Daily LIFT #2088

"When We March Together We Will Win", oil painting, Kao Hung, Peng Pin and Ho Kung-teh, People's Republic of China, 1975 -- Daily LIFT #2088

From the PRC press: Chairman Mao's revolutionary activities, the present-day class struggle and the struggle between the two lines are the themes of many works. "When We March Together we Will Win" is an oil painting done jointly by three army artists, Kao Hung, Peng Pin and Ho Kung-teh. With compact composition and clear colors, through the earnest figures of the participants, it recreates the historic scene in the Hunan province village where in 1928 Chairman Mao put forth the three main rules of discipline and the eight points for attention* for the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Chairman Mao's idea that only by marching in step could victory be won, which in the past guided the Chinese revolution from victory to victory, is today guiding the army and the people throughout the country to unite and march in step along the socialist road.

* Three Main Rules of Discipline are: (1) Obey orders in your actions. (2) Don't take a single needle or piece of thread from the masses (3) Turn in everything captured. The Eight Points for Attention (1) Speak politely (2) Pay fairly for what you buy. (3) Return everything you borrow (4) Pay for anything you damage. (5) Don't hit or swear at people. (6) Don't damage crops. (7) Don't take liberties with women. (8) Don't ill treat captives.