Thirty-three years, "Never Forget Each Other" | Jinma Fund Announcement No.47

On June 4, 2022, an Instagram account called "northern_square" (North Square) anonymously posted articles related to June 4 in a limited-time feed (IG Story). Two of the submissions are impressive: about the separation of identities, the tension of freedom that spans space; and about being at a loss, hesitation, and action.

This issue of Jin Ma is a compilation of articles on the website related to the 33rd anniversary of June 4th. This year, some people were present to mourn, and some people collected commemorative songs; we had tea parties, tents, and memories, and a variety of complex emotions collided back and forth in the text. When reading these words again and again, I keep thinking of "The Brothers Karamazov" - "The most important thing is that we should be kind first, honest second, and never forget each other."

Review of the eighth issue: "It is impossible for people to stay away from politics and stay away from public topics" —— By @好 Youth Tea Party

I just saw a news in the past two days. During the live broadcast of Li Jiaqi on the evening of June 3, the live broadcast was subsequently stopped because of a cake in the shape of a tank. Li Jiaqi's response was, "internal equipment failure." This has happened more than once, and it certainly won't be the last. The epidemic is even worse now. Every person from Wuhan, Shanghai, Jilin, Ruili... and even every Chinese person has a deep feeling about what is "politics" and what is "public topic". In this issue, we heard a lot of special voices. Some people wrote about their experiences in English, some friends had a sense of national pride for 19 years, and some people witnessed Hong Kong that has experienced 19 years... Every friend's voice is full of Precious.

The first recommendation comes from the eighth review of @好 Youth Tea Party . There are inland classmates who went to Hong Kong to study in 2019 and began to pay attention to politics during the anti-extradition movement, as well as young people who "lived with national pride for 19 years"; "The starting point of public life should come from It starts with shifting one’s vision from the macroscopic politics to the situation of the individual.** When looking at the individual, we, as individuals, can connect and act.”

[Character] Zhuang Meiyan: In the past two or three years, I have been in the mood of June 4th every day - By @The WELL

In June 4th, when she was 12 years old, she remembered that her parents paid close attention to the news every day, and she followed suit. She woke up one morning and saw her parents weeping in their dim, windowless living room, with the light of the TV hitting their faces, a scene she always remembered. It was later learned that the night before that day, the army had fired on the demonstrators, and tanks had run over in the street. At that time, she only vaguely knew about the "big thing" because she rarely saw her parents cry. On the first day of school after the incident, the head teacher came in specially to tell the classmates what happened in Beijing, thousands of miles away, and he kept crying. "I think (sadness) is infected by adults, which is bigger than watching TV cameras."

This interview is with Zhuang Meiyan, the screenwriter of the famous June 4 drama "May 35th". Mr. Zhuang Meiyan began to look back from his memories of when he first came into contact with June 4th. He also talked about the high-pressure political environment in recent years. Although it is impossible to confirm whether there will be any creations related to the theme of June 4th in the future, "it can only be done within the limits of each other. "Try it out" in the space of "try it out", and "it doesn't necessarily mean you can never do it."

A Tent | Thirty-three years - @NGOCN

No smoke, no shouting, no early summer's slightly hot wind, no blood, no tears, just a peaceful tent in front of me. At the last dawn, it was carefully wrapped by a couple of college students from Xi'an. In the darkness after the lights went out, before the boundary between life and death, I was brought out from the largest square in the world.

Last year, I participated in the commemoration of the June 432nd Victoria Park in Hong Kong and witnessed " the candle burns for a long time under the National Security Law, and the people did not forget it". This year, I received a submission from "a tent": "This is the same as that One of more than 100 tents. On May 27, 33 years ago, he was sent to the square by HK supporters"; "In November 2014, he went to Hong Kong. At that time, young people occupied the streets, and in Admiralty, he also lived Entered the tent. As soon as I sat down, someone put a rice ball in my hand, and the memory was vivid in an instant, as if returning to the crowd in the square back then.”

