Assigned to edit the newspaper Fighting Pictorial , Lin also created prints documenting the soldiers' lives. He travelled with the army to the South in 1949 and continued editorial work in Chongqing for the Xinan Military Region Authority. After the founding of The People's Republic, he was demobilized and worked in the art section of Xinan Daily Newspaper . He became a member of the Xinan branch of the Chinese Artists' Association and, later, its vice-chairman. The area inhabited by the Miao ethnic minority in Sichuan is famous for its rugged mountains.
Some soldiers sew cloth shoes, while others work on building projects.
In 1984 the print was published with the name Arduous Years.