Mao's cultural revolution- China

[irenagayson]

Do you know any thing about the removal of grass, flowers and indoor plants during China's cultural revolution? Did all families and schools have to remove plant life? Why? What was the thinking behind the stratergy?

[Sylday]

I can't find any reference to this, and can't imagine it was a major feature of the Cultural Revolution (CR). But possibly having indoor plants, or purely decorative flowers in gardens, was regarded as bourgeois and therefore counter-revolutionary by some CR zealots. Numerous events and actions which occurred at that time make little sense when viewed from today's perspective.

[rinkytink]

Or in fact from ANY perspective !

[jozlyn]

Mao believed grass, flowers and pets to be bourgeois habits and ordered to have them removed. Many school kids spent their days pulling out grass from the lawns...just another one of maos wack regimes.