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Keep your head down and be led by a willing son. What animal is it?

"The obedient child" is an ancient name for children. "A willing ox" is an allusion recorded in Zuo Zhuan: During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi Jinggong played with his son, and Gong Jing took the rope as an ox and let his son lead him.

This "Aiko" story, which was told through the ages, later became a virtue praised by people. Lu Xun, a great modern writer, famously said, "Bow your head and be a willing ox", which sublimated and carried forward the spirit of a willing ox. Later, people used "willing to be a willing ox" to describe a person who is willing to serve the people and is selfless.

I will never give in to the enemy, I will obey the people like an ox.

What the condemned men mean: those so-called gentlemen at that time, that is, Kuomintang reactionaries, were naturally criticized by Lu Xun. Lu Xun speaks for the proletariat in China, just like a cow, willing to contribute his strength to the proletariat.