Culture is carried to the fields at last

文化挑到了田间
Wenhua tiao daole tianjian
Culture is carried to the fields at last
1953, November
Xin meishu chubanshe (新美术出版社), Shanghai
54x77 cm.
PC-1953-006

Peasants gathering around crates with books and journals, carried to the fields on a carrying pole. The young man holds an issue of China Pictorial (人民画报). This poster may refer to an actual initiative to carry "文化挑" crates to the fields in Shuangzha Township (双闸乡), a suburb of Nanjing.