Impress the viewer with great beauty

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Painting of Tiger Image in Han Meilin Zodiac Art Exhibition.
Bronze sculpture "Enabling Shang Xian" in Han Meilin Zodiac Art Exhibition.
The audience visited the Han Meilin Zodiac Art Exhibition in Haikou Convention and Exhibition Workshop.
Granite monkey statues in Han Meilin Zodiac Art Exhibition.
Han Meilin created the first round of stamps on the 12 Zodiacs, the special stamp of the Year of Guihai.
Han Meilin Zodiac Art Exhibition’s Works on the Image of Cattle.
Wen Hainan Daily reporter An Ying
Figure Hainan Daily reporter Li Tianping
In Han Meilin’s creative career, the zodiac has always been an important proposition. His zodiac creations, with various forms and eclectic materials, have created a unique image of exquisite, lovely, vigorous and powerful, presented charming and personalized artistic creations, and endowed with anthropomorphic emotions and personalities, which have always been loved by people.
On January 22nd, as a highlight of 2022 Hainan Island Spring International Art Exhibition, "Han Meilin Zodiac Art Exhibition" kicked off in Haikou Convention and Exhibition Workshop. On the booth, a variety of works of art related to the Chinese Zodiac collectively appeared, offering visitors a visual feast of blending traditional culture and modern art.
A total of 575 Chinese zodiac works were exhibited in this exhibition, covering painting, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, purple sand, wood carving, iron art, folk crafts and other creative types. From the perspective of personality and spirit of the times, Han Meilin’s inheritance and innovation of Chinese zodiac art were explained, so that visitors could experience the colorful and endless culture of Chinese zodiac.
There is great artistic conception in small themes.
The chubby pig with bright colors is naive, holding his chest high, curling his short tail and spreading his front and rear legs as if he were running forward. This is a special stamp of the Year of the Guihai, which was created by Han Meilin in 1983. Han Meilin uses folk paper-cutting and shadow play to decorate patterns, and borrows the elements of hearts to imply a long life, which is full of distinctive folk characteristics.
Up to now, there are four sets of special zodiac stamps designed by Han Meilin, namely, The Year of Guihai in 1983, Ding Younian in 2017, The Year of Jihai in 2019 and The Year of Gengzi in 2020. All four sets of stamps meet the visitors in this exhibition.
Zhou Jianping, Secretary-General of Han Meilin Art Foundation, said that in 2019, Han Meilin once again drew a set of two special zodiac stamps for the Year of the Pig. He once again identified the image of the Zodiac pig in the first stamp as a running shape, which implied the meaning of China’s reform and opening up. At the same time, in the second stamp of the Year of the Sea, there are not only the roles of "mother" and "child", but also the role of "father" to form a "whole family", which embodies the concept of "family portrait" and makes the image characteristics of the zodiac fit the true and profound feelings of home and country.
The cute mouse jumps in the air, and the three mice are happily accompanied by peanuts … In the 2020 Year of the Rat stamp on display, Han Meilin uses the small freehand brushwork of decoration, combined with the rendering techniques of traditional Chinese painting, to show the playful agility of the Zodiac mouse. Through the two pictures of "the mouse opens the sky" and "the mouse bodes well for the year", it creates a warm and happy "family fun" atmosphere, which endows the country with abundant crops and prosperous development.
"Everything is life, and everything is spiritual. Only when the creator has a love and respect for life can the brushwork be full of beautiful meaning. " Zhou Jianping said that after extending the creative vision to the "big world", Han Meilin not only allows visitors to see people and things from paintings, but also life and true feelings.
Show cultural imprint with zodiac creation
Over the years, based on the creative concept of "harmony and unity between man and nature", Han Meilin insisted on absorbing nutrients from Chinese excellent traditional culture and folk art, and integrated into contemporary aesthetic concepts, and achieved innovative breakthroughs in image modeling and cultural characteristics, making the zodiac art not only a narrow sense of twelve animals, but also a unique symbolic meaning given by the creators. At the same time, the symbolism of color is also integrated into it, for example, red symbolizes auspiciousness, white symbolizes purity, and purple symbolizes mystery.
