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| The name ''Hundred Flowers'' originates from a poem: | The name ''Hundred Flowers'' originates from a poem: | ||
| "Let a hundred flowers bloom: let a hundred schools of thought contend." | (百花齊放，百家爭鳴) "Let a hundred flowers bloom: let a hundred schools of thought contend." | ||
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The Hundred Flowers period refers to a brief interlude in Chinese history in the 1950s when the Chinese Communist Party authorities permitted or encouraged a variety of views and solutions. Subsequently an ideological crackdown re-imposed Marxist orthodoxy in public expression.
The name Hundred Flowers originates from a poem:
(百花齊放，百家爭鳴) "Let a hundred flowers bloom: let a hundred schools of thought contend."