"This is a painting I created more than 30 years ago in commemoration of my hardworking mother and all those hard years," Xie says, as he displays a painting of a woman holding a baby, with needles, thread and a dustpan placed in front of her, surrounded by chickens and ducks.
The picture is called Mother, and it was exhibited at a provincial art show for its simplicity and exquisiteness.
China has seen rapid progress in industrialization and urbanization since the country began its reform and opening-up 40 years ago, becoming the second-largest economy in the world.
With only 7 percent of the world's arable land, China manages to feed 20 percent of the planet's people, thanks to hard-working Chinese farmers like Xie's mother.
"I remember in 1982, authorities in the village began contracting production output quotas to households, and our lives started to turn for the better," Xie says of the rural reform which started in the late 1970s.
"We began to have enough food, and I even got married two years later," he says. "We repaid our debts and accumulated enough money for the wedding banquet."
The wedding was held after a bumper harvest in the autumn, and Xie says many guests spoke highly of the quota system.
Lives continued to improve in rural China after the reform, and in the 1990s, many farmers left the countryside to seek better-paying jobs in China's more developed coastal areas. Many farmer painters like Xie jumped on the migrant worker bandwagon. But Xie chose to stay and stick with his painting hobby while continuing to work in the fields. During this period, the content of his paintings also took a new direction.
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