The Graves (a still from a TV documentary about the fire 12 years later) Eye Salute
Etiquette advisor (deputy chairman of the Party from the Bureau of Education):
Now, go, go on to the stage, and let us do
Our performing. In the first rows
The leaders have already seated and they are not
To be kept waiting. Yours is not an entertainment,
Yours is a report back, and let’s do our best.
Remember to lower your heads a little,
Do not appear to look down your noses
As in the stalls the leaders sit low in their chairs!
Do not stare, and you can imagine you are looking at watermelons
(Don’t laugh, this is only a simile, not an analogue).
Remember to be neat; come onto the stage quick,
and exit after a bow, slow and in order. Exit quick.
Do not wait for applause, and then go out
And re-enter from the main entrance to your seats in the rear.
Do not make any noise,
And applause hard when the leaders go onto the stage again,
And applause harder when they praise your performance.
Remain seated when the leaders leave the stage,
And eye salute them as they walk down the aisle.
Allow some time for the leaders to leave the yard
And remain seated and keep silent
Until you are directed by your teacher to leave row by row.
Invisible Eyes (from Nowhere):
The students remained seated when fire broke out during the show,
As an official’s voice was heard out of the smoke through the loud speakers:
Don’t move, students! Let the leaders go first!
Twenty some leaders were all safe and clean, their etiquette perfect,
Leaving behind 288 young burnt corpses between 8 and 14 years old
And 37 adults, their arms spread like desperate hens over their chickens.
The students were enlisted from 8 primary schools and 7 middle schools
To entertain the leaders from the Province came to inspect
The municipal’s achievements in the Illiteracy-Elimination Movement.
That was on December 8, 1994 in Kelamayi, Xinjiang, China,
And people over the country were commemorating Dec. 9th Anti-Japan Movement.
May 3, 2008
Bare Fact News：
1994年12月8日，克拉玛依市举行学生汇报演出，礼堂大火，但是因为要“让领导先走”，因此所有学生坐在原位不动，让礼堂最前排的领导们从容走出，结果288名学生被活活烧死，37名老师也被烧死，另有130位不同程度的烧伤，其中重伤60余人。
注目礼
礼仪顾问（来自市教育局）：
很好，去吧，准备上台，我们马上开始
表演。在最前面的两排
领导们已经落座，不可以让他们
等待。你们不得出任何差错，
这是汇报演出，一定要全力以赴。
记住，头要稍稍低下一点，
不要令人觉得你眼睛向上，
领导们坐在前面，沙发比舞台低。
不要盯着看，这不礼貌，如果有谁怯场，
最好的方法是想象你们看到满地西瓜
（严肃点，我只是打个比方，不是类比）。
切记，你们要干净利落，上场要快，
退场之前一定要鞠躬，要整齐划一，不要匆忙，
然后快速退场，不要等着鼓掌。
接着从外面绕一圈由正门进入后面的座位，
不要发出任何声音，以免影响接着的活动。
领导上台时，你们要热烈鼓掌，
领导表扬你们的演出，你们的鼓掌要更加热烈。
领导离开时，你们要坐在座位上，
领导走过你们身边的走道时，你们要转身行注目礼。
你们不要立即站起来冲出礼堂，
就好像你们家的来客需要时间道别，领导也一样，
因此你们要等老师的通知，才能一排一排地有秩序离开。
现在，第一组表演者上场，第二、三组站到幕后准备，
第四、五组站在幕后的台下，你们不可以发出任何声音。
不可见的眼睛（不知来自何处）：
当舞台失火时，学生们坐在座位上没有站起来，
高音喇叭中一个官员的声音穿过浓烟传来：
学生们不要动！让领导先走！
二十几位领导安全而整洁地离开了，身后留下
288具尸体，年龄从8岁到14岁，没有行注目礼，
还有37具成人尸体，他们双臂展开犹如母鸡护着小鸡。
他们来自8所小学，7所中学，为了省城领导
视察验收市扫除文盲运动的成果而进行汇报演出。
那是1994年12月8日，中国新疆的克拉玛依市，
那日，全国各级院校正在隆重纪念一二九抗日救亡运动。
2008年5月8日
Etiquette advisor (deputy chairman of the Party from the Bureau of Education):
Now, go, go on to the stage, and let us do
Our performing. In the first rows
The leaders have already seated and they are not
To be kept waiting. Yours is not an entertainment,
Yours is a report back, and let’s do our best.
