A famous painter from Sichuan-China Zhuangping Li and his daughter Li Qin who is twenty-three years old has caused many controversies in China recently because Zhuangping Li has created a series of nude oil paintings based on the naked body of his daughter, Li Qin who has posed with the tiger, eagle bird, and some other kinds of animals. This series of paintings is called Oriental Goddess and Mountain Ghost, which was inspired by Qu Yuan’s “Mountain Ghost” and Guo Moruo’s “Mountain Wu’s Goddess”.  After learning about this mythology, Zhuangping Li thought that his daughter matched the features of the goddess in it, so he asked her daughter whether she was willing to become his nude model in this plan. Li Qin agreed, and both of them worked on the paintings for several years and finally created these amazing works.

"Mountain Wu’s Goddess” is a well-known goddess in China.  Her real name was Yao Ji.  There are several different sayings about her origin, some said she was the daughter of the Mountain Wu, some said she was Emperor of Heaven’s daughter, and some said she was the daughter of Emperor Yan.  She was never married.  After passing away, she was buried in Mountain Wu, and later she became a Goddess.  In the mythology, she seduced several emperors in dreams by using her remarkable beauty, and which led to the using of “Wushan (mountain Wu) Goddess” to praise a pretty lady in China.

Zhuangping Li said that he hoped to express the harmony of human and nature, human and animals, and also human and human through his paintings. From these awesome works, I think, his dream has already come ture.