Illustration:
ill. 6.8 (set: 6.8)
Date:
1971
Genre:
comic, comic strip
Material:
scan, paper, black-and-white; original source: print on paper
Source:
Baimaonü 白毛女 (The white-haired girl). Tianjin: Tianjin renmin meishu, 1971. Caoyuan ernü 草原儿女 (Little sisters of the grasslands). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1973:199.
Inscription:
(199) 出发! 大春挥号命令队伍前进。火红的战旗迎风漫卷，战斗的行列浩浩荡荡，象一股势不可挡的洪流，迎着朝阳阔步向前!向前，向前，在战无不胜的毛泽东思想伟大红旗指引下，永远胜利向前进，誓把革命红旗插遍全中国，誓将无产阶级革命进行到底!
Keywords:
Mao Zedong, red sun, sunrays, iconography, red flag, Mao´s words, Mao Zedong Thougth, Mao quotation, model ballet, model works, hero, heroism, Cultural Revolution, gesture, fight

The White-Haired Girl: Victorious Finale in the Sun (Baimaonü 白毛女)

Invariably, when Mao and his powerful words and thoughts are mentioned, the iconography of the radiant sun is being used: in White-Haired Girl, as seen here, a comic published in 1971 and based on the model ballet by the same name, the power of the sun to make the people and their lives happy is quite evident in the final tableau, as everybody’s hands are held up to the sky and the beaming sun, in victory pose and their open smiles reveal happy determined faces.The text reinforces the message again: the people in the picture “move forward victoriously forever and ever, according to the instructions of the Great Red Flag of invincible Mao Zedong Thought” (在战无不胜的毛泽东思想下伟大红旗指引下永远胜利向前进).