University of Macau: Zhu Zhengming Speaks of Guangong Stories in the Guandi Exhibition
World Guangong Culture News: According to China News Service, Xinhua News Agency and other media: Director of Hubei Provincial United Front Work Department Overseas Center, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of Hubei Provincial Guangong Culture Association and photographer Zhu Zhengming recently paid a visit to Macau at the invitation of University of Macau. There he hosted the World Guandi Icons Exhibition and delivered the speech The World’s Highest Guandi Temple in the Macau International Guangong Cultural Forum.
Guests from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan cut the ribbon for the World Guandi Icons Exhibition (Photo/Deng Zhiming)
Photographer Zhu Zhengming speaks at the opening ceremony (Photo/Deng Zhiming)
Zhu Zheng introduces works of Guandi icons to Attorney-General Ho Chio Meng (far left) of the Macao SAR Government, Vice Minister Zhang Xiaoguang (far right) of Ministry of Education and Culture, Liaison Office, the Central Government in Macao and President Ge Wanjin (third from right) of the University of Macau Alumni Association (Photo/Deng Zhiming)
Attorney-General Ho Chio Meng of the Macao SAR Government is interviewed by reporters at the exhibition (Photo/Zhu Zhengming)
In his visit to Macao, Zhu Zhengming selected 66 works of Guandi icons from 15 countries and regions, magnified with Korea crystal. There were pictures by Wu Daozi and Yue Fei collected in famous Chinese Guandi Temples, wool pyrographs by the Yellow River, folk paper-cuts by the Yangtze River, batik Guandi icons from Guizhou Miao nationality and Guangong thangkas from Tibetan snowy plateau.
From right to left: President Ge Wanjin of University of Macau Alumni Association, Secretary Guan Yonghong of the Hong Kong Guan Clan Federation, Vietnamese Envoy Li Yingwei of Guangong Culture, Chairman Guan Minfeng of t the Hong Kong Guan Clan Federation, Director Zhu Zhengming of the Hubei Provincial Committee United Front Work Department Overseas Center, Student Zhou Xiaochao of University of Macau are present at the exhibition (Photo/Deng Zhiming)
General Manager Gao Qiang of Macau Chung Shun International Auctionsco., Ltd sells the exhibition works Guandi on Three Sides as Guangong Culture Award Fund (Photo/Deng Zhiming)
One of the exhibition works: the 39-meter-tall Guandi on three sides of the World Guangong Culture Tourist City, Dangyang, Hubei (Photo/Zhu Zhengming)
One of the exhibition works: Guandi Thangka displayed by Tibetan girls on the glacier of Mount Everest (Photo/Zhu Zhengming)
Students of University of Macau and President Ge Wanjin (far left) of the University of Macau Alumni Association praise Guandi Icons Photography Exhibition (Photo/Zhu Zhengming)
The opening ceremony of Guandi Icons Exhibition was held on the afternoon of October 31 at the University of Macau Student Activity Center auditorium. Attorney General Ho Chio Meng of Macao SAR Government, Vice Minister Zhang Xiaoguang (far right) of Ministry of Education and Culture, Liaison Office, the Central Government in Macao, Vice President Cheng Haidong of the University of Macau, President Ge Wanjin and Director Ou Bingguang of the University of Macau Alumni Association, entrepreneurs, experts and scholars from the mainland, Taiwan, Hongkong and Macau attended the ceremony to offer their congratulations.
At the opening ceremony, General Manager Gao Qiang of Macau Chung Shun International Auctionsco., Ltd personally held a hammer to sell the work Guandi on Three Sides. Among entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland, it was at last purchased by Curator Feng Shaojie of Jilin Guandi Cultural Museum at 20,000 Hong Kong dollars. The Fund was awarded on the spot to rising stars who made contributions to the spread of Guandi culture.
In the evening, the International Guandi Cultural Forum was held in the Pousada Marina Hotel, Taipa, Macau. There are guest speakers Zhu Zhengming (far left), Li Yingeei (second from left), William Feng (far right) and Inviting Representative Mr. Ge Wanjin on the podium (Photo/Deng Zhiming)
Guests from the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau (Photo/Deng Zhiming)
Macao people with a broad smile who have got works of Guandi culture from the speaking guest Zhu Zhengming (Photo/Deng Zhiming)
In the evening, the International Guandi Cultural Forum was held in the Pousada Marina Hotel, Taipa, Macau. There mainland scholar Zhu Zhengming, Chinese Vietnamese Li Yingwei, Hong Kong scholar William Feng talked about the Chinese Guandi culture on the same podium same speech, who received enthusiastic applause from the audience.