Feng Jicai

Author: Jing Ronghua
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: "A land shapes its people, and people carry the spirit of the land. How did Feng Jicai, born into a business family, grow into a writer? Perhaps it was the spiritual essence of Cixing! The course of his life is synchronized with the development of the city, deeply intertwined with it as a cultural whole. It is both a nest for life and a nest for the soul. Feng Jicai and Tianjin belong to the latter category, somewhat similar to Mao Dun and Wuzhen, Lu Xun and Shaoxing, or Lao She and Beijing. He said, 'Literature is an unbroken series of images, while painting is a momentary stillness of literature. Literature paints with words,' while 'painting writes with ink. Every dot, line, patch of color, or splash of ink in a painting is language.' Feng Jicai writes by chance, relying entirely on inspiration. His calligraphy is the calligraphy of a writer, the calligraphy of an intellectual. Feng Jicai is a great talent, wielding a pen to roam the literary world and gain fame worldwide; with a brush, he freely expresses himself in painting, forging a unique path and establishing his own style."