On October 19, 2024, the "Rationality of Growth - China Watermark Woodcut Youth Program · 2024 Annual Exhibition" officially opened at the Asia Art Center. This exhibition is the fourth edition of the "China Watermark Woodcut Youth Program" ten-year plan. Curator Zhang Xinying approached the contemporary context and ecological perspective of watercolor plate painting creation, selecting ten artists Chen Maoshan, He Chenhao, Huang Siyan, Lu Limei, Liu Xiaoxin, Wang Ling, Wei Quan, Wu Yi, Wang Yining, and Zhu Kecheng to exhibit a total of more than 80 watermark woodcut works. The "China Watermark Woodcut Youth Program" is a public welfare project initiated by Professor and Artist Chen Qi from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, with the support of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Education Development Foundation and in collaboration with the Asian Art Center. The project was first launched at the end of 2019 and has held three group exhibitions in 2021, 2022, and 2023. This ten-year exhibition project will fund 100 young artists in the field of watermark woodcut, and plans to carry out a series of academic activities including organizing watermark woodcut printmaking exhibitions, academic seminars, editing yearbooks and literature databases

Senior printmaking art researcher and curator Zhang Xinying divided the exhibition into four sections using "Ten Bamboo Studio", "Freud", "Guo Xi", and "Heidegger" as spiritual indexes. She used these cultural or theoretical forms that have had a profound impact on contemporary watermark woodcut creation as samples to metaphorically and summarize the multidimensional state of current youth watermark woodcut creation. She believes that contemporary watermark prints are endogenous to the genes of traditional Chinese culture and externalized by the widespread influence of various Western modern philosophical trends, thus becoming the darling of cultural Orientalism interpretation in the contemporary context. Printmakers either