Talk:Ten thousand years
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Could you be more specific? Mao is the only person that could have used this, and even then I'm not sure it was used.
- Some modern Paramount Leaders, pseudo-emperors, are extensively saluted to with this phrase.
Quotation
"To chant "Long live!" is to contradict natural laws. Everyone has to die sooner or later, whether they be killed by germs, crushed by a collapsing house, or blown to smithereens by an atom bomb. Anyway, one way or another everyone ends up dead. After people die they shouldn't be allowed to occupy any more space. They should be cremated. I'll take the lead. We should all be burnt after we die, turned into ashes and used for fertilizer."
--Mao Zedong, in comments made when signing "A Proposal that all Central Leaders be Cremated after Death" in November 1956
- At least according to zhongwen.com (http://zhongwen.com/d/184/d85.gif), it seems like people praised him shouting wansui, so Mao may not have been against this form of praise. More quotes, anyone? --Tongpoo 19:08, 2004 Oct 21 (UTC)
- He wasn't exactly against it. And anyway that was in 1956 when he was still clear-headed. He could be said to be rather senile already during the Cultural Revolution. On the other hand, wansui does not really have to mean "long live" in the modern context. It could just be a cheer or toast to somebody. Saying "Hu Jintao wansui!", for example, is as good as saying "bravo Hu Jintao!". --Plastictv 18:00, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)