Chinese Cultural Revolution Photos

This is connected to Red Scarf Girl because they were destroying the Four Olds. They were destroying the Four Olds in front of Ji-Li. In the book the Red Guards destroy temples, books, signs, ect. And in this picture they are destroying a statue. The statue represents old culture. And by destroying this the are following Chairman Mao's wishes by taking out the old and bringing in the new. Also Ji-Li and her friends walked up and down the street and thought about new Revolutionary names to name the Four Olds stores. Ji-Li also was for the revolution towards the beginning but then she became afraid of fact that she has a bourgeois life style.  Some primary sources that have destroying the Four Olds is the poem that we read yesterday about a little boy becoming a Little Red Soldier. Or the article we read about Shanghai and Peking. In that article they talk about destroying the Four Old signs and replacing them with revolution names.