Looking for hope in despair to build a "North Square" for free thinking on IG —— By @黄雅文Wong Nga Man

The avatar photo of the "North Square" account is a simple trapezoid, which originally meant Tiananmen Square, but the moderator found that the North Square has become a real square instead, and it has the meaning of a square: communication, publicity A venue for debating and speaking out, "Tiananmen Square lost this function after the June 4th Incident. No one is allowed to speak politics in any square in China. Instead, the online space of 'North Square' has become a place for friends from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to communicate with each other. Space."

This is an interview with the moderator of the aforementioned Instagram account "North Square". The moderator is a Chinese student who opened this account two years ago and posted many rare photos of June 4th. At the beginning of May, the moderator posted the question "What kind of story did you know about June 4th for the first time?" on the limited-time story (story), and received a lot of responses. Later, these question-and-answer activities became routine, "because many people can find similar experiences to themselves, under China's system censorship, everyone is scattered, there is no connection, and everyone does not want to be alone. I want to know. What are the people around you thinking, and these similar experiences can support everyone. Just like the Uighurs who contributed recently, their stories are very shocking.”

Every day is the day of the Occupation, and I want to commemorate it on this day—— By @蠓子Durian

Many years later, when I asked my parents about 8964, they all adopted the official statement of the "Chengdu City Riot Incident", which was hurriedly compiled by the Chengdu city government: students expressed their demands, and rioters provoked troubles. Not much research.

In order to commemorate the June 4th this year, @頭子Durian selected some related articles to make a small collection, and also shared the encounter between her parents and the June 4th. For the author, "No matter what, my parents survived in the way they could, and gave me the best they could give me, so that I can talk nonsense outside the wall today, and I am grateful."

** A simple pink memory about June 4th—— By @Luma

Later, he decided not to shy away. He decided to tell those young people who were farther away from that era than he knew about the June 4th, because he knew that the previous generation chose to avoid and hide, which ultimately did not make the next generation safer, but made these naive of young people have to take on the debt they owe—the problems that have accumulated since 1989 have just been put on hold and have not gone away. For example, the various tragedies that are happening in the current epidemic are like boomerangs thrown out in 1989, slamming the back of the head of ignorant young people off guard.

@Lu Ma 's profile of her own story, education, class, era, media, and the geographical location of the living city, there are so many factors that can affect a person's concept and memory; it is a very important individual narrative angle.

I attended the June 4th commemoration in London - By @shine

To borrow what the black economist Glenn Loury said to a black grandmother in a lecture: "We can't count on anyone, we can only rely on ourselves." Personally, I have always hoped that the right path can be taken step by step through policy, but in fact, if you think about it a little realistically, it is almost impossible for all the people who will attend such an event to sit in a position where they can influence policy. I still don't know what I can do to change this, but I do know that I can keep in mind, and "learn, learn, learn" all that has happened.

Similar live records include two "June 4" demonstrations in London by @王伟文Wyman Kwok and the June 4th Gala in Munich by @wubi. "Maybe we can't fight without fear, but we should not forget those who fought, let alone the need to fight."

When it is simply mentioned, it will also become a crime - By @WrightFu

In Hong Kong, those who have not personally experienced June 4 have at least two or three generations. More than a decade ago, young people began to re-understand this history, and the number of participants in the candlelight party increased again from 2009. Later, some people questioned the meaning of the mourning. , reconnected to the common points and connections between the two movements, and then evolved to a state where I don’t want to mention it now. Hong Kong people have repeatedly mourned and talked about June 4th over the past few years, and this incident, which was originally a foreign country, has gradually gained a local dimension and significance. However, this spirit is now unsustainable in Hong Kong, and it is really regrettable. .

On June 4 this year, the Hong Kong police once again blocked Victoria Park ahead of schedule, increased patrolling police, and intensively stopped passers-by for questioning. This review by @WrightFu may, to a certain extent, represent the transformation of this "Island of Melancholy" after 2019, as well as the mood of the Hong Kong people; but what cannot be forgotten is that after the June 4th, there was also a series of "Hong Kong mourning" "Days, commemoration, commemoration, commemoration, what we can do now, maybe really only keep commemorating.

