What does "this body, this life, this world, live, think and act" mean?

In this life, a person must be able to survive crises and think about sorrows before he can live strong in this world.

"In this life, in this life, I will live, think and act." This sentence comes from the painting book "In the Jianghu" by the painting artist Lao Shu.

Laoshu ("Laoshu Huahua" on Sina Weibo), whose real name is Liu Shuyong, was born in Linqu, Shandong in 1962. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Nankai University in 1983. Currently, he is a professor at the School of Culture and Media of Central University of Finance and Economics and director of the Art Department. In the early 1980s, he studied painting by himself and studied under Liang Qi, Wang Xuezhong and Huo Chunyang. Later, he began to devote himself to the comparative study of visual language and narrative methods, covering a wide range of fields such as literature, painting, film, and calligraphy. After the mid-1990s, he turned his attention to issues related to the development and dissemination of contemporary Chinese photography. He published a large number of critical articles, dozens of books, and curated many video exhibitions. Currently, he is mainly engaged in media communication research and specific practice of images. Starting in 2007, he returned to painting.

"In Jianghu" is a memoir of "Laoshu Huahua" who is popular on Weibo. It is an inner confession of painting, aesthetics and the world; it is also a very iconic book. A collection of paintings of people in old tree-style gowns. With one picture and one article, you can get a glimpse of the complete world of the old tree in the painting and what is hidden outside the painting. The paintings are divided into seven groups, "Daily Life", "Leisure", "Flower Prisoner", "Minds", "Season", "Jianghu", and "Taoyuan". The most iconic old tree-style figure paintings in long gowns of the Republic of China, plus The most flavorful Laoshu-style "crooked poetry" is connected to the world of this unique figure in a long gown, which is Laoshu's own world. The article has seven questions, in the form of "answering guests' questions", telling about Laoshu's experience in painting, his teacher's inheritance, his own paintings, and his own "poetry". Every word is "his own thoughts, his own love, his own family Garden, home-grown vegetables."