NANCHANG, Oct. 7 -- In Xie Zhenhui's simple home studio, a plastic oil bottle serves as a pen wash, while a rickety table functions as a drawing board.
Xie puts the final touches on a painting with a Chinese shepherd boy alongside a buffalo carrying rice paddies, pumpkins and watermelons.
"I am painting my idea of a bumper harvest in rural China," said Xie, 56, a farmer in Jiaoyuan Village in east China's Jiangxi Province.
China celebrated its first-ever national harvest festival across the country last month. Xie said he created the painting in commemoration of the festival.
Xie has been learning painting from his father, a decorator, since the late 1970s. He said among all the things he painted over the past decades, his major focus was food.
"The more I desired something, the more I painted it," he says.
Xie has seven brothers and sisters, and in the early days when materials were lacking, food was never sufficient to support the big family.
"My mother would always sell the sweet potatoes and vegetables she grew in our field to trade for more sweet potato residue to feed us because the food she grew was simply not enough to feed so many family members," Xie recalls. "At that time, if I could eat a complete sweet potato, I would feel so lucky."
Xie says he vividly remembers his mother toiling in the field day and night, and he poured all his desires for a bumper harvest into his paintings.
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