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A child is at the seaside, watching the light and shadow of the sun change among the clouds, thinking lonely about the big problems of life. For example, will there be seas elsewhere? If you sit in a small boat and drive straight out of the sea, will there be an end? Among them, the question he thinks most often is: "What kind of person will I become?" ”
A fisherman? A high school graduate? A part-time worker doing construction? A restaurant cook? Or is it a waste tire? He never came up with an answer.
The child picked up a sharp pig snail, and on the smooth sand, drew all kinds of matchstick villains, some running, some fighting, some dancing, some flying, some playing with sticks, some playing with swords, of course, more half-crouching and raising their rifles to aim.
Will it become a painter?
He said it was a most absurd dream. Because in the village, no one can paint, let alone a painter.
<h3><b>The dreaming child went to the United Nations to speak</b></h3>
The child who dreamed by the sea was named Lin Dihuan. Years later, he still paints all kinds of matchstick figures, just richer and more wonderful than when he was a child. He published these works on the public account, and slowly became a "net red" cartoonist with millions of fans and 100,000 articles, and was affectionately called "Kobayashi Teacher" by netizens.
On November 30, 2016, China's 24 solar terms were officially included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and Lin Dihuan's "24 Solar Terms" Chinese painting was selected by the Chinese delegation as the nomination promotion poster, which stunned UNESCO in one fell swoop, and provided a perfect assist for the successful application for the heritage, and Lin Dihuan also became the "first person to apply for the Chinese festival painting".
On February 27, 2019, Lin Dihuan, who has become a cartoonist and a young teacher at Sun Yat-sen University, told on his personal public account that the "absurd dream" he planted since he was a child is now gradually coming true - this child who grew up on the coast of Guangdong can now "swim" to the United States on the other side of the Daping Ocean to give lectures and open art exhibitions.
He lectured at Indiana University, the Chinese American Literature Society in New York, and the United Nations Headquarters in New York, introducing traditional Chinese culture and ink art, and exhibiting Chinese 24 solar terms ink paintings and ink cartoons.
From the plum exploration of "Li Chun" to the cicada chirping of "Great Summer", from the autumn leaves of the "Autumn Equinox" to the flying geese of "Great Cold"... The 25 "Twenty-Four Solar Terms Ink Paintings" with a long artistic conception bring endless poetic enjoyment to the audience. Lin Dihuan used a Danqing magic pen to outline the poetry of the flow of the four seasons, and even more vividly expressed the wisdom of the Chinese on paper, so that people could re-understand the beauty of the intangible heritage of the "twenty-four solar terms".
Lin Dihuan is not a professional painter, but as a painter, he has spread all over the country. A Danqing magic pen that outlines the flow of the four seasons and the wisdom of China.
In the past two years, CCTV's popular "Chinese Poetry Conference" program, the beautiful stage background is also from the hand of Lin Dihuan, a popular ancient poem, in his pen into a freehand ink painting, let people look like mesmerized.
In the online world, in just a few strokes, Lin Dihuan can turn contemporary passages with black humor into traditional ink paintings, which are interesting and direct to the hearts of the people, which is why he can easily break through 100,000+ per public account.
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<b>Tell chinese culture in a more interesting way</b> <b>and let dreams take root in the world</b>
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Being invited to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, to give a lecture on China's 24 solar terms, how to let foreign audiences understand the Chinese culture behind the ink comics is a big challenge for Lin Dihuan.
When he lectured abroad before, Lin Dihuan deeply felt that overseas understanding of China in the new era was still traditional and single. "For example, the last time I went to Mexico to give a speech, mexicans know about China as giant pandas, and when I paint them, many people ask me to draw pandas." In Lin Dihuan's view, although the panda is one of the important "Chinese symbols", there should be more contemporary Chinese symbols that occupy a more important position in the spread of global culture.
"For example, Chinese animation, Guangzhou, as the bridgehead of the development of Chinese animation, has made many achievements, integrating ink painting into animation, which is a very interesting angle, as well as the inheritance and innovation of literature, music, etc., all of which have achieved the revival of literature and art along with China's economic development."
