He called himself "the old white of the vegetable garden", and his paintings did not pursue grandeur, but only painted the simple things of the world. His creative works are based on folk and simple vegetables, and he expresses completely different artistic effects in a few strokes. 
He is able to integrate simple foods in nature into a unique aesthetic and has a certain artistic realm. A brush paints a rustic, an ink shows elegance, a piece of paper shows a concise way of neutralization, his paintings are like his people, and the paintings are fresh and simple. 
Old Garden(formerly known as Bai Jinhai): Born in 1955, graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of China's ** Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 27, and at the age of 49, graduated from the research class of China's first doctoral program in Chinese painting, under the tutelage of Mr. Zhang Lichen, and is currently the director of the Research and Creation Center of Rongbaozhai Painting Institute.
Dressed in a plain Tang costume, he speaks slowly and logically, and his demeanor is calm, elegant and generous. This is the first impression of Mr. Lao Pu to everyone, into his works, the farmer uncle's field of chestnuts, pumpkins, pears, eggplants, etc. jumped on the paper, since ancient literati and ink writers often take "plum orchid bamboo chrysanthemum" as a noble spiritual sustenance and pursuit. Lao Pu has opened up a new world for Chinese literati painting on the basis of inheritance. He takes vegetables and fruits as the theme, Chinese brush and ink as the expression, simple and elegant as the return, and uses the pen to be simple, the ink is elegant, and the ancient meaning is full of fresh and elegant wonder. His works give people a kind of innocent and knowledgeable, light and antique temperament. The famous critic Liu Xilin once said of Lao Pu: plain painting, plain heart, amateur.
Step into the world of the "vegetable garden" of the old gardenLao Pu is a flower and bird painter who has truly found a suitable mood and a distinct artistic language. With his brilliant talent and extraordinary talent, he has found a meaningful artistic language. The subject matter of his paintings is similar to the illustrations in the Compendium of Materia Medica, which is very rare in traditional literati paintings, and more importantly, he subverts the composition techniques and modeling cognition of traditional Chinese flower and bird painting in form, making his works more painterly and ornamental. 
Lao Pu's artistic style borrowed from the pure ink paintings and woodblock prints of the Song Dynasty, and brought this feature to the extreme in the long-term exploration, which not only improved the quality of the picture, but also enriched the interest of brush and ink. It can be seen from works such as "Lotus Ascension", "Planting Beans and Reaping Beans", and "This Thing is the Most Molarious" that Lao Pu has an inseparable internal connection with traditional folk culture in terms of the sustenance and meaning of objects, which reflects his deep understanding and thinking of traditional Chinese culture, as well as his cognition and perception of mind cultivation, cultivation and cultivation advocated by Buddhism and Taoism. 
He is also good at depicting and shaping objects. The real texture of various pastoral products in the work, coupled with the exaggeration and deformation of the form, brings a unique visual experience and rich spiritual connotation to the viewer. Although Lao Pu's paintings still belong to the category of folded branches and flowers in literati paintings, he does not emphasize too much on the characteristics of brush and ink, and always maintains the elegance and innocence of coloring, and corresponds to the sincere and simple emotions of rural life in the painting language, creating a kind of plain and elegant "photo" feelings. 
Jing Hao emphasized in "Brushwork" that painting should be "realistic". He once said that "those who are similar have their shapes and leave their breath", and "those who are true have a prosperous temperament". The portrait of life advocated by Lao Pu is essentially "expressive" and "charming". He uses figurative realistic language to express abstract emotional expressions, and uses baskets of fruits, vegetables, and vegetables full of life warmth and simple fragrance to express the most authentic pastoral products, which also reflects his love and retrospection of rural life. 
It is not difficult to understand why when people look at Lao Pu's paintings, they can't help but be completely quiet and clear. In his paintings, the perfect balance of authenticity achieved by various forces restricting and canceling each other is the artistic direction pursued by Lao Pu after combining vegetables, melons and fruits, and wild grasses at will. His paintings almost never use bright colors, but only use black, white and some seemingly gray intermediate tones to represent objects, all unassuming, quietly releasing the most earthy shock and elegance and sincerity that go straight to the heart. 
When an artist is not satisfied with only expressing the world seen with his eyes, but "plays with the theme", expresses his feelings, and finds the gap between the real objects and the nature in his heart by painting these ordinary "vegetable gardens", and expresses a pure spiritual world, this is undoubtedly a great spiritual comfort and the highest pursuit of art. 
The simple atmosphere of the Yuan book paper with a large number of black, white and gray use and the combination of dots, lines and surfaces make Lao Pu's works full of quiet atmosphere. His paintings are either formed by accumulation of ink, or dyed to create rhyme, in the contrast of ink and dryness, in the delicate combination of dots, lines and surfaces, showing the authenticity and elegance. 
Or ink line outline, or dry pen rubbing, a few strokes, vivid and expressive. Lao Pu's paintings of vegetables and fruits have both the traditional context of Chinese painting and the wonderful use of Western painting techniques. In addition, he innovated the inscription to give it the feeling of an axe and a knife. Radish and lotus pod are outlined with a round pen, and the inscription is decorated with a square pen imitation Song print, which is a combination of square and circle, full of fun.
Painting vegetables and fruit farming tools, drinking tea, eating vegetarian vegetables, planting flowers and plants, Lao Pu from the ordinary to understand the avenue, he believes that artistic creation and Buddhism practice in general, he is close to a state of "meditation", the heart has no distracting thoughts to depict the image, to create into the garden to get the true taste, the realm of meditation and cultivation of the mind.
Neither pretending to be elegant, but also without a sense of reserved kitsch, Lao Pu advocates the way of neutralization, draws the origin of life, and allows people to experience the joy ......of his falling flowers without words and people as light as chrysanthemums in the plain and elegant