Designer: Wu Guanghua (吴光华)
early 1970s
Happy to see that pulling up seedlings no longer needs bending the waist
Xikan bayang bu wanyao (喜看拔秧不弯腰)
Publisher: Shanghai renmin chubanshe (上海人民出版社)
Size: 53x77 cm.
Call number: BG E13/58 (Landsberger collection)

For centuries, rice cultivation was manual labor. Farmers had to stand in the water, bent over, to look after the rice plants. Mechanization brings this to an end.
(First of two sheets)