Nixon's visit to China can be described as a groundbreaking event since the founding of New China, because after the founding of New China, subject to the influence of ideology, the United States has always had bad relations with China, and the two sides have not had exchanges with each other for many years. The scene where President Nixon shook hands with Premier Zhou Enlai during his visit to China also became a historic shake. In the course of Nixon's visit to China, Chairman Mao presented President Nixon with a calligraphy work of his own as a gift, a total of twelve words, but people were confused.
To explain these words, we must first review the changes in Sino-US relations and how significant Premier Nixon's visit to China is. First of all, during the Liberation War, the United States had always supported Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary government and was very unfriendly to the Chinese Communist Party, and since then, the United States and New China have sown the seeds of a breakdown in relations. After the founding of New China, the United States adopted an isolated and hostile policy toward China for a long time, and even for a long time did not recognize the international status of New China, but let the Chiang Kai-shek government in Taiwan represent China. In this way, the United States has long been the image of an imperialist bully in the hearts of the Chinese people, and the gap between China and the United States is more than twenty years.
Later, the first event that ushered in a turnaround in Sino-US relations was the rupture of Sino-Soviet relations. First, revisionism emerged in the Soviet Union, and when Khrushchev came to power, he completely repudiated Stalin's policies. But Stalin was seen in China as the inheritor of communism after Lenin, and Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated from this moment on, but at least maintained a semblance of peace. The real breakdown in Sino-Soviet relations was due to the hegemonic policies of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, as everyone knows, was the big brother of the socialist camp and therefore very fond of interfering in other socialist countries. Similar to Yugoslavia, It was dismantled under the forced intervention of the Soviet Union. China is such a piece of fat meat, the Soviet Union will naturally not let go. However, since its inception, our country has pursued an independent foreign policy of peace, and it is absolutely intolerable to the intervention of the Soviet Union. So the Soviet Union tore up the aid contract it had signed with our country, and even sent troops to Zhenbao Island in the northeast of our country, which was a complete provocation.
To this end, Chairman Mao and others have adjusted China's foreign policy to a foreign policy of two fists, because although the United States has always harbored evil intentions, the Soviet Union has also had to guard against it!
However, under the cold war pattern, it is extremely unfavorable to suffer from the enemy in the belly and back to the development cause of our country. For this reason, our country began to seek transformation, and the relations between the Soviet Union and us deteriorated, and we could only seek to improve our relations with the United States. At this time, China's diplomatic seat in the United Nations was restored, and the United States also had the intention of making good relations with China. It was against this background that Chairman Mao presided over the launch of ping-pong diplomacy, which was the first step in improving Sino-US relations.
The second step is President Nixon's natural visit to China. In 1972, President Nixon overcame resistance in the United States and embarked on a flight to China. Premier Zhou Enlai personally greeted him at the airport and witnessed a historic moment. As a visitor, President Nixon carefully selected many representative gifts of the United States and gave them to Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao, as the host, naturally returned the favor to President Nixon. As the hometown of tea, China naturally has to send the most famous tea leaves.
But President Nixon did not seem satisfied with such a gift, and he asked Chairman Mao to personally write a calligraphy work as the most representative gift to him. Mao Zedong, who was good at cursive writing, naturally did not prevaricate. He happily wrote down twelve big words and gave them to President Nixon. President Nixon, who did not understand Chinese, naturally did not know its meaning, but even if he was proficient in Chinese Chinese did not know what the real meaning of the chairman wanted to express, was it twelve very strange words?
In fact, it is not the case, Chairman Mao, who has always advocated simple and easy to understand and grounded, wrote three four-character words, namely: Lao Shu sitting on the stool, Chang'e running to the moon, and walking around and watching the flowers. Although the three words are concise and concise in their separate ways, together, and on such occasions, one cannot help but confuse the chairman as to what he was trying to say.
From the perspective of "old man sitting stool", different people will have different understandings of this word. Some people think that the old man refers to Nixon, but Nixon is actually quite young, which is obviously not true; others think that the old man refers to the old capitalist country of the United States, that they have prospered for many years, and now they are in their twilight years, so they are old, and the second argument is obviously more convincing.
Look at "Chang'e Running Moon", which is a myth and legend in ancient China, of course, this is definitely not the meaning here. Chang'e should refer to China's satellite, and the moon is to go into space, which is to show the United States China's strong strength. Finally, there is "horse racing", obviously, this refers to Nixon's trip, Nixon made sufficient preparations to go to China, and China also made sufficient preparations to show the face of new China and change stereotypes, but President Nixon did not carefully observe the changes in China, but just waited and watched in a marquee form. These three words not only show our objective evaluation of the United States, but also show the national strength of our country, and finally implicitly criticize the imperfections of President Nixon's trip, and have to make people lament Chairman Mao's language skills and ability to adapt to changes.
After this battle, China's diplomacy finally has a relatively relaxed environment, China and the United States are no longer hostile, China and more capitalist countries are no longer hostile, and China has ushered in a new round of foreign diplomatic relations. Internationally, seeing the changes in the direction of the Sino-US wind, many capitalist countries have taken the initiative to establish diplomatic relations with China, similar to Japan in 1972, after the improvement of Sino-US relations, Cabinet Minister Kakuei Tanaka immediately visited China and established diplomatic relations with China in the new period. With that, more capitalist countries, such as South Korea, followed in the footsteps of the United States and established diplomatic relations with China one after another. Handling President Nixon's visit to China well can be said to be of great benefit to China.
Chairman Mao and other leaders of the older generation have a profound understanding of the diplomatic and international situation, and no matter how the situation changes, we can all change our thinking and deal with it calmly. In particular, when President Nixon visited China, the words inscribed by Chairman Mao can be said to be polite and not humble. The Communist Party of China has always been like this, and in any historical period, we can look at the world as well as Chairman Mao when President Nixon visited China, and so do the leaders today, who regard all countries and nations equally on the premise of independence and self-reliance.