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  / _ | __ _  ___ ____ (_)__  ___ _  /_  __/____ __/ /_ Given
 / __ |/  ' \/ _ `/_ // / _ \/ _ `/   / / / -_) \ / __/ 1) the waterfall
/_/ |_/_/_/_/\_,_//__/_/_//_/\_, /   /_/  \__/_\_\\__/  2) the illuminating gas
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He constructed a big hat divided right down the middle, the left side of which was brilliant blue and the right side flaming red. Then he went to a place where many people were working in the fields on the left side of a road and many other people were working in the fields on the right side of the road. There the god manifested in all his glory; no one could miss him. Big and radiant, wearing his hat, he walked straight down the road. All the people on the right side of the road dropped their hoes and looked up at this god; all the people on the left side of the road did the same. Everybody was amazed. Then he disappeared. Niugui sheshen (cow monsters and snake demons) was the most recurrent supernatural metaphor used used during the Cultural Revolution . It was rooted in Buddhist demonology, and an especially potent weapon to demonize one’s opponents. Other terms included ‘devils’ (mogui), ‘demons’ (guiguai), ‘monsters’ (moguai), ‘vampires’ (xixie gui), and ‘apparitions and spectres’ (wangliang guimei). All these ‘evil spirits’ could be identified with the ‘demon-exposing mirror’ (zhaoyao jing) of Mao Zedong Thought.