The Eight Great Galleries on the Move | “Cultivating Beauty, Inheriting Classics—The Ba Da Shan Ren Aesthetic Education Program Comes to Hongyan School in Nanchang County”
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2023-11-15
To promote China’s outstanding traditional culture, actively advance aesthetic education in museums, cultivate in young people noble virtues of love for their country and their hometown, and enable students to acquire knowledge and appreciate up close the beauty of Chinese painting art, 2023 Year 11 Moon 14 In the morning, the Ba Da Shan Ren aesthetic education program made its way to Hongyan School in Nanchang County.
This course enables students to gain an understanding of traditional Chinese art and local culture through an exhibition, a lecture, and a brush-and-ink painting workshop. By combining theoretical learning with hands-on practice, the course aims to bolster students’ cultural confidence, enhance their aesthetic and humanistic literacy, and cultivate their abilities in aesthetic appreciation, expression, and creativity.
At the exhibition of high-quality reproductions of Bada Shanren’s masterpieces in calligraphy and painting, guide Hu Qi, drawing on Bada Shanren’s life story, introduced Hongyan School from several perspectives—including flowers and birds, landscapes, and calligraphy. 2 —— 7 Students from the grade introduced the artistic characteristics of Bada Shanren.




In the lecture “The Life and Art of Bada Shanren,” Peng Congping, Director of the Exhibition Department, analyzed the artistic growth path of this great master from the perspective of the era in which Bada Shanren lived and his personal life experiences, as well as his influence on later generations of painters, thereby inspiring students to develop greater confidence in their national culture.




In the “Eight Great Masters of the Brush” aesthetic education program conducted in classrooms, Liu Yaming and Wu Tiantian, public education teachers from the Eight Great Masters of the Brush Memorial Hall, delivered the lesson “Luo Han Pine” from the series “Flowers and Plants in the Paintings of the Eight Great Masters of the Brush” to the students of Class 8, Grade 4. The students listened attentively and drew diligently, giving us a wonderful surprise!




The Eight Great Mountains Man Memorial Hall will continue to enhance the brand of aesthetic education associated with Eight Great Mountains Man, centering on museum-based education and planning a series of exhibition and display activities, while maintaining ongoing efforts. “The Eight Great Museums on the Move—High-Fidelity Exhibition of Masterpieces by Bada Shanren” and accompanying public education activities.
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To promote China’s outstanding traditional culture, actively advance aesthetic education in museums, and cultivate in young people noble virtues of love for their country and hometown, enabling students to acquire knowledge and closely appreciate the beauty of Chinese painting art, on the morning of November 14, 2023, the Ba Da Shan Ren Aesthetic Education Program made its way into Hongyan School in Nanchang County. This session introduced students to traditional Chinese art and local culture through an exhibition, a lecture, and a brush-and-ink workshop. By combining theoretical learning with hands-on practice, it aimed to enhance cultural confidence, improve students’ aesthetic and humanistic literacy, and foster their abilities in aesthetic appreciation, expression, and creation.





