2006年9月，江西省九江市举行隆重的聘请仪式，特聘浙江青年画家岑其为该市文化顾问，九江市市长亲自为岑其颁发了聘书。
　　岑其究竟何许人？一位39岁的浙江画家缘何被邻近省份的城市盛情聘为文化顾问呢？
　　九江为江西省的大城市，市区北依长江，南偎庐山，经济发达，文化底蕴深厚。正如岑其在《画庐山记》一文中所言：“庐山为天下美景、避暑胜地，而最能让我神往的是她所包容的文化，从陶潜到李白、白居易、朱熹、苏东坡，再有朱元璋、唐伯虎等都与庐山结下了不解之缘。他们所留下的诗篇已成为庐山最美丽的风景线，亦是最诱人的名片，称庐山为‘中国第一文化名山’实不为过也。”“九江大地因有长江而具生气，因有鄱阳湖而聚气，因有庐山而终成大气。张大千大师未上庐山终生遗憾，晚年创作《庐山图》而抒心怀。我与九江有缘，与庐山有缘也，挥毫驰墨，摹写庐山风光，付诸同好，共享神奇之美！”这些文字，道出了九江和庐山的文化特征，也道出了岑其本人对于庐山风光的万般倾情。所以说这次九江聘岑其为文化顾问，既是九江选择了岑其，也是岑其多年来倾情庐山和九江的结果。
　　九江选择岑其有它充足的理由：岑其虽然年轻，在全国的书画界尚属小辈，但他始终以自己独特的艺术追求获得了丰硕的创作成果，他在山水、人物、花鸟等中国画领域都有涉猎，并在海内外举办数十次个人画展；他尤喜画“观音”，其观音画以亲切自然、仁慈雅逸的风格驰名中外；他个人藏画颇丰，藏有大量宋元以来的国画精品，所藏的刘海粟作品其数量为全国第一；他绘画鉴赏和鉴定功底扎实，著有古画鉴赏及鉴定著作10余种；他长期坚持诗歌创作，古体诗词和现代诗歌均擅长，出版过10本诗集，为浙江省作协会员，省作协还专为他举办专场诗歌创作研讨会；他热心慈善事业，个人捐献的绘画作品价值达百万元之巨！由于这些业绩，岑其被评为“宁波市第六届十大优秀青年”，“宁波市第七届十大杰出青年”，并荣获“联合国第十七届科技与和平周和平使者”和“2005年度十大中华系列英才”等称号，受到党和国家领导人贾庆林、韩启德、万国权等接见和鼓励。中国社会科学院原副院长、中国东方研究院院长刘吉钦撰写专文，称他为“人才成功的良好范例”。
　　岑其，名淇，字西桥，其画室名为大德堂，又号大德堂主。1968年出生在慈溪市逍林镇桥西村。逍林是座充满灵性的美丽小镇，南临青山，清澈的上林湖紧依着小镇之旁。幼年的岑其对画画极感兴趣，他6岁时用极简单的线条画了一把茶壶，令外公拍手叫绝。读小学时岑其报名参加设在慈溪城里的书法培训班，每晚都骑着自行车来回奔波整整20公里。1983年底，15岁的岑其来到杭州学画长进极快，后经人力荐成为陆抑非先生的入室弟子。
　　岑其在名师的指点下进步快，渐渐明白了中国画的精髓，全身心地投入进去，他一次次琢磨，一点点领悟，一步步精通。他的观音画就是在经年累月的感悟和苦练中日臻完善的。后来，岑其的山水画创作也得到了长足的进步。此外，他又特别倾情于黄山、庐山，长时期地流连于黄山、庐山吟诗作画。岑其在他的《画庐山记二》一文中说：“画庐山，主要画庐山的气韵和精神。庐山将北方的雄浑和南方的秀丽融汇一体，山和水在这里真正的相连，云和树在这里情韵交融。这里的瀑布有神，泉水有源。紫霞烟云、风霜雨雪都从不同的方向以不同的力度镌刻着山体和石壁，大自然的丹青妙手，鬼斧神工地塑就了独特的‘世界文化景观’”。这对于一个视绘画艺术为生命的画家来说，没有比庐山更能让他情动心动了。是的，只有这样的仙山圣地，画家的想象力和创造力才会达到顶峰。
　　
　　自担任了九江市文化顾问后，岑其有相当多的时间是在九江和庐山度过的。迄今他已十余次临九江、八次上庐山挥毫泼墨，在五老峰、含鄱口、三叠泉等处创作了20多幅有关庐山的画。他还利用在北京全国政协礼堂举办慈善画展的机会，向中国青少年发展基金会捐助了20万元售画所得，并计划在江西省援建一所“岑其希望小学”。
　　谈及今后如何为九江的文化事业作出贡献以及如何推介庐山，岑其透露说：目前他投资1000余万元、计870平方米的“九江市中国书画交流中心”即将使用，并计划在交流中心首先举办一次宋元明清名人书画珍藏展，以后他将组织九江的画家去外地参展，还将邀请全国的知名画家到九江参展进行交流，以把九江的书画推向社会、走向市场，为九江的文化建设做些实实在在的事情。在推动九江文化的同时，他将画300幅有关九江及庐山的画，并创作有关庐山的诗作，将通过自己的努力，以诗书画的形式增加九江知名度，让更多的人了解九江、热爱庐山。岑其认定，文化与经济的发展是相辅相成的，文化事业的蓬勃繁荣会有力促进经济的发展。
　　一位成长成熟于浙江大地的青年画家，如今到了外省担任文化顾问，这也是一种深层次的文化交流，岑其以画为媒推介着九江和庐山，也推介着自己和浙江年青一代的艺术家。
　　
　　Artist Advises For Scenic River City
　　By Sun Kan
　　
　　
　　In September, 2006, the 39-year-old Cen Qi, a Zhejiang-based landscape artist, was engaged as a cultural advisor by the government of Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. At an official ceremony, the mayor issued Cen a letter of appointment.
　　The artist and the city come together for good reasons. Jiujiang is a city on the Yangtze River and sits at the foot of the picturesque Mount Lushan. A commanding look from the peaks can reveal the breathtaking beauty of the river and the distant Poyang Lake extending as far as the horizon. Moreover, the mount is steeped in history and closely connected with big names such as poets and emperors. Some people who love Mount Lushan even go so far as to boast that it is the number one mount in the country in terms of beauty and history. Naturally, the gorgeous mount is a favorite destination and attraction for landscape artists all the country around and Cen Qi is one of those fascinated artists who paint a lot of landscape there.
