In Lanzhou, Gansu, Meng Jianming started wall painting in 2012, and he has painted on cultural walls in rural areas, schools, hotels and restaurants in some places.
The content is generally characters and landscapes, including twenty-four filial piety, seven sages of the bamboo forest, cultural poems and so on.
Meng Jianming said that wall painting work generally requires a very large area to be painted, and the writing must be accurate.
Especially for wall paintings in Chinese style, it is necessary to study the costumes of ancient people in different dynasties.
Wall painting is also a very time-consuming task. Some of the larger areas take three or four days to complete. He has painted a wall of up to 75 square meters, and there is a long corridor of more than 1,000 meters that requires the cooperation of multiple people. carry out.
Now Meng Jianming can paint about 40 square meters per day, and he can have more than 100 walls in a year, and his income is more than 200,000 in good times.
He said that after years of running-in practice, many familiar subjects can be drawn directly on the wall without drafts.
He laughed and said that he was also called a "body printer" by his peers.
(Zhang Lei, Gao Ying)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]