What are "The Four Olds"?

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You can use these websites for help....
http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/index.htm
http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/crc.html
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/cultrev.htm
http://www.wellseley.edu/Polisci/wj/China/CRSongs/crsongs.html
http://www.morningsun.org/red/
http://www.chinapage.org/main2.html
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio~state.edu/exhib/poster/exhibintro.html

Answer 1

It looks to me like you already know the answer:

The Four Olds or the Four Old Things (Simplified Chinese: 四旧; Traditional Chinese: 四舊; Pinyin: sì jiù) were Old Custom, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas. One of the stated goals of the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China was to bring an end to the Four Olds. It started in Beijing on August 20, 1964.

The only Chinese name is "破四旧", a number of different English translations have been used to describe the series of campaign.
Anti-Four Olds
Smash the Four Olds
Destruction of the Four Olds

Campaign

Guidelines
The Communist Party of China set very loose guidelines in terms of classifying what was actually "old". As a result, anything that existed before 1949 was subject to being destroyed, including examples of centuries-old traditional arts. Anyone caught being in possession of "old goods" would suffer serious consequences from the Red Guards.

Destruction of Chinese cultures and traditional values
Mao Zedong called for the Four Olds to be swept away at the very early stages of the Cultural Revolution in 1964. Red Guards listened tentatively to Mao’s call. As a result, examples of Chinese architecture were ransacked, Chinese literature and classics were burned, Chinese paintings were torn apart, antiquities were shattered. Many families' long kept genealogy books were burned to ashes. During that time, many of ancient Chinese cultural things were destoryed forever. People in possession of these goods were punished. Intellectuals were targeted as personifications of the Four Olds, and sometimes they were mocked, harassed, imprisoned, tortured, or killed.
Upon learning that Red Guards were approaching the Forbidden City, Premier Zhou Enlai ordered the gates shut and troops posted, knowing of the Red Guard's reputation of destroying cultural objects.

Popular slogans
“breaking down the four olds, setting up the four news”
“beating down the bad elements”
“beating down imperialism”
“beating down foreign religion”
“beating down Jesus following”
“beating down the counter revolutionists”

Communist Party response

No official statistics have ever been produced by the Communist party in terms of reporting the actual cost of damage. By 1978, many stories of death and destruction caused by the Cultural Revolution had leaked out of China and became known worldwide.

Restoration

Starting in the 1990's and continuing into the 21st century, there has been a massive rebuilding effort underway to restore and rebuild cultural sites that were destroyed or damaged during the Cultural Revolution. Though a serious number of sources have already pointed to the fakes and replicas created to generate wealth. Including major websites such as ebay and others demonstrating ways to spot hoax ceramics and other cultural items."

Answer 2

Four Olds

Answer 3

The big (thrash) four was a term from the eighties for those four particular bands, how you deem them each is purely your opinion and thus is subjective. Each one of those bands has amazingly talented members, are highly regarded within the metal community and well respected and longeitivity is there for all to see, those bands have been around a while. Korn used to state there love for the old school thrash bands i.e metallica and slayer and have cited them as influences, I would say the 4 in place (the thrash four) are suited to there position and most of all, they're the thrash four meaning the big four thrash bands so the argument is null and void as black sabbath and korn arent thrash. Megadeth and anthrax are getting a raw deal as I havnt mentioned em, so lets say aswell as releasing there own awesome stuff they bridged a gap for crossover acts, with public enemy doing bring the noise they did the first rap metal song. And Mustaines brigade have been doing thrash right for ages, one of the best live acts as well as the other 3 and immense solos. They all deserve to be one of the 4.

Answer 4

From Wikipedia:

The Four Olds or the Four Old Things (Simplified Chinese: 四旧; Traditional Chinese: 四舊; Pinyin: sì jiù) were Old Custom, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas. One of the stated goals of the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China was to bring an end to the Four Olds.[1] It started in Beijing on August 20, 1964.[2]

Answer 5

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It's not the big four of metal, it's the big four of Thrash Metal. Those bands definitely deserve to be the big four (even though megadeth and metallica suck balls)

Answer 6

Um, Arnt you answer your own question there >_>;