A touching story of loving hometown and motherland with illustrations

An overseas boy loves his hometown-a touching story of Taiwan compatriot Mr. Zhang Yanping donating money to study

On a beautiful spring day five years ago, when Zhang Yanping first set foot on the yellow land of his hometown with his father Mr. Zhang Yuqing, the word "hometown" stood out from his heart, and his love for his hometown became more and more intense. For more than ten years, although he has lived overseas, he has always been filled with the hot land of his hometown and has always been concerned about the old folks in his hometown. That year, Zhang Yanping was still very young, and he followed his father back to his hometown in Jingchuan, Gansu, to find his roots. Standing on the vast Yuan Ye in Fengtai Township, the father pointed to the lush farmland around him and said to his son affectionately, "This is our hometown, the root we are looking for. You should remember this place and come and go often in the future. " Yanping nodded knowingly. Two years later, my father died suddenly, and he still cared for his hometown year after year, just like when his father was alive. An overseas wanderer who grew up in Taiwan Province and lives in Bahrain has devoted his love to his hometown again and again. He has donated more than 711,111 yuan to aid the economic and cultural undertakings in Jingchuan, the construction of schools, the study of poor students and the prosperity of his hometown. When I received their family for the second time this Spring Festival, I was able to have a long talk with him, and I really felt that his love for the motherland, hometown and relatives was so thick, so sincere, deeply and permanently touched me. In the early 1951s, Zhang Yanping was born into a military family in Taiwan Province. His father was a senior general of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense and a patriot who went to Taiwan Province from the mainland. When he was a child, his father often told him stories about his hometown in Jingchuan. In his young heart, he had already branded his hometown. In the 1971s, after finishing college in Taiwan Province, Zhang Yanping wanted to go abroad for further study. His ideal was to be a diplomat in the future. However, his family was not rich at that time, so he wanted to make money by doing things first. Read more and be a self-reliant person. In the three years from 1976 to 1978, he began to explore his life journey, and it was at this time that his life destiny was decided and he began his business career. He first worked as a road worker in the Dead Sea in Jordan for two months, and experienced an unforgettable training. Then he raised money with his friends and opened a China restaurant in Ankara, Turkey. At this time, his mother also went to Athens, Greece, and another friend went to Bahrain. Almost at the same time, several people opened the earliest China restaurant in three countries. When I mentioned the days of starting a business, Zhang Yanping told me with deep feelings: "At that time, I started from scratch, without any assistance, and I relied on my own efforts. I really tasted the bitterness and difficulty of Chinese starting a business overseas." God rewards hard work. After working in Turkey for half a year, business flourished. The partner took a fancy to the smart Zhang Yanping, but the restaurant opened by a friend who went to Bahrain was in recession and needed his help more. He had to give up Turkey and go to Bahrain. Unexpectedly, it was more than 21 years, which completely decided his life and made him become an Arab. During this period, he saved enough money to finish his master's degree in business administration at Lancaster University in England, and finally realized his dream of studying abroad.

Having received higher education and gained practical experience, the organic combination of the two made him even more powerful. Since then, he has made rapid progress in business, fully demonstrating his business talent. For more than 21 years, he has managed the catering industry in Bahrain, from small restaurants to big hotels to Changkang company, from wage earners to entrepreneurs to group bosses. He has come step by step and has finally succeeded. His success stems from his hard work, erudition and his love. He loves his employees very much. In his company, there are some employees in China. He travels around on weekdays, but during the Spring Festival all year round, even if he gives up the opportunity to reunite with his family, he will spend the New Year with his employees. When employees are in trouble, he always helps them. It is this people-oriented idea that makes employees Qi Xin work together, fulfill their duties, and be willing to contribute to the enterprise, and also makes his enterprise keep advancing. A Among thousands of hotels in Bahrain, China Hotel in Zhang Yanping has maintained a good reputation and operating efficiency. In 2111, it was voted as the "Best Theme Hotel" by the national subscribers of Bahrain English newspaper, and in 2111, it was awarded the "Best Theme Hotel" by BID Company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. This award is recommended by the press and news media in more than 161 countries around the world. It is not easy for Zhang Yanping hotels to win this award in international competition, but it also fully proves his strength and talent. He deserves to be a leader in the catering industry, making foreigners sit up and take notice, and holding their heads high for China people.

