Liu Limin

Liu Limin

Liu Limin, female, born in 1961 in Qingfeng County, Henan Province, is a master of Arts and crafts in Henan Province. He is a member of China Folk Artists Association and a master of Henan top ten folk arts and crafts. The inheritor of traditional Chinese art straw painting is now the director of Lili arts and crafts factory in Puyang City, Henan Province.

Since the 1980s, her straw paintings have won many domestic art awards. In September 1998, Liu Limin's giant straw painting "the spring outing of Mrs. Guo" was collected in the Great Hall of the people.

Personal experience

In 1989, Liu Limin's straw paintings won the first prize at the second national export commodities fair of township enterprises in Beijing

In 1990, he donated 2000 pieces of straw paintings to the Beijing Asian Games, which made him famous at home and abroad.

In 1992, straw painting won the national patent

In May 1992, her straw painting technology won the national patent. His works have been collected by the Great Hall of the people and many museums at home and abroad. His representative works include the painting of Lady Guo's spring outing, long live peace and the painting of five oxen. She has visited Germany and the United States, and her works have been highly praised.

In 1998, he was rated as "the top ten folk arts and crafts masters in Henan Province";

In 1998, the picture of Mrs. Guo's spring outing was collected by the Great Hall of the people;

In 1998, straw painting was awarded the gold medal by the first China International Folk Art Fair;

In August 1999, he won the first prize in the national arts and crafts calligraphy exhibition;

In September 1999, he participated in the Asia Pacific Cultural Festival 99 in Berlin, Germany. His straw paintings were displayed in the Berlin City Hall and the Berlin Castle Museum respectively;

In February 2000, Liu Limin's straw paintings were exhibited in the Bauer Museum of the United States as part of the treasure exhibition of the National Palace Museum of China,

In March 2000, he was employed as a visiting professor by Temple Academy of Fine Arts in Los Angeles

In 2001, the painting of five oxen won the "mountain flower award · folk craft gold award" in the second China International Folk Art Fair;

In a congratulatory letter to Liu Limin from UNESCO director general in China, Korea and Mongolia in 2002, he said, "congratulations on your outstanding artistic achievements and your contribution to the cause of peace through art.";

Since 2001-2003, CCTV has been working in the following columns: the third set of "going behind the scenes", the seventh set of "farmer's daughter", "folk art collection", the second set of "golden land", Henan satellite TV's "random talk on Central Plains Folk Art", "new Henan", "Henan and the world", Beijing TV's "I'm on camera today", people's daily, China Art daily, China Daily and today China and other countries successively broadcast reports:

On November 5, 2003, at the invitation of the Pakistani embassy in China, Pakistani President Musharraf made an appointment with Liu Limin, who presented the straw painting "long live peace" to the president and took a group photo;

On November 21, 2003, Liu Limin presented his straw painting "long live friendship" to Pakal kushpan, President of the Swiss Federation.

Personal appointment

Liu Limin is now the director of Lili arts and crafts factory in Puyang City, Henan Province.

Chinese PinYin : Liu Li Min