Chinese On the morning of April 3, the cherry blossom season, the exhibition hall on the third floor of the Nagoya Municipal Museum, which has a history of 100 years as Japan's national architectural cultural heritage, was full of friends and flowers. Gu Yan's watercolor exhibition "Blooming" opened at 10 o'clock in the morning, accompanied by beautiful and elegant violin performances.
Yang Xian, Consul General of the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Nagoya, Seiji Suzuki, Director of the Nagoya City Public Museum and Director General of the Nagoya City Tourism and Cultural Exchange Bureau, Tsuyoshi Endo, attended the opening ceremony and delivered congratulatory speeches.
Gu Yan was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. After graduating from Shanghai Theater Academy, he has starred in many film and television dramas and plays. She has won the Best Supporting Actress Award, the Magnolia Award, and the Best Supporting Actress Award at the China Feitian Awards. In recent years, he has starred in TV series such as "My Mother-in-law is Coming", "In That Distant Place", and "My Daughter-in-law is the Queen". In 2022, he published the book "Let Life Bloom Again".
Over the years, he has devoted himself to studying watercolor painting in his spare time. The more than 20 watercolor paintings on display this time are Gu Yan's true feelings for the grass, flowers and scenes around her in recent years. Especially under the haze of the epidemic that has swept the world, Gu Yan hopes to bring people confidence and a better vision for the future through her bright and dazzling paintings.
Consul General Yang Xian of the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Nagoya said in her speech that art knows no borders and transcends language barriers, building a bridge of communication between the two peoples. As a Chinese artist living in Japan, Ms. Gu Yan expresses her unique feelings about living in Japan through painting, and conveys the beautiful friendship of peace and friendship between China and Japan. I sincerely hope that the overseas Chinese in Japan will continue to enhance mutual understanding between the people of the two countries through their own means and practical actions, and actively contribute their own strength.
Consul General Yang Xian pointed out that people-to-people friendship is a fine tradition and precious wealth of Sino-Japanese relations. It is hoped that all circles in the central region will continue to carry forward the good tradition of promoting government officials through the people, the government through the economy, and the central government through the localities, carry out more face-to-face exchanges, enhance mutual understanding and trust, and build a solid foundation of public opinion for the development of China-Japan relations.
Also present at the opening ceremony were: Zhu Tong, Zhang Linxi, and Zhang Ge, Consuls of the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Nagoya; Atsushi Okazaki, Chairman of the Japan-China Friendship Association; Yasuhiro Harada, Vice President of the Aichi Prefecture Japan-China Friendship Association; Masayuki Kondo, Member of the House of Representatives/Secretary General of the Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians Alliance; Nobuyuki Kawamura, Vice President of the Japan-China Relations Society and President of the Tokai Society for Japan-China Relations; Vice Minister Kazuro Hiramatsu; Chen Qiuyang, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the 19th Nagoya Chinese New Year Festival; Tang Qishan, Executive Director of the Japan Chinese Association; Lin Meixiang, former Chairman of the Nagoya Chinese New Year Festival Executive Committee; Hu Yonghua, President of the Japan-China Calligraphy and Painting Seal Carving Exchange Association; Xiang Yimasako, President of the Nagoya Toyo Medical Research Institute; Norio Kato, Honorary Citizen of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, China; Sun Yan, President of the Japan (Central) Shanghai Economic and Cultural Exchange Promotion Association, and other Japanese friends, representatives of overseas Chinese and Chinese people, and more than 50 friends of Gu Yan.
During the exhibition, there was an endless stream of audiences, and many Japanese people came to praise Gu Yan's watercolor paintings. On April 7, a "Reading Salon" was held at the exhibition venue. Surrounded by flowers, everyone read Gu Yan's book "Let Life Bloom Again" and talked about the wonderful stories of their lives.
Gu Yan's watercolor exhibition "Bloom" came to a successful conclusion on April 10.
Gu Yan's watercolor exhibition "Bloom" is sponsored by the Japan (Central) Shanghai Economic and Cultural Exchange Promotion Association, co-organized by the Nagoya China Aid Center, supported by the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Nagoya, and co-sponsored by the People's Daily Overseas Edition Japan Monthly. (Manuscript arrangement: Hua Ting)