In terms of image modeling, Han Meilin also made bold innovations, making it have China characteristics in value orientation and cultural symbols. For example, the image of the zodiac in ink painting is often supplemented by the traditional auspicious design of China, which not only brings people a beautiful artistic feeling, but also makes people feel a strong cultural atmosphere.
"The ancient national excellent culture is the root, and it has been continuously injecting nutrition into contemporary culture." Han Meilin always felt that the Chinese Zodiac is the mark of every Chinese son and daughter, which is of great significance to the inheritance and protection of Chinese traditional culture. "In the long historical tradition, the zodiac culture has shown great vitality and creativity, and has gradually penetrated into all aspects of people’s lives and become a timeless cultural tradition."
"Zodiac culture is a part of China’s folk culture and a vivid reflection of people’s yearning for a better life." Zhou Jianping said that the 12 Zodiacs written by Han Meilin are lively and interesting, and have become popular cultural symbols. It is full of love for natural life that Han Meilin awakens the common cultural memory and artistic touch of Chinese sons and daughters through the Chinese Zodiac, a cultural symbol shared by the Chinese nation, and the artistic language of "Heaven, Earth, People and Harmony".
Shuttle freely between different art forms
For a long time, Han Meilin has devoted itself to expanding its territory on the fertile ground of art. Skillfully shuttling between different art forms, he pays special attention to the aesthetic needs of the public and the positive expression of the simple, pure and natural life atmosphere while emphasizing the formal aesthetic feeling and visual impact.
Childish and lively, innocent animal expression, frequently jumped under Han Meilin’s brush, making people love. Among them, brush painting combines the effects of traditional ink painting and modern watercolor painting, which has both appropriate exaggerated deformation and peculiar romantic color; It not only contains soaring imagination, but also has strong folk customs.
Han Meilin’s ink painting has distinct personality and strong Mo Yun, showing the modern vitality of image painting. In his many ink paintings of horses, pen and ink walk on the water like a sword, or blow like a gust of wind. A large area of color blocks build a horse’s stalwart body, with a slender head that is docile or neighing, a dense mane tail flowing and elegant, and hooves that fall steadily, keep their feet on the ground, or run in the air to present the beauty of speed and strength.
Han Meilin also extended the tradition of the Zodiac culture to granite, bronze, purple sand, ceramics and other materials with classical flavor, and incorporated the traditional oriental ornamentation and symbols, endowing the traditional artistic language with modernity, so that people can truly understand the spirit of the times while looking back at history. For example, the sculpture "Enabling Shang Xian" has a unique design for the image of "dragon", and its early bronze patterns give people a sense of simplicity, massiness, solemnity and atmosphere.
"Artists should be grounded anytime, anywhere." Han Meilin believes that as a creator, he should devote himself to the creation and guidance of beauty all his life, convey beauty and kindness to the public, impress viewers with the connotation of "great beauty" and tell the story of China well. Over the years, Han Meilin often went deep into the people, leaned down to pay attention to the beautiful moments in life, and excavated rich themes from them, creating a large number of masterpieces. His works are highly praised by art lovers at home and abroad, and some of his excellent works are collected by Beijing Palace Museum, China National Museum, China Art Museum, Russian National Museum, British Museum and Egyptian National Museum. At the same time, Han Meilin was awarded the title of "Artist of Peace" by UNESCO, becoming the first person in China art circle to win this honor.
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How did the "New Year’s Day" in the history of China come about? Do you know

