A pilgrimage in the footsteps of Mao Zedong, are you interested? Or at least, the visit of the highlights of communism, whose names still inhabit the imagination of Chinese young generations: Shaoshan, Lushan, Zunyi... Don't forget your little red book... but also your history books!
Day 1: Changsha, the capital of revolution
Day 2: The cradle of the Great Helmsman
Day 3: Lushan, the "city in the clouds"
Day 4: Zhunyi and the birth of the myth
Start with a stay in the province of Hunan, the home province of Mao Zedong and the origin point of the Long March. In Changsha, the municipal museum follows the general lines of the communist revolt, which became a revolution.
Not far from there, in Shaoshan, you can even visit the house where Mao spent his childhood. Museum to the glory of the Great Helmsman and slogans chanting red life: the past as a myth.
Continue to Jiangxi, especially within the enchanting landscapes of Lushan. It was here, under the curious gaze of his philosopher mystic ancestors, that Mao held two conferences of historic significance in the progress of Chinese communism.
For Guizhou, don't miss Mao's big statue indicating the way to follow, and then head towards Zunyi. It was in 1935, during the Long March and after one of those conferences, which he had the secret, that Mao was elected to be the head of the Chinese Communist Party.
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