It can also be painted on the side of a snow pillow

In 1928, Feng to congratulate his teacher hong Yi on his 50 birthday, sent his carefully drawn 50 painting album: protection of life, hong Yi is very happy, very quickly the art with the words, Feng zikai and write back in charge, hoping he can see this album sustainable, in his 60 ~ 100 years old birthday, can respectively to receive art 2 ~ 6 sets, Draw 60 to 100 cartoons for each episode.

Feng Zikai then wrote back, promising to the teacher I shou Xu, will obey!

Since then, Feng Zikai has had Li Shutong's entrust in mind, to repay Shien and work hard. From 1929 to 1965, Feng Zikai completed the second, third and fourth episodes of the Painting Collection of Nursing Students respectively. However, when he was about to finish the last two episodes, an accident came -- the ten-year "Cultural Revolution" came. Because in the "Cultural Congress" a "big scissors" cut the same Holly speech and was wrongly judged as the top ten key objects of criticism in Shanghai.

Then, the daily torture began to pour on Feng Zikai, now in his sixties. The "rebels" not only raided his home but also criticized him day after day. They poured hot paste on his back and pasted it on big-character posters and marched through the streets in protest.

The old man, of course, could not stand the pain, and could not walk, so the rebels cruelly whipped him from street to street.

But Feng zikai is very strong, and never shed a tear, then, the rebel and cut off his beard more than 30 years, the beard Feng zikai misses his past years old and have grown up, people thought the old man under the bear: no, but I didn't expect that the Feng zikai but said with a smile: "wildfires burn born again when the spring breeze blows..."

Later, Feng Zikai was sent to the suburbs of Shanghai to work in the fields. The optimistic Feng did not tell his family that he was old and took good care of him. Therefore, he lived a good life. Until one winter just under the heavy snow, his daughter Feng Yiyin sent him warm clothes. Her daughter found Feng Zikai standing alone in a windswept field with a snakeskin bag on his chest, shivering with cold as he picked cotton.

After that, at Feng Yiyin's repeated request, Feng Zikai took her to his place -- a broken old cowshed thatched hut. Because the roof was in disrepair, her daughter could see a pile of unmelted snow beside the straw pillow on her father's bed

Even in such a humble bedroom, the old man is hard to sleep on a solid, discipline, often the middle of the night suddenly blew service calls, Feng zikai is older, with hands and feet and not flexible, natural wake up every time not as quick as the others, and is often the things by pushing scolded, later, he just sleep not to take off clothes.

Despite suffering such inhuman injustice and abuse, Feng Zikai still had no complaints, never thought of giving up painting, and never dared to forget his promise to his teacher. "To protect students is to protect the heart, and to be compassionate in heart, you can paint anywhere." During the period of labor reform, he took pains as pleasure. Whenever he had a chance, he would try to continue painting the "Nursing Students Painting Collection" and finished the fifth series of 90 paintings.

But a bad environment eventually knocked down the old man, suffering from severe pneumonia Feng zikai was allowed to go home illness, as he is already a 76 - year - old version of the old man, but returned home Feng zikai is not following the requirements of the doctor, take a good rest, actively cooperate with treatment, on the contrary, he even stole away the doctor prescribed medicine, but to rush toward to the painting. He got up at 4 am every day and began to paint the sixth set of the "Nursing Student Painting Collection". At this time, the last set was six years away, but Feng Zikai seemed to have a vague sense that he would die soon, so he worked hard. His children were afraid that he would be tired out, so they hid his pen and paper. Feng Zikai begged them, "You are trying to kill me. Please give it back to me."

His children had to give up. Even if he slept in a small bed that needed to curl up his legs to sleep, he did not feel any inconvenience. All his thoughts were immersed in his paintings, such as "Lamb kneeling and breast-feeding" and "Cooking Head and Tail", which were completed at this time. At the end of 1973, Feng Zikai finally completed his teacher's order and finished the last collection of 100 paintings of Nursing students. It was 45 years after he sent the first collection of Nursing Students' Paintings to his teacher. Two years later, the old man died.

No one had ever done it before him, and no one ever did it after him. Later generations commented on Feng Zikai's unique cartoons: His painting is very cheap, and everyone can afford, and everybody can understand, no matter whether you are a civilian, vendor, or illiterate, lout, he quietly elegant of common line, a few pens outlined the noble personality and profound thoughts, draw in the simple compassion and love of love, is the master Chinese cartoon generation, Among them, the most famous is the six episodes of "nursing students Painting Collection", a total of 450 pictures.

"I admire my teacher, Master Hongyi because he is a human-like person." To be a human being was Feng Zikai's lifelong pursuit, and he fulfilled it with his life.