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Recent Development and Achievement

Exhibition planning

• April 2017: “Beijing New Year Painting Exhibition” organized by Prince Gong’s Mansion Museum of the Ministry of Culture, held at Prince Gong’s Mansion Museum.
• August 2017: “An Exhibition of Ancient Cultural Relics in Qianxinan Prefecture” organized by the People’s Government of Qianxinan Prefecture, held at the Qianxinan Prefecture Museum.
• January 2019: “Gods in My Home: Chinese New Year with Ancestor Portraits and Deity Prints” at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
• December 2019: “A Workshop in the Year of 1921: Yichengyong’s New Year Pictures Documenta”, organiezed by Gallery of Tianjin, held at Gallery of Tianjin.
• June, 2025: “Discovering Ding Yunpeng. The Artistic Legacy of the Murals at Conglin Temple, Shexian, Anhui”. Organized by Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage Affairs Center of Shexian, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, held at Art Museum of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. 

Academic events

• January 2017: “Early and Late Chinese Art History”, organized by the Central Academy of Fine Arts, held at the Institute of Chinese Painting at Peking University. Presentation topic: “Ideal for Restoration: Shinto Stone Pillars and Que from the Han era in Beijing”.
• February 2017: A symposium on “Han Paintings, Han Sites and Architecture in Tombs” organized by the Institute of Chinese Painting at the Peking University. Presentation topic: “Shaping Power: A Perspective on Han Que Research”, held at Luoyang Ease House.
• February 2017: Academic Seminar on the Inheritance and Protection of Chinese Traditional New Year Pictures, organized by the Management Center at Prince Gong’s Mansion of the Ministry of Culture, held at Prince Gong’s Mansion. Presentation Topic: “How do New Year pictures enter the “campus”? —Ten Years of Practice in Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (2006-2016).
• April 2018: Symposium on “Design in East Asian Arts”, Organized by Department of East Asian Studies, organized by the University of Toronto and Royal Ontario Museum. Presentation topic “Beijing Paper Gods: Image and Skill”. held at the University of Toronto.
• September 2019: “The 10th International Academic Conference of ancient engraving in Wonju”, organized by the Museum of Ancient Asian Woodblock Prints. Presentation Topic: “Chinese Popular Prints in Korea”.
• October 2019: Symposium on “Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival”, organized by Sichuan University. Presentation Topic: “New materials and new problems: An Introduction of several overseas Chinese New Year pictures”.
• October 2019: “Museum exhibition planning and practice from an international perspective: 2019 professional training course for museum industry” organized by Capital Museum. Presentation Topic: “A story of the Exhibition of Gods in My Home”, held in Beijing.
• May 2021: “The 13th Symposium on Printing Culture”, organized by China Printing Museum, held in Beijing. Presentation Topic: “Huitao: A Perspective of the production skills of Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year Prints”.
• September 23, 2022: “The 13th International Conference on Ancient East Asian Woodblock Prints”, hosted by The Museum of Ancient Asian Woodblock Prints, held at The Museum of Ancient Asian Woodblock Prints, Wonju, South Korea.  Presentation Topic: “Research on the Newly Acquired Chinese New Year Paintings at The Museum of Ancient Asian Woodblock Prints”.
• November 19, 2022: The 2022 Annual Academic Conference on Chinese Traditional Colors, hosted by Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and Research Institute of Art, Chinese National Academy of Arts, held at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin. Presentation Topic: “Coloring: A Perspective on the Study of Beijing Paper Horse”.   
• May 13, 2023: Qiao: Techniques, Shapes and Implications: The 3rd Hebei University of Science and Technology Art History Forum, hosted by the School of Art, Hebei University of Science and Technology, held at School of Art, Hebei University of Science and Technology. Presentation Topic: “The Makeover: A Perspective on the Study of Yangliu Youth Painting”.   
• 2023: The 14th Wonju Ancient Printmaking Cultural Festival and International Academic Conference on Ancient Woodblock Prints, hosted by The Museum of Ancient Asian Woodblock Prints, held at Myeongjusa Templestay The Museum of Ancient Asian Woodblock Prints, Wonju, South Korea. Presentation Topic: “Mountains in the Lay: Preliminary Research on the Bird Screen by Dai Lianzeng from Yangliuqing, Tianjin”.
• October 28, 2023: the 2nd Symposium on Line-drawing in Archaeology and Art History, hosted by the Han Art Institute, Peking University, and the Graphics Labs, Peking University, held at Peking University, Beijing. Presentation Topic: “Spear and Shield: On Scholarly Line-drawing”.
• December 16, 2023: Special Lecture of the 1st Central Academy of Fine Arts’ Symposium of Cultural Heritage and the 78th Academic Lecture of the Central Academy of Fine Arts’ Symposium of Cultural Heritage, organized by the School of Humanities and the Research Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, held at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. Presentation topic: “Yi Cheng Yong New Year Paintings Firm: Field Research, Archives, and Exhibitions”. 
• December 4, 2024: Academic Lecture, “Pawnshop Pillaging in New Year Paintings: Images, History and Folklore”, organized by Research Institute of Art, Chinese National Academy of Arts, held at Graduate School of Chinese National Academy of Arts, Beijing.