 Throughout the next decade, Mao largely developed policies while Zhou carried them out, attempting to moderate some of the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, such as preventing Beijing from being renamed "East Is Red City" () and the Chinese guardian lions in front of Tian'anmen Square from being replaced with statues of Mao.Zhou also ordered a PLA battalion to guard the Forbidden City and protect its traditional artifacts from vandalism and destruction by Red Guards.Despite his best efforts, the inability to prevent many of the events of the Cultural Revolution were a great blow to Zhou.