Hand behind the Mao portrait

An exhibition celebrates 100-year-old artist Zhou Lingzhao's contribution to New China, Lin Qi reports.

Zhou Lingzhao, who turned 100 earlier this year, is an artist whose contribution is legendry. His portrait of China's late chairman Mao Zedong hung on the outer wall of the Tian'anmen rostrum in Beijing during the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China on Oct 1,1949.

Some other prominent artists have been commissioned to create the artwork since then.