Yiku sitian
Yiku sitian (忆苦思甜, literally "remembering the bitter, thinking of the sweet") refers to public acts of remembering the pre-Communist Revolution past in post-1949 China. These were acts of public remembrance that took the form of public oral narratives, writing articles in newspapers and essays written for school, topical songs such as "Not Forgetting Class Suffering" (《不忘階級苦》) and associated public meals (忆苦饭). Thematically, they addressed the two parts inherent in the name: yiku being a recounting of past, pre-Revolution suffering, and sitian being an appreciation of present liberation. The phenomenon died down after the Cultural Revolution.
"After 1949, memories of bitterness were contrasted with the situation in the People’s Republic in a form known as yikusitian “remembering (past) bitterness and thinking about (present) sweetness.” Yikusitian was a standard part of education as well as fiction." -- P. 223, Milestones on a Golden Road: Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945-80, by Richard King, Hong Kong University Press / UBC Press, Hong Kong 2014.
References
- 傑夫 (2005-04-10). "吃忆苦饭的往事". 華夏知青網. Archived from the original on 2005-04-10. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- Wang Xiaobo's 《忆苦饭》
- 钱武立《难忘"六一"忆苦饭》，载於《zh:南京晨报》2004年6月2日
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