Follow the poor peasants, roll your body in mud, to temper a red heart

跟着老贫农，滚一身泥巴，炼一颗红星！
Genzhe lao pinnong, gun yishen niba, lian yike hongxin!
Follow the poor peasants, roll your body in mud, to temper a red heart
Revolutionary Committee of Sichuan Art Academy (四川美术学院革命委员会供稿)
ca. 1968
Publisher unknown
54x77 cm.
BG E15/853
Landsberger collection

The Mao quote on the board reads "Resolute and unafraid of sacrifice, we will surmount every difficulty to win victory" (下定决心，不怕牺牲，排除万难，去争取胜利). The text carved in the mountain is "Agriculture studies Dazhai" (农业学大寨).

Up to the mountains, down to the villages (1968)
Quotations from Chairman Mao
Study Dazhai
China
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Chinese
propaganda
countryside
peasant
sent-down youth
rock
Mao badge
Mao quotation
Little Red Book
小红书
terrace
Dazhai
大寨

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Revolutionary educated youth, the poor-and-lower-middle peasants welcome you!
The countryside is a vast world where much can be accomplished
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Follow the poor peasants, roll your body in mud, to temper a red heart
Give heed to Chairman Mao's call to send our sons and daughters to the countryside so that they can be re-educated by the poor-and-lower-middle peasants!
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We also have a pair of hands, we do not need to eat the spare food in the cities!
We also have a pair of hands, we do not need to eat the spare food in the cities!
Chairman Mao waves his hand, we move forward
Chairman Mao waves his hand, we move forward

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