Zimei, (; born 16 January 1971), is a

Chinese artist Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in China, Greater China or by Chinese artists. Art created by overseas Chinese, Chinese residing outside of China can also be considered a part of Chinese art when it is based in or d ...

, musician, and image consultant. She has won many awards and is involved in many artistic activities. Rich content in her art work includes traditional stories, landscapes, animals,

folk architecture Vernacular architecture is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance. This category encompasses a wide range and variety of building types, with differing methods of construction, from around the world, bo ...

, and comprehensive pictures of Chinese traditional art and folk customs.

Life

Zimei was born in a medical family, the third child in her family. Her grandfather was a famous doctor in Shenyang city of China in the 1930s, and her parents were doctors. Her family is also descended from a Bordered Yellow Banner aristocrat in Qing dynasty. Zimei grew up in

Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a major China, Chinese sub-provincial city and the List of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Lia ...

, the capital of

Liaoning Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...

. She attended

Shenyang University Shenyang University () is a university in Shenyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, China under the provincial government. It has a student body of more than 30,000 students and has about 1260 full-time teachers. Academics The university c ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, where she studied business, and then College of

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

, where she studied art image design. Zimei traveled to the

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, and held her art exhibition. After that she attended in the Sacramento City College to study art design and music. She immigrated to California as an "Extraordinary Ability" artist in 2010, and she has been introducing aspects of Chinese national art and culture to the local people at her

art exhibitions An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhi ...

and public events in the United States.

Art work

Between 1999 and 2007 she lived in

as an artist, and has had many solo exhibitions. She was also an executive manager in her early career. Zimei was awarded the “Paper Carving and Its Craftwork” Chinese

patent A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...

, which won a

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Award for best “Original Work” in the “International Asian Patent Exhibitions Fair” in 2002. Zimei received international acclaim for her art in the International Chinese Artists Society in 2007 the title “World Outstanding Chinese Artist”; her original art work was also awarded a special golden trophy.

Music

Zimei is also a

guzheng The zheng () or gu zheng (), is a Chinese plucked zither. The modern guzheng commonly has 21, 25, or 26 strings, is long, and is tuned in a major pentatonic scale. It has a large, resonant soundboard made from ''Paulownia'' wood. Other co ...

musician. She took lessons from the famous Chinese guzheng master Mr. Gao Liang when she was young. The guzheng is a plucked

zither Zithers (; , from the Greek word ''cithara'') are a class of stringed instruments. Historically, the name has been applied to any instrument of the psaltery family, or to an instrument consisting of many strings stretched across a thin, flat bo ...

, and is one of the most ancient Chinese musical instruments according to the documents written in the Qin dynasty (before 206 BC). It dates back 2500 years, and has always been a great part of

Chinese culture Chinese culture () is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago. The culture prevails across a large geographical region in East Asia and is extremely diverse and varying, with customs and traditions varying grea ...

. Its voice is distinctive, soft and mellifluous. Zimei's performances such a
“Fisherman's Serenade”
"The Autumn Moon Over the Han Palace"

“

The Butterfly Lovers The Butterfly Lovers is a Chinese legend of a tragic love story of a pair of lovers, Liang Shanbo () and Zhu Yingtai (), whose names form the title of the story. The title is often abbreviated to Liang Zhu (). The story was selected as one o ...

”, “Jasmine Flower”, and “Hometown Dreams” have impressed audiences. She performs masterpieces of Chinese music with not only her fingers but also her heart and graceful figure, mesmerizing the audience with her fingers that appear to prance.

Other information

Zimei has been established mainly as a Chinese artist but is not limited to national artistic field in those genres. Her art is unique and modern. She has also published various articles such as “The Season of the Cherry Blossom”, “The Shiny Memory”, “My Mother” and “The Person's Search for One's Dream”, along with other articles in various

Chinese newspapers This is a list of newspapers in China. The number of newspapers in mainland China has increased from 42—virtually all Communist Party papers—in 1968 to 382 in 1980 and more than 2,200 today. In 2006, China was the largest market for daily news ...

References

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