Brief Introduction of Leaders of China Folk Writers Association

Brief introduction of the current chairman

Feng Jicai (1942-) is currently the chairman of the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood, a famous contemporary writer, painter and folk art rescuer in China. Originally from Cixi, Zhejiang, he was born in Tianjin. He is currently the executive vice chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the chairman of China Folk Writers Association.

Since 1990s, Feng Jicai has devoted himself to the rescue and protection of cultural heritage, organized many large-scale cultural rescue operations, published various related works, published a large number of speculative and appealing articles on the protection of cultural heritage, and held relevant speeches at home and abroad, which had a far-reaching impact on contemporary China cultural circles.

In 2004, Feng Jicai Folk Culture Foundation was initiated and established, dedicated to promoting the development of the rescue and protection of folk culture in China. In August 2008, he participated in the Olympic torch relay in Tianjin as a torchbearer. At the end of 2008, he was hired as a counselor in the State Council.

Feng Jicai's social influence

In Tianjin, there may be few people who don't know Feng Jicai. As soon as he wandered in the street, a big man with a height of 1.9 meters, someone shouted, Dafeng, are you busy? How about a set of pancakes, jiaozi? Taihō is really busy, especially in recent years, he seldom stays at home honestly, either holding meetings everywhere to call for the protection of folk culture, or personally going to the countryside and fields to explore folk relics. Once, I met his wife Gu and said, I advised Dafeng not to work so hard. After all, he is over 60 years old. Gu Jie smiled helplessly and said,' You leave him idle, and he is either itchy or painful. He was fine when he went out for a crazy run. Alas, the old cow suffered a lot! Feng Jicai is famous for his novels. Up to now, there are more than 150 works in various versions and languages, which is higher than him. His real works are the same size, and readers at home and abroad are familiar with him mostly through these works. So his main business should be a writer. However, he has the talent and spirituality of painting, and each of his paintings, like his novels, has a thrilling power, and its cultural connotation is beyond the reach of ordinary painters. Walking on two legs makes the road in front of Dafeng wider and wider. In recent years, Dafeng has once again become a famous social activist. More specifically, he lobbied around and put it into action, focusing on the protection of folk culture. It can be said that his cultural thoughts are in the same strain. In many of his literary works, we can find his unique views and footnotes on national culture, which is not difficult to understand why he temporarily put down writing and did this thankless thing. Feng Jicai's first "deviation" was probably in 1994. At that time, Tianjin was carrying out a large-scale modern urban construction, with high-rise buildings rising from the ground, and the dilapidated old city would disappear in this torrent, which would inevitably cause devastating damage to some cultural relics. Feng Jicai is worried. Feng Jicai tea rice don't think. But a scholar who has no decision-making power can do nothing but shout at the sky. What he can do is to pull up a huge team, including planners, architects, historians, anthropologists, and of course more photographers. It took them a year to make a carpet survey of the city, took more than 30,000 photos and videos, and selected more than 2,000 of them to make four big picture books. He gave these photo albums to government officials. Every time he sends a set, he must write the following words on the title page: This is your dear land. Dafeng made a lot of noise, but few people supported him. Many people say that it is useless for you to leave a novel without writing it. This makes Dafeng very sad. And from the beginning to the end, all the expenses of this activity were paid by Taihō himself, and hundreds of thousands of yuan of manuscript fees were filled in this big hole, not to mention the few paintings left, all of which were replaced by investigation. But today, Dafeng's work is beneficial and timely, and there is no way, because many cultural relics in Tianjin can only be found in these big picture books now.