《东方艺术·大家》:您1956年考入浙江美术学院(现中国美术学院)油画系,在此之前曾经受过业余绘画训练,当时都画些什么?谈谈当时学画的情况。蔡吉民:从家庭原因来讲,我父亲在抗日战争爆发以前曾经是制版工人,后来他到上海大众书店、儿童书局、新亚书店等画教科书、插图和挂图,业余向张眉生、张充仁、陈秋超等著名水彩画家研习水彩画,后来抗日战争爆发,父亲经常失业,生活穷困潦倒。我从小喜欢画画,但父亲认为画画会耽误我的前程,没有教我,因为画画的人穷啊。解放后我参加了工作,由于兴趣 “Oriental Art · Everyone”: You were admitted to the Department of Oil Painting at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) in 1956 and trained in amateur painting before. What did you draw at that time? Cai Ji Min: For family reasons, my father was a platemaker before the Anti-Japanese War. Later he went to the Shanghai Public Book Store, Children’s Bookstore and New Asia Bookstore to draw textbooks, illustrations and flipcharts. His amateur was famous for Zhang Meisheng, Zhang Chongren and Chen Qiuchao Watercolor painter studied watercolor, and later the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, his father often unemployed, life impoverished. I like to draw from an early age, but my father thought that drawing would delay my career and did not teach me because the people who painted were poor. After liberation I joined the work, due to interest