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“Pæan of the Northern Frontier” (MN: ᠤᠮᠠᠷᠠᠳᠤ ᠬᠢᠯᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠤᠶᠠᠩᠭᠠᠲᠤ ᠳᠠᠭᠤᠤ / Умард хилийн уянгат дуу / Umard hiliin uyangat duu; CN: 北疆讚歌 / Běijiāng zàn’gē), a Mongolian ode of praise from Inner Mongolia. In his later years, Mao Zedong remained deferent to his mortality. On many occasions, he spoke casually of the natural laws of life and death. He said to his staff: “All people will eventually die. Mao Zedong is a person, so Mao Zedong too will die.“ He also said: “When I die, you can throw a celebration party. You will dress nicely, brightly in red or floral clothes, and attend the party with joy and glee, and proudly step up to the stage to speak. You can say: ‘Today we hold a victorious conference. Mao Zedong has died. Let us all celebrate the triumph of the dialectic.’ If people do not die, from Confucius to the present, the earth will no longer have any room left.” Mao also explained his dialectical materialist concept of life and death. He said to his staff: “When I lived, I ate a lot of fish. After I die
