A female painter coming out of a ravine
——Comrade Cui Jin, a female painter from Zhuanghu in Jisitou Town
Author | Feng Chunzhi
Qibao Mountain in front of the purple qi sheng, scarf Danqing manifest spirit;
The steel beam grinding needle is persistent, and a painting phoenix flies out of the ravine.
When the name Cui Jin was mentioned in Sitou Town, Linqu County, no one did not extend her thumb and praise: "She is a female painter who came out of the ravine of Liyimeng, and a golden phoenix that flew out of the zhuanghu field!" Cui Jin was born in 1981 to an ordinary peasant family in Longtou Village, Sitou Town, Linqu County. She has loved to draw since she was a child, when she was seven years old, she was attracted by the flowers and grass paintings on the children's books, she imitated the flowers and grasses on the books, after going to primary school, she still kept drawing on the books, when working at home, she used branches and stones as pens, and painted on the ground on thin plates and stones, and she was fascinated for a while.
Later, interest classes were set up in the school, and students applied for classes according to their hobbies and interests. Cui Jin enrolled in an art interest class, and in the art interest class, she learned to draw with a teacher Wu. There are four sisters in Cui Jin's family, she is the second eldest, there is an older sister on the top, a younger sister on the bottom, and a younger brother. Housework and farming are heavy, and every day when she comes home from school, she first helps her parents do housework or farm work. But no matter how busy the farm work is, as long as she has time, she does not forget to practice painting. When her mother saw her obsessive look, she advised her: "You will light the lamp in vain--in vain, and no matter how good the painting of the maid of the farmer is, it will not become an atmosphere." Cui Jin did not listen to her mother's set, and retorted: "Teacher Li said that as long as the kung fu is deep, the steel beam can be ground into an embroidery needle." I don't believe that I can't learn to paint well, as long as I work hard, I will definitely be able to become a painter. So she persevered and practiced painting every day.
Due to the large family size and heavy burden, Cui Jin only went to junior high school, and her parents let her stop her studies and work as a worker in the town silk reeling factory, earning wages to subsidize the family. After becoming a worker, she strengthened her confidence and determination to learn to paint. In order to improve his painting level, He learned to paint plums by Liu Qijun, a master of plum painting in Baiben County. Teacher Liu lives in the county, she is using the factory to work in the big shift or the factory holiday time, take the car to the county to find Teacher Liu to study, ask him to guide, who knows she has the problem of motion sickness, every time she sits in the car is dizzy vomiting, vomiting is not energetic, like a serious illness. But none of this stumped her determination to keep learning to paint.
Later, she simply rode a bicycle to and from more than 100 miles to the county seat to find Teacher Liu for study and education. At this time, the sisters in the factory saw that she was single-mindedly learning to paint, and they all said that she was not doing her job, saying something like "Shannizi wants to be a painter and a camel enters the shop - she wants to go high, and the toad wants to eat swan meat." In the face of this evil rumor, Xiao Cui said as a whisper, "Have you heard the locusts calling and not planting crops, I must have drawn a picture to show them." Since then, she has strengthened her determination and confidence in learning to paint.
In 2014, at the age of 24, Cui Jin married and married in Sitou Village, set up her own family, and then had a child, and she became a housewife. Although the housework is heavy, but the belief in learning to paint has not weakened, the husband is very considerate and loving her, said: "Housework I will do for you, you will concentrate on learning to practice painting", for her husband's thoughtfulness and support, Xiao Cui was very touched, and enhanced her confidence in painting.
In order to make her painting level to a higher level, she developed in many ways, and successively went to Weifang, Jinan, Beijing and other places to learn art, and also studied painting from Wang Jianting, Xia Dejun, Ma Chunbao, Bai Xing'an and other masters of calligraphy and painting in Ben County. Under the guidance of many teachers and professors, after their own hard work, the progress is very fast. As a result, her paintings in plums, peonies, flowers and birds have developed greatly, and she has gradually stepped onto the altar of Chinese painting. In October 2020, after hard work, she was successfully admitted to the "Zhongxuan Shengshi International Calligraphy and Painting Institute" for further study.
