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When the graduation certificate, as proof of academic achievement, becomes a “hostage” used by the school to hold students back, education has already been transformed into an experiment about obedience. What we defend is not just the freedom of those 300 yuan or a hotel room, but the refusal to be treated as “standardized parts” that can be kneaded at will on the assembly line. Guarding memory is guarding those moments when we dare to say “no” to brute power, and not letting young spines get used to bending before they leave the campus.

Why can’t the people’s true voice be heard in the National People’s Congress, the political decision-making platform in China? 1….

Labor dispatch, which was originally a “supplement” to the law, has now become the “staple food” that devours people. It is like an invisible Berlin Wall, splitting people who are in the same office and in the same ambulance into two classes. When rescuers are discarded like worn-out shoes, and when educators are in constant danger, this system is not optimizing efficiency, but is overdrawing the future of the country. Guarding memory is to refuse to let this exploitation become normalized.

In this siege called “Orthodoxy,” the truth is no longer a gold mine to be excavated, but a bonsai that has been pruned. When “safety” replaces “truth” as a professional duty, journalists are transformed from the watchmen of society into the repeaters of the system. To guard memory is to record those obliterated edges in this structural amnesia.

The nostalgia of urbanites is often built on the basis of their ignorance of the suffering of others. We are accustomed to examining the countryside through exquisite filters, but deliberately ignore the bodies on the land that are treated as “consumables.” The 3,000 villages that Uncle Zhou has walked through, each one is engraved with the erased reality: land is not an asset, it is a constraint; illness is not pain, it is a death sentence. This article is not intended to sell anxiety, but to insert a mirror into the man-made urban-rural divide.

In the Qingming Festival of 2026, when Mao Xinyu, the grandson of Mao Zedong, was祭祖 in Shaoshan, an unexpected incident occurred on the scene: a woman knelt down and handed over a petition. This scene is not only a simple expectation of the descendants of the “great savior” by the grassroots petitioners, but also a profound political metaphor. As China’s most well-known “red third generation”, Mao Xinyu’s life has been carefully arranged by Zhou Enlai and other CCP veterans since his birth. He is not only a beneficiary of the power-granted system, but also a “prisoner” of this system.

I have to say a few words. It’s about a 54-year-old head teacher in Guangshan County, Henan, who molested a…

“Relevant departments” are the biggest lies of this era. They are invisible in the reports, putting specific errors and omissions into soft, abstract words. When the subject disappears, responsibility becomes a black hole. We must force them to say that specific name.

This is not only the moral corruption of a judge, but also a microcosm of the failure of the institutional defense line. We record this case in order to remember: when the “guardian” of the law becomes the “predator” of power, if we do not truly tame power from the system, then everyone who enters the court may be the next victim.

The magic of history lies in: we used to fear that they were too few to manage, and now we fear that they are too many and manage too meticulously. Locking the elite in the system to drink tea is the biggest waste of resources. Letting them go to the market to fight, even if they are bloody, is better than slowly suffocating in warm water.