Fourth Plenary Session: What Does Xi Rely on to “Hold On” to Power?

"Paying Respects" Is Actually a Tactic for "Drawing Vital Energy" (Photo: On December 26, 2023, members of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee and senior officials in Beijing bowing to the statue of Mao Zedong. Screenshot from a video.)

[People News] Recently, the case of mainland entertainer Yu Menglong’s tragic death has continued to ferment online, sparking a huge uproar. There are even rumors circulating that he was selected as a life-extending sacrifice for Xi, allowing Xi to superficially “hold on” to his power at the Fourth Plenary Session—this is the shocking secret. In the past few days, Xi personally went to Sanya, Hainan, to inspect the Fujian aircraft carrier, also to signal to the outside world that his military power remains firmly in his grasp. Below, let’s look at some little-known life-preservation secrets of three generations of CCP leaders: Mao Zedong, Jiang Zemin, and Xi Jinping.  

Mao Zedong’s Mysterious Disappearance and 11 Days of Isolation from the World  
From June 18 to June 28, 1966, Mao Zedong secluded himself for a full 11 days in Dripwater Cave in Shaoshan. The whole world had no idea where Mao was; even foreign intelligence agencies didn’t know his exact location.  

During this period, the only person aware of Mao’s whereabouts was Zhou Enlai. Every day, Zhou would send a special plane from Beijing to deliver documents to Mao, then transport them by car from Changsha to Shaoshan for Mao to review.  

Dripwater Cave was a palace secretly built by Mao Zedong in his hometown of Shaoshan during the three years of great famine, named after the legendary “Western Immortal Cave.” At that time, tens of millions were starving to death across the country in the largest famine in human history, with even tragedies of “cannibalism” occurring, yet provinces tightened their belts to build dozens of palaces for old Mao. Among them, Mao frequently visited Hangzhou’s Wangzhuang Guesthouse, Wuhan’s East Lake Guesthouse Meiling No. 1, Beidaihe’s small villa, Shanghai’s West Suburb Guesthouse, Shaoshan’s Dripwater Cave villa, Lushan’s Lulin No. 1 villa, and so on.  

According to the book *Zhang Yaozi Recalls Mao Zedong*, Mao once told Zhang: “My ancestors lived right next to Dripwater Cave at Huxiping. To choose this spot, a feng shui master divined for 11 days.”  

“The feng shui master said this is a treasure land of feng shui, perfectly on the ‘dragon vein.’ My grandfather Mao Yichen and my uncle Mao Dechen both wanted to be buried at Huxiping after death, and the two brothers quarreled over it. Finally, the feng shui master said, whoever dies first gets buried here.”  

Coincidentally, Mao’s grandfather passed away first and thus occupied that treasure land in advance. Later, Chiang Kai-shek tried to dig up Mao’s ancestral graves but couldn’t find the exact location.  

At this time, Mao, deeply versed in power tactics, hid in Shaoshan’s Dripwater Cave, actually strategizing within the tent and deciding victory from a thousand miles away—he was playing a very, very big chess game.  

On June 26, before leaving Dripwater Cave, Mao met with Hunan Province, Xiangtan Prefecture, and county leaders, including Hua Guofeng. Mao said: “In the past, I led you on the Long March; now I’m going to lead you on another Long March.”  

Everyone present had no idea of the deeper meaning behind old Mao’s words.  

According to Hua Guofeng’s recollection, the Hunan Provincial Committee at the time thought the “Cultural Revolution” was just a matter for the literary and art circles. When implementing the May 16 Notification to establish a “Cultural Revolution” small group, Hua, who was in charge of finance and trade, said he should focus on Hunan’s small chemical fertilizer industry and expressed reluctance to participate.  

On June 28, after arriving in Changsha, Mao boarded a special train to Wuhan, muttering to himself in the car: “Heading back to the place of white clouds and yellow cranes.” It wasn’t until July 16 that Mao officially appeared in public, meeting several groups of foreign guests in Wuhan.  

