Shanghai Jinshan District Publishes `A Collection of Baijiao's Calligraphy and Painting'

Shanghai Jinshan District Publishes `A Collection of Baijiao's Calligraphy and Painting'

February 20, 2006

    SHANGHAI, China, Feb. 20 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Shanghai Jinshan District Government announces that "A
Collection of Baijiao's Calligraphy and Painting" was
recently published.  The book was compiled by Shanghai
Jinshan District Museum, and published by the Shanghai
Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House, and contained
inscriptions written by Chen Bianjun, director of Shanghai
Museum.  

    Mr Baijiao is a celebrity born in Jinshan and is one of
the key members of the South House.  Born in Zhangyan,
Jinshan in 1907, he kept on improving himself in his
lifetime and made a great many achievements in the field of
calligraphy and painting.  He is a Shanghai styled
calligrapher and painting artist of modern times.  Shanghai
Museum have collected more than 100 pieces of Baijiao's
calligraphy and painting works in the past five years
through various channels, which fully exhibits Mr Baijiao's
artistic style in different creation periods.  On the 100th
anniversary of Baijiao's birthday, this collection is
compiled to express fellow villagers' respect and
commemoration of this calligraphy and painting master, and
provide abundant exhibits for the "South House
Memorial Hall" that is under construction.

    About Jinshan District

    Jinshan, one of the 19 districts (counties) of
Shanghai, is located in the southwest of the city, north of
the Hangzhou Bay and west of Zhejiang Province.  It is
situated at the hub of the economic region linking
Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo, and is inside the geographic
ring of the Yangtze River Delta that is only a two hours
drive away.  

    Jinshan District has a total land area of 586 square
kilometers (about 226 square miles), equivalent to that of
Singapore, and a population of 550,000.  It has rich
natural and cultural heritages, including beautiful beach
lines, famous traditional peasant paintings, black ceramic
arts and crafts, and a world-renowned petrochemical base.

    For more information, please contact:

     Wang Ren of Shanghai Jinshan District Government
     Tel:   [phone]
     Fax:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

SOURCE  General Office of the People's Government of
Jinshan