Things only got worse as the Cultural Revolution engulfed the nation in the late 1960s and he was shipped out to the countryside at the tender age of 15 to toil with the peasants as one of millions of "sent-down educated youth". In a small village in northern Shaanxi Province he slept like the locals on a flea-infested bed made of bricks in a cave dug into the yellow dirt. "I ate a lot of bitterness at that time," Mr Xi later wrote. "But my experience there had a profound influence on me and formed my down-to-earth, striving character."
到上世纪60年代后期，随着文化大革命在全国范围内兴起，情况变得更糟。年仅15岁的习近平与数百万“下乡知青”一起，下放到农村，与农民一起辛苦劳动。在陕西北部的一个小村庄里，习近平和当地的农民一样，睡在窑洞里满是跳蚤的炕上。“我那时吃了很多苦，”习近平后来写道，“但那段经历对我有很深的影响，使我形成了踏实肯干、不屈不挠的性格。”
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