The power of example is infinite.

Keep good men company and you shall be of the number. No matter how low I have been to the disdain of dust, I can always meet the guidance of dignitaries, enjoy the nourishment of love, and feel the power of example, who evoke my potential and give me the light of self-confidence. I am grateful for the wonderful encounter with them on the way of life.

This Spring Festival return to prosperity from Shanghai, in addition to the parents to visit the mother, there is also a human favor to express. I pay New year's greetings to my teachers and friends who have given me selfless help and thank them for their great kindness. Among them, the ones I want to thank most are my university alumni, my colleagues who have worked together, and Mr. Jie Tongyuan, my best friend for the longest time.

Mr. Jie and I both graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Gannan normal University. I graduated a year earlier and were assigned to Nanchang 28 Middle School as an art teacher. Not long after he arrived at school, two years older than me, I found that in addition to class, he was painting and reading, mostly reading thick foreign language picture books. Is he learning a foreign language and is going to fail in the postgraduate examination? He has a good relationship with his students, and his art class is the most popular one. At noon, some students who had dinner at school were invited by him to the art office as models. Sketch portraits and oil paintings. The painting habits have both form and spirit, lifelike, full of praise. His wife, Mr. Wang of the lively and beautiful language group at that time, was a regular patron of the art office and took the initiative to be an oil painting model for him. Their romantic love story became a good story for the teachers after dinner.

What I admire is that he can paint with peace of mind in a noisy environment. Several of his award-winning oil paintings often come from an office and studio of more than ten square meters. However, his teaching work is equally excellent.

As an alumnus and colleague, I often ask me to show him pictures and give him advice. We discuss skills and teaching together. During the chat, he talked about his experience in taking the road of creation and encouraged me to give it a try. When he saw that I lacked confidence, he would inspire me with my inspirational stories when I was in college. He said, "as soon as we entered the university, the dean of the department, Mr. Lin, often encouraged us with examples of you studying hard, tenacious, and making rapid progress." let the students in our class get to know Xie Chen, the little man in the brother class next door. I was infected by his sincerity, and more importantly, the power of his example is endless.

I try to start with the creation of posters, from simple to complex, step by step, over the past few years, I have created works such as "never forget history and cherish the present", "enviable profession", "homage to teachers", "release" and so on. At first, he participated in the district teachers' art exhibition, and gradually participated in the municipal and provincial art exhibitions, and a number of works won prizes in the provincial and municipal art exhibitions. In 1997, he was admitted as a member of Jiangxi artists Association. Later, I started the creation of oil painting, successively painted "defender", "Autumn Rhyme", "strong feeling" and so on. The sketch works "backbone" and "inheritance" created in 2013 won the first prize and the third prize in Jiangxi Sketch Competition respectively.

In the early creation of works, I received enthusiastic help and guidance from teacher Jie. After teacher Jie left school and joined Jiangxi people's Publishing House, he was successively employed as an aesthetic editor in a number of magazines, among which, when he was working as an aesthetic editor in the best-selling literary magazine "selected Mini Fiction", he asked me for manuscripts many times and published my works of art. I admire and appreciate his open mind for being a man. Thinking about the source of drinking water, I can have a full life today, can not do without the teacher's guidance and help.

Jie Tongyuan was born in December 1953 in Nanfeng, Jiangxi Province. I'm good at oil painting. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Gannan normal University in 1981. He was later appointed as an art teacher in Nanchang No. 28 Middle School and transferred to Jiangxi people's Publishing House as an art editor in 1985. Member of Chinese artists Association, his works include "how many years the Water of Jiangxi has flowed", "victims", "Building Materials" and so on. Editor of Jiangxi people's Publishing House, director of binding Art Committee of China Edition Association, director of Jiangxi Editing Society, deputy director of Jiangxi graphic Design Association. Some book binding works won the first Chinese government publication nomination award and other awards, many papers won the first prize of the Bookbinding Art Committee of the China Edition Association, and won the fourth National Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Editing Award.