However, just as the word "interesting" is the evaluation of Lin Dihuan by many readers and friends, this makes what he calls "Chinese culture" and "ink art" very different from the academic lectures of other scholars and artists.
"I hope to find some interesting and interesting entry points for foreigners to be willing to understand Chinese culture."
Lin Dihuan said that "food culture" can best bring diplomats around the world closer, such as eating peppers in winter, which was transmitted from the Americas to China. "Through various comparisons, people will have an entry point in their lives, so that they are more willing to understand."
In previous media reports, Lin Dihuan said that after the successful application for the 24 solar terms, he will set his sights on the "Book of Poetry" and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and will make more efforts to present traditional Chinese culture.
<b>Rich life experience</b> <b>paves the way to pursue dreams</b>
When he first met Lin Dihuan, he was working on the creation of the public account of the day, and with the kung fu of a cup of tea, he completed a painting. People are often surprised by Lin Dihuan's creative efficiency, and Lin Dihuan said: "Maybe it was too bumpy in the first half of my life, so it is inevitable that I would think a little more, thinking about inspiration, as long as I have creative ideas, creation is a very fast thing." ”
Lin Dihuan, who studied medicine, is not a professional painter, but he has spread all over the country as a painter.
Lin Dihuan often joked that he was an amateur painter who was "halfway out of the family", although he liked calligraphy and Chinese painting since he was a child, but because of his good academic performance, he applied for the clinical medicine major during the college entrance examination. After graduation, however, he did not become a doctor as expected, but became a design teacher and later a non-professional painter and photographer.
Although the first half of Lin Dihuan's life seems to have "deviated" again and again, and detoured a lot of "detours", the scenery on the road has achieved his unique painting style.
In the paintings of the Chinese Poetry Conference, he wanted to paint Wang Anshi's "Beipi Apricot Blossoms" in which "even if it is blown into snow by the east wind, it is better than the south and the strangers are crushed into dust", which reminds Lin Dihuan of the Xinjiang he often goes to - in the apricot blossom ditch in Xinjiang, the apricot trees bloom in a cluster of pink and tender, extending with the earth, and the distant mountains are undulating. Therefore, he connected the Tianshan apricot blossoms in his memory with Wang Anshi's Beipi apricot blossoms, and drew a slowly passing carriage in a rain of pink petals, rolling on a sea of pink petals.
The experience of studying medicine also inspired Lin Dihuan artistically, and his brushwork of writing Xiao Kai, the gentle and precise brushwork with hidden energy, was also very similar to the feeling of using a knife in surgery.
Lin Dihuan aspires to be the most beautiful calligrapher in the photography industry and the best foodie in the comic book industry. He said: "The biggest gain that painting brings to me is the youth of the mentality, because when I know more and create more things, the more I find that there are more, more wonderful and more wonderful things in the world waiting for me to learn and understand, to create new styles, it can be said that every day can face new challenges and experience new happiness." ”
Lin Dihuan proved with practical actions that every person who chases dreams, as long as they slowly accumulate and persist enough, may reap an unexpected result. As he wrote in the painting he hung at the door of his studio: Waiting for a flower to bloom takes more patience and time. The child who dreamed by the sea also waited until his dream came true.
<h4>Artist Profile:</h4>
Lin Dihuan, known as Teacher Kobayashi. Graduated from Sun Yat-sen Medical College of Sun Yat-sen University, he is now working at Sun Yat-sen University, columnist, member of China Photographers Association, Internet celebrity satin player, cartoonist. He is the author of "Waiting for a Flower to Bloom", "Time Painting", "Poetry Painting", "I want to take a picture of you", "Meet Xinjiang", "China's 50 Most Beautiful Towns worth photographing", "Guangzhou Classic Tour" and other books, and because of his use of the works in "Time Painting" to help China's 24 solar terms apply for heritage, conquer the United Nations heritage jury, and use 10 Chinese paintings to surprise CCTV's "Chinese Poetry Conference" column, and the popularity is all over the country.
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