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind fills the tower. On July 6, while in Wuhan, Mao wrote in a letter to Jiang Qing: “Great chaos under heaven leads to great order under heaven.” “Some anti-party elements want to completely overthrow our party and me personally…” These bloodthirsty words hinted that Mao had sharpened his knife, and a bloody storm was about to arrive.  

Everyone knows that the failure of the Great Leap Forward and People’s Commune movement from 1958 to 1961 caused unprecedented havoc to China’s economy, famine spread nationwide, creating the biggest crisis since the CCP came to power and sweeping away the reputation of the “red sun” in the hearts of hundreds of millions.  

(Today, some free political proposals by New York’s newly elected mayor resemble the CCP’s “free meals” and “running into communist paradise” back then. Some young Americans today seem like twin brothers to the Red Guards of the CCP’s Cultural Revolution era.)  

For this, the CCP held the “Seven Thousand Cadres Conference” in Beijing in early 1962, advocating “democratic centralism” and “criticism and self-criticism.” Then-State Chairman Liu Shaoqi proposed at the meeting the conclusion of “three parts natural disaster, seven parts man-made calamity,” indirectly blaming Mao’s decision-making errors. But unlike the previous “Lushan Conference,” Mao, as CCP Chairman, was forced to make self-criticism at the meeting, then voluntarily retreated to the second line, letting Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, and others handle central affairs. Liu’s speech became the fuse for Mao to overthrow him during the “Cultural Revolution.”  

Thus, Mao’s 11-day disappearance had an ulterior motive: secretly recharging himself, accumulating energy for struggle, racking his brains to figure out how to use ancient palace intrigue tactics to bring down Liu Shaoqi and continue holding on to his power. Later, Mao mobilized Red Guards nationwide to tie Liu Shaoqi into a straw man, stabbing his heart with red-tasseled spears every morning, noon, and evening. He viciously swore to use this ancient “yasheng” witchcraft to ensure this “cow ghost and snake spirit” would not die a good death.  

Interestingly, in June 1976, Mao, already terminally ill, particularly missed his homeland. In August, with a brief return of light and slightly improved condition, he insisted on returning to Dripwater Cave to recuperate and revive once more, but the CCP Central Committee did not agree. In September, with his end near, Mao still obsessively wanted to return to Shaoshan. Under his repeated insistence, the Politburo finally agreed to let him return to Shaoshan’s Dripwater Cave on September 15. Unfortunately, before that day arrived, Mao met his end, saw Marx ahead of schedule. To this day, he has not returned to his roots like falling leaves, nor found peace in death like a fox on its hill; his body lies exposed in the square, unable to be buried.  

Jiang Zemin Visits the Millennium “Toad Cave” to Replenish Vital Energy  
The mysterious and peculiar 30th parallel north has been seen as a line with a breath of death, a line of mysterious color, and a line of magnificent scenery.  

It not only passes through the four ancient civilizations but also crosses the Egyptian pyramids, the legendary Atlantis, Mount Everest, the Mariana Trench, the Bermuda Triangle, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Dead Sea, Japan’s Dragon Triangle, Maya cultural sites, and many lost civilizations and landscapes. Famous world rivers also enter the sea nearby.  

For the ancient divine land of China, from the surging Qiantang River tides at Hangzhou Bay to the uniquely beautiful Huangshan; from the majestic Three Gorges of the Yangtze to the vast Shennongjia; from the “devil’s triangle” Poyang Lake to the enigmatic Sanxingdui culture—it bears the vicissitudes of ancient and modern times and is full of countless unsolved mysteries.  

What we discuss here is the newly discovered “ninth wonder on the mysterious 30th parallel north”—Huashan Mystery Caves.  

This scenic area is located in the eastern suburbs of Tunxi, Huangshan, Anhui, an ancient Huizhou grotto site. Compared to many famous natural caves in China, the Tunxi grotto group is not naturally formed but bizarre man-made caves chiseled by ancient craftsmen; chisel marks on the grotto walls remain clear to this day.  

