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Egg fries rice change China political system

Chairman Mao‘s son death

By Lawa LuiPublished 2 years ago 3 min read

Speaking of the dish of egg fried rice, it is a household name. This ordinary dish has indeed prevented China from entering North Korea-style rule. Mao Zedong’s purpose of letting his son Mao Anying participate in the Korean War was to gain military merit by participating in the war. It can be legitimately passed on to his son Mao Anying. No one in the party dares to refuse. If he does not pass it on to his son, he can only pass the crown to Vice Chairman Lin Biao, who has the greatest military merit. As we all know, Lin Biao is a military genius and the Communist Party of China. Most of the country was conquered by Lin Biao. Mao Zedong pretended to write Lin Biao into the Party platform of the Communist Party of China as his successor. On the other hand, Mao Zedong also gave his son military merit (participation in the Korean War) in preparation for his son to inherit his father's legacy. However, Mao Anying died unexpectedly while engaging in privileges in North Korea, ending the rule of the Mao family. .

Food podcaster Wang Gang posted a public apology video online on November 27, stating that he would never make egg fried rice again. Why is China afraid of others mentioning egg fried rice? Egg fried rice has become a taboo topic in China just like the june 4thTiananmen Incident.

During the Korean War, Mao Anying served under Peng Dehuai, commander of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, and served as the Russian translator and confidential secretary of the Volunteer Army Headquarters. Yang Di, who served as deputy director of the Army Headquarters Office during the Korean War, mentioned on page 28 of his memoir "The Years at the Volunteer Army Headquarters-The Little-Known True Facts" that Mao Anying said on the morning of November 25, 1950, from Park Il-woo, the deputy marshal of the Korean People's Army, stole several eggs from the supplies given to Peng Dehuai and prepared breakfast for himself. While Mao Anying was making egg fried rice, he was attacked by a napalm bomb dropped by the U.S. Air Force and died. The reason why the U.S. Air Force noticed this location was because of the smoke he produced while cooking. Otherwise, the location as the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army should be highly confidential and should not have been a bombing target. At that time, the Volunteer Army had already bombed the site to prevent air raids. It was explicitly forbidden to light fires during the day, and Mao's move undoubtedly violated military discipline.

In addition, October 24 is Mao Anying’s birthday, and October 25, 1950 was the day when the Chinese Communist Army first fought on the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, for many years, people have often been attacked by "pinks" and Maoists for posting content related to egg fried rice online from October to November every year. Many people also used the term "egg fried rice" on the Internet to ridicule Mao Anying's death, believing that Mao Anying's death in the bombing freed China from the hereditary rule of the Mao family.

The above story can be found in books approved by the CCP in the past, including the memoirs of Yang Di, deputy director of the Military Command Office. Now the Chinese Communist Party officials have strongly denied it and denounced it as "the most vicious rumor." Some pinkettes even believed that Wang Gang used egg powder rice to satirize Mao Anying and should report him for violating the "Protection of Heroes Act."

The so-called "Heroes Protection Law" was promulgated in 2018. According to the CCP, some scholars will distort China's modern history and maliciously disparage the heroes and martyrs of the CCP in the name of "academic freedom" and "restoration of history." Therefore, legislation is necessary to "protect the martyrs." To put it bluntly, it means using "law" to delete all negative information about the CCP and to ban all insinuations and satires against the CCP.

Seeing the outcry, Wang Gang made an apology video that day, solemnly stating, "I will never make egg fried rice or film egg fried rice again." He also said, "In China, egg fried rice is not free." In fact, it is prohibited because of food. Getting into trouble is not uncommon in the history of the Chinese Communist Party, and egg fried rice is by no means the first example.

Egg fried rice saved the Chinese people and ushered in reform. If Mao Anying had not had special privileges in the Korean War, the crown prince would not have died, and China would have entered the North Korean era, and there would be no Deng Xiaoping's subsequent 40 years of reform and opening up.

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  • Lawa Lui (Author)2 years ago

    It is true funny story

  • Interesting story. Its good China didn't become a hereditary empire like North Korea. Wikipedia says Mao had 10 children, and 3-4 sons, what happened to the rest of them?

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