Jisoo's+Write-Up

Write-Up of Propaganda Project



For my propaganda project, I made a dazibao, a poster with pictures to portray a teaching of Mao. In my poster, I painted a family who had just finished work and gathered together. The caption I put was “Hard work under Mao brings prosperity and joy!” It represents Mao’s thought that if people work hard, then the community will prosper and develop as a whole. After I drew the poster, I looked up some images of dazibaos to see if there was anything else that I needed to add, and then I saw the poster above; it was very similar to my poster. It shows a family, gathered altogether after working, and shows the fields where the family worked, outside the door on the right. In my poster, I showed mountains and areas where the family could work through a large door on the left. Also, I showed a big family, with many crops and fruits that they had harvested, which was similar to the dazibao above. The poster above expresses the ideal that people should work hard, and that if they do, they will be doing good to the community, and will become happy and prosperous. I can see the smiles on the family’s faces, indicating that Mao was age-universal. My poster and the poster above both contain pictures of Mao, indicating that Mao was very respected, and that he was a powerful figure. Also, they both contain red flags of China, symbolizing the power of China and Communism.