The grottoes have enormous interior space and strange structures: some layered and cascading, caves within caves; some with stone pillars holding up the sky, fantastically mysterious; some with rippling water, winding and secluded. Moreover, there are no wall paintings, no Buddha statues, no inscriptions, so riddles abound, becoming an eternal mystery. Especially, two grotto entrances open directly into the Xin’an River, leaving people utterly baffled.  

The Huashan Mystery Caves comprise 36 ingeniously crafted grottoes, currently the largest-scale, most enigmatic, and largest-area ancient grotto site discovered in China. There is no historical record; the time and purpose of excavation remain a mystery, hence called “mystery caves.”  

On November 5, 2005, more than 60 Chinese and foreign experts and scholars from the U.S., UK, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and the mainland gathered in Huangshan, Anhui, trying to crack this unsolved mystery.  

Little did they know, the real answer lies in the book *The True Jiang Zemin*, which for the first time reveals Jiang Zemin’s true origins. As the name suggests, Jiang Ze of the people is a cold-blooded aquatic creature, the reincarnation of a toad that absorbed a thousand years of evil qi from a Tang dynasty tomb.  

When Jiang Zemin was mayor of Shanghai, Shanghai folklore already said he was a toad reincarnated. After Jiang went to Beijing in 1989, many Beijingers called him “Jiang the Big Toad.” Ancient times had “Daji confusing King Zhou of Shang”; today there is “toad harming the red dynasty.” Since a fox spirit can reincarnate as a queen, a toad spirit becoming general secretary is no surprise.  

In early spring of 2005 (Year of the Rooster), a descendant of Goujian of Yue’s minister Wen Zhong in Qimen County, Anhui, heard of a “millennium mystery cave” in Huangshan and went to tour it. The guide said: “This grotto is very spiritual; it was discovered in 1999. The entrance was full of rubble, so they kept digging inward. The more they dug, the more there was; while clearing rubble, they also found many cow bones mixed in, puzzling the workers. Whether man-made or natural, no one would have the strength and leisure to fill an abandoned cave perfectly with rubble and cow bones—locals were baffled, hence naming it ‘millennium mystery cave.’ The wall paintings inside are even more incomprehensible. In 2001, Jiang Zemin heard about it and made a special trip here.”  

As the saying goes, there’s no book without coincidence. Just as he felt the bone-chilling cold inside and hurried out, he ran into an old monk in yellow robes who told him the cave’s origin. The so-called millennium mystery cave is actually a toad cave: the flat entrance like an upside-down plate is the toad’s mouth; the cave itself is the toad’s belly; the rounded, bulging top with circles of green is the toad’s back. Because the yin qi inside is extremely heavy, it has gathered many rotten ghosts invisible to mortal eyes.  

Precisely because Jiang’s primordial spirit is a toad, this toad cave is Jiang’s lair. In May 2001, Jiang Zemin, severely depleted from suppressing Falun Gong, his physical shell on the brink of death, came to this toad cave in Huangshan and stayed a long time to replenish black energy.  

Hong Kong media, citing Beijing sources, also said Jiang Zemin, knowing his sins were grave and fearing hell’s punishment, once copied the *Ksitigarbha Sutra* at home and went to Jiuhua Mountain to worship Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.  

Xi Jinping’s Secret to “Holding On” to Power at the Fourth Plenary Session  
*Borrow Another Five Hundred Years from Heaven* is a popular song on the mainland. The lyric “I really want to live another five hundred years” far exceeds Xi’s goal of “living to 150.”  

Since ancient times, where there is life, there is death; where there is death, there is fear. Out of fear of birth, aging, sickness, and death, and pursuit of power, money, lust, and desire, many folk techniques for immortality and life extension emerged in China.  

Legend has it that two figures in Chinese history used the Big Dipper lamp to extend life: Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms and Liu Bowen of the Ming. Both were unwilling because their great causes were unfinished; one failed, one succeeded. Shu’s fate was exhausted; Zhuge Liang, out of gratitude for Liu Bei’s patronage, tried to defy heaven to prop up collapsing Shu—heaven naturally did not allow it. But Liu Bowen aided the Ming in accordance with heaven’s mandate and emerged in response to the times, so heaven assisted.  

