Jennifer’s Photo Stories（5）曾錚的圖片故事(5) — Jennifer’s World
Have We Learned the Lessons? 新時代的「紅衛兵」？
This photo was taken in May, 1969, at Tian’anmen Square in Beijing, when I was two years old.
這張照片是我兩歲半時與母親在天安門廣場上照的。
During the early years of the “Great Cultural Revolution”, millions of crazily enthusiastic “red guards” swarmed into Beijing from all over the country to “defend” “Great Leader Chairman Mao” with their lives. They could not only travel for free; but were also offered free food on the train.
「無產階級文化大革命」初期，成百上千萬狂熱的「紅衛兵」從全國各地涌入北京，要用生命「捍衛」他們的「偉大領袖毛主席」。那時坐火車不要錢，在火車上吃飯也不要錢，有個紅衛兵袖章就管事。
Although she was not a “Red Guard”, as she had already married and become a mother by then, my mother somehow also took advantage of the free travel and took me to Tangshan, a city near Beijing, to visit a relative.
So this photo was taken at the famous Tiananmen Square when we stopped at Beijing on our way to Tangshan. Millions of “Red Guards” had just made pilgrimages there and seen their “Great Leader Chairman Mao” in person…
