Editing Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius (section)

== Local level ==
Ordinary people in China generally viewed the campaign as an attack on elitism in China's Confucian tradition, particularly given the campaign's denunciation of the Confucian principle ''shang zun xia yu er bu yi'' (meaning that it is a general rule that the elites are respectable and the ordinary people are stupid).<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Han |first=Dongping |url= |title=The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village |date=2008 |isbn=978-1-58367-180-1 |location=New York |pages=123 |oclc=227930948}}</ref>

During the campaign, some dormant radicals on the local level resumed political activities, one such example was the [[Hangzhou incident]] of 1975, which was put down with a massive deployment of troops.<ref name=":12">{{Cite news |last=Butterfield |first=Fox |date=1975-07-29 |title=China Sends Troops To Troubled Plants In Major Coast City |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/07/29/issue.html |access-date=2021-08-02}}</ref>