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If you are looking for china destination as an ideal vacation spot, Guilin must be the place you should never miss. Many tourists would like to use Chinese watercolor painting to describe the scenery of Guilin after they visit Guilin. Yes, it is true. Enjoying the picturesque Li River and the boat trip riding down the river from Guilin to Yangshuo is like to unfold a scroll of Chinese watercolor painting before your eyes. Besides River Li boat trip, there are many also leaving you with deep impression for a life time. This article presents my Four days highlight journey in and around Guilin. It's not just the Destination.

Day 1 is: We arrived at Guilin airport as schedule and were met and escorted to our hotel by our tour guide, Nancy. She is a pretty lady and has a good sense of humor. We have a good time together in the following days in Guilin.

Normally people like to spend at Guilin for 2 nights and 3 days. One day is for the River Li Cruise and the other two days is for city tour to explore the nature wonders like the Limestone Cave 'Reed Flute Cave' and the Elephant Trunk Hill which looks like the shape of an elephant drinking water by the riverside. We have more time than regular tourist so we can have a chance to explore more in and around Guilin. Below is my highlight excursion in Guilin, they are more than tours!

Longji Rice Terraces: It is so exciting to walk into the mysterious mountainous villages of Longji (Dragon Back) to see the thousand-year-old nationality cultures. We departed hotel in the morning for the scenic and drove for 2.5 hour to the Longji scenic parking area, where we walked to top of the mountain to see a famous spot: seven stars surrounding the moon.

After more than 1 hour climbing, we finally arrived at the summit. When we stood on the top of the mountain and looked down at the nearby terraced rice fields, we had the feeling that we were standing on the dragon's back as the terraced rice paddies look like the shining scales of the dragon. This awesome construction dates from the Yuan Dynasty and demonstrates you the brilliant feat of man conquering nature. Afterwards we took the way walking down to our bus. On the way back, we met several ladies dressed in Red Yao customs. They offered us their elegant way to comb their long hair which has been collected in the World Guinness Record. And Nancy, our guide told us the secret: The hair style of Yao ethnic minority display whether a lady is married or unmarried.

We also learn from Nancy when is the best time to visit Longji. The best time to visit Longji is from 15th April to 30th April in Chinese Calendar, the rice fields is started to filled with water and the rice field looks like mirrors. Another time is from 15th August to 30th August in Chinese Lunar Calendar, the rice is ready for harvest and you will see the fields filled with golden color. The winter time, when you are lucky to see snow here, the scenery looks also unique but the time for snow is not always guaranteed. The average temperature in July is 28.3 degrees and the average temperature in January is 7.9 degrees.

Third Sister Liu Impression: Nancy recommended us to watch the performance for our nigh-time leisure when the day we took the boat trip to Yangshuo. We are not much of the "cultured" or "historian" by any means, but the performance is really spectacular. This performance expresses the beautiful scenery of the Li River, the colorful culture of the ethnic groups in Guangxi and the brave imagination of the excellent artists in China. It is the first of its kind in the world. We were amazed to see such big outdoors performance which can accommodate 2400 guests and the participants in the show. All performers are local, mostly from Zhuang and Yao background and more than 600 people play on the performance. Even after we have seen the show and are still confused with what they are talking about, we are very happy to have a chance to have a look. It's good enough beyond any description.

The last day before we drove from yangshuo to Guilin airport in the late afternoon, the cycling trip around Yangshou is also one of my favorite things to do here. In the morning, Nancy bought bicycles for us and required us to practice for a while. And then we cycled outside the town to explore the breathtaking countryside views. Along the way, we visited the big banyon tree which covers an area of 1000 square meters with a long history of 1,000 years around and the Moon Hill with a hole in its peak in the shape of a half moon where you can look through the sky as well as the old villages. Strolling around rice fields, we also invited to visit one of the local families just roadside. The lady of the owner treat us the grape fruit, peanuts which her family planted. She is a so sweet lady and we left some money for gratitude before we leave.

My 3 Nights and 4 Days in Guilin tours:

Day 1: Arrive at Guilin

Day 2: Day trip to Longi Rice Terraces

Day 3: River Li Cruise to Yangshuo, and the Third sister Liu impression in the evening

Day 4: Morning cycling trip in Yangshuo and leave Yangshuo to Guilin airport in the late afternoon.

