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Frontier as Ruin:
The National Allegory in Landscape
Abstract: In 1942, Feng Fasi completed the work of The Zhennan Pass when he went on a tour with the fourth team of performance and propaganda and proceeded to the Sino-Vietnamese border. The work paints a Chinese soldier standing on the Gate destroyed by the War and turns the ruin of the War into an allegory for national revival. It had become very popular during the Anti-Japanese War that utilized the rebuilding- rebirth upon relics to symbolize China born out of fire. A more typical work of this kind is “Chopping Down a Tall Tree,” a cartoon by Feng Zikai. The rebirth of a traditional country and nation in modern times is expressed by fully symbolic images, while relics have performed a role of monument to engrave the national allegory thereby.