Excellent yarn and fine cloth is produced day after day; Zhinü comes to study the advanced

优紗细布日日新; 织女也来学先进
You shaxibu riri xin; zhinü ye lai xue xianjin
Excellent yarn and fine cloth is produced day after day; Zhinü comes to study the advanced
1958, October
Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
53x38,5 cm.
BG D91/109

Right part of a set of two Door Gods posters titled "Heroic figures, come back to look at the present" (英雄人物,还看今朝). The companion piece: BG D91/108

The set refers to the folk tale "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl". In this story, Niulang and Zhinü were gods, whose love was forbidden by celestial laws. Niulang is reincarnated into a poor cowherd on earth, Zhinü is forced to weave colorful clouds all day long in heaven.