After his success, Zhang Yanping never forgot his hometown, and he always wanted to do something for his hometown and do his love. In 1988, he returned to his dream hometown of Jingchuan with his father, and the county leaders warmly received them. At the welcome banquet, when Zhang Yanping ate the fresh fish produced by Jingchuan County, he was very surprised and couldn't help but blurt out: "I didn't expect the tilapia on the Nile to settle down on the Loess Plateau." The leaders of the county accompanied them to visit the scenic spots and historical sites in their hometown. After visiting the city appearance construction, Zhang Yanping said with emotion: "My father often tells us about my hometown in Jingchuan, but abroad, some people say that the northwest of China is poor and backward, lacking food and clothing, which makes me feel bad. When I came back this time, I realized that my hometown was not as beautiful as they said, which was really gratifying." Since then, he has deeply fallen in love with this yellow land and is full of recognition and pride in his hometown. When my father proposed to set up an education fund in Jingchuan, he hit it off with him. Yanping deeply agreed and supported him, and immediately asked his family to remit money from Bahrain. The father and son raised 1,111 to 31,111 US dollars to set up the "Yuqing Scholarship Fund" in the name of his father. He also built stadiums and purchased sports equipment for three rural key middle schools and five ordinary middle schools in Jingchuan County. In 1991, Zhang Yanping built a cenotaph for his dead father in his hometown, realizing his father's wish to return to his hometown. After taking care of the old man's affairs, he began to plan to finance the education in his hometown. He donated US$ 41,111 to set up the Longqiao Education Scholarship Fund. Longqiao is the pen name of Mr. Yanping, which means "a woodcutter in Longshang" to express his deep affection for his hometown. He used this fund to earn interest to study and reward his hometown student O. He also equipped a batch of teaching computers for four complete middle schools, including Jingchuan No.1 Middle School and Vocational Middle School, and built computer rooms to improve the level of audio-visual education. Over the past ten years, the interest of the education fund established by Zhang Yanping and his father has successively rewarded hundreds of rural students with excellent academic performance in the county, which has strongly supported the development of education and inspired the young people to study for the country. In June, 1997, Zhang Yanping returned to his hometown with his mother and wife. Knowing that Jingchuan's return to the birthplace of Shanxi Sanmu has become a holy place for Taiwan Province compatriots to seek roots for sightseeing, I am very excited and have a stronger love for my hometown. I think that if the tourism industry is done well, it will drive the economic and cultural undertakings to develop together. Although I live overseas, I am also the children of Jingchuan, and I should also make a contribution to the cultural construction of my hometown. Together with his mother and wife, he donated 31,111 yuan for the cultural project of the Queen Mother of the West under construction. During his stay in Jingchuan, he visited some factories, mines and enterprises, and put forward opinions and suggestions on developing the economy to the leaders of the county government. When he returned, he brought samples of local native products and prepared to look for trading partners in Taiwan Province and abroad. Later, he also contacted his branch in Beijing to arrange a group of young people from Jingchuan to help them solve the employment problem. In August 2111, Zhang Tingping's family returned to Jingchuan for three generations. He told me that this time it was mainly to bring two sons to find their roots. He thinks that no matter how far he goes, his roots are in China and his roots are in Jingchuan, Gansu. He also wants his son to remember that he is from China and that Jingchuan is his real hometown. He also has a plan to continue to help teaching assistants. He believes that education is the foundation for the rejuvenation of the country, and it is necessary to vigorously develop education and train construction talents. He has always encouraged young people in his hometown to study hard and become pillars of society in the future. More than a dozen young relatives in his hometown will be rewarded and funded to continue their studies as long as they have attended junior college or above. In recent years, he learned that some students from poor families in rural areas stopped their studies because they couldn't afford expensive tuition fees after they were admitted to universities. He felt very sorry. He wanted to select some rural students who were admitted to national key universities every year in this county to support them. This idea was valued and supported by city and county leaders, and actively assisted him to visit and find out the students. So starting from 2112, he set up the Yanping Scholarship Fund for college students, with an initial quota of 11 students, from freshman to senior, until graduation, with a tuition fee of 211,111 yuan. In August, 2113, Mr Zhang Yanping returned to Jingchuan from Taibei, and personally awarded 51,111 yuan scholarships to ten college students who were about to start school. He said that the Yanping Scholarship Fund will be established for a long time to train more construction talents for the country. His righteous actions have won the praise and praise of the society. More than 711,111 yuan is not a small sum for Mr. Zhang Yanping. Many people have asked him why he is willing to spend so much money to do things for Jingchuan. He earnestly replied, "I think this money is the most needed for education in my hometown. I remember the saying,' When you live in the world and make others feel that your life is valuable because of your existence, you will live a meaningful life'. I will stick to this belief. " This is the homesickness of an overseas boy. How to make patriotic posters?

