Illustration:
ill. 1.6
Date:
1970
Genre:
postcard
Material:
paper, colour
Source:
Postcard Collection: Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1970.
Keywords:
Yang Zirong, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, positive character, hero, model works, model opera, arms, gesture, Beijing Opera, red sun, sun, visualisation, yangbanxi, Cultural Revolution

Taking Tiger Mountain by strategy: Yang Zirong (Zhiqu weihushan: Yang Zirong 智取威虎山: 杨子荣)

The positive characters, on the other hand, enter the stage proudly and ceremoniously, with their arms raised and palms out, in dramatic poses liangxiang 亮相, taken from Beijing Opera, displaying their good face directly to the audience as does Yang Zirong here, to the sounds of "Red Is the East" (0:40-1:07) and with a red glow appearing in the background.