"Winter and summer come and go, winter and spring come and go, and every city has its own scenery at four seasons. What unique beauty will it be if the reincarnation of the four seasons falls into the eyes of artists?"? On March 31, the "Have Spring - 2022-2023 Four Seasons Theme Illustration Exhibition" hosted by the Shanghai Library was opened to the public in the East Hall of the Shanghai Library, where "Have Spring" sprouted and grew like a seed. Spring - 2022-2023 Four Seasons Theme Illustration Exhibition. In March 2022, the Shanghai Library organized more than 30 illustrators to create around their own lives and reading for a one-year period, with the theme of "Four Seasons of Reading", and recorded the four seasons around them through illustrations. After all the fluster and joy, depression and joy of the year, "Have Spring" finally landed in March this year as a thriving physical exhibition. Curator Gao Xiuqin told China News Online that most of these illustrators are "post 90s". Due to continuous creation, some illustrators' works have become more mature in style, hoping to bring the audience a sense of "growth" through such an exhibition full of four seasons. Spring - 2022-2023 Four Seasons Theme Illustration Exhibition. Yang Shan, the "Post 95" artist from the Shanghai Library, is an art creator living in Shanghai. Her works "Garden Quartet" and "Guests from the Dense Forest" are also on display here, incorporating mysterious elements such as her favorite tarot cards and the moon into her creations. The protagonist in "The Garden Quartet" is a kitten with three eyes. When it opens its third eye, which represents perceptual power, it can see many strange scenes such as singing sunflowers in the garden. Taking this as the starting point, Yang Shan continued to create "Guests from the Dense Forest", which depicts a series of mysterious creatures such as a 5-legged fox, a unicorn surrounded by flowers, and the theme of "The Kingdom of the Moon". She said, "My works are growth oriented, reflecting my own growth in this year." The Shanghai Library collects rare books. In addition to more than one hundred creative works on the Four Seasons theme, the exhibition also simultaneously displays the rare foreign language ancient books collected by the Shanghai Library, such as Flora of China, Atlas of Chinese and Indian Plants, and Natural History of Chinese Insects. The exquisite illustrations not only contain the spirit of scientific inquiry, but also record the daily familiar animals and plants with either crude or subtle depiction techniques. At the same time, the Shanghai Library has invited illustration artists from 14 different cities around the world to share their four seasons with the audience in the form of works. "Books and books, there are pictures and books, and the combination of illustrations and books can be said to be inseparable. The exhibition of illustrations in the library is quite suitable for the occasion." Chen Chao, curator of the Shanghai Library, said that the exhibition above has a more "reading attribute" than the exhibitions in other venues. In addition to appreciating these excellent illustrations in the exhibition hall, viewers can also browse the special "Have Spring" theme reading area in the above library, I hope to enable readers to experience beauty and spring in an immersive reading space. (Liao Xinshe)