Happy to present Spring Festival couplets

喜送春联
Xi song chun lian
Happy to present Spring Festival couplets
1976, December
Beijing renmin chubanshe (北京人民出版社)
53x73 cm.
BG E18/89

The group receives "Spring festival couplets", red paper strips with poetic lines to be put left, right and above the door in celebration of the new year. Traditionally they contain optimistic messages and wishes for prosperity. The ones presented here sing about the end of the Gang of Four period and the victory of Hua Guofeng. On the wall in the background the portraits of Mao and Hua Guofeng that hung everywhere late 1976 - 1977.