Xie Xianying, Ma Shilong, Gao Zhimin, Li Jingyang
After a 42-year absence, he returned to the inner countryside as a teacher
Ma Shilong. On June 26, 2023, on this day of June 66, Xie Xianying, Ma Shilong, Gao Zhimin, and Li Jingyang, four old alumni of Inner Township Normal University, returned to their alma mater, visited the teachers, recalled the scenes of study and life on campus, and recalled the long years of youth. Dear alma mater, you have nurtured and educated us, and today, in this melting pot, you have once again evoked our surging emotions and inseparable attachments. Neixiang Teacher, your eternal charm will always inspire us to continue to work hard. Today, a group of four of us, doing our best, showed our housekeeping skills, and carefully created works one by one, which were reported to our alma mater, leaving them to our "mother" who will always love us deeply, and to the descendants of our inner teachers. Now, the four of us are finally able to proudly say that we have lived up to the expectations of our dear alma mater.
Ma Shilong's Chinese paintings.
From left: Bai Qiang, Ding Yajun, Ma Shilong, Xie Xianying.
In particular, Xie Xianying, an old alumnus, is now a well-known artist in China, integrating calligraphy, painting, criticism, and connoisseurship, and is the most comprehensive artist. Today, Xie Xianying's Chinese painting works have reached the point of perfection, and his works are extremely collectible. Xie Xianying is the pride of our inner-country teachers. Here are some of the works that the four of us gave to our alma mater.
From left: Ding Yajun, Xie Xianying, Ma Shilong.
From left: Xie Xianying, Ma Shilong.
Xie Xianying's Chinese painting "Lotus Wind in the Prosperous Age" interpretation: harmony in the prosperous era, the name comes from "lotus", symbolizing "harmony", and has the meaning of "harmony". The wind of the lotus leaf, homophonic "Feng", which means "harmony in the prosperous world", this picture of a lotus flower painted ten petals, indicating perfection. Below are five lotus seeds, lotus seeds and even seeds, who doesn't pity the son? The other meaning is that the five children are in high school. Now it represents cars, houses, tickets, wives, and children, which means that students who come out of the inner teacher can become talents. The small birds that appear on the stems and leaves are meant to add vitality to the picture, appearing to be still and moving.
Li Jingyang's Chinese paintings.
From left: Bai Chengang, Ding Yajun, Li Jingyang, Xie Xianying, Ma Shilong.
Li Jingyang's Chinese painting "Lao Dan Says Ape Picture" interpretation: Lao Dan is Lao Tzu, and the ape is a monkey. Lao Tzu pointed to the monkey and explained the knowledge to the students. Look closely at the teacher holding a fan behind his back, the fan can shake the wind, and the "wind" is "sealed". This picture means "sealing waiting", and now it is called being able to be a big official. On the other hand, as long as you listen to the teacher's earnest teachings and study hard, you will definitely be promoted and rich in the future, and you will glorify your ancestors. On the top of the picture, there is a stone with a heavier color, which is a joint writing of the two traditional characters of "Inner Teacher", and Li Jingyang hides his best wishes for Inner Teacher in the mountain peak of the picture.
From left: Li Jingyang, Xie Xianying, Ma Shilong, Gao Zhimin.
Interpretation of Gao Zhimin's calligraphy work "Peach and Plum Do Not Speak, the Next is Self-Made": The original meaning is that the peach tree and plum tree cannot speak, but because of its beautiful flowers and delicious fruits, people have gone to pick them. So he made a path under the tree. It means that as long as you are virtuous and sincere to people, even if you don't make a big deal, you will be trusted and respected by people.
From left: Bai Chengang, Ding Yajun, Ma Shilong, Xie Xianying.
Ma Shilong's Chinese paintings.
Ma Shilong's Chinese painting "Green Mountains Are Never Old, Green Water Lasts Forever", and the picture of the inner countryside teacher shining forever, was carefully painted by the contemptible people for several days. It means that the inner countryside teachers are like green mountains, forever young, and the number of students is like a long stream of green water, which is endless and never ends. Therefore, it is only natural that the inner countryside teachers will always shine. In this picture, I use a combination of Chinese and Western painting methods to make the work not only have the taste of Chinese painting, but also have the three-dimensional effect of Western painting, and fully express the distance and reality of the mountain. The vertical mountain, the surging water, one real and one virtual, means that the inner countryside teacher will always have a backer, and the nearby mountain is like an ingot, gathering treasures and gathering talents, gathering popularity, and continuously sending talents to the outside to create wealth for the motherland and hometown.
From near to far on the right: Xie Xianying, Gao Zhimin, Li Jingyang, photo by Ma Shilong.
The trip to the inner countryside was full of emotion. The alma mater got together, and the love was deep and long. Thank you very much to Secretary Ding Yajun and Principal Bai Chengang for their love for several of our old students, and thank you very much for the warm reception of your alma mater for your wanderers. June 29, 2023.
About the Author
Ma Shilong, a powerful contemporary Chinese comic artist, the first person in Nanyang comics, and a Chinese painter, also writes essays, biographies, and reviews. In 1989, he began to publish comics, ** for more than 30 years, has been in "Comics Monthly", "Chinese Comics", "Art Daguan", "Chinese Women", "Liaoning Youth", "Essay Monthly", "Selected Essays", "Yuanyuan Comics" and other authoritative magazines, "People**", "Guangming**", "China Youth Daily", "Satire and Humor", "China Calligraphy and Painting Newspaper", "Humor and Jokes", "Rule of Law**", "Workers**", "Farmers**", "Yangcheng Evening News", "Marriage and Childbirth Cartoon News", "China Lawyer Daily", "Health News", "Comic World", " Authoritative newspapers and periodicals such as "Ancient and Modern Stories", "Miscellaneous Newspaper", "New Evening News", "New *** Elderly**", a total of more than 1,000 works have been published in hundreds of mainstream newspapers and magazines at the provincial and municipal levels across the country, and some works have been published in foreign countries. He has won more than 50 awards such as gold and silver awards. For more works, please search: "Nanyang Painter Ma Shilong", "Ma Shilong Comics", "Ma Shilong Cartoonists", "Henan Ma Shilong", "Ma Shilong Chinese Painting" and other keywords. Subscribe and follow this account to watch past articles. Thanks for liking, sharing, favorites, and comments.