Where there is pay, there is a harvest, and the hard sweat can eventually water the fruitful fruit. Her paintings have been exhibited in county, municipal and provincial exhibitions, and some have won awards. In 2021, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the "Weifang City" Social Insurance Cup. In the "Exhibition of Calligraphy and Painting of Retired Personnel", the works were selected for the exhibition and received honorary certificates. In 2021, works such as "QingFutu", "Ruixue Mega Year", "Flowers Blooming rich and noble", "Persimmon Ruyi", "National Color Tianxiang" and other works were exhibited in major networks such as Oriental Calligraphy and Painting Network, Tencent, and Toutiao Baidu, and won awards and were selected for books.
Comrade Cui Jin is currently a member of the Linqu County Beauty Association, a member of the Linqu County Old Cadres Calligraphy and Painting Research Association, a member of the Weifang Mao Zedong Calligraphy Art Research Association, a member of the Weifang Calligraphy and Painting Association, and in 2021, he was invited to participate in the CCTV Treasure World Column, the Chinese Celebrity Art Spring Festival Gala, and was named the title of "The Most Influential Artist of Contemporary China" in 2020.
In the golden autumn season of 2019, Comrade Cui Jin invited Liu Qijun, a famous painter in the county, to help establish the "Red Education Jingya Calligraphy and Painting Institute", and set up a youth calligraphy and painting class in the painting institute, starting from 2020, with two classes and more than 60 students. Classes are held in the morning on Saturdays and Sundays. Comrade Cui Jin personally served as a teacher, and also hired four famous calligraphy and painting teachers in the county, Liu Qijun, Liu Xingjia, Fa xiali, and Wang Jianting, as amateur teachers. Due to the careful teaching of the teachers and the hard work of the students, the painting technology has improved rapidly, and the students have made many excellent works of calligraphy and painting. For example, the works of Cui Fengyuan, Liu Yuxia, Tian Enhao, Liu Jingyi, Wang Chengxu and other students have been exhibited in calligraphy and painting exhibitions held in towns and counties, and some works have also been purchased and collected by calligraphy and painting enthusiasts. Teacher Cui Jin personally taught and guided the beloved disciple, luozhuang village 15-year-old Zhang Jingxin female student made the Chinese painting "Rich Peony" not only participated in the county held painting exhibition exhibition, and then was photographed by a calligraphy and painting enthusiast, bought at a high price of 500 yuan.
Teacher Cui Jin not only held calligraphy and painting classes in Sitou Town, but also under the unified arrangement of the Customs Work Committee of Linqu County, successively went to Xinzhai, Zhufeng, Sitou Central Primary School, Shifo, Wangzhuang, Liji Primary School and Sitou Junior High School to teach students calligraphy and painting training. She was also entrusted by the County Veteran Cadres Calligraphy and Painting Research Association to donate more than 200 red books to Sitou Primary School, which was highly praised by the county and town leaders and the county customs work committee.
Comrade Cui Jin is currently the director of the Red Education and Care Supervision Office of the Linqu Old Cadres Calligraphy and Painting Research Association and the County Customs Work Committee. Comrade Cui Jin is worthy of being a female painter from a village in the ravine of the old revolutionary base area in Yimeng Mountain, and is also a red educator who cares for the next generation.
Feng Chunzhi, pen name ZhiYong, is a fool. A native of Shifotang Village, Sitou Town, he has been engaged in communication and reporting work for more than 20 years, and after retirement, he has studied literature, and has published the anthology "Nian Lun", the historical record "Under the Jade Elephant Mountain - Shifotang Village Zhiluo", the intangible cultural folk game "Children's Fun", and the genealogical history "Shifotang Village Surname Preliminary Examination". He is currently a member of the Linqu County Local History Society, a member of the Linqu County Writers Association, and the deputy secretary-general of the Sitou Town Literary Federation of Linqu County.