My Daughter Starts School, and a Painting of Shrimp Makes It into the National Collection

It's back-to-school season.

The Children's Art activity.

Parents are asked to work with their students to follow the style of Master Qi Baishi

and paint a picture of shrimp at play.

This leaves all the parents stumped.

But everyone has their own way of handling things.

Some parents glue real shrimp onto white paper, making them look incredibly lifelike.

Others hang live shrimp beneath a light and copy their shadows.

But then

Lin Xixi brings out the picture of shrimp at play painted by her father, Lin Chen,

and stuns the entire traditional Chinese painting world.

The Palace Museum declares that the painting captures every aspect of the shrimp

and pays him a personal visit,

all to add the work to the national collection.

But Lin Chen, who has a traditional Chinese culture System,

has already mastered music, strategy games, calligraphy, and painting.

He sparks a nationwide craze for traditional culture.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.