On this day, 48 years ago, February 7, 1977 (December 20, 1976, the People's Daily published an editorial proposing the "Two Whats". Hua Guofeng in 1977 On February 7, 1977, Hua Guofeng publicly proposed adhering to the "two everythings" policy. On that day, People's Daily, Red Flag Magazine, and People's Liberation Army Daily published editorials titled "Learning Documents and Grasping the Outline", and for the first time publicly proposed the "Two Whats" across the country, namely,"We resolutely uphold all decisions made by Chairman Mao; we must unswervingly follow all Chairman Mao's instructions. "The intention of proposing the" two oftentimes "was to prevent Deng Xiaoping from working and to obstruct the rehabilitation of the Tiananmen incident. The essence was to persist in Mao Zedong's" leftist "mistakes in his later years intact. The "two anythings" policy suppressed ideological emancipation and created many obstacles for the whole party to correct the left-leaning mistakes of the Cultural Revolution and set order right.