On the left top back corner wall the blue-grey characters, 批林批孔专栏 mean, “Billboard for Criticizing Lin Biao and Confucius.”
On the right top corner is an old style loud speaker box with a red five-star on it. This was used for making public announcements.
You can see two book bags in the painting similar to the one here.
The Chinese name, 源远流长 (yuán yuǎn liú cháng) is a four-character phrase 成语 that literally means “The source is distant and the flow is long.” It brings awareness of the length of time that water has flowed and infers a comparison to time reaching back…
It is a postage stamp with an image of Mao Zedong waving as he looks out over the Tiananmen Plaza from atop the Tiananmen Gate. This is one stamp from a set of two. You can view the other here. Click to like.
Liangshan is the Yi Autonomous Prefecture located in Sichuan Province. They are sitting in a train car making announcements. The man is of the Yi Nationality. The insignia on his teacup is the railroad insignia like this pin. The Yi people are the 6th largest…