Daily LIFT #1809

Under the Apple Trees, traditional-style painting, Lei Hung-sheng and Liu Han-yu, People's Republic of China, c. 1976

From the PRC Press:

In "Under the Apple Trees", another traditional-style painting, a young cook with water flasks and cups swinging from his shoulder pole passes beneath apple trees heavy with ripe fruit, taking water to the men helping a commune pick apples. The scene calls to mind an incident during the Third Revolutionary Civil War (1946-49) when the PLA was marching on the city of Chinchow in the northeast, a famous apple-growing area. The fruit was ripe on the trees, but even though the men were hungry and thirsty, they would not touch a single apple, for these belonged to the people.