1970年12月18日,毛泽东对美国友好人士斯诺说:“1967年7月(July)和8月(August)两个月不行了,天下大乱了。”其实,天下早已大乱了。不过到1967年的7月和8月,“天下大乱”的局势已经发展到连毛泽东自己也难以控制的程度,这种情况是他所没有预料到的。“围困中南海事件”就是当时发生的一起参加人数最多、持续时间最长的重大动乱。从7月初开始,到8月上旬,造 On December 18, 1970, Mao Zedong told U.S.-friendly Snow, “Two months in July and August 1967 failed. The world was in chaos.” Actually, the world has already been in chaos. However, by July and August 1967, the situation of “chaos in the world” had grown to such an extent that even Mao Zedong himself had no control over. That was what he had not expected. The “siege of the Zhongnanhai incident” was the major unrest that took place at the time with the largest number of participants and the longest duration. From early July to early August, made