"Peony of poverty", academician Wang Zhenyi "a portrayal of the spirit of life"

Recently, the CCTV news channel broadcast the documentary "My Family and My Country" on "Approaching the Meritorious Elderly", in which Wang Zhenyi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and winner of the country's highest science and technology award, attracted people's attention.

In the program, the 98-year-old academician used a Chinese painting called "Poor Peony" as a "portrayal of his life's spirit". This painting is from the hand of Pan Haifeng, a painter in our city.

"Poor Peony"

"We must have enterprising ambitions, open like peonies, but we must look at fame and fortune very lightly, so we must be 'poor peonies.'" In the program, facing the camera, the old man pointed to a peony painting hanging on the wall of his living room and said that this painting best reflects his life: the peony born in the stone symbolizes making achievements in a difficult environment, and the soil around the stone that provides nutrients for the peony is the soil around the stone, which shows that my achievements do not belong to me alone, but are the result of everyone's efforts."

Wang Zhenyi is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the country's highest science and technology award. In the 1980s, acute promyelocytic leukemia was the most dangerous type of leukemia, and Wang Zhenyi led the team to overcome difficulties and struggle for 8 years to finally make acute promyelocytic leukemia the first tumor that can be cured in the history of human tumor treatment. In order to let more patients get treatment, Wang Zhenyi gave up the patent application at the beginning, but made the technology public to benefit patients around the world. In the mainland, this box of 10-pill life-saving drugs for the treatment of leukemia is only sold for 290 yuan, and it is also included in medical insurance. The People's Daily WeChat public account once praised Wang Zhenyi with the title of "This academician made a decision to let a box of life-saving drugs sell only 290 yuan".

The spirit of the old man willing to be a "poor peony" has infected many people. In 2012, the Shanghai Theater Academy also created the drama of the same name "Poor Peony" with this theme, using the form of a play to vividly show the "peony" born rich and wealthy, enjoying glory, but willing to take the tranquility and elegance as the heart of life aspirations.

The 59-year-old Pan Haifeng is well-known in the city's calligraphy and painting circles. In the early winter of 2018, a doctor friend of Pan Haifeng asked him to create a peony painting for his mentor who was about to celebrate his 95th birthday. After learning that the other party's mentor was Academician Wang Zhenyi, Pan Haifeng began to conceive with his heart.

Pan Haifeng said that the old man's meritorious deeds and indifferent to fame and fortune, so he used the combination of pen and freehand techniques to set the location of white peony growth around several large cinnabar-colored stones, "light and elegant white peony, the best expression of the old man's lifelong willingness to be poor spirit."

"I didn't expect this painting to receive such a high evaluation from Elder Wang." After seeing the program of Academician Wang Zhenyi of "My Family and My Country", Pan Haifeng was very excited, he said that Academician Wang Zhenyi not only understood his creative intentions, but also interpreted it more deeply and thoroughly. Luoyang peony not only has a graceful and luxurious temperament, but also has a light and elegant wind bone and tenacious spirit, "In the future creation, I will create more forms of Luoyang peony with a more open creative idea." (Luo Bao Rong Media Luoyang Network reporter Wang Ruoxin text/photo Correspondent Chen Zhiqiang)