The tradition of Hong Kong University students re-painting the June 4 slogan of the Taikoo Bridge every year is very likely to be difficult to carry on.
This morning (29th), the school erected a hoarding at Taikoo Bridge to cover the 20-character mourning slogan "The heroic souls of the cold-blooded martyrs are immortal.
The slogan is that after the "pillar of national mourning" was demolished before Christmas, only the June 4 totem of the University of Hong Kong still exists. written later.
When Zhang Ruihui, who wrote these 20 words, pointed out that "the bloodthirsty jackal will not change to vegetarianism" when he was inquired by "Hong Kong 01", he criticized it as "a hawk dog dressed as a scholar" who continued to carry out the task of cleaning up history for the regime. .
He said that the use of a hoarding to shovel away the handwriting further demonstrated that the action was "sneaky, shameless and not visible"; he believed that even if the real object was washed away, the memory would not be washed away.
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The Taikoo Bridge slogan was written in ink on 4 June 1989
The Taikoo Bridge mourning slogan is located opposite the Taikoo Hall of the University of Hong Kong. In 1989, the June 4th pro-democracy movement was suppressed by the Beijing authorities. Zhang Ruihui, the then chairman of the Taikoo Hall Student Association, and other Hong Kong students wrote a 20-character elegiac couplet on the black cloth, condemning the massacre in Beijing, and the handwriting was worn. Pass the black cloth and stay on the bridge.
The school then tried to wash away the words on the Taikoo Bridge, but it was finally preserved with the efforts of Hong Kong teachers and students.
Since then, on the eve of June 4th every year, Hong Kong University students and Taikoo Hall residents repainted these 20 characters, not only to mourn, but also to inherit and remember this history.
Zhang Ruihui (photographed by Chen Yingtong/authorized by University Line)
Zhang Ruihui: Ink is the only real thing that records the history of June 4th
Zhang Ruihui said that when the "pillar of national mourning was dismembered" at the end of last month, he had foreseen that "it is impossible for the Taikoo Bridge to survive under the fangs".
He recalled that on the night of June 4, 1989, the ink was left because of the long-awaited writing by the dormitory students. After that, Hong Kong University students filled the ink every year. In the past 32 years, the school has never obstructed the elegiac couplet, which is a public record of the history of the June 4 massacre. the only real thing.
He said that since 1989, Hong Kong people have refused to forget and persist in mourning. Whether it is the candlelight in Victoria Park or the repainting of elegiac couplets, they have witnessed and participated in the "witness of the facts". Even if tyranny is intimidated, everyone can continue to tell history and inherit the truth. , be held accountable.
He quoted the students who wrote the elegiac couplet together that day as saying, "Zhiban has branded the Taikoo Bridge for 33 years, and I mourned the University of Hong Kong for abandoning its virtues and slaughtering the city in cold blood." Become a totalitarian lackey", spread internationally, and will stink into history.
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▼4 similar demolition operations in recent months▼
22 December 2021: "Pillars of National Mourning" at HKU
24 December 2021: CUHK "Statue of Democracy"
24 December 2021: Relief sculpture "Tiananmen Massacre" at Lingnan University
29 January 2021: Hong Kong University Taikoo Bridge June 4 Elegance
4 similar actions in recent months to demolish the pillar of national mourning kicked off
In the past, at least six universities in Hong Kong displayed sculptures and other June 4 totems, but late at night on the 22nd of last month, the University of Hong Kong took the lead in dismantling the "pillar of national mourning" after months of stalemate. Regarding potential safety issues, after referring to independent legal advice and assessing the risk, it is believed that continuing to allow the statue to be displayed on campus will bring the risk of violating the Criminal Offences Ordinance. The decision to remove is made after weighing the overall interests.
The "Pillar of Remembrance" was erected at HKU for more than 20 years. Its creator, Danish sculptor Gao Zhihuo, criticized the school's actions as shameful and obliterating history.
Less than two days after the "Pillar of National Mourning" was demolished, CUHK and Lingnan almost simultaneously removed the "Statue of Democracy" and "June 4th Relief" on the campus overnight on Christmas Eve.
Both sculptures were made by Chinese-American sculptor Chen Weiming. Among them, the "Mind Girl Statue" has been erected at CUHK for more than ten years. One of the school landmarks.
In addition to dismantling the "Tiananmen Massacre" relief that was erected in the same year as the "People's Statue", Lingnan also used gray paint to cover the spray-painted portrait of the Goddess of Democracy on the wall of the atrium of the Student Union.
Lingnan later said the items could pose a legal or security risk and the removal was aimed at safeguarding the interests of the university community as a whole.
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The June 4 totems have all disappeared?
CityU's "Minniew Statue" is overdue for demolition
The siege of Taikoo Bridge this time is the fourth such operation in more than a month.
The remaining universities with smaller Democracy statues are City University, Baptist University and Polytechnic University.
Two of them, PolyU, disappeared during the anti-amendment period and when the campus reopened in January of the previous year.
Last year, the "Mind Girl Statue" of HKBU was moved from the third floor platform of the Teaching and Administration Building to the storage room, and its whereabouts are still unknown.
The June 4 totems that are still publicly displayed on the university campus are only a small "people's girl statue" opposite the Democracy Wall of CityU. The university asked the student union to remove it at the end of last year. Seeking help from the school, no further action has been taken so far.
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