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The following picture source from National Wax Museum of China
 

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September 9, 1976, Chairman Mao Zedong died. That night, the Politburo held an emergency meeting to determine the body to protect the President, so that all walks of life to offer condolences and pay their last respects, an initial period of 15 days. Mao Zedong's call for cremation during his lifetime, is the first one in the Politburo after the death of a statement signed by the leaders of cremated remains. Therefore, the initial decision to protect the body only to all walks of life within 15 days of mourning activities ...

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Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976; Mao Tse-tung in Wade-Giles) was the chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death in 1976. Under his leadership, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) became the ruling party of Mainland China after victory over Chinese Nationalists, the Kuomintang, in the Chinese Civil War. On October 1, 1949, Mao declared the formation of the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square. From the 1950s until his death, Mao initiated various economic and political campaigns, such as the Anti-Rightist Campaign, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people. His knowledge of these deaths is disputed.

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