I have been working in Nanchang 28 Middle School for 36 years. I have witnessed the whole process of the school from weak to strong, from small to big. Nanchang 28 Middle School Education Group was established in 2014 and became the first batch of quality education demonstration schools in Jiangxi Province. I have also been baptized and forged in this transformation. By an unfavored discipline, silent, withdrawn and low-key art teacher, through their own unknown, down-to-earth work and teaching, created gratifying excellent results, in 2008 was rated as the first batch of primary and secondary school discipline leaders in Jiangxi Province.

In April 2015, when I was about to retire, I left a spiritual legacy to the school in order to recognize my performance. The school decided to publish my academic monograph. In order to live up to the love of the school and make the first personal monograph funded by the school outstanding, I found teacher Jie. Through two months of intensive planning and operation, I carried many promising academic monographs, "colorful chapters of Aesthetic Education Life". With its novel design and good taste, it has met the teachers and students of the school and the readers of the whole country. The deep friendship of the teacher is revealed in the book.

After retiring, I lived in Shanghai. While taking care of my grandchildren and enjoying the family happiness of three generations, I found another spiritual sustenance and formed an inextricable bond with words. In a short period of one and a half years, I have published 56 articles on the China Prose Network. In August 2017, I once again found Mr. Jie with my electronic manuscript. He gladly accepted it, spared no effort, and operated the knife himself. Sure enough, "Happy time" Xie Chen prose collection, with exquisite binding, ingenious design, elegant taste, fashion presentation makes people bright.

What is very dramatic is that I learned afterwards that my father's novel "Blood Wolin Sea" was sponsored by the government of the newly built District of Nanchang City. "it was also in September of the same year that Fu Xin came out after the inspection and revision of teacher Wei. The publication of the novel is the best consolation to my father who has died.

Through the publishing experience of my two books in the past three years, I have the opportunity to have a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of teacher Jie. Also felt his broad-minded personality charm. At the end of 2013, when he reached the retirement age, he retreated, and the publishing house set up a studio specially for him, promising to mobilize all kinds of resources and personnel of the publishing house at any time. Make the most of his residual heat. Under the leadership of the teacher, the operation of the studio rose from the wind and unboiled water, and the famous publishing units and individuals stepped through the threshold.

Because of the large volume of business, his work team is all smart and hard-working. Teacher Jie goes all out. His office is not only the editor-in-chief's room, the reception room, but also the studio and the kitchen. Every day, in addition to the business on hand, the teacher also cooks and cooks for more than a dozen employees. I am fortunate to have eaten the food he cooked for the staff, and it tastes really good. According to his wife, he is also a good cook at home.

He is agreeable to his employees, whether they are old or young, that is, strict requirements, meticulous, high standards of testing, and relaxation, just right. Occasionally will be humorous a few words, people have to be convinced.

What particularly moved me was that in addition to intensive work, he would also use all available space to paint. In his office, there was a strong smell of turpentine and paint, and several finished and unclosed oil paintings could be seen. In order to talk to him about the details of the book, I saw him standing in front of the canvas several times to paint, and sometimes he would talk to me about painting in order to catch up with the exhibition period. His obsession with art has not changed because of his busy work. He is simply a workaholic. It is hard to imagine that an old man who is nearly 65 years old and has already achieved success can still have such an indomitable will and perseverance. What kind of spiritual force is supporting him!

During the period of manuscript design, he invited him to dinner several times, but he gave up because he was too busy to draw. The collection of essays in "Happy time" gave up printing books in the publishing house because a friend in Shanghai could set up a printing factory, revealing that the teacher had only collected a few sample books. and did not charge my design fee, let me always feel a little sorry. So before I left in Shanghai, I asked my son to buy a few bottles of wine from a friend in Germany. I was going to send him two bottles of wine to show my heart. I didn't want him to firmly refuse to accept them. During the Spring Festival, it was difficult to refute my face during the Spring Festival, so I had no choice but to accept it. However, he insisted that I accept his gift. I'm afraid the value exceeds the price of my gift. This is the true story of the teacher that happened to me and one of the dignitaries in my mind.

Nanchang, 5 March 2018