Four not-having-to-bend scrolls (1, 2)

四不弯腰屏
Si bu wan yao bing
Four not-having-to-bend scrolls (1, 2)
1976, August
Shanghai renmin chubanshe (上海人民出版社)
77x53 cm.
BG E15/103

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; the second is BG E15/104).