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Painting the Past
Literature往事入画
Zhang Caizhu
This book is the sincere and warm life memories of a seventy-year-old man. Elder Zhang Caizhu used more than 100 "memory paintings" to record the joy of childhood, the scenery of the countryside, the hardship of labor, the tenacity of life and the changes of the times, vividly reproducing the life and production scenes in rural Chongqing from the 1950s to the 1980s. In his paintings, ordinary daily scenes are transformed into pieces of fallen flowers full of affection, giving off a warm luster. The memories of home and country woven from the lives of ordinary people are intertwined with beauty and sadness, allowing us to see beauty, pain, and strength.
This book is the sincere and warm life memories of a seventy-year-old man. Elder Zhang Caizhu used more than 100 "memory paintings" to record the joy of childhood, the scenery of the countryside, the hardship of labor, the tenacity of life and the changes of the times, vividly reproducing the life and production scenes in rural Chongqing from the 1950s to the 1980s. In his paintings, ordinary daily scenes are transformed into pieces of fallen flowers full of affection, giving off a warm luster. The memories of home and country woven from the lives of ordinary people are intertwined with beauty and sadness, allowing us to see beauty, pain, and strength.