Blood-stained glory

血染的风采
Xue ran de fengcai
Blood-stained glory
1988, July
Sichuan meishu chubanshe (四川美术出版社)
53x77 cm.
BG E35/709

Fierce-looking soldiers, charging and firing forward, in the center. On the left a saluting soldier with medals and flowers, on the right soldiers with large rosette awards on the battlefield, solemnly raising their cups.

"Blood-stained Glory" is the title of a patriotic military song, written in 1986 for the PLA soldiers who died in the ongoing military conflicts with Vietnam. It was later subversively sung to commemorate the victims of the "June 4th Incident" of 1989.