"Source of this article: Shanghai Rule of Law Newspaper"
New Year’s Day, that is, January 1st of the Gregorian calendar, is commonly known as "New Year" in most countries in the world. Yuan means "beginning", and the beginning of every number is called "yuan"; Dan means "day"; "New Year’s Day" means "the first day".
"New Year’s Day" usually refers to the first day of the first month in the calendar. In China, the word "New Year’s Day" has existed since ancient times, and it was first seen in the Book of Jin in literary works. "New Year’s Day" in Chinese history refers to "the first day of the first month", and the calculation method of "the first month" was very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the dates of New Year’s Day (the first day of the first month) in previous dynasties were not consistent.
Lunar calendar start date
In the history of China, "the first day of the first month" has many appellations, such as New Year’s Day, Yuanri, Yuanzheng, Yuanchen, Shangri, Yuanshuo, etc., but among many appellations, "New Year’s Day" is the most common and the longest.
The calculation method of "the first month" was also very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the new year’s day of the past dynasties is not consistent. The first month of the summer calendar in summer is spring January, the first month of the Yin calendar in Shang Dynasty is winter December, and the first month of the Zhou calendar is winter November. After Qin Shihuang unified China, October was the first month, that is, the first day of October was New Year’s Day. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it has been stipulated that January in spring is the first month, and the first day of January is called New Year’s Day, which has been used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
The first day of the first month was called Yuan Zheng in Cui Yuan’s Ming of the Third Son of Chai in Han Dynasty, Yuan Chen in Yu’s Fu of Yangdu in Jin Dynasty, Yuan Chun in Yuan Hui’s Song of the Emperor in Summer in Northern Qi Dynasty, and Yuan Shuo in Tang Dezong’s poem Li Shi’s Returning from the Yuan Dynasty to Watch the Army Battle and Return to Camp.
The beginning of the solar calendar
In 1911, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Manchu Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "follow the agricultural season, follow the western calendar, and make statistics", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actually used in 1912) and stipulated that January 1 of the Gregorian calendar was called "New Year’s Day", but it was not called "New Year’s Day".
Representatives of provincial governors met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar, calling the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar "Spring Festival" and the first day of January of the Gregorian calendar "New Year’s Day", but it was not officially announced at that time.
On January 1, 1912, the Republic of China was proclaimed, and Sun Yat-sen took office as interim president in Nanjing. In his oath of office, Sun Yat-sen ended with "New Year’s Day of the first year of the Republic of China". This is the origin of "New Year’s Day" in China.
On September 27th, 1949, the first China People’s Political Consultative Conference decided to establish the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and at the same time, it also decided to adopt the universal method of the year, that is, the solar calendar. New Year’s Day refers to the first day of the first year of the year.
In order to distinguish the two New Years, the first day of the first month in the summer calendar is just before and after the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms. Therefore, the first day of the first month in the summer calendar was renamed as "Spring Festival", and the first day of the first month in the Gregorian calendar was designated as the beginning of the new year-"New Year’s Day", which was listed as a legal holiday and became a national holiday.
January 1st every year marks the arrival of a new year. People are used to calling this day "New Year’s Day", commonly known as "Gregorian Year", "Gregorian Year" or "New Calendar Year".
Festival culture
Modern New Year’s Day is listed as a legal holiday by the China government, which has become a national holiday. After a day off, we often adjust the weekend before or after that day, and generally rest for three days in a row. The celebration of New Year’s Day in modern China is much less important than the Spring Festival.
Comprehensive arrangement from Baidu Encyclopedia and Sanlian Life Weekly, etc.
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Mock the media! Ignore Ronaldo! Mr. Billion refused Newcastle. Does Felix want to stay at Chelsea?

