A cutting from a magazine cover.
The characters, 各族人民大团结万岁 mean, “Long live the unity of all ethnicities.”
The man on the left crouched down is holding an abacus to add the measurements.
The young girl is stopping to pick up grains before heading on to school. She has a book bag, bedding, and copies of Mao’s works. The man is wearing a Mao button.
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…