A woman with four children in a shop for Beijing Opera masks and props. The little boy holding toy axes is about to get the black-and-white mask of Li Kui, the leading figure in the traditional Beijing opera The black whirlwind, originally a character from the novel Shuihu zhuan (水浒传) - Water Margin.

The text below the image:
过新年,喜洋洋,买面具,买刀枪;
扮成[李逵]英雄将,咚锵咚锵演一场。
Celebrate New Year, radiant with joy, buy masks, buy weapons;
Dress up as the heroic general [Li Kui], boom, clang, boom, clang, stage a show.

This is a print from the second impression (October 1955).