Three Loyalties and Four Limitlessnesses

The Three Loyalties and Four Limitlessnesses (Chinese: 三忠于四无限; pinyin: Sān zhōngyú sì wúxiàn) was a political term used in China during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution, emphasizing Mao Zedong's cult of personality and loyalty to his ideology. Three Loyalties and Four Limitlessnesses was criticized by the authorities after the Cultural Revolution ended.

Three Loyalties was one of the important daily activities in those years. In 1968, the Three Loyalties activities (loyalty to Chairman Mao, loyalty to Mao Zedong Thought, and to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line) reached a climax in various places, and the singing of model operas, the performance of loyalty dances, and "early reporting and evening reporting" were widely carried out.

v t e Cultural Revolution
Prelude	Anti-Rightist Campaign Great Chinese Famine Great Leap Forward Lushan Conference Seven Thousand Cadres Conference Socialist Education Movement Fengqiao experience Taoyuan Experience
Major events	Down to the Countryside Movement Cleansing the Class Ranks 12-3 incident January Storm February Countercurrent Great Exchange of Revolutionary Experience 1967 Hong Kong riots Wuhan incident Smashing gong-jian-fa Arson attacks on the British Chargé d'affaires Office 9th Party Congress One Strike-Three Anti Campaign Abolition of the presidency in China Project 571 Lin Biao incident 10th Party Congress Black Painting incident Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius Snail Incident Hangzhou incident 1975 Banqiao Dam failure Counterattack the Right-Deviationist Reversal-of-Verdicts Trend 1976 Nanjing incident 1976 Tiananmen incident Smashing the Gang of Four
Massacres	Red August Daxing Massacre Guangxi Massacre Inner Mongolia incident Guangdong Massacre Yangjiang Massacre Hunan Massacres Daoxian massacre Shaoyang County Massacre Yunnan Massacres Zhao Jianmin spy case Shadian incident Ruijin Massacre Qinghai 223 Incident
Key figures	Mao Zedong Liu Shaoqi Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Deng Xiaoping Gang of Four (Jiang Qing Zhang Chunqiao Yao Wenyuan Wang Hongwen) Peng Dehuai Wu Han Peng Zhen Tao Zhu Chen Boda Wang Dongxing Xie Fuzhi Ji Dengkui Wang Li Qi Benyu Wu Faxian Qiu Huizuo Yang Chengwu Chen Zaidao Kang Sheng Mao Yuanxin Hua Guofeng Ye Jianying
Documents	1970 Draft Constitution A List of Cadres to Be Protected Bombard the Headquarters Quotations from Chairman Mao Hai Rui Dismissed from Office May 16 Notification Six Articles of Public Security Sweep Away All Cow Demons and Snake Spirits On Class Origins On the Abolition of Bourgeois Rights "With you in charge, I'm at ease"
Concepts	Four Olds Newborn socialist things Struggle session Feudal fascism Big-character poster Cow demons and snake spirits Bloodline theory Continuous Revolution Theory Seizure of power Violent Struggle One Divides into Two Democracy Wall Eight model plays Loyalty dance Capitalist roader Yiku sitian Learn from Daqing in industry Learn from Dazhai in agriculture Stinking Old Ninth Five Black Categories Five Red Categories Four Greats Three Loyalties and Four Limitlessnesses Two Newspapers and One Journal
Groups	61 Renegades 8341 Special Regiment Barefoot doctor Central Case Examination Group Central Organization and Propaganda Leading Group Cultural Revolution Group Five Man Group Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams May Seventh Cadre School May Sixteenth elements Red Guards Conservative Faction Little Red Guards Rebel Faction Scarlet Guards Ultra-Left Faction Xiaoyao Faction Revolutionary committee in Beijing in Fujian in Heilongjiang in Shanghai Sent-down youth Hunan Provincial Proletarian Revolutionary Great Alliance Committee Worker-Peasant-Soldier student Xiang River Storm and Thunder
Related topics	Maoism Mao Zedong's cult of personality Mango cult Case of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing Counter-Revolutionary Cliques List of campaigns of the Chinese Communist Party Class struggle Sino-Soviet split Two Whatevers Morning Sun (film) Third Plenum of the 11th Central Committee Boluan Fanzheng New Enlightenment Scar literature Evaluation of the Cultural Revolution Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China
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