Tea-picking lantern dance

采茶灯
Cai cha deng
Tea-picking lantern dance
1954, October
Shanghai huapian chubanshe (上海画片出版社)
53x77 cm.
BG E39/936

Dancers performing a folk dance popular during the early 1950s. Like many dances around that time, it features rural people doing manual labor, in this case picking tea.

Printnr. 8085.1036; 26th impression (April 1957); print run 1,280,401 - 1,330,400.