Lessons from a Puppet Show

Politically the performance brought out several very important principles of Chinese life today, as well as popularising revolutionary struggle in the past. For example the principle of co-operation — unity is strength, was brought out very clearly. In an effort to show his keeness a young recruit tried to throw a huge boulder over a cliff. One by one other soldiers of the 8th Route Army joined him until eventually all of them succeeded in removing the boulder. This scene demonstrated that by uniting the people as a single force the 8th Route Army could defeat the Japanese invaders.

But the Chinese people do not just learn the revoluntionary principles on which their society is run through indirect experience, by studying the past. They learn and practice these principles in everyday life.