Xiaoping, when did you put up your banner and what was it for?

This incident occurred during the National Day parade on the 35th anniversary of the National Day in 1984. The 35th National Day celebration was the first major National Day event in our country after the end of the Cultural Revolution. At that time, Deng Xiaoping and the older generation The proletarian revolutionaries had just overthrown the Gang of Four, ending ten years of catastrophe. And the chaos was brought to order and the evil of the Gang of Four was eliminated. It rehabilitated many cadres and masses who were overthrown during the Cultural Revolution. At the same time, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee was held. The country's guiding ideology has shifted from class struggle as the key link to comprehensive economic construction and reform and opening up to realize the four modernizations. Various indicators of the national economy have rapidly recovered and developed, and people's living standards have been greatly improved. and development. The two civilizations are also flourishing.

Some teachers and students of Peking University before the 35th National Day parade. We are preparing to change the politicized and stereotyped slogans used in previous celebrations. We decided to create a slogan that was inspiring and less slogan-y. Finally, after much deliberation, we decided to put up a banner that read: "Hello, Xiaoping." This was accomplished with great enthusiasm and courage by the teachers and students of Peking University at that time. After all, in this ancient country like China, it is an unprecedented first time for the top leader to be called by his first name in public, and it has just emerged from the "Long Live" era.

When this slogan appeared during the parade on October 1, and when Comrade Deng Xiaoping waved to the marchers on the Tiananmen Gate Tower, it shocked the whole world. This means that the Chinese nation has entered a new era.