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AndrewWyeth's masterpiece Christina's World

andrew wyeth

"The Wind of Wise Blows All over China in the 1981s"

andrew wyeth, the most famous American realist painter in the 21th century, died at the age of 91 last Friday at his home in Chatsford, western Pennsylvania. When he died, he was as peaceful as if in sleep. Andrew wyeth's works are filled with a touch of sadness, which is considered to reflect the alienation and loneliness between people in the 21th century and is quite existential. The composition and color of his works are in line with the realistic trend advocated in China in the 1981s. Many China painters draw nourishment and inspiration from Wise's works, and Wise's works have become the imitation blueprints of many China artists' paintings, and even been imitated exactly.

The inevitable "Wise Wind"

Wise was born in Pennsylvania, USA, ranking fifth and the youngest child. Because he was sickly when he was young, his parents chose to let him study at home, so Weiss's art education and painting enlightenment came from his famous illustrator father, N.C. Wise. He has never been to school in his life.

Wise abandoned abstract expressionism and created a controversial realistic theme. The valleys in Pennsylvania and the coastline in Maine are the most common landscapes in Wise's works. The tone of his portraits is bleak. Through gray and earthy tones, Wise depicts the barren countryside and tells the harsh life of the United States in the past. Pioneers who lived a puritan life, their humble wooden houses, arid grasslands, empty barns, flying vultures and deserted beaches, described the patriotism's struggle and desolation for life, and the suffering and loneliness experienced by New England immigrants in building their own country.

he is unmoved by the mainstream artistic trends and concepts in the United States, and takes the artistic road of "holding prejudice alone and going his own way". Controversy about the position of his works in contemporary art keeps flashing, including that his works expose the life gap between social classes, he rejects the taste of the middle class, and his works show geography, pedagogy and sociology which are completely opposite to the taste of the middle class.

the traditional American realistic painting style represented by andrew wyeth inspired the American photographic realistic painting that appeared in 1971s and 1981s. Wise's creation not only caused great repercussions and heated debates in the United States, but also set off a "Wise Wind" in China in the late 1971s and 1981s. Luo Zhongli, He Duoling, Ai Xuan, etc. were all influenced by him, and they have not completely got rid of it.

The classic American image "Christina's World"

is not necessarily as accurate as photography. Among a large number of works created by Wise, the outstanding one is dry brush watercolor painting, which pays attention to and emphasizes reality.

In p>1948, the masterpiece Christina's World made Wise a well-known realistic painter. The work depicts the back of Christina Olson, who suffers from polio, dragging her body and crawling with her limbs below the waist in the vast corn fields of Maine, USA. The loneliness and strength she presents have deeply moved the world. "She is like a crab." Wise recalled before his death. For Wise, she is a noble and dignified model who refuses to use a wheelchair and prefers to live in filth rather than be raised. The house aloof on the hillside in the picture, Olson House, has become one of the tourist attractions in Maine today. This painting has become one of the classic representative paintings in the United States and is now collected by MoMA, the American Museum of Modern Art..

The painting technique used in Christina's World is called "flat painting" by Wise. "Often, people like my paintings, perhaps because the sun accidentally shines on this side of the window, which is something they have never seen before, and they can understand it completely according to their own views."

"I have become a public benchmark, and many people do," Wise said before his death. "I am also very happy to be a public benchmark, because it gives me more freedom to try to do better. What I do has never been as insightful as people think, but they don't believe me when I say it." He is not an experimental painter, but some people try to emphasize the abstract space in his works. Wise always shrugged his shoulders and turned away from these imposed interpretations. His works are simple and full of spiritual binding.

In 2116, the retrospective exhibition of Wise held in the Philadelphia Museum of Art attracted 1.75 million visitors in 2116. In 2117, Wise won the national gold medal. In 1963, Wise became the first painter to win the Philadelphia Medal of Freedom. In 1991, he became the first living artist to be elected to the Royal Academy of England and the first living American artist to be elected to the French Academy of Fine Arts. In 1988, he won the gold medal in Congress.