 Mao did however send a wreath to the funeral.Instead, Mao attacked a proposal to have Zhou publicly declared a great Marxist, and rejected a request that he make a brief appearance at Zhou's funeral, instructing his nephew, Mao Yuanxin, to explain that he could not attend because doing so would be seen as a public admission that he was being forced to "rethink the Cultural Revolution", as Zhou's later years had been closely associated with reversing and moderating its excesses.Mao worried that public expressions of mourning would later be directed against him and his policies, and backed the "five no's" campaign to suppress public expressions of mourning for Zhou after the late Premier's death.