On this day, 68 years ago, on September 16, 1957 (August 23, 1957, the Chinese painting master Qi Baishi died of illness in Beijing. Qi Baishi On September 16, 1957, Qi Baishi, a master of modern Chinese painting, died of illness in Beijing. Qi Baishi, a native of Xiangtan, Hunan, is a famous modern painter. His original name was Chunzhi, the word Weiqing, and the name was Lanting. Later, he changed his name to Huang, the word Binsheng, and the name was Baishi. He was also known as the owner of the borrowing people's singing hall, the old man of Jiping, and the wooden figure. Born in a poor peasant family, he has loved painting since childhood. Qi Baishi learned carpentry from his uncle when he was 13 years old. The following year, he learned carving carpentry from a carpenter in the village. He also studied and learned painting from a teacher. In the 15th year of Guangxu (1889 AD), he was appreciated by Hu Qinyuan and Chen Shaofan and taught him to read and learn painting, which improved his cultural and artistic level. In 1890, he organized the Longshan Poetry Society and the Luoshan Poetry Society with his teachers and friends. From 1902 to 1909, he traveled to the north and south of the motherland, admired the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland, met many literati painters, and appreciated a large number of famous paintings, secret manuals, calligraphy, and stele inscriptions, broadening his horizons. After 1990, he devoted himself to painting in his hometown "Jiping Hall". He settled in Beijing in 1919 and made a living by seal cutting and painting. In the more than ten years before the Anti-Japanese War, he painted more than 10,000 paintings and carved more than 3,000 seals. In 1927, he was hired as a professor at Peking Art College and Jinghua Art College. Yu Feian, Wang Xuetao, Li Kuchan, etc. are all his students. After the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Qi Baishi resigned as a professor at the Peking Academy of Art and posted a notice stating that he would not see visitors, attend meals, and take photos, expressing his resistance to Japanese imperialism and traitors. After Qi Baishi became an honorary professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. A librarian of the Central Museum of Literature and History, and was elected as a member of the Presidium of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of the China Painting Research Society and the China Artists Association, and honorary president of the China Academy of Painting. On his 90th birthday in 1953, he was awarded the honorary certificate of "Outstanding Artist of the China People" by the Ministry of Culture of the Central People's Government, and the German Democratic Republic awarded him the honorary certificate of honor as a correspondent academician of the Academy of Arts Sciences of the Republic. In 1954, he was elected as a representative to the First National People's Congress. In 1956, the World Peace Council decided that he would be the recipient of the 1955 International Peace Prize. He died of illness in Beijing on September 16, 1957. During his long-term artistic practice, Qi Baishi formed a unique artistic style, with vigorous brushwork, simple shape, and bright colors. He is good at painting flowers, birds, insects and fish, as well as painting landscapes and figures. He believes that painting "is beautiful between likeness and unlikeness. It is too kitsch and not like deceiving the world." Also good at seal cutting. There is "Collection of Qi Baishi's Works". Qi Baishi (1864.1.1-1957.9.16) was originally named Chunzhi, known as Weiqing and Lanting, and later renamed Huang, known as Binsheng, and also known as Baishi and Baishi Old Man. Other people from Xingziwu, descendants of Xingtang Old House, owner of Yishan Yin Hall, Jiping, Qida, Mu Jushi, Xiangshang old farmer, 300 Shiyin rich people, etc. People from Xiangtan, Hunan. His family was poor. When he was young, he studied for a year. After grazing cattle and cutting firewood, he studied and practiced painting. In 1877, he became an apprentice as a carpenter, and the following year he changed to study carving carpentry. He studied copying the "Biography of Mustard Seed Garden" and used it to make new carving patterns. Since 1888, he has studied painting from Xiao Xianggai, Wen Shaoke, Hu Qinyuan, Tan Pu and others. He studied from Chen Zuoguo, studied poetry and poetry from Wang Xiangqi, and served as president of Longshan Poetry Society. Since 1902, he has traveled to Shaanxi, Beijing, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Guangxi. In the past seven years, I saw famous mountains and rivers. The painting style was transferred from Gong to Wei, calligraphy was transferred from He Shaoji to Wei Stele, and seal carving was changed from Ding and Huang to Zhao Zhiqian. In 1917, he entered Beijing for the second time and met Chen Shizeng, Yao Mangfu, etc., and returned to Hunan the following year. He settled in Beijing in 1919 and began to implement reform after Chen Shizeng advised him. In 1926, Ying Lin Fengmian was hired to teach at the National Beijing Art College. He visited Sichuan in 1936. In 1937, he gained two years. During the Anti-Japanese War, Peiping fell, saying that "paintings will not be sold to officials." In 1946, he resumed his career in selling paintings and printing. In the same year, he went to Nanjing and Shanghai to hold solo exhibitions. He was also hired by Xu Beihong as an honorary professor at Beiping Art College. In 1949, he was elected as a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a member of the All-China Art Workers Association. In 1952, he was hired as an honorary professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Chairman of China Artists Association, research librarian of the Central Museum of Literature and History, Chairman of Beijing China Painting Research Society, and Honorary President of Beijing China Painting Academy. He was elected as a representative to the first National People's Congress. Good at China painting, calligraphy, seal cutting and poetry. He kept painting all his life and left a large number of poems, books, paintings and prints. Paintings handed down from time to time include "Ink Shrimp","Cow Herding Picture","The Sound of Frogs Out of the Spring", etc. He is the author of "Poetry Curses of Borrowing Mountain Yin Guan","Poetry Curses of Baishi","Autobiography of the Old Man Baishi", etc.; he has published three volumes of "Selected Works of Qi Baishi" and "Selected Landscape Paintings of Qi Baishi". In 1953, the Central Ministry of Culture awarded the title of "People's Artist". In 1955, the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the German Democratic Republic awarded him the honorary certificate of honor as a corresponding academician. In 1956, he was awarded the 1955 International Peace Prize of the World Peace Council. In 1963, he was elected as one of the world's cultural celebrities by the World Peace Council. In the same year, the "World Cultural Celebrity-The 100th Anniversary Exhibition of the Birth of Qi Baishi" was held at the Art Museum of China. From the end of 1983 to January 1984, the "Exhibition of Works Commemorating the 120th Anniversary of Qi Baishi's Birth" was held at the Art Museum of China. In the 1930s, Qi Baishi was painting Guo Moruo (middle) and Mao Dun (right) to congratulate Qi Baishi, who won the International Peace Prize of the World Peace Council. Lao She and his wife were together with Qi Baishi (middle) in 1953. Qi Baishi's collection of works: "Jiang Fan" Chinese painting,"Chicken and Duck" Chinese painting,"Flying Waterfall" Chinese painting,"Grass and Stone Shrimp" Chinese painting