• Oil Painting

  • Painting is my most favourite hobby and speciality skills, which inosculate with my soul. The first time I step in this purified world, is after my mental death and physical revival. My another home town-Dunhuang, ancient art centre of China, gave me the opportunity to have a glimpse of the world of art. It seized me. It enriched my vacuity spirit,  showed me the beauty of this Universe, make me calm and feel warm, and encouraged me to life another positive and worthy life. Starts living again, painful but also full of joyous. Feeling lucky. I could always just meet the person who I like and need to help me to realize my dreams. Assimilated all the art elements in Bengbu Art & Crafts Institute. Built a small art studio of my own. Started to brush out my sorrow into solid beauty. Silly paintings... in my art theory, there are three steps to become a real free artist. First of all, is being able to paint all pictures or photos I like that other formal artist have done, to enable me to have enough skills. Second step, is being able to paint all what I love and can see in the real world, to enable me to absorb feelings and aspiration from nature. Finally, it is being able to paint out all my dreams and feelings of my imagination, that all what I wanna achieve and dream of. Lost the expectation of possess beauty, but now I can create them, and is able to create more and more I love.. I am still in the first step. There is still a long way to go before I reach my dream. However, no matter whatever I paint, when Painting, I feel all my sorrows of life black side of my heart, are being clarified; when looking at my finished paintings, I feel pacific and happiness. ~

• Photographing

  • Photographing is a hobby that was developed after I came to the UK. Enabled by digital cameras, and expanded after travel around the Europe. In my photographs, landscapes and portraits become equal weight, compare with painting. I like to take a lot of photos of both my friends and beautiful nature. Normally, after an intensive photographing event, I heavily modify them on my computer, then distribute them back to my friends through the website. The many photo galleries you see in "friends" branch of my website, are mostly this type. Because of these, it developed my website design skills as well. Yes, my photographing hobby was because of painting and travelling, and my website design hobby was because of photographing.

• Martial Art  

  • I looks to be very weak. Cause I am short and thin. Most time being tender and self-effacing. Smiles makes seemed to be a young boy. However, my body is a little stronger  than it looks. I studied traditional martial art -Wu Shu (Kongfu) when I was 7 years old, from one of my uncle, who is coach of a  good Martial Art school. From 12 to 14, I learnt Jie-Quandao (The Bruce Lee's) in a local strict Martial Art Club. The coach was a military officer. It is really very useful, I became 5 times stronger than I was after taking 3 months killing training. Fought most street bad boys back. Then, after moving into another city for my senior middle school, I did body building instead. Unfortunately, the first day I went to the body building shop, the coach told me that my muscles are the type of no matter how much I trained just won't get bigger, but only stronger. Then after entering my first University, I went to college fee-fighting club, but get bored, cause no body could beat me. So I went to Nanjing and joined a taekwondo Club instead. Unitil the finally two years found a professional boxing club by the Lake of Dragon. After moving to St Andrews, I did a little Judo and Akido. Now is Tai-Boxing in Royal Holloway. Not real did a lot of fighting, just keep practicing different types of martial art for fun, health and building up confidence. Yet, could be a little stronger than normal never trained people. I hate self-glorification. Several years complex life experience in youth, taught me that there is no strongest man in this world. Hurting and killing people could have a lot of ways. Contrarily, the more you expose yourself being super strong, the more dangerous you would be. So, be modest.   I am sorry for not joining a lot normal sports with many of my good friends, like football, basketball and so on. The reason is that, since I practised martial art a long time, a lot of my body action have been congenital reflex to fight, which is to give hardest, strongest and not necessarily most accurate strike. So if I go to the play ground, a lot of people would might be hurt out of my will. And for as much as normal sport only give health and fun, which is just one element less- fight skills  than martial art. So I still prefer to go Tai-boxing, Fencing, Kendo...

     

   

• Dancing  

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                                         Never the less, another important benefit from martial art learning is that, it kept the flexility of my body in a good condition. With my passion and a good memory for action, I believe I can dance well, and I do love it. Last summer, those I loved so much fantastic Contiki mates taught me a lot of things about dancing, and gave me so much courage for doing it. Now, I tell you that I am doing it, and I am going to do it better. Just joint the Rambert Company's evening class ( http://www.rambert.org.uk ) , which is only a few station beside where I live. :) I have seen a few performances of this company in Edinburgh before, and loved it very very much. Now I am so happy to be with them. It's a good chance for me to have a dekko of the world of Dance. Hope I could dance better next time for any dear Contiki mates...

• Music

  • I love music a lot. My favourite music instrument is the Piano. My type of Music of being 'quiet' and beauty. The most loved musician by me is George Winston (http://www.georgewinston.com/ ). Some other good ones like: The Secret Garden, Bandari, Kevin Kern, and so on.. some one call these type of music --"New Age". I could not entirely agree. I call them myself-- "Quiet Expression". Some music that clear your disordered mind and make you feel warm.       /Actually, I planed to study my Master's in China, and finish learn skills enough to do self-study like painting in those two-half years. However, last year, when I came Scotland, and found a lot of good friends who knew the Piano a lot to teach me. The situation changed. I really don't when would this dream be realized. Feeling myself is getting too old to learn the Piano.. However, still remember the days when I enjoyed playing silly notes in the practice rooms of the Music Centre in St Andrews... I just love it too much. .. When and How, can I really be able to actualize my piano study and dreams. .. dreams... I used to day dreaming a lot. May be just calm down and do what I should first, finish my study in Finance, earn enough money, and then do whatever I want..
     

   

• Travelling  

  •  I love Travelling. Just wish one day, I would just do travelling all around the whole world, and paint all beautiful landscape that I have seen. At present, however, I just finished most Places in Scotland, North Ireland, Most European countries (Paris, Roma, Venice...). The world is still very big to finish, and to have enough time to enjoy all the beauty of these places. Last summer's Contiki Trip was fantastic, from which I realized, travelling with other people some times is not a waste, but also be very fun, precious and wonderful, when the mates are very nice. By the way if any of my friends want to go China, depends on how deep the relation ship is, I could arrange every thing in any part of China. Fully recommended place is of course my hometown --Dunhuang Mogao Caves (Gansu Province). It would be very different to any other places of this world, with a strong atmosphere of happiness and Chinese Traditional History and Art. I am sure you would love it a lot. Just send me an email before you go if you like. I guess most of my Chinese friends would definitely come. ;) .. Well, by the way, for my most non-Chinese friends, if you want to buy a flight or book a travel to China, you can go: http://www.omegatravel.ltd.uk/ to find great deals. If you book in advance (1m), you could get 245 pounds for return tickets from the UK to China!!~~    Moved?!!   :) .

    PS: The special promotion tickets could only be seen in Chinese: Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Others.

     

• Others  

  Well, I confess I love a lot of things in life. Many things have their own value to exist. If some thing I do not like, I would always think that it must because that I couldn't understand it. Passion is the key to any door of art. Love, effort and consistence will lead us to achieve our dreams. May, reality give anything a feature of uncertainty. Just try to do our best, not to regret, is enough to have an abundant life.                                                                                                                                                                              -- Felix