Zhou Minhua salutes the military surgeons and medical workers battling the novel coronavirus in his oil paintings.
A 61-year-old veteran in Chongqing has created several oil paintings depicting Chinese military surgeons and medical workers heading for Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Zhou Minghua, born in Yunnan Province, joined the army in Jiangjin district, Southwest China's Chongqing, in 1977. And he settled in Jiangjin after retirement, where marshal Nie Rongzhen (1899-1992) was born.
Zhou loves to draw very much, with most of his works featuring landscape paintings.
Since the recent outbreak of the epidemic, stories of numerous military surgeons and medical workers fighting at the front line regardless of their lives have deeply touched and inspired Zhou.
Zhou Minhua salutes the military surgeons and medical workers battling the novel coronavirus in his oil paintings.
On Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve, the Spring Festival Gala live broadcast a team of 150 medical members from Army Medical University starting off on their mission to Wuhan overnight. In the meantime, a picture of a military surgeon bidding farewell to her 7-year-old daughter upon departure caught Zhou's eye. Being deeply moved by this, Zhou finished the oil painting I Sent My Mother to the Battlefield on that night.
In Zhou's oil paintings, various scenes of touching moments of the mission-on-call team can be seen. They are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives. They are called the "the most beautiful travelers".
So far, Zhou has completed eight oil paintings. "I just wanted to extend my salute to the lovely military surgeons and medical workers! Their dedication will pay off and we can prevail over the virus!"
Zhou Minhua’s oil painting of Zhong Nanshan, a leading figure in the fight against the novel coronavirus.
Zhou Minhua salutes the military surgeons and medical workers battling the novel coronavirus in his oil paintings.
Zhou Minhua salutes the military surgeons and medical workers battling the novel coronavirus in his oil paintings.
Zhou Minhua salutes the military surgeons and medical workers battling the novel coronavirus in his oil paintings.
The oil painting I Sent My Mother to the Battlefield by Zhou Minhua.
