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Question 4 of 10 Why did the Red Guards want to destroy traditional Chinese culture during the Cultural Revolution? A. Traditional culture had led many people to support Mao Zedong's cult of personality. B. Chinese Nationalists in Taiwan were still practicing traditional rituals. C. Mao Zedong believed that traditional ideas contradicted communist ideals. D. They blamed traditional cultural practices on the famine devastating the country.

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C

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The Red Guards were a mass student-ledled paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong. The movement was aimed at preserving 'true' Communist ideology in China by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. It was also intended to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant ideology in China. The Red Guards were instructed to attack the 'Four Olds' in Chinese culture: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas. This included the destruction of historical artifacts and the desecration of traditional Chinese culture. The reason for this was that Mao Zedong believed that traditional ideas contradicted communist ideals, which is option C.