This painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by Asia Art Center, Taipei.

"Assiduous Peasant in Early Spring" describes an ordinary peasant living in the Daba Mountainous area of Sichuan, and snatches a detailed image in the peasant's daily life during the farming season in spring. The painting is mainly toned with green, and shows a special light effect, which is obtained by direct shaping with a complete color range. The vivid and flexible style of painting displays human being's primitive vitality, pure and simple feelings, and the strong and traditional flavor of rural areas.

Luo Zhongli used to live in the Daba Mountainous area as a peasant. He saw and felt Chinese peasants' burdens and endurance of tribulation and hardships, of harvest and assiduous labors, and of life and destiny. Luo Zhongli thus absorbed artistic nutrition from this original life, and started to paint the seldom known life style of the peasants. Among China's contemporary oil paintings, Luo Zhongli's artworks are special because peasants are always the subjects he expresses and reflects. Luo is therefore regarded as a figure representing the "rural expressionistic" group of China's contemporary art of oil painting. Through massive and plain style and strong colors, Luo Zhongli expresses his deep feelings such as sincere concern for indigenous culture, profound care for the destiny of peasants of the time, and realistic thought about peasant culture which is actually the root of Chinese culture. Luo Zhongli said: "I will never abandon peasants for the whole of my life."