An online video clip shows a man that looks like Mao Zedong dramatically kowtowing and worshipping on bended knees in a rural area. Then it came to be known that the man was hired as Mao’s substitute by some villagers whose parents were killed during the Cultural Revolution to offer an apology by kowtowing at a rate of 50 yuan per kowtow – 1,000 yuan/20, which is not a bad piecework job.

Every debt has its debtor, but that Mao, who is in the netherworld now, has the man take the money for kowtowing to settle the blood-debt he owes the people is really banter after cruelty.

Chinese people are not wanting in creativity. Nonetheless, though their creative thoughts brought into play this way is a bit vulgar, it is not a bad idea as the poor people enjoy themselves in awful poverty.

Mao, being in most blood-debts in history, epitomized a generalization of evils at all times in all countries. He is now still enshrined and consecrated at the Great Hall of the People with his corpse intact. If he were still spiritually conscious down there of how he was derided by this video clip, he would understand what the great cause of his communism is all about.

From the Anti-Rightist Campaign to the three years of great famine to the Socialist Education Campaign to the Cultural Revolution, Mao killed millions of Chinese people. If every offspring of the victims were inspired by the clip to look for Mao’s substitutes to do the dramatic kowtow and worship, a large-scale burgeoning business would be created all over China. A lot of people would have a face-lift surgery, fatten themselves up by eating like a big and wear a Mao’s hairstyle for a half-day job worth 1,000 yuan. This is way more than a little help to the rising internal circular economy.

Every dictator has to be cursed posthumously by the people that recollect and work off their resentment and animosity against the former. What has been happening after Mao’s death is definitely an inspiration to those in power.

Since the anti-extradition movement, there have been countless Hong Kong youngsters injured and battered to death by the police. Who gave the orders? Who made the plans? Who has bloodstains on hands? Every blood-debt would make the history of Hong Kong and be remembered by Hong Kong people for good. Will there be anyone following Mao’s footsteps in the days to come, with people hired to be their substitutes to kowtow to tombs? They are able to ponder over it.

When one is dead, nothing is left. However, before and after one’s death, everything related to him has its cause. Posthumous right and wrong about him is definitely not untouchable, but subject to everyone’s judgement at all times. No one being hired today as Hu Yaobang’s substitute by people to worship and kowtow to their parents' tombs is a proof for the fact that the people will have a conclusion of a politician’s contributions and errors.

Though Mao Zedong kowtowing to tombs is a bit indecent, it at least merits a rare smile when the public morals and mores are declining.

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