Bao Yafu

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Bao Yafu

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Bao Yafu, male, born in 1958, is a first-class art teacher at the secondary school level. He is currently a member and director of the Jiangxi Province Mao-style Calligraphy Association; a member of the Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Calligraphers Association; a member of the Chinese Hard-Pen Calligraphy Society; a senior calligrapher and painter of China Poetry, Painting, and Calligraphy Network; a member of the Huaxia Boxue International Cultural Exchange Center; a 2020 National Figure of Poetry, Painting, and Calligraphy Excellence; a academician of the Wumen Barya Academy of Painting and Calligraphy; Honorary President of the Guangdong Dongguan Jinyang Academy of Painting and Calligraphy; and a "Dream Partner" of the Guangdong Dongguan Jinyang Academy of Painting and Calligraphy. He has participated in numerous national and regional calligraphy competitions on multiple occasions and has won awards repeatedly. December 2019, Gold Award, "Lingnan Cup" Global Chinese Calligraphy Competition December 2019, First Prize, National Poetry, Painting, and Calligraphy Creation Annual Conference December 2019, Silver Award, Third "Runde Award" National Calligraphy Competition Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Gutian Conference January 2020, Selected for the First "Great Beauty of Xuzhou, Charm of Yunlong — Xin Boya Cup" Calligraphy and Sealing Art Competition October 2018, Invited to the Seventh Hunan Province Calligraphy and Seal Carving Exhibition December 2019, Work included in the published and publicly distributed anthology "Lingnan Cup Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Appreciation" July 2020, Outstanding Award, Eighth "Chinese Dream Cup" Painting and Calligraphy Competition August 2020, Gold Award, Third "New Era" National Poetry, Painting, Calligraphy, and Seal Carving League September 2020, First Prize, Third "Langya Cup" National Poetry, Painting, and Calligraphy Elite Competition, awarded the title of "Elite Contemporary Chinese Calligrapher and Painter" September 2020, Selected for the National Exhibition of Regular Script Calligraphy Works December 2020, Selected for the First "Horse Culture" Fine Arts Exhibition and "Liangzhou Ci" Calligraphy Grand Prize Competition December 2020, Selected for the Third "Qingyuan Mi Fu Cup" National Calligraphy Exhibition; December 2020, Calligraphy work (Clerical Script: Mao Zedong's "Qinyuanchun • Snow") collected Collected in "Collection of Representative Works of Contemporary Chinese Writers and Artists" (2020 Edition), JNHB4606 Works have been included in "Masterpieces of New Era: National Poetry, Painting, Calligraphy, and Seal Carving Anthology," "Langya Cup — National Selection of Poetry, Painting, and Calligraphy Masterpieces," "Representative Works Archive of Contemporary Chinese Writers and Artists," "Canon of Representative Works of China’s Times Literary and Artistic Masters," and others. Papers such as "On Cultivating Students' Interest in Participation in Calligraphy Teaching," "On Enhancing the Effectiveness of Art Education," and "On the Role of Calligraphy in Quality Education in Primary and Secondary Schools" have been published in journals including "Jiangsu Education," "Educational Exploration," and "Education." Media coverage: Southern Television, Dongguan Television, Yangcheng Evening News, Southern Daily, Dongguan Daily, NetEase, Sina, Sunshine Network, Mao-style Calligraphy Association official website, etc. Over many years of teaching, he has nurtured numerous outstanding art teachers, renowned painters and calligraphers, and designers, several of whom have become members or vice chairmen of provincial, municipal, and county-level youth calligraphers associations. Bao Yafu has loved painting and calligraphy since childhood and was praised by teachers and classmates in elementary school for his excellent handwriting. During his tenure at school from 1989 to 2018, he participated in numerous painting and calligraphy competitions organized by educational institutions and other departments, winning awards repeatedly. He regularly practices calligraphy and copies famous masters’ works in his spare time. He specializes in regular script, clerical script, running script, and cursive script. He admires Liu Gongquan and Tian Yingzhang’s regular script, as well as Cao Quan Stele and Liu Bingsen’s clerical script. His clerical script features meticulousness, elegance, unique style, graceful rhythm, balanced yet slightly slanted structure, serene tranquility, and each character avoids duplicate horizontal strokes. His running and cursive scripts exhibit fluid brushwork, ancient and simple forms, with cleverness emerging from simplicity. His composition, structure, brushwork, and ink application are all highly proficient and have earned high praise from peers in the education sector. The path of calligraphy is boundless, and the sea of art is endless; he will persistently pursue excellence, absorb diverse influences, cultivate individuality, and strive for perfection.

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