韦艺和1965年7月20日凌展出生于安徽和县。生长在长江边上的韦艺和,自幼喜欢写字画画。幼儿园毕老师见他用铅笔画的飞机、大炮和军舰,不用尺子拉出的线条就很直,说这孩子是个画画的料,就让爱人沈鲁(版画家)来教韦艺和学画。当时,韦艺和家共有7口人,全靠父亲的50来块钱过生活。没钱买书看,他就和哥哥在放学后去捡破烂,捡些碎玻璃、旧瓶子、碎布头来卖钱。把钱攒多了,他就去县新华书店买连环画来临摹。一本临摹完了,就又去捡破烂;有时还在中午跑到县汽车站把自己的连环画租给人看,看一本1分钱,钱攒多了,再去买连环画。在小学五年间,韦艺和购买和临摹的连环画,至少也在百本以上。其中有《小兵张嘎》、《霓虹灯下的哨兵》、《雷锋》、《焦裕禄》、《黄继光》、《董存瑞》等。后来这些书全送给县城里一个摆书摊的五保户老人了。1977年,韦艺和小学毕业时,从电视上看到,北京电 Wei Yi and July 20, 1965 Ling Zhan was born in Anhui and county. Wei Yihe, who grew up on the edge of the Yangtze River, loved to write and draw pictures. Kindergarten graduates see his pencil drawings of aircraft, artillery and warships, without ruler pull the lines straight, saying that the child is a painting material, let the lover Shenlu (printmaker) to teach Wei art and learn to draw. At that time, Wei Yi and his family a total of seven people, thanks to his father’s 50 dollars to live a living. No money to buy a book to see, he and his brother to go after picking up scum, pick up some broken glass, old bottles, rags head to sell for money. To save more money, he went to the county Xinhua Bookstore to buy comic books to copy. A copy of the finished, they went to pick up junk; and sometimes ran to the county bus station at noon rented his comic strip to see, read a penny, save more money, go buy comics. In the first five years of his primary school, Wei Yi and the comic books purchased and copied were at least 100 or more. Among them are Zhang Xia of the Xiaobing, Sentinel under the Neon Light, Lei Feng, Jiao Yulu, Huang Jiguang and Dong Cunrui. Later, these books were all sent to the county seat in a Peibu households. In 1977, Wei Yi and primary school, seen on television, Beijing Electric