Brief introduction of proverb author

Lou Zhenggang, a Japanese painter, is the honorary vice chairman of China Education Development Foundation. 1966 was born in Heilongjiang province, China, and his ancestral home was in Jiangsu province. He studied calligraphy and painting with his father Lou Deping at the age of 3.

1979, 12-year-old "little calligrapher" Lou Zhenggang's story of practicing calligraphy hard on the concrete floor was reported by dozens of media such as CCTV, china national radio, People's Daily and Guangming Daily. , and was included in the "Primary School Chinese Textbook (Grade Four)" published by People's Education Publishing House. The Central News Recording Film Studio filmed "The New Face of the Motherland: Little Calligrapher Lou Zhenggang" in national cinemas. In the same year, children with extraordinary intelligence were sent to the Central Academy of Fine Arts to study calligraphy and painting. At that time, Dong Chuncai, Vice Minister of Education, Dani, Party Secretary of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Zhao Yongtian, Minister of Culture of the General Staff Department, and Zhu Changchun, Director of the National Institute of Educational Sciences were guardians.

From 198 1 years old to 15 years old, since the first individual calligraphy exhibition in Ottawa, Canada, dozens of individual calligraphy exhibitions have been held in Japan, the United States and other places for more than 20 years.

I went to Japan.

199 1 year, Lou Zhenggang's support club was established in Tokyo, Japan, with the aim of "supporting Lou Zhenggang's artistic activities and contributing to Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges". Former Japanese Prime Ministers Nakasone Yasuhiro and Noboru takeshita and famous painter Kazuo Kayama served as honorary consultants, and Goro Yamashita, president of Mitsui Bank, served as consultant representative.

1993, UNICEF printed 22 donated works into postcards and distributed them to 140 countries and regions.

1994 The work "Flying Flowers" was selected as the first day cover of the International Decade for Disaster Reduction by the United Nations and printed.

During the period of 1995, eight modern works were selected for the covers of eight Japanese high school Chinese textbooks, which was the first time that China's paintings and calligraphers were selected for the covers of Japanese textbooks.

In 2003, he was awarded the first "China Environmental Ambassador (2003-2005)" by the State Environmental Protection Administration.

In 2007, 34 series of works "Life and Love" were collected by China National Museum, which was the first time that China National Museum collected abstract works by contemporary artists.

Lou Zhenggang was the first China native to host a large column on Japanese TV, publications and newspapers.

From 2004 to 2009, Lou Zhenggang, as a calligrapher, worked as a talk show host on mainstream TV stations in Japan, set up columns in mainstream newspapers and periodicals, made bold innovations, and tried to combine calligraphy with the media, which opened up a new world of calligraphy art stage, which was refreshing and highlighted the power of calligraphy language.

From 2004 to 2006, he hosted the TV column "Book of the Heart" in Tokyo TV Station, Japan. Once a week, he talked with Japanese cultural and artistic celebrities about life and discussed the true meaning of life, which aroused widespread concern in society. 76 issues were broadcast continuously, which lasted for one and a half years.

From 2006 to 2008, the column "China's Great Journey-Calligrapher Lou Zhenggang's Calligraphy Journey" was published in the Japanese journal Modern Evening News every two weeks, introducing China's culture and places of interest, characters, pictures and Lou Zhenggang's calligraphy, with illustrations and pictures, and serialized for two years.

From 2006 to 2009, I set up a column "If I want to stay" in Japan's President magazine once a month to talk about life with the most influential financial elites in Japan today and feel the wisdom of success. Over the past three years, I have received rave reviews.

From April 1 2007 to September 30, 2008, the calligraphy column "Today's Words" was published in the famous Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun, and one calligraphy work was published every day for 535 days, which was the longest record of serializing individual calligraphy works in this newspaper.

Published works:

Heart (Japanese version)

Touching the Heart: Lou Zhenggang's Calligraphy and Life (Japanese Edition)

From the heart (Japanese version)

If you want to stay (Japanese version)

The Book of the Heart (The Analects of Confucius) (Japanese Edition)

Heart of the sun and the moon--selected works of lou zhenggang.