The original mangoes were preserved using chemicals such as formaldehyde and were displayed in various Chinese colleges. Workers soon began to venerate wax models of mangoes and parade them around the country, punishing anyone who disrespected them as counterrevolutionaries. One dentist from Fulin, Dr. Han, saw the mango and said it was nothing special and looked just like sweet potato. He was put on trial for malicious slander, found guilty, paraded publicly throughout the town, and then executed with one shot to the head. A giant float shaped like a basket of mangoes was paraded on October 1st, 1968, during China’s National Day Parade in Tiananmen Square.
