Mr Shi Mingde grew up in the mountains. He loved mountains and rivers since he was a child, and he painted in his youth and middle age. He not only studied the tradition, but also devoted himself to depicting the real landscape, regardless of the cold and heat, traveling all over eastern and southern Zhejiang. His collection of sketches was praised by Mr. Pan Tianshou and Mr. Lu, and he signed the album as a souvenir. After 1980s, he traveled to Wuyi, Huangshan, Emei, Qingcheng, Jiuzhaigou, Lijiang and Three Gorges, and his painting style gradually matured. Most of his landscapes are rich and colorful, and his works are colorful and gradually magnificent. Mr. Shi Mingde is an artist with high cultural accomplishment, paying equal attention to character and painting. Mr. Mingde's pursuit of art is endless, and he continues to write and create a lot every day. Mr. Mingde's works have been exhibited in and out of the province for many times, and published in many journals, and his theoretical articles have also been published in Guangming Daily and other newspapers and periodicals. When one star artist after another came out of the shiny high-end car, bared their breasts and twisted their hips, stepped on the red carpet with the cheers of fans, left precious signatures on the dazzling signature board and swaggered onto the podium with flowers in applause, some people were immersed in a simple study table, quietly studying precious literary classics that were almost abandoned by many people, and were studying. These seemingly ordinary artists have also added the brilliance of contemporary art and the thickness of art history. Behind the noisy stage, they are indifferent to fame and fortune, pious and persistent, and conscientious, so they deserve people's admiration. Shi Mingde, a 96-year-old Jinhua painter, is one of them. When Mr. Shi Mingde was young, he was influenced by his favorite pupil, Mr. Jin Yuxiang, and senior high school student, Mr. Chen Songping, and studied Chinese and Western painting methods. Soon, he entered the fine arts major class of National Yingshi University, studied the traditional painting and calligraphy theory under Mr. Chen Shiwenzhu, studied the famous paintings and calligraphy works of past dynasties, and experienced the skills of using pen and ink in traditional Chinese painting. When he was young, Shi Lao insisted on the creation and research of China's landscape paintings all the year round after the busy art teaching in middle schools, and began to emerge as early as the forties and fifties of last century. Two painters, Pan Tianshou and Lu, successively signed the sketches of Shi Mingde. In 1960s and 1970s, Shi Lao created a large number of works, such as Donggan Canal, Peak Season, Shanhexi Reservoir and Fan Shen Reservoir. Described the grand historical scene of farmland water conservancy capital construction in those days with realistic methods, with simple language and simple form, but touching. After the 1980s, with the withdrawal of revolutionary literature and art, Shi Lao began to pay attention to the beauty of mountains, rivers and villages and natural landscapes, and wrote about the mountains and rivers in his hometown and the famous mountains and rivers in his motherland, seeking the way of pen and ink and the true meaning of art from the ingenious and changeable nature. It is not difficult to see from the works such as Woods and Rivers in Late Spring, Yongle Temple in Wuyishan, Playing the flute in the thin shadow of apricot flowers till dawn, Rain on the Lion Peak, Five Waterfalls, Beautiful Scenery, Qiu Shu in the North Mountain, Tomb-Sweeping Day, etc., that the painting theme is constantly enriched, the picture form is gradually expanded, and the pen and ink language is becoming more and more mature. Over the years, Shi Lao has been diligent in thinking, sensitive to action and learning from others, and gradually formed a complete personal painting language system and aesthetics. Excellent works appear frequently, and he often publishes unique artistic opinions, which has won the praise of colleagues in the art world. However, Shi Lao is not complacent about his achievements. He knows that the maturity of pen and ink language is not only the necessary painting capital for painters, but also a barrier to improve painting quality again. At the age of eighty, he began to study the mystery of become a butterfly in Huang's later years. He resolutely broke the old rules, was not bound by the existing laws, and got rid of the old frames and sets that he was familiar with. Finally, he