Remember to lower your heads a little,
Do not appear to look down your noses
As in the stalls the leaders sit low in their chairs!
Do not stare, and you can imagine you are looking at watermelons
(Don’t laugh, this is only a simile, not an analogue).
Remember to be neat; come onto the stage quick,
and exit after a bow, slow and in order. Exit quick.
Do not wait for applause, and then go out
And re-enter from the main entrance to your seats in the rear.
Do not make any noise,
And applause hard when the leaders go onto the stage again,
And applause harder when they praise your performance.
Remain seated when the leaders leave the stage,
And eye salute them as they walk down the aisle.
Allow some time for the leaders to leave the yard
And remain seated and keep silent
Until you are directed by your teacher to leave row by row.
Invisible Eyes (from Nowhere):
The students remained seated when fire broke out during the show,
As an official’s voice was heard out of the smoke through the loud speakers:
Don’t move, students! Let the leaders go first!
Twenty some leaders were all safe and clean, their etiquette perfect,
Leaving behind 288 young burnt corpses between 8 and 14 years old
And 37 adults, their arms spread like desperate hens over their chickens.
The students were enlisted from 8 primary schools and 7 middle schools
To entertain the leaders from the Province came to inspect
The municipal’s achievements in the Illiteracy-Elimination Movement.
That was on December 8, 1994 in Kelamayi, Xinjiang, China,
And people over the country were commemorating Dec. 9th Anti-Japan Movement.
May 3, 2008
Bare Fact News：
1994年12月8日，克拉玛依市举行学生汇报演出，礼堂大火，但是因为要“让领导先走”，因此所有学生坐在原位不动，让礼堂最前排的领导们从容走出，结果288名学生被活活烧死，37名老师也被烧死，另有130位不同程度的烧伤，其中重伤60余人。
注目礼
礼仪顾问（来自市教育局）：
很好，去吧，准备上台，我们马上开始
表演。在最前面的两排
领导们已经落座，不可以让他们
等待。你们不得出任何差错，
这是汇报演出，一定要全力以赴。
记住，头要稍稍低下一点，
不要令人觉得你眼睛向上，
领导们坐在前面，沙发比舞台低。
不要盯着看，这不礼貌，如果有谁怯场，
最好的方法是想象你们看到满地西瓜
（严肃点，我只是打个比方，不是类比）。
切记，你们要干净利落，上场要快，
退场之前一定要鞠躬，要整齐划一，不要匆忙，
然后快速退场，不要等着鼓掌。
接着从外面绕一圈由正门进入后面的座位，
不要发出任何声音，以免影响接着的活动。
领导上台时，你们要热烈鼓掌，
领导表扬你们的演出，你们的鼓掌要更加热烈。
领导离开时，你们要坐在座位上，
领导走过你们身边的走道时，你们要转身行注目礼。
你们不要立即站起来冲出礼堂，
就好像你们家的来客需要时间道别，领导也一样，
因此你们要等老师的通知，才能一排一排地有秩序离开。
现在，第一组表演者上场，第二、三组站到幕后准备，
第四、五组站在幕后的台下，你们不可以发出任何声音。
不可见的眼睛（不知来自何处）：
当舞台失火时，学生们坐在座位上没有站起来，
高音喇叭中一个官员的声音穿过浓烟传来：
学生们不要动！让领导先走！
二十几位领导安全而整洁地离开了，身后留下
288具尸体，年龄从8岁到14岁，没有行注目礼，
还有37具成人尸体，他们双臂展开犹如母鸡护着小鸡。
他们来自8所小学，7所中学，为了省城领导
视察验收市扫除文盲运动的成果而进行汇报演出。
那是1994年12月8日，中国新疆的克拉玛依市，
那日，全国各级院校正在隆重纪念一二九抗日救亡运动。
2008年5月8日
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