Turning Into The Spring Mud To Protect The Flowers

In the introduction of the book 'Chinese Engravings - from 1940 to 2002' written by the historian of the fine arts - Qi Fengge, it says: 'Wei Qian is the remarkable and productive painter in the engraving field of China. He has made extraordinary achievements in engraving creation and talents education. Up till now.Wei Qian's engraving methodology is largely embodied in his ideas of teaching, his teaching practice and cultivation of a great number of excellent students.Ideas of teaching:1. He combines the outstanding educational thoughts of the east culture with the west one. Under the guidance of human-oriented education, he emphasizes on 'the development of the students'. He lays stress on a fully development of the students' potentials and an active self-reliance concept as well as the system of this sense of value, so as to let the students make full use of their potentials.2. He tries to specify the relationship between art and life by aesthetic education, and treat the nature and the social life with an aesthetic attitude. He attempts to clarify the relationship between art and feelings, and treat himself with an aesthetic manner. With his rich knowledge and life experiences, together with his artistic experience, he probes into the aesthetic spirit of different times to help the students know how to recognize beauty, express beauty and build up the proper sense of aesthetics.Teaching practice:1. In foundational teaching, he emphasizes on the brave liberation of regulations, taboos and commandments. And apply the teaching methods suitable for the development of engraving specialty.2. He teaches the students to learn to think with material things according to the characteristics of the field.3. He enriches the engraving language by a scientific way of innovation.4. In the teaching practice of the transformation of Chinese engraving, he fully reflects the proper trend of socialist arts guidance. And he grasps the tendency of the mainstream of present engraving teaching as well as the future one.In 2001, as the member of the Instructive Committee of National Institutes of Fine Arts, Wei Qian went to Nanning Academy of Fine Arts to attend the National Conference on Fine Arts Teaching held by the Bureau of Education. He further understood the report 'Deepen the Educational Reform, Promote the Quality Education in Every Aspects, and Work Hard to Realize the Great Revival of China' made by Li Lanqing, the vice-premier of the State Council, representative of the Party and the State Council. The report emphasized on the application of quality education onto the subject teaching, the students' ability of 'teach people how to fish' and the realization of the students' 'individual development' ('the Manifestation of the Communist Party').Wei Qian works diligently in the field of engraving teaching and has now tremendous amount of excellent students around China. He has made a great contribution to the development of the Department of Fine Arts in Central China Normal University and the national career of fine arts education.