⧉Image Dance Props: Celebrating The People’s Republic Of China’s National Day
- Title
- Celebrating the People’s Republic of China’s National Day (qingzhu zhonghua renmin gongheguo guoqingjie 庆祝中华人民共和国国庆节)
- Date
- 1950-12
- Creator
- Su Guojing 苏国惊
- Publisher
- N/A
- Rights
- Courtesy of the IISH/Stefan R. Landsberger Collection. Photo © International Institute of Social History. BG D29/685
- Description
Parade with yangge 秧歌 dance team featuring waist drum (yaogu 腰鼓), performed in stylized northern peasant clothing. Dancers behind the drummers manipulate pieces of colored fabric, also common in revolutionary yangge dance parades. The portraits are of Mao Zedong and Sun Yatsen (Sun Zhongshan 孙中山), the first provisional president of the Republic of China (until 1925). The parade is lined with the red flag of the People’s Republic of China.