On July 17, 2007 (June 4, 2007 in the lunar calendar), Chinese painting master Cheng Shifa passed away. Chinese painting master Cheng Shifa, a famous Chinese painting master in our country, was born on April 10, 1921 in a family in Songjiang who has been practicing medicine for generations. He died at 18:58 on July 17, 2007 at Shanghai East China Hospital due to ineffective heart failure. He was 87 years old. Mr. Cheng is a representative figure of Shanghai-style calligraphy and painting and a banner of southern Chinese painting. The departure of a master always triggers anxiety about the imminent crisis in a certain field. Especially for Chinese painting, the debates of inheritance, retro, innovation, Westernization and the practice of fighting each other have made Chinese painting in a low ebb period that needs to break through. In 1941, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. In 1942, he held a personal exhibition in Shanghai Daxin Company. After 1949, he engaged in the popularization of art. In 1952, he joined the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House (East China People's Fine Arts Publishing House) as a creator. In 1956, he participated in the preparations for the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and served as a painter. As the president of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts for a long time, he is an artist with remarkable achievements and a high reputation at home and abroad. The brush and ink of landscape painting has been quite powerful. Since the 1950s, he has influenced the painting world with comic strips and illustrations. Since then, his artistic vision has continued to expand, "taking ancient and modern Chinese and foreign methods", and he is unique in figures, flowers and birds. He has attainments in comic strips, New Year paintings, illustrations, illustrations, Calligraphy, thanks to the Qin and Han Dynasty wooden slips and Huai Su wild grass, is good at combining grass, seal and scribe into one. His paintings were influenced by Chen Laolian in his early years, and even the painting styles of Qingteng, Bada Shanren, Shi Tao and Silla Shanren later inspired him. His special expression method brought meaningful interest to the United States. In his later years, the painter made more flower and bird paintings, and the brushwork and ink techniques became more agile, with bright colors and novel compositions. Representative works of comic strips include: "Lenin in 1918", "Lenin's Story", "Courage and Sword", "Painted Skin", "Old Sun Returns to the Society", "Kong Yiji", etc. The illustration of "The Foreign History of Confucianism" won the silver prize at the Leipzig International Book Binding Exhibition in 1959. " Kong Yiji won the second prize of the first national comic strip painting award. The album includes "Selected Works of Cheng Shifa's Recent Works", "Selected Works of Cheng Shifa's Flowers and Birds", "Cheng Shifa Works Exhibition" (Japanese version), etc. His works have been exhibited at home and abroad for many times and won awards. During his lifetime, he was a director of the China Artists Association, a member of the National Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a member of the Academy of Chinese Painting Research, a vice president of Xiling Printing Society, and the president of the Shanghai Chinese Academy of Painting. Cheng Shifa has made remarkable achievements in many fields such as New Year paintings, comic strips, illustrations, posters, Chinese painting, calligraphy, etc. To outsiders, he learns the same, and he is the same; he learns the same, and becomes the same As one of Cheng Shifa's few disciples, Mao Guolun recalled his teacher as saying that the deepest impression that his master left on him was that he was almost diligent. Mao Guolun remembered that once, his master asked him and another disciple to grind ink all night, just to be able to draw as much as he wanted the next day. The four-foot-long painting, the master drew more than ten in one breath, until he used up all the ink that had been grinding all night. "When others come to ask for manuscripts, Mr. Cheng will always draw more. If the other party needs 20, he will have to type at least 50 manuscripts," Mao Guolun said. In his later years of illness, Cheng Shifa still cared about painting. The eldest son, Cheng Zhu, recalled that in the last few years of his life, when his father was in good spirits, he would often move his fingers subconsciously. At first, the family did not understand what he meant. Later, upon closer inspection, they found that his fingers were in the shape of a pen, poking and prodding to simulate painting.