Chai Peike is an artist. He is talented in Chinese brush painting (毛笔画). Now he lives 1 Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
Chai Peike worked as an art teacher in 2 1970s. After retirement (退休), he spent more ti me painting. So far, he 3 a large number of pictures. And he won many prizes. The paintings of the 108 characters from the book Outlaws of the Marsh are some of 4 paintings of all his paintings.
Chai Peike truly 5 reading the book Outlaws of the Marsh when he was young. In January 2021, he started painting the characters in the book. He was 6 in finishing painting all the 108 characters in the book after ten months of hard work. All the characters in 7 paintings are pretty vivid (逼真的) .
Chai Peike never thinks of stopping painting, 8 he is over 80 years old. He plans to paint 480 characters in another book called A Dream of Red Mansions. He hopes 9 more wonderful paintings. And he hopes his painting can encourage (促使) more people to read Chinese classics. 10 great artist!