Ink-wash painting celebrate 70 years of PRC
An exhibition featuring paintings of great revolutionaries celebrates the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
Souvenir Metro tickets show Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and the composers of China’s national anthem.
An exhibition of paintings celebrating the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China has opened in Jing’an District.
The exhibition features ink wash paintings by Shanghai painter Xi Wenyuan of the founders of the People's Republic of China such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other revolutionaries, from Sun Yat-sen to poet Wen Yiduo.
The exhibition will run through October 10 on the fourth floor of the Haiwen Building on 383 Tianmu Road M. in Beizhan Subdistrict. Admission is free.
At the opening of the exhibition on Friday, Xi revealed souvenir Metro tickets printed with his paintings of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai along with Tian Han and Nie Er, composers of China’s national anthem.
Tao Mingbo, 90, who joined the People's Liberation Army in 1949, was a special guest.
“I was a solider and I’ve lived in Beizhan for many years. It’s my pleasure to attend an event like this,” he said.
Tao presented a poem, especially written for the event to celebrate the motherland’s 70th anniversary. He described China as a huge dragon in the east, and praised reform and opening up.
More than 40 infants from local Wits Town High Scope Kindergarten attended the event, bringing paper and pens to copy the paintings that most impressed them.
“I enjoyed many good paintings today. My teacher told me the people on the paintings were great men and women. I tried to draw one by myself,” said Xiao Tong, 6.
