Drunken Beauty Toasts To Fame

The work was presented as a gift to Filip Vujanovic, president of the Republic of Montenegro when he visited the Shanghai Expo in May.

BEIJING, Sep. 10 (Xinhuanet) --Hong Kong newspapers like Takungpao and Mingpao have acclaimed Drunken Beauty as one of the most famous paintings in China, but the work has already become a household name on the Chinese mainland.

As the most celebrated works of Liu Linghua, Chinese oil master, Drunken Beauty and its stories enjoyed a wide readership in special weekly issues of China Daily during the 2010 Expo.

Every week an anecdote about the painting in the official English-language newspaper for the Shanghai Expo have resulted in 25 stories that reached millions of Expo visitors.

With more than 200 countries and regions taking part in Shanghai Expo, Drunken Beauty has been honored by use on authorized Expo postcards brought home by millions of people.

The painting is not only a way for foreign visitors to learn about Chinese culture, but also an ideal route for the general public to get closer to the refined artwork, the only oil painting on Chinese opera to be put on postcards.

The painting also had an exclusive column in the Shanghai Daily during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Prior to the Olympic games, Drunken Beauty appeared as an ambassador of Chinese culture during the 180-day countdown to the Games as more than 50 million newspapers spread the charm of the painting.

The executive committee of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games presents an embroidery piece of Liu Linghua's oil painting Drunken Beauty to the director-general of the Game's opening ceremony Don Mischer.

The embroidery piece of Liu Linghua's oil painting Drunken Beauty is presented as a gift to singer Placido Domingo at a Shanghai concert last year.

A foreign philanthropist (second from left) bought the embroidery work for 50,000 yuan, which was donated to Wenchuan quake victims. He later donated the work itself to the Shanghai Charity Foundation. The foundation's Director-General Chen Tiedi (right) received the painting.

The embroidery of the work was presented as a gift to singer Celine Dion when she held a concert in Shanghai in 2008.

The executive committee of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games presents the embroidery to Timothy Shriver, chairman of the Games.

Wang Jiamu (left), general manager of the Shanghai Chinese Quintessence Art Co Ltd presents the embroidery to Xin Lancheng, deputy secretary of the Organizing Committee for the Beijing Olympic Games.

The oil painting Drunken Beauty has been honored by use on authorized Expo postcards.

Honorary chairman of Chinese Kuomintang Party, Lien Chan (second from right), received a Drunken Beauty embroidery as a present when the painting displayed at the Dr Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taiwan in February. Present at the occasion were Liang Guoyang (second from left), group leader of the Taiwan NPC team and chairman of the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots, painter Liu Linghua (left) and Wang Jiamu, general manager of Shanghai Chinese Quintessence Art Co Ltd.

Kuomintang Honorary Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (second from right) views the oil painting Drunken Beauty at Dr Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall when it was displayed in Taiwan.

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