When I was young, I was very emotional in reading. I dreamed to be an artist or a writer after reading lots of books. A teacher of my junior high school once raised a question: what is an artist or writer? Artist or writer refers to the one who lives hopefully and empowers more people through his life, experience, and expression to envision a better world. An artist should never be forced to compose, but the frame on his wills. Once you become eager to create and express, then you can be praised as an artist.

You (the visitor) have a lot of thoughts related to environmental protection, energy-saving, ecological civilization and wildlife conservation in your life. If you want to know this era, then you should engage in and feel it. Good works are usually depicting people or what is happening in life, like Pavel Korchgin created by Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky who got involved in a great career in a great era. 

This era is witnessing the transformation from the industrialized civilization to the ecological civilization. There is an imbalance between the traditional culture and the new one. We should make changes and find out new thoughts in our life and work.

I have seen a picture depicting where to find the Spring. Today, what we should do is to find the bud of the next civilization, thus contributing to the construction of ecological civilization. We should not indulge in praise and applause. We should act as a pioneer to promote the construction of ecological civilization.

Editor’s notes: This passage is compiled from Dr. Zhou Jinfeng’s meeting with visitors on September 26. The views shared by Dr. Zhou may be of help to understand today’s artistic creation. Therefore, his sharing was edited as this short passage according to the meeting video without his verification.

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Original Chinese article:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Ar40zLsRcpzU7cFBRNViOg

By / Wang Yanqing