An exhibition on excellent paintings created by children at home and abroad opened at the China National Museum of Women and Children in Beijing on May 28 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and celebrate International Children's Day.

Themed Arts Nurturing Children's Hearts and Aesthetic Education Fostering New Generation, the exhibition was jointly held by the China National Museum of Women and Children and China Cultural Relics Newspaper, under the guidance of the Department of Family and Children's Affairs of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) and the Chinese Museums Association. It is scheduled to run till the upcoming summer holiday with various social and education activities.

Lin Yi, Vice-President and Member of the Secretariat of the ACWF, Luo Wenli, Deputy Director of National Cultural Heritage Administration, attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition.

Li Zhongming, Secretary-General of the China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF), on behalf of the CCTF, donated a painting created by Spring Bud girls titled "Chinese Nation Is a Big Family, Realizing the Chinese Dream with Concerted Efforts" to the museum. Liu Huabin, President of the museum, accepted the donation.

The exhibition received over 10,000 paintings created by applicants from 31 provincial-level regions, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, China's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and foreign countries including the United States, Canada and Mexico.

There was a special exhibition area displaying over 30 paintings drawn by Spring Bud girls of various ethnic groups from nine provincial-level regions.

The paintings from Spring Bud girls became a channel for them to convey their love for the country and their hometowns, embody the spirit of the Spring Bud Project featuring strong determination and the pursuit of progress, benevolence and beauty, and demonstrate their all-round development and energetic spirit.

The painting "Chinese Nation Is a Big Family, Realizing the Chinese Dream with Concerted Efforts" was created by Spring Bud girls from Linxi, a county in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, using corn husks and pomegranate seeds.

A series of quinoa-made paintings, which were created by Spring Bud girls from Sinopec Middle School in Dongxiang, a county in Northwest China's Gansu Province, earned praise and recognition from participants of the exhibition. The creation process was complicated and the painting expressed the good wishes of the girls to strive for a brighter future. 

Under the guidance of intangible cultural heritage inheritor of the Tajik ethnic group, Spring Bud girls from Kashgar of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Shenzhen of South China's Guangdong Province completed an embroidery work titled "Springtime Blossoming on Pamir Plateau: Shenzhen and Kashgar with One Heart."

The embroidery work, which was on display at the exhibition, showcased the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese handicraft and embodied the deep friendship between the two cities.

Xiaomeng, a Spring Bud girl from the No. 9 Middle School of Fuyuan, a county in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, created a sketch of astronaut Wang Yaping, showing her aspiration for the space and the great sense of pride brought by the fast development of the country's aerospace industry.

Xiaolu, a Spring Bud girl from Yichuan Middle School in Yan'an, a city in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, was inspired by the speeches made by women scientists at the 2024 Global Forum on Women in Sci-tech Innovation in Beijing in April. So she created the painting titled "Carp Leaping over the Dragon Gate," which showed her determination to brave difficulties and strive for success.

Xiaoyi, a beneficiary of the Spring Bud Project from the Yi ethnic group in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, and a student at Minzu University of China, serves as a narrator of the exhibition. She said that it is a great honor for her to grow up in the great era under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and that she will make continuous efforts to improve herself and contribute to Chinese modernization.

(Source: CCTF/Women of China)

Editor: Wang Shasha