Haipai Art and Humanities News On the afternoon of January 31, the Sri Lanka Experience Center of the Expo and the PRASADA Sapphire Flagship Exhibition Hall were full of laughter and a warm atmosphere. Academician Fan Guangling, leader of the cross-strait ice-breaking tour, oriental renaissance person, and famous painter, led some elites in the cultural and artistic circles, wang Guoquan, honorary chairman of the Shanghai Division of the Lady of the World, host of the famous film and television song and multi-habitat program, Xia Yu, deputy director of the Shanghai Global Taiwan Business Service Center and director of the Global Overseas Chinese Compatriots Association, Qiao Han and his wife, British friends Qiao Han and his wife, Zhao Baoyun, head of the Graduate School of the Second Medical University, Ms. Bu Han of the International Art Museum, Miss Muse International Literature and Art Fang Tingting, art expert Chen Xiangling, etc. He conducted a four-hour folk culture and art exchange with Mr. Delong Prasada, Sri Lanka's Trade Representative and Cultural Envoy to China.
People from the Chinese and Sri Lankan cultural circles took a group photo at the entrance of the Sri Lanka Experience Center
During the consultation, China and Sri Lanka reached an agreement to set up a display area for Fan Guangling's world-first poetic oil paintings in the Sri Lanka Commodity Experience Center for the majority of EXPO participants and tourists from all over the world to observe and appreciate. At the same time, an agreement was reached on exchanging Fan Guangling's "silk oil paintings" for Sri Lanka blue jadeite jade.
Fan Guangling and Sri Lankan Cultural Envoy Delong co-authored Fan Guangling's world-first silk oil painting
As we all know, from ancient times to the present, China and Sri Lanka have maintained traditional friendly relations. Although the geographical location is not adjacent, with the help of the natural link of the sea, the two have gone from strange to familiar, from peaceful exchanges to in-depth exchanges, constantly consolidating the precious friendship between the two countries and constantly writing a new chapter in the Maritime Silk Road.
Fan Guangling and Sri Lanka's special envoy for culture, Delong, reached an agreement to shake hands and celebrate
Academician Fan Guangling and Sri Lankan Cultural Envoy Mr. Delong are old friends for many years, Fan Guangling once accompanied by Mr. Delong to Sri Lanka for cultural exchanges, and was warmly welcomed by all walks of life in Sri Lanka. Academician Fan Guangling was also invited to speak in English at the Consulate General of Sri Lanka to support cultural and artistic exchanges and cooperation between the two sides.
This kind of barter exchange reached by the people-to-people cultural exchange between China and Sri Lanka is a very common way of commodity exchange during the ancient Silk Road period, China is the starting country of the Belt and Road, and Sri Lanka is a country along the Belt and Road, in today's society with such an exchange method, it can be called a historic cooperation event of non-governmental cultural exchanges between China and Sri Lanka, which will surely promote the development of non-governmental cultural exchanges between China and Sri Lanka and the trade between the two countries.
Delong, Sri Lanka's special envoy to Chinese culture, and wang Guoquan, a famous program host, co-directed the product catalog of the Sri Lanka Experience Center
The event specially invited Wang Guoquan, a famous program host in Shanghai, to the scene to witness the historic cultural events of the two countries. Mr. Delong, Special Envoy of the Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka to China and Trade Representative, said that in the future cultural activities attended by the Sri Lankan ambassador or consul, Mr. Wang Guoquan will be invited to participate in the activities in person, and Wang Guoquan also expressed his great honor and willingness to participate in such meaningful cultural activities, and said that he would strive to promote cultural exchanges between China and Sri Lanka and people-friendly people.
In order to celebrate the success of the Sino-Sri Lankan folk cultural exchange activities, Fan Guangling wrote a poem on the spot and presented it to sri Lanka:
Poem to the
Honorable Sri lanka
Dr. Kuanling Fan President，World Congress of Poets
1000 year friendship
Lover's tears
The world fights by
Flames of wars
We've visited your land to see culture，hearts of Buddhism
Hold hands together
for a peaceful new heaven
(Wang Zhi)