Is Chairman Mao hanging in the living room or dining room?

Hang the living room. Illegal. On the morning of October 30th, 65438/KLOC-0, Changsha City Administration for Industry and Commerce came to Jiangnan People's Commune Restaurant and issued a rectification notice, ordering rectification within a time limit.

Thanks to my friends, I just went to Changsha Jiangnan People's Commune for dinner. I feel very good. While waiting, I enjoyed the chairman's poems and looked at the unique portraits, slogans and articles of that era. As a person born in the mid-1970s, I have a special taste in my heart in the face of these scenes and objects that are quite different from our times.

Unexpectedly, the pleasure of our promotion to Wang soon disappeared. The reason is that the "Jiangnan People's Commune" has portraits, calligraphy and poems of Mao Zedong, and the law enforcement departments have a sword in their hands, because not long ago, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce issued the Inspection Notice on the Illegal Use of the Names of Party and State Leaders in Advertisements, which clearly stipulated that all kinds of shopping malls, specialty stores, franchise stores, restaurants and other sales outlets put inscriptions on leading comrades.

However, although law enforcement departments have a basis, whether this basis can stand the test of law is another matter. According to Article 7 of the Advertising Law, an advertisement shall not be in any of the following situations: ... falsely using the name of a state organ or its staff. However, is it an "advertisement" to hang Mao Zedong's portrait, calligraphy and poems in a restaurant? Can it be said that it is in the name of "state organs and state functionaries"? I think this is controversial. Using "the name of state organs and state functionaries" in advertisements, at least through the image of leaders or their inscriptions and calligraphy, directly promotes their own goods and services, so that their names are used, which may damage the image of leaders; Taking the portrait, calligraphy and poetry of the leader as the background of the venue, we don't directly advocate how good the catering service is, and we don't directly publicize the goods and services in the name of the leader. We just create a scene to meet some needs of customers. The person in charge of "Jiangnan People's Commune" said that they hung pictures of great men mainly to create an atmosphere, not for the commercial purpose of "publicity and promotion". In my opinion, what he said is very pertinent and in line with the understanding of ordinary people. Otherwise, portraits, calligraphy and poems of leaders in any commercial occasion may be considered as commercial advertisements, which is definitely against the legislative intent of the advertising law.

Therefore, from the clause that the Advertising Law cannot "use the names of state organs and state functionaries", it cannot be concluded that "placing inscriptions and photos of leading comrades in various shopping malls, specialty stores, franchise stores, restaurants and other sales outlets" in the notice of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce is illegal.

The people's commune era is only the real experience of a generation. Mao Zedong's portraits, calligraphy and poems are integrated with various slogans, slogans and articles of that era, which constitute the memory of a generation. For that generation, that era was bitter, hard, memorable and memorable; For the younger generation, it is understanding and thinking. The appearance of restaurant chain stores similar to "Jiangnan People's Commune" in Changsha is full of commercial motives, but it provides people with nostalgia and reminiscence, and meets some needs of people. If Mao Zedong's portraits, calligraphy and poems appear in these occasions and are banned at this time, it is tantamount to taking away the most distinctive things of that era and depriving us of the right to "red memory".