gained a new life through constant attempts and explorations. In recent years, Shi Lao's painting art has gradually entered the realm. His works are horizontal and vertical, and they seem to be chaotic, but in fact they are natural, showing a painting context that transcends artistic language. The picture is casual, subtle and simple, hearty and leisurely. Although it was written by a 90-year-old man, it was not senile at all. Frank really didn't mean the cloud in Wen Xin Diao Long: the mind is born and the speech is civilized. Since the mind is born and the words are self-reliant, why should we deliberately carve the handwriting? Like the truth that literature is art, in his spare time, Mr. Shi Mingde attaches great importance to the accumulation of culture and the cultivation of artistic personality. When discussing art with Shi Lao, post-scholars are often impressed by his calm and peaceful cultural temperament, open-minded and indifferent artistic temperament and quiet and pure artistic conception. Mr. Shi is amiable and leisurely, and he can't see the arrogance of some cultural celebrities, nor can he see the posturing of fashionistas, which won the admiration of later scholars. Even though the views of the old people sometimes make some young people feel a little out of place, their sincere and endless seriousness are extremely frank and lovely. Shi Lao's body has been repaired and his heart is right. It can be said that it is natural, without posturing or deliberate management. It just exists truly and naturally, and the true and pure state of mind has inadvertently emerged on the paper. The lightness of people living by mountains and waters, the dream of rain, the glittering and translucent light rain on a mountain, the vicissitudes of auspicious snow, the grandeur of hometown mountains, the desolation of being in the same boat, the emptiness of misty trees after rain, the vastness of snow and the emptiness of clouds and water. Some young artists can make waves in the art world by virtue of their rights, some young artists can "lead" the new trend of contemporary art by virtue of their contacts and activities inside and outside the circle, and some young artists try to go down in history through the "great achievements" in the art market. Mr. Shi Mingde sticks to his own aesthetics with unpretentious simplicity and stands proudly on the side of his spiritual territory forever. Shi Lao lives in seclusion, lives in peace with the world, and does not blindly follow the popular painting methods or fashion styles. Although there is wind outside the window, he makes tea by leisure products. Shi Lao's works still retain and continue the unique cultural atmosphere and painting temperament of that era. They are neither radical and arrogant in the storm, nor gorgeous in the sunrise and sunset. They are neither hoarse, talkative, emotional or noisy. Some are gentle and honest, some are pure and peaceful, simple and plain, which is the natural expression of true feelings and the materialization of personality spirit. They can be emotional, moral and moral. Shi Lao's paintings are relaxed and casual, with elegant colors, especially good at using ink. Its ink is as clear as water, as light as smoke, as dry as hemp, as coke, as solid as iron, as smooth as jade, as light as yarn, thin or dense, zero or complete, scattered or gathered, light and elegant, thick and wide, skimming the water, burning fire, flowing clouds, or scattered flowers. Yin and yang change, the weather is myriad and beautiful. In summer, the clouds are transparent and broad, the holiday park is safe and quiet, the storm is fierce and carefree, the Songgang waterfall is simple and profound, the rain on Yunshan is fresh and beautiful, the autumn pavilion trees are rough and desolate, Yun He is elegant and elegant, and the sails returned from Pu Yuan. As the ancients said, a modest gentleman is as gentle as jade. The texture of jade is extremely dense and tough, but it doesn't show its edge. The color is soft and moist, but it does not win glory. Isn't reading Mr. Shi Mingde's landscape paintings like tasting good jade? Shi Lao is honest, sincere in learning, devout in art, diligent in thinking and eager to learn, and has profound traditional culture and profound painting skills. He not only created many good paintings, but also trained a number of influential painters and calligraphers in Wuzhou, such as Zhu, Jiang Weimin, Ye, Liu Qufei, Zhong, Gu Kaifa, Jin Fangcheng, Jiang and Li Jun. May Shi Lao live a long and healthy life and his art will last forever! "