Unlike many Chelsea players, Felix’s current contract will expire at the end of this season. His loan period is only half a year, and he will face a choice after the end of this season, whether to return to Atletico Madrid, stay at Chelsea or join other teams. For Felix, returning to Atletico Madrid is naturally the worst choice. It is difficult for him to get too many opportunities and growth under Simone, and staying at Chelsea means that he can’t participate in the Champions League, and Chelsea will not buy him out.

In the latest news, the English media believe that the only team willing to spend more than 100 million euros to sign Felix is Newcastle, and Felix directly commented: "A group of people know the king." Maybe what Felix meant was that the media didn’t know anything at all, and the news was not true at all. However, in most fans’ comments, it is thought that Felix is not worth 100 million euros at all, and Newcastle will not buy him out. This is what Felix really means.

Of course, this is just a kind of ridicule from the fans, and Felix certainly doesn’t think so. However, most fans’ comments are still very representative. The progress speed of the former European golden boy in the past few seasons has not been recognized by the fans, and even Felix can’t become the offensive core of the team in Chelsea to help the team win. Although such a player said that Atletico Madrid marked a transfer fee of 100 million euros for him, no team would be willing to spend 100 million euros to buy him out, including Newcastle. This is the view of most fans.

Only after Felix joined the Premier League, he got a red card in his first Premier League game, but only scored three goals in 14 Premier League games, which didn’t match his worth. Moreover, in the more crucial Champions League competition, Felix’s performance has also not been recognized by the team and fans. Judging from his current performance, Chelsea will not refuse Felix to stay in the team, but it is almost impossible for Chelsea to complete his buyout.

In addition to this question, Felix evaluated the best offensive combination in an interview. Messi, Neymar, Bernardo Silva and his own name appeared in his list, but his national team teammate Cristiano Ronaldo was not included in the selection, which was also ridiculed by fans. There is no problem in making the best combination in your mind and focusing on your inner thoughts, but this problem is obviously a "pit" set by the media. Felix has to jump down and ignore Cristiano Ronaldo. It is no wonder that Cristiano Ronaldo directly took him after the incident.

There are big changes in the frontcourt this summer. Barcelona wants to clean two generals, and the No.10 in the team+the old Manchester City general.

This season, the team has successively introduced Levan and Rafinha, which has achieved good results. Barcelona hopes to continue to upgrade its frontcourt position this summer, while some players with poor performance will be purged. Fati and Phelan Torres are undoubtedly inferior to others in the frontcourt. In terms of reinforcement, Barcelona intends to introduce Rocco, while in terms of cleaning, Fati and Phelan Torres are the two frontcourt players who are most likely to leave the team. In order to have enough funds to continue the upgrade and reinforcement of the frontcourt, Barcelona may consider selling one of Fati and Phelan Torres.

Fati, the new Barcelona No.10 is obviously not as good as the previous No.10 players of the club, and it is difficult for people to see any signs of improvement. Fati’s future in Barcelona has become increasingly uncertain, and now the club is more inclined to sell it to recover funds, rather than give time to prove itself. Fati’s own performance is unstable, and it also affects other players on Barcelona’s offensive end from time to time. The most classic scene is that Fati grabbed Levan, who was in a better position, so that the latter failed to make a header attack. Fati failed to have a good chemical reaction with other teams in the frontcourt, but it had the opposite effect. The data of 6 goals and 3 assists in 36 games seems not bad, but Fati did more harm than good in the frontcourt.

Fortunately, Fati still has a market, and several top teams in the Premier League want to introduce this Barcelona frontcourt player. Therefore, as long as Barcelona is willing to push Fati into the transfer market, I believe it can be sold at a good price. As for Phelan Torres, he only came to Barcelona in January last year, and this season has actually begun the first full season of his career in Barcelona. However, the club is obviously not satisfied with Phelan Torres’ performance on the court. Poor ability to seize opportunities, whether it is personal scoring or organizing assists, has not played the role and effect expected by the coach. Phelan-Torres Espiba has a low presence on the offensive end, which has actually lasted for a long time.

People don’t see any signs of recovery in Phelan Torres. Phelan Torres is not as good as Dembele in breaking and killing on the flank. The latter can not only play a critical role, but also always send assists to his teammates. Barcelona hopes to sell Phelan Torres this summer. At the beginning, it cost 55 million euros to introduce him from Manchester City, and the capital cost is a little. Now it seems that this transaction is obviously disappointing and at a loss. Phelan Torres has played 32 games for Barcelona so far this season, of which only 13 started and scored 5 goals and 1 assist. It’s worse than Fati in data.

For Barcelona fans, compared with Fati, the club is actually more inclined to sell Phelan Torres. After all, the former comes from the team’s own youth training, and the fans still hope Fati can play and show his due role on the court. Phelan Torres is not from Barcelona, but from Valencia. Phelan Torres made a name for himself in Valencia and attracted the attention of Manchester City. During his time at Manchester City, Phelan Torres’ performance was remarkable. However, due to Barcelona’s invitation, fans have the idea of returning to La Liga. Manchester City chose to follow Phelan Torres’ wishes and the deal was successfully concluded. However, it is a pity that Phelan Torres, who returned to La Liga, played an outstanding performance in Valencia and even Manchester City, but now he is facing the fate of being purged.