China Shandong Network - Perception Shandong, February 9 (Reporter Han Beibei) "Dear Mr. Xiao Huirong, I have not seen you for a long time, I just came back from the provincial CPPCC meeting a few days ago, met a lot of good friends in the art world, and they all asked me to express greetings to you. Near the Spring Festival, Wang Juming, a researcher at the National Academy of Painting of China, filmed a video of the New Year's greetings to Mr. Xiao Huirong, a friend in Hong Kong, China and chairman of the Overseas Chinese Artists Association, to express festive greetings and invite him to participate in the Chinese Painting Festival held in Weifang in April this year.
"On the occasion of this Chinese New Year, I wish the Year of the Tiger auspicious, mighty and prosperous, and all the best!" Shortly after the video was sent, Xiao Huirong also replied through the video and sent blessings. In the video, he greeted "Ju Ming Brother" and greeted Chinese artists at home and abroad, hoping that the Year of the Tiger would be a year of great harvest in the art world, and said that if the epidemic situation allowed, the Year of the Tiger would definitely come to Weiwei to participate in the meeting again, and meet with artist friends again to exchange and learn from each other.
The friendship between the two artists originated at the first Chinese Painting Festival in 2011, and over the years, they have maintained a deep and friendly cultural exchange.
Xiao Huirong has attended many Chinese painting festivals, and he greatly appreciates Wang Juming's artworks and admires Wang Juming' responsibility and contribution as a curator in spreading culture. Wang Juming said that Mr. Xiao Huirong is a highly respected artist, especially in Hong Kong has a very high popularity and very high prestige, in more than ten years, many times to Weifang to participate in the Chinese painting festival for the promotion and dissemination of Traditional Chinese culture, for the cultural exchanges between Hong Kong and the mainland of the motherland has made outstanding contributions.
The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in Chinese, through the way of cloud new year, express blessings, contact feelings, meet and say goodbye, and a greeting makes the heart more closely linked.
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