Contemporary Cultural Figures of Mount Taishan

Updated: 2016-11-24

Chen Yong--Taishan Culture Expert on Photography

Chen Yong, vice director of Civilization Office of Tai'an City, members of the China Photographers Association, Chairman of Tai'an City Photographers.

Grown up at the foot of Mount Tai, Chen Yong engaged in photographic cultural studies of Taishan Mountain for more than 20 years. For a long time, with admiration of Taishan Mountain and responsibility of passing on our culture to the younger generations, he moved back and forth for countless times through peaks and ridges, forests, mountain streams of Taishan Mountain, using cameras to record cultural landscape, scenery of the four seasons, people and culture, finishing out more than 10,000 photographic images. More than 300 pieces of work have been selected for photographic exhibition at the municipal level or above, more than 100 pieces of works have been published at the national newspapers and all kinds of pictures. Over 1,500 pieces of photographic works have been displayed in the "China Photo Network", "CCN picture net", "Graphic world" and "Taishan photography net". He has served as editor of "Tai-Fifty Years" album, deputy editor of "2000 World Natural and Cultural Heritage - protection and development of Taishan Mountain", his personal biography has been selected into "Chinese Photographers "," Chinese literary talent pool "and other books.