Let's Study the Sixteen Points
Performed by the Shanghai Broadcast Song and Dance Ensemble, 1966

Let's study the Sixteen Points, oh,
As if the sun is shining on our heads.
Seven hundred million people all setting off together,
To start the Cultural Revolution's new high tide.

Let's study the Sixteen Points.
Every word and sentence opens our hearts.
We have a clear direction for revolutionary struggle,
And we do not bend to wind or wave.
With one red heart devoted to the Party,
In high spirits we revolt and make revolution.

Let's understand the Sixteen Points well.
The revolutionary truth has spread to every household.
Breaking down the four "olds" and building the four "news,"
The revolutionary masses are of one heart.
Completely destroy the old world,
and we will build a new world!

Let's master the Sixteen Points, to implement the Party's policies.
Learn from the People's Liberation Army,
And always remember the Three Disciplines and Eight Points.
Resort not to violence but stay with verbal struggles,
To struggle and debate with reason is the most important.

Let's apply the Sixteen Points,
And raise high the great banner of Mao's Thought.
We can distinguish between fragrant flowers and poisonous weeds,
And we can destroy all the ox-monsters and snake-demons.
Defend the Central Committee of the Party.
Defend Chairman Mao.
Let red flags flutter across the country,
And through all the generations.

Let's learn the Sixteen Points, oh,
As if the sun is shining on our heads.
Forever follow, forever follow the Great Leader Chairman Mao,
Raise high the red flags and go forward, forward.