On this day, 28 years ago, on April 24, 1997 (March 18, 1997, the famous painter Huang Zhou passed away. Huang Zhou, who is painting, is a famous artist in our country. He was a member of the 6th and 7th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a standing member of the 8th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a former consultant to the Arts and Crafts Company of the Ministry of Light Industry, and a standing director of the China Artists Association. Huang Zhou's original name was Liang Gantang, also known as Yingzhai, and his stage name was Huang Zhou. He was born in Li County, Hebei Province in March 1925, and later moved to Xi'an. In his early years, he learned painting from Zhao Wangyun and Han Leran. In 1942, he served as an art teacher at Li County Middle School. In 1946, he served as editor-in-chief of Yonghua Books and Magazine in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. In May 1949, he joined the army art work of the People's Liberation Army of China, and served as a cultural creator and leader of the art group of the Political Department of the Northwest Military Region. In 1955, he served as a creator of the Culture Department of the General Political Department. In 1959, he served as consultant to the Art Company of the Military Museum of the People's Revolution of China. In 1981, he served as vice president of the China Painting Research Institute. Huang Zhou has made outstanding contributions to promoting the development of contemporary art, carrying out international cultural and artistic exchanges, and promoting the great cause of reunification of the motherland. His life was a life of revolution and struggle. He went deep into the border and painted diligently, from "When the Apple Blooms","Snow and Snow in the Wilderness", and "Rush to the Market" in the 1950s to "Painting of a Hundred Donkeys","People Returning on a Snow and Snow Night", and "Grain Delivery" in the 1970s and 1980s. Huang Zhou formed a distinctive personal painting style based on his rich life. His outstanding works in different periods have won many awards internationally and domestically. In the late 1970s, he drew the masterpiece "Dedicate to the People" in memory of Zhou Enlai. Liang Huangzhou's artistic practice has had a positive and profound influence on the development of contemporary art. Liang Huangzhou is not only a people's artist, but also a social activist. In the early 1980s, he and famous painters Li Keran, Cai Ruohong, Hua Junwu and others co-founded the China Painting Research Institute; and the establishment of Yanhuang Art Museum was Liang Huangzhou's more outstanding masterpiece. In 1986, Huang Zhou caused a sensation when he held a solo exhibition in Singapore. Someone proposed to establish the Huang Zhou Art Museum. He said,"I personally am not enough to build a museum. If I want to build it, I will build the Yan Huang Art Museum that belongs to the descendants of the Emperor Huang and even mankind." After four years of financing and construction, in 1991, my country's first large-scale private and publicly-aided modern art museum-Yanhuang Art Museum was finally completed. Liang Huangzhou served as director of the Art Museum and donated more than 200 ancient calligraphy and painting cultural relics and more than 1000 representative and sketchy works from his collection. Over the past six years, Yanhuang Art Museum has done a lot of work in protecting and promoting national art, promoting the development of art education and public welfare undertakings, and strengthening international cultural exchanges. Liang Huangzhou's artistic path, academic spirit and persistent pursuit of promoting the development of national culture have far-reaching influence at home and abroad. Liang Huangzhou lay quietly in the flower bushes in the condolence hall of the art museum. In front of the portrait, his wife Zheng Wenhui and her children presented a large flower basket with the words "We Love You". Zheng Wenhui said that the Yanhuang Art Museum embodies Huang Zhou's artistic ideals and all his efforts, and it is his wish to bid farewell to life here. After Liang Huangzhou's body is cremated, the ashes will be placed in the Yanhuang Art Museum.