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During my childhood, I was quite crazy
about painting and was eager to be a painter under the
direct influences of my father and my eldest brother.
Painting was the greatest pleasure in my life in those years
and I am filled with happiness and satisfaction even today.
At the age of sixteen, I was admitled to the Jingdezhen
Ceramics Institute and studied sculpture. Since then,
sculpture and ceramic art have become a part of life. I have
been soulfully inspired by the teachings of teachers . the
soul of ceramic art represented by Jingdezhen and the land
breeding great traditional cultures and wisdom. With the
development of the contemporary art in China, each artist
has spared no efforts in his or her diligent explorations.
By the end of 1980s, I started my research into the bottom
of my heart, I have a heartfelt sense of to enjoy merging
the ceramic art language into the national cultures.
In my opinion, the cultural traditions of the nations and the
spirit of arts are none other than the positive factors
which influence the aesthetic activities to that such
factors should be neither ignored, nor purposely
exaggerated. In a silent
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