Qi Baixo was born on November 22

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Qi Baixo

Qi Baixo (1860-1957) - Chinese painter. The intensity of the creative work of the great Chinese painter Qi Baixo compared to Van Gogh. Van Gogh ten years of serious study painting created more than 800 paintings and more pictures. Qi Baixo, who did more than seventy years, has left several thousand people to their works. He was not only surprisingly subtle, capable of transmitting all the wealth of tonal transitions artist, but also a philosopher, poet, teacher. While painting, he likened himself to plants and believed that only drain meyhua able to understand it through. The artist, he said, "Orchid is awash in water, washes her hair scent of flowers."

Qi Baixo born November 22, 1860 in a very poor Chinese family. My grandfather and father to feed children, gathering firewood for sale. Xiangtan County, in which the future artist was born, was extremely picturesque.
For seventy years, Qi Baixo written about this time, such poetic lines:

    In my poor little village, I began to learn very late.
    And not studied seriously until 27 years.
    It was just the trouble - not even oil for lamps.
    I lit a pine splinter and recited Tang poets.