Fig. 2: ‘Peer Play and Labour’ (Feng, 2001, Vol. 8, p. 169, p. 149, p. 71, p. 279).

This figure presents a verbal-visual depiction of children engaging in peer play activities intertwined with various forms of labour. The four panels, arranged from left to right, illustrate children sweeping fallen flowers with the caption ‘The spring wind must lack due fairness, so many flowers fell on our doorway (panel 1), planting melons with the caption ‘Children know neither how to farm nor sew, and under a mulberry tree they learn to sow melon seeds (panel 2), involved in garden work with the caption ‘With no hands, swallows know how to make nests, poking their beaks into the mud and carrying grass with tireless energy’ (panel 3), and planting trees with the caption ‘We plant a young willow tree in the Qingming, its branches are as tender as silk, and the robust tree tomorrow is within our hands today’ (panel 4).