighting for the right of knowing the truth.However ironically plenty of them do not know what has changed in the textbook, personally I think it’s a movement supported by those people that desire to break China apart(I’ sorry uncle Sam).

At the end of Aung San’s life, he was the most powerful person in Burma,but he lost power to spend time with his families. Which is sad because when his daughter Aung SanSuu Kyi was two years old,he was assassinated by assassins hired by former prime minister.