The Master's Piece——How it took one artist more than a decade to complete a 500-meter long Chinese painting scroll  

作　　者：Kang Caiqi 

机构地区：[1]不详

出　　处：《Beijing Review》2024年第26期40-41,共2页北京周报（英文版）

摘　　要：What kind of artwork can grace the Great Hall of the People,a state building that functions as a meeting place for nationallevel events in China?The answer is the large mural Magnificent China,18 meters long and 3.72 meters wide,located in the Golden Hall of this great hall.Its creator is a self-taught painter with no academic art training background.Not only that,this painter,named Zhong Kaitian,also has eight other works(including one calligraphy work)hanging in the hall.Born in Kunming,Yunnan Province in southwest China,Zhong joined the People's Liberation Army at age 18 after graduating from high school,and was stationed in the Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna,in the extreme south of Yunnan,bordering both Myanmar and Laos.This area is noted for the distinct cultures of its ethnic groups."So I am very familiar with life along the southwestern border,"Zhong told Beijing Review.

关 键 词：Golden SOUTHWEST BORDER 

分 类 号：D61[政治法律—政治学] F125[政治法律—中外政治制度]