Long live the Chinese Communist Party
| Long live the Chinese Communist Party | |||||||
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A propaganda slogan photographed during Nixon’s visit to China in 1972 : "Long live the great, glorious, and correct Chinese Communist Party!" | |||||||
| Chinese | 中国共产党万岁 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中國共產黨萬歲 | ||||||
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"Long live the Chinese Communist Party" (Chinese: 中国共产党万岁; pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Wànsuì) is a political slogan in China. It originated from a manifesto issued during the 2nd National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in July 1922. The slogan and its variations gradually began to be used in various fields as political propaganda slogans.
Origin
The slogan was first used in July 1922, in a manifesto issued at the 2nd National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which established the party program of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP):[1]
Down with the warlords!
Down with international imperialism!
Fight for peace!
Fight for freedom!
Fight for independence!
Long live the liberation of oppressed nations!
Long live the Chinese Communist Party!
Long live the Communist International!
Use
Manifesto and literature
This slogan has been used in documents of the CCP and also became the slogan shouted by revolutionaries before their death.[2]
Conferences and festivals
The slogan often appears in press releases of major conferences[3] and as slogans at festivals and celebrations.[4]
Cultural performances
This slogan also appears in some folk art performances, often used to express farmers’ praise for the CCP's policies.[5]
Buildings
- On the walls on both sides of the Xinhua Gate outside Zhongnanhai in Beijing, there are two slogans with white characters on a red background and gold edges: "Long live the great Chinese Communist Party!" and "Long live the invincible Mao Zedong Thought!"
- This slogan is written in neon letters on the top of the Erqi Memorial Tower, a landmark building in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, which commemorates the Erqi General Strike.
People who used the slogan
Ye Jianying
After resolving the issue of the arrest of 44 CCP members, including Li Xin, the secretary of Ye Jianying's military adviser Teng Daiyuan, and other members of the Jiefang Daily by the Beijing military police on April 3, 1946, Ye Jianying, the CCP representative of the Military Mediation Executive Department, led the released personnel through West Chang'an Avenue, setting off firecrackers and shouting the slogan.[6]
Peng Pai
Peng Pai, a former member of the Kuomintang and member of the Politburo at the Sixth CCP National Congress was executed in Shanghai Longhua Prison on August 24, 1929, after his arrest.[7] He sang The Internationale and shouted the slogan when he was executed.[7]
Yun Daiying
Yun Daiying, a former instructor at the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy and an early leader of the CCP who led the Guangzhou Uprising, was arrested in Shanghai in 1930 and shouted the slogan when he was executed in the Nanjing Military Prison.[8]
Zhao Shiyan
Zhao Shiyan, uncle of Li Peng, former member of the Northern Bureau of the CCP Central Committee and former Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, who participated in the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, was arrested in Shanghai for engaging in secret activities after the April 12 Incident in 1927. When he was executed at Fenglin Bridge in Shanghai, he shouted the slogan.[9]
Zhao Yiman
Zhao Yiman, a former Whampoa Military Academy alumnus, anti-Japanese fighter, and political commissar of the 2nd Regiment, 1st Division, 3rd Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, was captured by the Japanese Kwantung Army and executed outside the Xiaobei Gate of Zhuhe County (now Shangzhi City, Heilongjiang Province ) in 1936. She shouted the slogan at her execution.[8]
Students of the 1989 democracy movement
On April 27, 1989, during the 1989 student movement, college students in Beijing held a march in Beijing to protest against the "April 26 editorial" published by the People's Daily. During the march, some students raised a banner that read "Long live the honest Chinese Communist Party."[10]
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping has used the slogan at the end of speeches commemorating the National Day of the People's Republic of China in 2019[11] and the 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2021.[12]
References
- ^ "最早提出"中国共产党万岁"口号的文献" [The earliest document proposing the slogan "Long Live the Chinese Communist Party"]. Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People's Republic of China (in Chinese). August 16, 2010. Archived from the original on January 30, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2010.，该宣言以下列口号结尾
- ^ ""中国共产党万岁"" [Long Live the Chinese Communist Party]. People's Daily (in Chinese). Archived from the original on June 2, 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2010.
- ^ "中國共產黨第十次全國代表大會新聞公報" [Press Communiqué of the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party]. Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese). Archived from the original on July 26, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ "天安门广场背景翻花组成"中国共产党万岁"图案" [Tiananmen Square background with a pattern of 'Long Live the Chinese Communist Party']. People's Daily (in Chinese). October 1, 2009. Archived from the original on March 5, 2010. Retrieved September 1, 2010.
- ^ 诸葛保满、于代娥 (February 15, 2009). "阳朔县农民唱响"中国共产党万岁"" [Farmers in Yangshuo County sing 'Long Live the Chinese Communist Party'] (in Chinese). 阳朔报社. Archived from the original on July 16, 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2010.
- ^ 范硕. 叶剑英传 [Biography of Ye Jianying] (in Chinese).
……在警察总局负责人当面道歉后，由叶剑英率领大家乘车出狱。路经东西长安街时，大家点燃鞭炮，高呼口号："要求民主！""取消特务！""毛主席万岁！""中国共产党万岁！"这一行动，伸张了真理和正义，在群众中造成了声势和影响。……
- ^ a b "农民运动大王彭湃 高喊着"中国共产党万岁"就义" [Peng Pai, the great king of the peasant movement, was executed while shouting "Long live the Chinese Communist Party"]. Economic Daily (in Chinese). September 14, 2009. Archived from the original on August 31, 2010. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ a b 陈宇. 走进风云岁月：中国黄埔军校 [Entering the turbulent years: China's Whampoa Military Academy] (in Chinese). 解放军出版社.
- ^ "赵世炎纪念馆重新开放 李鹏及夫人捐赠烈士遗物" [Zhao Shiyan Memorial Hall reopens; Li Peng and his wife donate martyr's relics]. China News Service (in Chinese). April 13, 2010. Archived from the original on July 3, 2010. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ "王超华：八九民运是最后一次全民要求参政权利的运动" [Wang Chaohua: The 1989 student movement was the last time that the entire nation demanded the right to participate in politics]. Radio France Internationale (in Chinese). June 1, 2014. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
- ^ 习近平 (October 1, 2019). "在庆祝中华人民共和国成立70周年大会上的讲话". Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese). Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
- ^ 习近平 (July 1, 2021). "（受权发布）习近平：在庆祝中国共产党成立100周年大会上的讲话-新华网" [Xi Jinping: Speech at the meeting celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party]. Xinhua News Agency (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-01.