People enjoy Max Sanz’s oil paintings in Haicang Culture Center. [Photo / xmnn.cn]

Mexican painter Max Sanz’s oil paintings exhibition, themed “La San de China”, opened on Sept 9 in the Haicang Culture Center, Xiamen, Fujian province. The exhibition, displaying 36 works in oil s and printmaking, will last for a month.

"La Nao de China”, also called Manila Galleon, was a merchant ship from the 16th century to 19th century which sailed from Mexico, passed through China and ended in Manila. Cargos in the ship were mainly contemporarily world-fashionable raw silk and silk from China, so it got the name “La Nao de China”, which means a Chinese ship.

Max Sanz hopes his works, just like La Nao de China, act as a bridge connecting Chinese and Mexican culture, and his exhibition tour around China will be a success.

Chen Zhaoyang, deputy director of the standing committee of Xiamen People’s Congress and Li Weihua, mayor of Haicang district, attended the exhibition’s opening ceremony.