冯骥才

馮驥才

Féng Jìcái

proper noun

Meanings

1 Feng Jicai
2 Tianjin novelist, painter, and cultural heritage preservationist

About Feng Jicai

born 1942 · 作家 writer

Tianjin writer and painter, once a professional basketball player. His stories of old Tianjin characters, 俗世奇人, are read in Chinese schools, and he led a national drive to record vanishing villages and folk arts.

Characters

Examples

HSK 7-9

冯骥才的《俗世奇人》描写了天津卫的各色人物。

Féng Jìcái de 《 Súshì Qírén 》 miáoxiě le Tiānjīn wèi de gèsè rénwù.

Feng Jicai's Extraordinary People in Our Ordinary World depicts the various characters of old Tianjin.

HSK 7-9

冯骥才多年来致力于保护中国民间文化遗产。

Féng Jìcái duō nián lái zhìlìyú bǎohù Zhōngguó mínjiān wénhuà yíchǎn.

Feng Jicai has devoted many years to protecting China's folk cultural heritage.

Tips

culture

His story 《刷子李》, a fifth-grade textbook lesson, is about a Tianjin plasterer who paints walls in black clothes and never gets a speck of white on them. The title follows the old Tianjin way of naming a craftsman by trade plus surname, 'Brush Li', like 泥人张, 'Clay-figure Zhang'.

Stroke Order

冯 Féng

骥 jì

才 cái

冯骥才