Yuan Wei

On the eve of the return of Macau in 1999, sculptor Gu Songlin went to Macau to collect the sculpture "The Flourishing Lotus" presented by the Central Government to the Macao Special Administrative Region, and became a close friend with Liao Jichang, the head of the Liao Ji Wood Sculpture Store. Ten years later, "Wood Carving-Idol Carving" became the first project in Macau to receive the honor of "National Intangible Cultural Heritage".

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On November 8, 1937, Taiyuan fell and the army retreated south to Linfen. For a time, this Jinnan town became the center of the War of Resistance in Shanxi and even North China. At this time, a special formation unit of the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army Academy, was established in Liucun Town, Linfen. In more than one hundred days, more than six hundred bloody youths "cast into steel" in this anti-Japanese war furnace.

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