Cultural Revolution Color Ceramics - Happy Peasant

One of Cultural Revolution’s main movements was the class struggle. Often depicted in Peking Opera scenes, images of peasants and farmers who had no shoes or nice clothes to wear, after the Red Army, later called the People’s Liberation Army arrived into a village, the peasants and farmers would be liberated and rise on top. In this particular colorful image of ceramics sculpture, it depicts an image of a happy and free peasant. In reality, with the Da Yu Jin (Great Leap Forward) and the Famine due to Natural disaster in the 50th and 60th, under Mao’s dictatorship, Chinese peasants and farmers often suffered hunger. The devastating situation did not change until 1980’s when Deng took control of the government and started the economical reform. Retrospectively this image was quite the contrary of what was really going on in China during the Cultural Revolution era.

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