sentences:  In 1970, at the age of 51, he and his wife were separated and assigned to almost 3 years of hard labor in the countryside as part of the Communist Party's vast re-education program.Wu stated, “Life was only planting rice, carrying coal, criticizing one another, and fighting one another…The only thing that no one was allowed to do was paint.” 
  Following that period, he was only allowed to paint on Sundays (his day off from the fields) or on holidays.Wu didn’t suffer too much physical harm because he had destroyed many of his own paintings but this caused him much emotional harm.