保卫祖国建设祖国 Baowei zuguo jianshe zuguo Designer Xin Liliang (忻礼良) Date 1959, August Publisher Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社) Size 53.5x77.5 cm. Call nr. PC-1959-009 Collection Private collection Notes The pictures on the lanterns: a sheaf of grain on the left, symbolizing agriculture, a bucket with steel on the right, symbolizing industry. Theme Door Gods (门神) People's Militia Tags China poster Chinese propaganda 1959 lantern civil defense people's militia 民兵 rifle model worker peasant worker child flowers pennant grain steel award