The Murdered Child, The Faulted Country - By @Middle Kingdom Tales

During her stay in the States, her mother used to describe to her the dreadfulness of the Southern whites who took pleasure in lynching innocent Blacks—crowds gathered around a person, beating, shouting, lashing, and tormenting the poor soul inside a black skin for a crime that he had never committed. She could not help but thinking of how similar these two groups of people were—racial supremacists covered in white gowns and the Red Guards dressed in their green uniforms.

This is an English translation of a Chinese fictional work written on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary. The short space covers the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen incident, singing a lament that crosses borders and generations.

[The End of the World Song at This Time] Some Supplements to June Fourth Song—— By @DuncanLau

Yesterday, there was an article in Duan Media that listed sixteen sixty-four songs in detail, most of which are in Chinese. Seven or eight years ago, I shared some works of European and American musicians with my friends on Facebook, but it was not officially completed. Today, I am interested, and I have retrieved some of them from memory, and I will share them with you here.

Thanks to @DuncanLau for the careful arrangement, if some songs are not combined with the song title, lyrics, and release time, it is difficult to see their connection with the June 4 incident at a glance. "But it seems that the Spring this year in Beijing / Came just before the Fall / There was no summer at all / In Tiananmen Square" - Joan Baez, "China" (1989).

Hippenson , a band that insists on writing squares - By @MohenJodaro

The country is farther than love, the square is farther than the dance, the flag is farther than the scenery, the garden is farthest.

The same is the analysis of the lyrics, especially the sentence "We should leave the ending in the second dialogue as before/will not happen", @MohenJodaro analyzes this "second dialogue" for the first time, the line Conversation between Prime Minister Li Peng and protesting students on May 18, 1989. "In the lyrics, the ending is left in the fantasy of the second dialogue, that is, the fantasy that China has gone the road of democracy through the June 4th Movement. It is a pity that there is no second dialogue, Deng Xiaoping's patience ends here, the standard rifle Destroyed everything with tanks and armored vehicles."

Memoirs of a Loser 123: Memories and Feelings of June 4th—— By @李易

Since January, Beijing's message can be said to change rapidly. The pro-democracy movement in April attracted global media attention. The frequency of electronic news broadcasts in Hong Kong is getting more and more compact. The editorial department of "90s" keeps an eye on developments day and night. The June issue of "The Nineties", published on the 1st of each month, is devoted to the "Student Movement in Beijing." When the June 4 massacre happened, a special volume, "The End of the Slaughterhouse Notebook," was added on the 15th. Both copies were reprinted twice and sold out instantly, which shows how deeply Hong Kong people are emotionally invested in the Chinese democracy movement.

Although countless writings have been written about the 1989 democracy movement and the June 4th incident, Mr. Li Yi’s recollections still provide some important historical profiles, including the different social reactions on both sides of Taiwan and Hong Kong at that time: “During that time, I became an electronic Influencers that the media scramble to interview. This is not something I am proud of, but a time of my tears and despair over China in front of the TV screen.”

Light a candle with a price of 64 yuan in the virtual Victoria Park—— By @玉仙

This online version is like a virtual Victoria Park, and people who know this place silently draw candles. It seems that Hong Kong may have fallen, but the spirit and love of freedom of Hong Kong are preserved in the virtual world. On a whim, I lit a candle and set the pixel to 64 blocks (in The Space, each pixel needs to be priced and can be bought and sold at any time).

Recently, each pixel is an NFT The Space pixel painting plan was launched. The painting itself is very large, but a small place was created to look like Victoria Park in Hong Kong, and some people have lit cyber candles there to commemorate June 4th.

"What we should do is make our voices heard." To witness more and more of what is in front of us - we need, can only, and must keep records.