What is educated youth culture?

Educated youth refers to the young students in middle and high schools who were assigned to the countryside after graduating from high school during the Cultural Revolution in the mid-1960s and late 1970s, and settled in line to re-educate the poor and middle peasants. It is a special phenomenon under the specific historical conditions in China. During this period, young students from cities and towns were assigned to production and construction corps, state-owned farms and rural areas in border provinces (regions).

Educated youth, mostly from large and medium-sized cities and the mainland, have a certain culture. Their arrival not only brings advanced culture and urban civilization to the countryside, but also adds new strength to the socialist construction in the countryside, and also plays a very good role in strengthening the ties and exchanges between the frontier and the mainland.

Educated youth is active, hardworking, quick-thinking, good at absorbing knowledge and nutrition, daring to think, dare to speak and dare to do, full of youthful vitality, and has established profound friendship with people of all ethnic groups in the border areas and agricultural reclamation workers. After hard training, a large number of them have grown rapidly through exercise.

During this period, during their stay in the countryside, the vast number of educated youth wrote countless touching chapters with the blood of youth and created an "educated youth culture" with specific historical conditions.

The mainstream characteristics of "educated youth culture" in different periods;

1. "Lao San" is the main representative.

2. Take memoirs as the main theme

3. Strong criticism and sociality.

4. Constructive, reflecting the value of education and public welfare.

5. Passionate and rational

6. Educated youth offspring