Designer: Ding Hao (丁浩)
1958, February
Exterminate the four pests!
Chu sihai! (除四害!)
Size: 75x49 cm.
Call number: PC-1958-025 (Private collection)

The campaign 'Kill the Four Pests' is directed against flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows. Sparrows eat grain from the fields, so they have to be killed. But sparrows also feed on insects, like locusts, that become a real plague once the sparrows have been exterminated.