in the 1970s, after he graduated from his secondary school at the age of 16 and was forced to go to the countryside of southern ganzhou. later, with the help of chen yifei, he moved to the suburbs of nanjing and settled down there. during this period, his completed works include "writing a letter to chairman mao" (a painting that expresses the aspiration of youths to stay in rural area), "tears flooding the autumnal fields