　　Not just fascinated. Cen Qi is an accomplished artist. Though the 39-year-old probablycounts as one of the young artists in the country, he has successfully held dozens of sole exhibitions at home and abroad. What is more, Cen is a well known collector of Chinese paintings, including some ancient masterpieces of the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) Dynasties. He has authored a dozen of books on appreciating and authenticating ancient paintings. As a poet, he has published 10 collections of poems. And he has donated paintings worth more than a million yuan to various charity programs.
　　Cen Qi comes form Cixi, Ningbo in eastern China's Zhejiang Province. He started learning how to paint at an early age. He came to Hangzhou for further studies at the age of 15. He studied under the tutelage of Lu Yifei, a master of Chinese painting.
　　
　　Mount Lushan is one of his favorite destinations for landscape painting. In an essay about his painting tours in the mount, he comments, “The best way to depict the mount is to highlight its verve and essence. The mount is a perfect combination of the magnificence of the north and the grace of the south. Mountains and waters meet here; clouds and trees merge; waterfalls are magic and you see the sources of streams flowing away; the elements of the nature reveal different perspectives of the mount, making it a world-class cultural landscape.”Since he became a cultural advisor to the city, Cen Qi has spent a lot of time there and taken eight painting trips to the mount. He has donated over 200,000 in cash, proceeds of his painting sales in Beijing, to the Chinese Development Foundation for Youth and he plans to raise money to build a Hope Primary School named after himself.
　　As for plans for further promoting the cultural undertakings of Jiujiang, Cen reveals that he has invested 10 million yuan into an exchange center for Chinese painting and calligraphy in the riverside city. The 870-square-meter center will soon be staging an exhibition displaying rare ancient masterpieces from private collections. And he will organize a trip for local artists of Jiujiang to travel to other parts of the country and invite art masters to Jiujiang for further exchange activities. Meanwhile, he has an ambitious plan to create 300 paintings about the Mount Lushan and Jiujiang and compose some poems in the hope of promoting the city across the country.
　　That a Zhejiang-based young artist is now engaged as a cultural advisor for Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province is another sort of cultural exchange at a higher level. His paintings not only promote Jiujiang and Mount Lushan, but also promote the new generation of artists like himself.
　　(Translated by David)