Pictures on walls reflect colorful culture

Over the past three years, Liu Haicheng and his son have completed more than 20,000 square meters of colorful paintings on exterior walls in 60 villages in Jilin province's Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture.

The paintings — flowers, vivid animals, magnificent farm scenes — transformed the communities into a visual extravaganzas.

After graduating from the woodblock painting department of Beihua University in Jilin city in 2018, Liu's son, Liu Tao, tried several different jobs, but none were related to his major.

"When I found that the prefecture was promoting rural construction and painting the walls of traditional village houses with various cultural elements, an idea blazed into my mind," the father said.

They began to visit different villages with their creative designs and got lots of orders.