According to Hong Kong’s famous “feng shui master” Yu Zhilin, Macau gambling king Stanley Ho’s family once paid 5 million Macau patacas to have him light the Big Dipper life-extension lamp to prolong Ho’s life.  

Besides the Big Dipper lamp, there are two other life-extension techniques: one called “planting a life base,” the other “borrowing lifespan.”  

Planting a life base is a feng shui term, essentially a substitute: personal items containing one’s essence, blood, and qi (blood, hair, nails, underwear) are placed in a jar as a substitute, buried in a specific feng shui treasure site, using fake death to deceive heaven’s eye and escape fate’s restrictions. In *Investiture of the Gods*, Jiang Ziya used this method to help Wu Ji escape a life-and-death calamity.  

Planting a life base is now basically only seen in Hong Kong; on the mainland, “borrowing lifespan” is mostly used. Ancients believed lifespan length is decreed by heaven; lifespan, like goods, can be borrowed and repaid. As the song says, you can borrow from heaven or from people.  

Borrowing from heaven is called “borrowing yin lifespan,” like the folk tale of “Emperor Taizong of Tang Tours the Underworld.” Li Shimin, due to heavy killing karma from early conquests, depleted his yang lifespan. Minister Wei Zheng then went to the underworld and borrowed twenty years of life for Li Shimin from King Yama. Thus, borrowing from heaven requires being a true dragon emperor.  

Borrowing from people is “borrowing yang lifespan,” defying heaven’s way, taking lifespan from other living people—refusing to die when due, forcibly changing fate. Live organ harvesting for life extension also belongs to this evil technique. This gives rise to the currently hot online rumor of “offering live sacrifices.” Because mainland young film star Yu Menglong shares the exact birth month and day as the current party leader, he was secretly selected as a life-borrowing sacrifice.  

In fact, Xi Jinping and his family believe both in Marxism-Leninism and in ghosts and gods—this is not baseless. WikiLeaks released a confidential U.S. Embassy cable from Beijing on August 30, 2011, describing one of Xi’s personality traits: he strongly believes in Buddhism’s supernatural powers.  

Mr. Hu Liren, in his *Real China* program “Exposing Xi Jinping’s Double Life,” said that from June 1988 to June 1990, while Xi was secretary of the Ningde Prefectural Committee in Fujian, he had close contacts with Master Wuteng, abbot of Juerong County’s Juexing Temple.  

From October 2002 to March 2007, while transferred to Zhejiang, on Jack Ma’s recommendation, Xi and Peng Liyuan secretly visited Hangzhou’s Jingshan Temple (also called Wanshou Zen Temple) multiple times to pay respects. The abbot, Master Jiexing, divined that Xi had the extraordinary countenance of an emperor and would surely become the country’s ruler smoothly.  

This year is the zodiac snake year—Xi’s benming year. On one hand, he spares no expense on “joy-rushing” events like the September 3 military parade and SCO summit to reverse fortune, dispel illness, and avert disaster; on the other, he risks flying to the snowy plateau to pray and fulfill vows for enduring national fortune; he even resorts to the evil technique of live human “sacrifice” to defy heaven and change fate, lingering on in a desperate bid for survival.  

Conclusion  
The *Book of Changes · Xici Xia* says: “Virtue thin yet position high, wisdom small yet plans grand, strength weak yet burden heavy—rarely does calamity not follow.” Thus, when virtue does not match position, disaster is inevitable.  

The greatest heavenly phenomenon now is “Heaven destroys the CCP,” because the Communist Party is an alien species in human history that defies heaven, enemies true faith, allies with Satan, replaces humanity with party nature, replaces conscience with selfish desire—a politico-religious black gangster party that kills the heart.  

Therefore, tyrants like the CCP’s Jiang Zemin who bring calamity to country and people, though momentarily riding high and acting wantonly, ultimately cannot escape doom, dying without a burial place. They are even cast into Avici Hell with no day of emergence.  
(People’s Daily exclusive) △