The first in the field of calligraphy and painting! Master Li Kuchan's hyper-realistic digital figures appeared in "Drawing the Prosperous China"

touch the screen and sketch freely, you can generate Chinese painting master Li Kuchan "the same masterpiece" "Midsummer Picture". On October 24th, the new media project "Sharing China in a Prosperous Age" jointly launched by Chinese Culture Promotion Association, , Tencent New Cultural and Creative Research Institute, Tencent News, and Tencent Multimedia Lab was officially launched in Beijing.

As a master of Chinese modern and modern freehand painting of flowers and birds, Li Kuchan takes the profound traditional culture as the foundation, absorbs the excellent techniques of traditional Chinese painting, integrates the western sketching techniques, and uses the brush of "combining Chinese and Western, with the intention of writing first". A new world of freehand traditional Chinese painting, which is majestic, heavy, and full of masculinity.

as his masterpiece in his later years, "Midsummer Picture" depicts the scenery of the lotus in full bloom in the midsummer season. When creating "Midsummer Picture", Li Kuchan did not need line draft composition at all. The area of ​​the painting breaks through the tradition of flower and bird painting, reaching 22.04 square meters, which is the largest masterpiece in Li Kuchan's life. Li Kuchan once said: "Only in my Chinese culture can this high-level and high-level freehand brushwork be produced." While meeting the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people, the cornerstone of cultural self-confidence is also more stable, providing stronger support for promoting the construction of a culturally powerful country. "The so-called 'co-painting' is to make yesterday and today, predecessors and future generations, tradition and modernity, masters and the public, to fully demonstrate the time and space penetration and wonderful communication power of cultural masterpieces." China Culture Promotion Association Chairman Wang Shi said.

's latest new media project "Co-Drawing the Prosperous World of China" "installs" "Midsummer Picture" into the mobile phone. Users can not only click to view the creation process and picture details of "Midsummer Picture", but also use their hands as a pen and touch the screen to outline and draw exclusive lotus flowers. The modern digital technology complements the ancient meaning of the paintings, allowing people to more deeply feel the eternal charm of Chinese culture across time and space.

Under the guidance of Mr. Li Kuchan's son Li Yan and his granddaughter Ms. Li Xinqing, Tencent Multimedia Lab's "Light and Shadow Rejuvenation" intelligent image restoration technical team created the first "hyper-realistic" digital image in the field of painting and calligraphy based on Li Kuchan's real image people. Modelers hand-modeled based on videos and photo materials more than 40 years ago, arranged more than 50 muscle movement nodes, and strived to restore Li Kuchan's appearance, posture, and demeanor to the extreme; the voice was recorded by Li Kuchan's son, Mr. Li Yan.

Yue Miao, Executive Director of Tencent New Cultural and Creative Research Institute, said, " Freehand flower and bird painting is an important carrier of China's excellent traditional culture. We use mobile phone screens as 'paper' and technological means as 'ink', through immersive interaction Experience, let ordinary people participate in the inheritance of cultural creation, and make traditional culture enduring."