Return of Swan Goose

Huang Yongyu now lives in Hong Kong. In 1924, he was born in Fenghuang County, Hunan Province. At the age of 16, he graduated from Jimei Middle School and Dehua Normal School in Xiamen, Fujian Province. He has successively been a high school teacher, a family education librarian, an apprentice artist of the theatre troupe, a newspaper editor, a film writer, a professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and a consultant of the Chinese Artists Association. In 1948, he went to Hong Kong to attend the World Painting Fair. He was an art editor of Ta Kung Pao and New Evening Paper in Hong Kong and a playwright of Great Wall Film Company. He went to Beijing in 1953 and taught for many years at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He created large-scale murals such as The Great Solidarity of the Chinese People and The Motherland. Other famous works include Spring Tide, Hundred Flowers, People's Premier's Love, Ashima, and giant paintings such as Sparrow Dun and Ink Lotus. In 1986, he was awarded the Knight's Medal of the Republic of Italy by the Italian President. He has published Huang Yongyu Wood Carving Collection, Huang Yongyu Painting Collection, novel, prose and other works.