Typical aluminium and plastic Chairman Mao badge, with a line from Mao's 1962 poemWinter Clouds: "the plum blossom is delighted—the sky is full of snow" (梅花歡喜漫天雪).
Chairman Mao badge (Chinese: 毛主席像章; pinyin: Máo zhǔxí xiàngzhāng) is the name given to a type of pin badge displaying an image of Mao Zedong that was ubiquitous in the People's Republic of China during the active phase of the Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1971. The term is also used for badges associated with Mao that do not actually have a picture of him on them. It is estimated that several billion Chairman Mao badges were produced during the period of the Cultural Revolution.