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Find Zhang Xiaotao Biography and Artwork at Saatchi-gallery

Zhang Xiaotao’s "A Joyful Time," where huge oil and watercolor paintings invite viewers into a bright underwater world of copulating frogs and intertwined human forms, the reaction "elated and free" comes back to mind. Amphibious creatures float unencumbered in washes of blue, green, and orange paint, their outlines making whimsical, eye-pleasing shapes. So it is with great surprise that one learns of the artist’s background—that he nearly drowned as a child and is afraid of water, and that he comes from a country whose reproductive policies are heavy-handed and punitive. Zhang’s first exhibit in the United States, accompanying a month-long residency at the Pacific Bridge Gallery, which last spring garnered attention for its controversial exhibition of Ho Chi Minh portraits. Zhang, who is 29, has a degree in oil painting and teaches it at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu.

Some of the largest works, at the back of the gallery, are also the most provocative. In dark gray-green hazes float huge, rubbery shapes. They are transparent sheaths with reservoir tips, and faces peer from behind, or inside. Tiny bubbles are suspended within the wrinkled tubes, and here and there a splattered dollop of red paint contrasts with the green. The faces glisten as if behind a windowpane, and their wide-eyed constraint elicits sadness.

Everywhere in Zhang’s work one finds splotches of the red paint. It appears to be mixed with something that won’t quite blend with it, and the effect is that of a potato stamp made from a bumpy, many-eyed spud. In the context of sex and birth, though, these bubbles and deep-red blotches are semen and blood. They are the repeating threads of humanity: liquids that transmit life, inheritance, and the most essential fluids of ancestry—containing not only DNA, but also the ways in which we (both animals and humans) need each other and hurt each other. In their aqueous environment, the drops, smears, and splotches also remind one of amoebas seen under a microscope, like beads of a primordial sea.

If every one of Zhang’s paintings, as he claims, is a glimpse into his dreams about drowning, then it would seem his nightmares have faded over time and produced aesthetic remnants. Yet new demons, universal ones, have popped out of his work while he processed his fears. The underwater trauma that transformed itself into beauty via paint and repetition reinvents itself here with new sociological and psychological overtones. Something new is displacing his original memories, overlaying passion upon experience, and revealing the intersection of childhood and adulthood.

PROFILE

1970

• Born in Hechuan, Chongqing, China

EDUCATION

• Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Fine Arts Institute

• Now teaching in the Southwest Jiao Tong University

• Lives and works in Beijing and Chengdu

His Selected Exhibitions

1. Three Languages Three Colors, UM Gallery, Korea

2. Jiang Hu, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

3. Poetic Realism: A reinterpretation of Jiangnan, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China

4. Unclear and Cleanness, Heyri Art Foundation, Korea

5. Chanting our happy life - the second China Song Zhuang Culture art Festival,

Beijing, China

6. Beautiful Imbroglio, He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (solo)

7. Dreamscapes, Foundation3, 14 Bergen, Norway (solo)

8. Dream Factory - Rubbish heap, Tokyo Gallery, Japan (solo)

9. Live in Chengdu, the Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China

10. 2nd Prague Biennial, Prague, National Gallery Veletrzni Palac, Prague, Czech Republic

11. nd Triennial of Chinese Arts, Nanjing Art Museum, Nanjing, China

12. The Road map of Painting, 798 Space, Beijing, China

13. Beyond Temporality - Pingyao Photography Festival, Shan xi, China

14. Conceptual Art – Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings from China, Tap Seac Gallery, Macao, China

15. 2nd Chengdu Biennial, the Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China

16. Officinal Asia, Galleria d’Arte Modema, Bologna, Italy

17. Hua jia di, China Art seasons, Beijing, China

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View more information about Zhang Xiaotao paintings, biography and Exhibitions at The Saatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery. Zhang Xiaotao

i need an idea for a watercolor chinese landscape that is easy to paint..any ideas of where i can find one?

I need to paint a chinese landscape for watercolor class but i can't find any pictures that are fairly easy to paint..they are all very difficult..any help would be greatly appreciated... )

Have you tried these? :

http://www.bahaiprayers.org/chinese/landscape.jpg

http://positiveinteraction.com/Pix/BeijingSunset.gif

http://www.orientaloutpost.com/usa/n0608.jpg

I think they are really attractive and seem quite simple.
Nothing is ever too difficult to paint, just observe well and concentrate on all the details. Try painting in sections, this may help you. Start with the basics and biggest objects in the painting, then add the details and extra colours or shading.
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