In April, Fayuan Temple is full of spring and lilacs are in full bloom. The 10th Lilac Pen Festival, with the theme of "Lilac Full of Spring Colors, Ink Runs and Harmony", recently kicked off in the poetic atmosphere of a thousand year old temple. Fayuan Temple, located in Xicheng District, Beijing, is the birthplace of the "Lilac Poetry Society" and has been a gathering place for literati and scholars since the Qing Dynasty. At that time, famous figures such as Ji Xiaolan, Gu Yanwu, Gong Zizhen, Lin Zexu, and the renowned Xuannan Poetry Society all left their footprints and poems here. As an important part of the 2025 Centennial Lilac Poetry Festival series cultural activities of "Poetry Inheriting the Past and Present, Elegant Gathering and Promoting the South", this edition of the Pen Club will place the creative scene between the ancient temple meditation room and the lilac flower sea. At the event, more than 30 famous calligraphers and painters, including Bi Mingliang, Xiao Wenbin, Ji Danian, Cheng Maoyu, and community calligraphy and painting enthusiasts, worked together to create dozens of calligraphy and painting works with the themes of "Spring and Scenery", "Lilac", and "Harmony". They included both magnificent masterpieces and timeless and fresh sketches. The cornice arch of wooden architecture looms between lilacs and snow waves, which explains the profound meaning of the activity, which integrates tradition and modernity, professional and folk. The flowing ink on the rice paper not only embodies the warmth of the neighbors who "meet friends through art", but also allows the millennium cultural heritage to thrive in the bustling streets and alleys. The century old brand "Yidege" specially created "Fayuan Sanskrit Ink" with a faint fragrance of lilac flowers for this event. When calligraphers write "harmony and coexistence" with their strokes, a faint fragrance spreads along with the ink, attracting admiration from onlookers. This is leaving the spring of Niujie on rice paper Community residents said. Following the master to learn calligraphy in the millennium old temple feels like touching the cultural warmth left behind by Lin Zexu and Gong Zizhen Citizens who come here for fame not only feel the charm of calligraphy and painting art, but also remember to communicate and interact with calligraphy and painting artists on site, continuing to write the warmth of neighbors in poetry and ink fragrance. We deliberately chose to hold a pen festival during the season when lilacs are in full bloom, in order to revitalize traditional culture through living inheritance Li Lijing, Secretary of the Niujie Street Working Committee in Xicheng District, said. The Dingxiang Pen Club uses pens to meet friends and ink to convey emotions, which is not only an inheritance of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting culture, but also a vivid embodiment of the "Poetry and Calligraphy West City" series of cultural activities. As dusk deepens, the wind chimes at the corners of the ancient temple's eaves resonate with the sound of calligraphy by the inkstone. The artist's brushwork and ink splashing have added artistic elegance to the ancient temple, while also lighting up the cultural life of the masses. The hundreds of calligraphy and painting works that leap onto the paper are the contemporary narrative of the Xuannan cultural context, blooming with vigorous vitality. (New Society)