China’s outstanding traditional culture represents the Chinese nation’s unceasing spiritual pursuit and a spiritual heritage that remains ever-relevant. To further promote this culture, enhance moral and cultural literacy, strengthen national confidence and pride, and preserve the nation’s artistic treasures, the opening ceremony for the “Three Artists—Xie Haipeng, Zhao Junyuan, and Le Yitao” art exhibition was held on the morning of November 15 at the Changzhou Hengshan Museum. Director Li Qiming delivered a speech on behalf of the Changzhou Hengshan Museum. Liu Enjia—Chairman of Shenzhen Zhongxian Economic Development Co., Ltd., member of the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Special Research Fellow and Visiting Professor at Peking University’s Institute of Social Development, and Special Research Fellow at the State Economic System Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China—along with Yang Qipeng, Vice Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles and former Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, and renowned painter Xie Haipeng, delivered speeches.

Also attending the opening ceremony were Ni Ming, Deputy Director and Research Fellow of the Nanjing Museum; Zheng Bihou, National First-Class Artist, member of the China Calligraphers Association, Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles Calligraphy and Painting Grading Committee, and President of the Jiangsu Provincial Youth Calligraphy and Painting Association; Gu Zhengying, Deputy Chairperson of the Changzhou Municipal Committee of the China Democratic Promotion Association; Wang Hanlin, former Deputy Director of the Wujin District People’s Congress; Peng Qionghui, Director of the Calligraphy and Painting Grading Office of the Changzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles; Tang Xingliang, Director of the Cultural Relics Division of the Changzhou Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics; Shao Jianwei, Deputy Director of the Changzhou Museum; Zhao Jinsheng, a renowned crosstalk performer; Zhao Junyuan, a National First-Class Artist and renowned calligrapher; Xie Haipeng, a renowned painter; Le Yitao, a Master of Traditional Chinese Arts and Crafts, a Gansu Provincial Master of Arts and Crafts, Deputy Director of the Professional Committee for Middle-Aged and Young Talents of the China Arts and Crafts Association, Director of the Fine-Line Painting Creation Department at the Gansu Academy of Chinese Painting, and a professional painter; as well as calligraphy and painting enthusiasts from all walks of life and colleagues from the Changzhou Museum.

Li Qiming, Director of the Changzhou Hengshan Museum, delivered the opening remarks

Remarks by Liu Enjia, Chairman of Shenzhen Zhongxian Economic Development Co., Ltd.

Director Li Qiming poses for a photo with Jie Haipeng, Zhao Junyuan, and Le Yitao

Remarks by Artist Xie Haipeng

Remarks by Yang Qipeng, Vice Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles and former Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group

Xie Haipeng, born in 1962 in Jurong, Jiangsu, has been passionate about calligraphy and painting since childhood. He received guidance from masters of Chinese painting such as Wei Zixi, Song Wenzhi, and Bai Xueshi. He specializes in landscape painting and also excels in flower-and-bird painting. Xie Haipeng’s landscape paintings excel in their conceptualization and artistic vision; ordinary scenes and familiar landscapes are transformed under his brush into stunning vistas imbued with rich emotional resonance. From a distance, the trees appear lush and dense, and the mountains and rocks seem to overlap; yet upon closer inspection, not a single rock can be discerned. This fully captures the subtle and complex relationships among the myriad elements of nature—seemingly connected yet distinct, yet forming a harmonious whole. His works are ethereal and elegant, brimming with charm.

Zhao Junyuan, courtesy name Yiqiao. Born in 1962, he holds a bachelor’s degree. He is a Property Management Specialist, a National First-Class Artist, a member of the China Calligraphers Association, a member of the Calligraphy and Painting Center of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Executive Vice President and Secretary-General of the Qinghai-Xiadu Calligraphy and Painting Academy, a member of the Qinghai Provincial Calligraphy Association, and a director of the Qinghai Provincial Association of Middle-Aged and Young Calligraphers. Member of the Ink and Color Painting Academy under the “Ink and Color” program of China Education Television; Academician of the Nanyang Painting and Calligraphy Academy; Deputy Director and Deputy Secretary-General of the Painting and Calligraphy Center at China Release Network; and Founding Council Member of the Painting and Calligraphy Branch of the China Association for Cross-Strait Relations.

 Le Yitao, born in 1966 in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, is a Master of Traditional Chinese Arts and Crafts, a Master of Arts and Crafts of Gansu Province, Deputy Director of the Professional Committee for Middle-Aged and Young Talents at the China Arts and Crafts Association, and Director of the Gongbi Painting Creation Department at the Gansu Academy of Chinese Painting. A professional painter, he studied under Mr. Wang Yuguo, a renowned contemporary landscape painter, and specializes in landscape painting, Dunhuang murals, lacquer painting, and Zisha pottery engraving. Since the early 1990s, Le Yitao has traveled to Dunhuang to study the murals, to Tianshui to learn lacquer art, and has made five trips to the Taihang Mountains to sketch from life, thereby accumulating a profound artistic foundation. He is currently also engaged in purple clay art. Drawing on his many years of painting and creative experience, he applies his skills to purple clay creation, using a knife in place of a brush to organically integrate painting with purple clay engraving, thereby creating ceramic works imbued with the spirit of literati painting.