Ding Cong Comic Series -- Idiom Stories

Author: Ding Conghui
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Xiao Ding is a natural optimist. Even during the difficult years of the Anti-Japanese War, and when he was exiled to the Northeast Inner Mongolia in 1957 due to unfair treatment, he remained cheerful and rarely showed a frown. He was always willing to help others without considering himself. Newspapers and magazines often asked him to draw pictures, design covers, and create portraits, and he almost always said yes. The headshots in the "Reading" magazine were all his work. Counting the years, he has been engaged in cartooning for over half a century, using his skillful brush to leave a record of this extraordinary era. I am very happy to learn that the "Ding Conghui Cartoons Series" is about to be published, because from these drawings, one can not only see this era and society but also the artist's style and character. I am delighted to have such people and such paintings. I am writing these words to express a little of a friend's sentiment. Xiao Ding is Comrade Ding Conghui, a well-known figure in the cultural and news circles. Older people call him Xiao Ding, as do his peers and even those younger than him. He also signs his works as Xiao Ding. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Shanghai had many progressive artists, and at that time, he was indeed a young talent. Zhang Guangyu and Ye Qianyu were both a generation older than him. He called Zhang Guangyu's wife "Aunt Zhang," which was something he himself established. This book compiles over seventy humorous and vivid illustrations of Chinese idioms created by Ding Conghui between 1988 and 1998. Each idiom is accompanied by phonetic notation, definitions, and colloquial stories. The illustrations and text complement each other, allowing readers to learn Chinese idioms in a relaxed and enjoyable way while gaining insights into the past and understanding the present.