In 1985, Niu, then 25, altered a 1967 photograph of Red Guards doing homage to the giant picture of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square--Niu replaced Mao's face with a picture of himself as a child. He also suggested that, in place of Mao's visage, a different person should have their picture in Tiananmen every day.
一九八五年，當時二十五歲的牛波用了一張文化大革命期間紅衛兵在天安門廣場為毛澤東歡呼的照片，將自己孩提時的照片貼在毛澤東的臉上，同時建議天安門廣場每一天都應該這樣表揚另一個人。