Huidong painter Zhou Yutian loves to paint, especially love to paint the local customs of his hometown, in Zhou Yutian's view, the hometown is not only beautiful everywhere, every place in the hometown is a painting, hiding a lot of history and culture. Today's Chinese New Year to the grassroots we go to know this local painter in Huidong, for decades, he has promoted the beautiful landscape of his hometown through his own brush.
In a small community garden in the county, every Saturday and Sunday, the painter Zhou Yutian will come to the community garden, a paintbrush, a piece of rice paper. After a while, a scene and an object in the community jumped on the paper, and every time Zhou Yutian painted, it would attract many "small fans" to watch. Zhou Yutian is a native of Nushan Town, and in his spare time, his greatest interest is to dance and ink. He likes to go deep into the ancient villages of his hometown to search for monuments, hoping to paint the beauty of his hometown and let more people know about his hometown.
In Zhou Yutian's home, there are works of Chinese paintings hanging on all four walls, the plum blossoms on the paintings bloom freely and vividly, whether it is the living room or the kitchen, from the first floor to the second floor of the studio, various landscape paintings decorate the whole room, and each painting in the room has its own story.
"After work, I like to walk through the mountains and rivers of Huidong, use my own brush to depict the beautiful mountains and seas of Huidong, and paint the landscapes and rivers and human feelings and phoenix objects in my album, so that people outside can more easily understand our Huidong, thereby enhancing our Huidong tourism cultural taste and tourism competitiveness." I hope to come out on my own album in two or three years, dedicated to promoting our beautiful Huidong. Zhou Yutian said.
Zhou Yutian, who is engaged in the financial industry, in addition to going to work, during the summer vacation, Zhou Yutian will also go to the Cultural Station of Minoru Town to teach students free Chinese painting interest classes, and in the summer, Zhou Yutian's Chinese painting class can always attract many primary school students or adults who are interested in Chinese painting to come and learn. In addition to being obsessed with painting, Zhou Yutian often uses his vacation to participate in exhibitions in various places, so that more people can know and understand his hometown through his paintings.
During the epidemic in 2020, Zhou Yutian sent affectionate pen and ink to create with the background of the "epidemic prevention" frontline in the countryside of Minoran Town, Huidong County, and a large number of "anti-epidemic" materials as the background, and created three "Grassroots Frontline "Epidemic Prevention" Maps", using the power of art to inspire his fathers and fellow villagers to fight the epidemic together, and also pay tribute to the frontline workers.
Reporter | Guo Jinwei Lan Wenchao