At 2 p.m. on August 17, 72-year-old farmer artist Zhang Qingyi was waiting at the village gate in Huyi District, Xi’an, when he greeted an American family of five.
8月17日下午两点，西安市鄠邑区，72岁的农民画家张青义在村口等来了一个美国五口之家。
For over two decades, this farmhouse-turned gallery, converted from his own courtyard, has welcomed countless visitors from around the world. At its peak,it received nearly 2,000 foreign guests a year. The family’s daughter Sophia stepped inside andimmediatelyexclaimed: “This is like a small museum!”
过去二十多年，这座由自家院落改造而成的农民画庄，已经接待了数不清的外国面孔，最多的时候一年要接待近2000名外宾。女儿索菲亚一进门就惊叹：“这里简直就是一座小型博物馆。”
Zhang’s paintings feature bold colors and compositions, and capturethe everyday life of the Guanzhong Plain: wheat harvesting, market trips, Lunar New Year celebrations.Their exaggerated shapes and vibrant hues completely captivated his overseas guests.
张青义的画，色彩浓烈、构图大胆，画的都是关中平原的日常——收麦、赶集、过大年。那些夸张的造型、饱满的色调，让远道而来的客人挪不开眼睛。
Tucked away in the gallery is a guestbook Zhang has treasured for years. It is filled with messages in different languages: English, French, Japanese, andeven some he cannot identify. Some visitors wrote “beautiful,” others drew a heart. Zhang admits he cannot read every entry, but every time he flips through it, he can feel the warmth and goodwill. “Despite the language barriers and cultural differences,” he says, “foreign friends are drawn to the everyday lives of ordinary Chinese people captured in these paintings.”
画庄里有一本被珍藏了多年的留言簿。上面写满了不同语言的文字——英文、法文、日文，还有一些认不出的语种。有人写“beautiful”，有人画了一颗心。张青义说，他看不懂所有文字，但每次翻开都能感受到那份善意。“尽管语言不同、文化相异，但外国友人喜欢具有生活气息的户县农民画，他们认为这里面有中国老百姓的日常生活。”
Huxian farmer paintings were born in the 1950s. Back then, local farmers held a hoe in one hand and a paintbrush in the other, putting spring sowing, autumn harvest, festive rituals, and everyday life onto the canvas. Paper-cutting, murals, New Year paintings, embroidery — the folk crafts passed down through generations all found their wayinto these works.
户县农民画诞生于20世纪50年代。那时候，当地农民一手握锄头、一手拿画笔，把春种秋收、节庆民俗、家长里短都画进了画里。剪纸、壁画、年画、刺绣——祖辈传下来的民间手艺，都被他们用到了画布上。
More than six decades later, the brush has never stopped keeping pace with the times. From traditional farming to livestreamed agricultural sales, from ox-drawn plows to crop-dusting drones, farmer artists have always painted the lives they see with their own eyes.
六十多年过去，画笔始终追着时代跑。从传统农耕到直播助农，从人拉犁到无人机撒药，农民画家一直在画他们亲眼看见的生活。
Today,the community of Huxian farmer paintershas grown to over 2,300 artists, with more than 9,000 works exhibited in 68 countries and regions around the world.
如今，户县农民画创作群体已超2300人，9000余件作品走向68个国家和地区。
These hands are strong enough to hold a plow, and steady enough to hold a brush.
这双手，握得动锄头，也拿得稳画笔。
Earth as canvas, farmers as artists.
大地为纸，农民作画。
策划：王罡 杨小兵
统筹：高振博 穆骋
执行：文超 侯燕妮
译审：陕西师范大学 杜若瑜
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