Blessings Extended, by Palashati, a farmer painter from Xinyuan county, Ili Kazak autonomous prefecture, NW China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo by Jiang Peiling/Farmers Daily]

Xinjiang farmer paintings numbering 166 are exhibited in the Classics Museum of the National Library in Beijing, Sept. 28, 2015. Each painting, vivid and distinctive, with a theme of countryside from views of farmers, tells a story, expressing the simplicity of local people in different nationalities, showing their spirits of Love of the Motherland and Passion for Xinjiang, Solidarity and Dedication, Hard Work and Mutual Cooperation, Opening-up and Enterprising.

Co-hosted by the Public Culture Department of Culture Ministry, Culture Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and National Library in Beijing, the activity, Charting a new countryside in Xinjiang: farmer paintings for celebrating the 60th anniversary of founding of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, part of a series of Spring Rain Project 2015 by cultural volunteers touring the bordering regions of the country. This show is divided into five sections, that is, Modern Culture, National Unity, Economic Advance, Livelihood, Social Development, comprehensively showing encouraging changes and tremendous achievements in Xinjiang over the past six decades, particularly since the Central Conference on Work in Xinjiang, and also showing the admiration for capital Beijing and the love of the great motherland of the grassroots farmers.

These works are from painting admirers, of different nationalities including Uygur, Han, Hui, Kazak, Kirgiz, Xibe, Mongolian, and Tajik. It is known that, famer paintings have become an important form of arts used by people of different nationalities praising new times, new life, and new development among the farming and livestock areas around Xinjiang. By the end of 2014, there had been already 22 provincial-leveled farmer painting bases all over the region altogether. And the number of farmers engaged in painting and instructed by the Culture Centers (Stations) has surpassed 2,000.

This show will last till October 7, accompanied with A Collection of Farmer Paintings in Xinjiang published by the hosting parties.

Agricultural Science Publicity in Rural Area, painted by Wumaier Aili, from Shule county, Kashgar prefecture, NW China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.[Photo by Jiang Peiling/Farmers Daily]

Painting on the spot.[Photo by Jiang Peiling/Farmers Daily]

Aziguli Kuerban, from Yutian county, Hotan prefecture, NW China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, is drawing on the spot. [Photo by Jiang Peiling/Farmers Daily]