Chang Kaishen's New Life Movement became so vigorous that his speeches were even recorded on record, requiring radio broadcasters across the country to help publicize it.
No, not long after the Lantern Festival, Zhou Hexuan's China Radio Station began to broadcast Chang Kaishen's New Life Speech every day: "We want to reform society and rejuvenate a country and a nation. This cannot be achieved by using force. We must
How can we succeed? To put it simply, the first is to equip ordinary citizens with national morality, and the second is to equip ordinary citizens with national knowledge... Germany was able to revive in less than fifteen years. It had just been defeated.
After a few years, you can stop paying the reparations, and you will have to default on the debt. But we are still paying the reparations every year for decades or more than a hundred years. In short, Germany is also a country, and China is also a country. Germany does not have force.
Although China has the power to be equal to other countries, it still cannot achieve equality. What is the reason? There is no other reason. It is entirely because the knowledge and morality of our ordinary citizens are not as good as others..."
Well, the general meaning of these words is that the people of this term are not good, not that the central government is not ruling effectively.
Ever since, the great Chairman Chiang Kai-shek launched a vigorous new life movement. First of all, starting from the people's clothing, food, housing and transportation. When eating, you must sit at the table and eat in a disciplined manner. You cannot just find a place to squat down and eat;
Clothes must not expose the breasts and abdomen, the buttons must be buttoned properly, and the hair must not be turned into a rotten chicken coop...
Chairman Chiang also said, "The spirit, thought, knowledge, and morality of a person or a country's citizens can all be reflected in the way they live their basic lives." He compared the way Chinese and Japanese eat and wash their faces, and came up with a conclusion:
A very wise conclusion, that is, the Japanese are more disciplined and have better national quality than the Chinese. He said: "We and the Japanese don't have to charge into battle under a hail of bullets. We can know the strength and weakness by just comparing our daily lives."
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Soon, major newspapers across the country were reporting on the "New Life Movement" one after another, and the central government also issued an order to designate the first week of April as "New Life Movement Publicity Week."
The whole country was in a panic. The Kuomintang action teams, wearing red sleeve bands, went through the streets and alleys to arrest those who were disheveled, strangely dressed, and with messy hair. They would be fined in mild cases and detained in severe cases. Streets and alleys were also divided.
If the sanitary conditions in an area are found to be substandard, all businesses and residents in the area will be punished.
The rickshaw drivers were very depressed. They were sweating profusely while carrying the passengers, and they didn’t dare to unbutton their clothes to cool down. Because if they were caught unbuttoning their clothes, they would be fined immediately, and their income from half a day’s work would be wasted.
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Citizens of Tianjin used to like to sit in the alleyways to eat dinner while listening to radio programs. Now they don’t dare to do so anymore, because they have to sit around the table to eat. Eating on the roadside is not in line with the instructions of the New Life Movement.
Fortunately, it was just a gust of wind. When the "New Life Movement Publicity Week" is over, the Kuomintang action team will not be so strict in investigating, and everyone will do whatever they are supposed to do. Only the unlucky guys who happen to meet the inspectors can
You will be fined harshly, so consider yourself unlucky anyway.
The "New Life Movement" of the Republic of China was a long-term activity, lasting more than ten years.
Anyway, every now and then they come up with new content, such as prohibiting the waste of weddings, funerals, and birthday banquets, prohibiting the wearing of strange clothes, prohibiting men and women from sitting together in the bathroom, prohibiting primary and secondary school students from having long hair, prohibiting women from perming their hair and bare legs, and prohibiting people in cars and theaters.
, the venue, smoking in the forest, advocating punctuality, advising people and animals to live separately, advocating relief and comfort for wounded soldiers, publicizing anti-drugs and anti-gambling, etc.
Most of the contents are good and helpful in improving social atmosphere. But some contents are too lenient. For example, some places prohibit perms and bare legs, which makes women dare not even wear skirts.
The most terrifying thing is that it wastes people and money. By the time the New Life Movement reached its peak in 1935, there were more than 60,000 related labor service groups across the country. The main job of these tens of thousands of people was to promote the New Life Movement, which wasted a lot of national financial expenditure.
Not only that, due to the central government's weak control over local areas, many local officials use chicken feathers as arrows. In the name of the "New Life Movement", they arrest people and fine them randomly. Sometimes you are walking on the street in good order, but just because of a
He was caught and fined for not having his shirt buttoned.
"Did Chiang Kai-shek take the wrong medicine? He didn't dare to do anything serious all day long, and he only engaged in these frivolous activities." Hu Zhengzhi said speechlessly.
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "Old Jiang is building up his prestige."
In Zhou Hexuan's view, Chang Kaishen's original intention of launching the New Life Movement was to enhance his sense of existence and to promote his Confucian concepts in the process of execution. This is an ideological dictatorship movement that opposes all kinds of messy isms and advocates
The four dimensions (propriety, justice, integrity and shame) and the eight virtues (loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, trust, justice and peace) unify the national ideology and morality.
Of course, another point is to engage in mass militarization to facilitate recruitment during the future full-scale war of resistance.
Chiang Kai-shek also knew that there would be a war between China and Japan, but he did not dare to shout anti-Japanese slogans directly, so he quietly mixed preparations for anti-Japanese war into the New Life Movement. In Chiang Kai-shek's original words: "New Life Movement"
The ultimate goal of the life movement is to make the lives of our people uniform. What is the content of the four words "uniformity"? It is what most people now call militarization... The new life movement is a militarization movement.
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However, it was of no use. The common people were strictly controlled, and the officials continued to engage in eating, drinking, whoring, gambling and smoking.
That’s why Feng Yuxiang said: “New life is a lie.”
Xiang Meiling, Soong Meiling's best friend, commented: "The New Life Movement is a nationwide joke."
A foreign friend was more direct, commenting that the New Life Movement was "a national rejuvenation movement based on toothbrushes, mouse traps and fly swatters."
Anyway, Zhou Hexuan was too lazy to cater to the great leader's spiritual instructions. He didn't like to button up his suits and kept his coat open every time he went out. I didn't see any guy who wasn't smart enough to dare to come over and twist him to ask for a fine.
"Ignore the New Life Movement," Hu Zhengzhi said in a low voice. "You have to take care of the editorial department of Fei Gong. There was a problem with the content of the last issue of the magazine. A friend who is involved in news censorship reminded me, saying
The superiors are very dissatisfied with some of the magazine’s remarks.”
"It's okay, those reports were approved by me." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.
"Anyway, don't go too far, otherwise even Ta Kung Pao will be implicated," Hu Zhengzhi reminded.
"Fei Gong" magazine is still affiliated with "Ta Kung Pao" for the time being, and the finance, printing, proofreading and distribution are all handled by "Ta Kung Pao" personnel.
As for the "excessive" content Hu Zhengzhi said, the new issue of "Fei Offensive" reported the establishment of the Northeast Anti-Resistance Federation and Yang Jingyu led the Northeast Anti-Resistance Federation to win the first victory. The Northeast Anti-Resistance Federation was established under the leadership of the Communist Party, regardless of whether it was
Both the Nanjing government and the Kwantung Army hated him deeply.
Zhou Hexuan even received a telegram from Secretary Chang Kaishen, telling him not to mention the Northeast Anti-Resistance Alliance again, otherwise the magazine "Fei Gong" would be banned directly.
"Sigh, it's a lot of trouble to run a magazine these days." Zhou Hexuan had to intervene, and he could no longer let the Communists in the editorial department do whatever they wanted.
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