Well, it's kinda hard to give a general view of a couple hundred million people's views; there are diehard Maoists to this day, just as there are people who hate him, but I can talk a bit about how the CPC reacted to Mao's legacy (ie, to prevent another Mao from being possible)

Basically, after Mao, structural reforms were put into place within the Communist party and the Chinese Government that prevented the centralization of power under one man. Deng Xiaoping, after assuming power at the 11th National Congress of the Communist party, helped to rehabilitate those who had been accused by Mao of being traitors to the revolution during the Cultural Revolution, and quite a few others going back to the first purges in the 1950s.

During the 80s (1982 if I remember my readings right) several Deng allies were raised to key positions within the CCP and government, and together they abolished the position of Chairman, which prevented anyone from ever having total control over the party ever again, in their view. At the same time, they ended the idea of Mao's infallibility, declaring himself to be "right 70% of the time, wrong 30% of the time"

So, I don't have anything for common people, but that's a pretty quick rundown of what happened to the CCP and how it reacted post Mao

Someone who is more skilled at writing than me, please feel free to add more to this, I'm on my phone so apologies for any grammar/spelling errors

In addition to /u/kanadskiy's point about generalizing across people, there's also a problem generalizing across the period of Mao's rule. Mao was the de facto leader of the PRC from 1949 until his death in 1976, and a lot of things happened during that time.

Therefore, you might have more luck asking about specific events (e.g., pursuit of nuclear weapons, relations with the USSR, the famine, Cultural Revolution, etc).

If you'll accept second-hand anecdotes, you might try /r/China.