"Splendid as the sunglow - Xu Beihong's road to Nanyang" is exhibited in Xu Beihong Memorial Hall. This exhibition exhibits more than 70 pieces of works created by Xu Beihong during the Nanyang period, leading the viewer into history, reviewing the 1930s to 1940s Xu Beihong's Nanyang past events.

In 1939, Xu Beihong brought more than one thousand pieces of his own works and collections to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Ipoh and other places to hold exhibitions, and used all the money he received to help the refugees during the war and the orphans of the soldiers who died for the country. He combined his art with his responsibility to the country and the nation, exerting the social function of painting art and setting a shining example for a generation of masters.

The first unit, "Ren Feng Yuan Bo" means that Xu Beihong's benevolence spread far and wide. This exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of Xu Beihong's journey in the Nanyang period, divided into four units. The first unit is named after the certificate of appreciation issued to Xu Beihong by the Perak Chinese Refugee Relief Committee, a civil organization in Perak, Malaysia, which tells the story of this experience and Xu Beihong's inseparable relationship. The exhibition features representative works created by Xu Beihong in Singapore, as well as in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Ipoh, Malaysia, during the period when he was raising funds for the relief of the country.

The second unit, "Let life be beautiful like summer flowers", is a selection of portraits made by Xu Beihong for Rabindranath Tagore, describing their deep friendship;

The third unit "True Journey to the West" is taken from the article “True Journey to the West” written by Xu Beihong when he traveled to India, telling the humanities of the journey and showing the improvised works during the journey.

The fourth unit, "Himalaya", depicts the snow-capped mountains surrounded by white clouds from different angles with different painting materials, showing the majestic and magnificent world's first peak. Xu Beihong felt that he had no regrets in his life and took climbing the Himalayas as the “first pleasure of his life”, which also inspired his ambition in art.

According to the introduction, from 1939 to 1941, Xu Beihong wrote many masterpieces over three years, these works record his passionate years of crossing Southeast Asia alone, have a rich aesthetic value and research significance, and also as an important symbol of the times bear for the world to admire.

In the month of Beijing Museum activities, Xu Beihong Memorial Hall will hold a Tagore poetry- sharing session in the afternoon of May 13 in conjunction with this exhibition. The event will introduce Tagore's poetry into the exhibition hall, where visitors can visit the exhibition on-site to feel the charm of art and share Tagore's poems on-site, making an interesting contrast between Tagore's poetry and Xu Beihong's works, and creating a romantic artistic collision in the sharing of poems and exchange of works.

Translator: WANG Yiwen

Reviewer: LIU Yu