Zhang Qingheng, a post-90s boy in Nanjing, began to learn sand painting on his own in 2012 and created more than 20 sand painting works in 9 years. On December 16, he spent five days to complete the Beijing Winter Olympics sand painting "Burning Love Winter Olympics, The Covenant of Ice and Snow", showing short track speed skating, figure skating and other sports in the sand painting. Zhang Qingheng told the Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter that his favorite sport is figure skating, "dancing on ice is so beautiful, it looks like a painting."
Sand painting "Burning Love Winter Olympics, Covenant of Ice and Snow"
13 years later, the Olympic flame embraced Beijing again, Zhang Qingheng felt very proud and honored, and also looked forward to this "wonderful, extraordinary, excellent" Winter Olympics, "although I can't go to Beijing to watch the game, I also hope to do my best to promote the wonderful sports of the Winter Olympics and let more people fall in love with ice and snow sports." ”
According to Zhang Qingheng, the inspiration for this sand painting work comes from the Beijing Winter Olympics theme slogan promotion song MV "Together to the Future". When he saw this MV, he was very happy and excited, and he had the original idea of creating sand paintings for the Winter Olympics.
It is reported that Zhang Qingheng spent 5 days to complete the sand painting "Burning Love Winter Olympics, Ice and Snow Covenant", a total of 9 pictures. In the process of creation, he encountered one of the biggest problems, because he was not familiar with the competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics, so he watched a lot of videos and documentaries about the Winter Olympics in advance, and finally completed this sand painting on December 16.
Draft of the sand painting "Burning Love Winter Olympics, Covenant of Ice and Snow"
The Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter saw that Zhang Qingheng showed various ice and snow sports such as short track speed skating and figure skating in his sand painting works. Among them, Zhang Qingheng's favorite sport is figure skating, "dancing on ice is so beautiful, it looks like a painting.".
Born in 1992, Zhang Qingheng is currently a railway employee at The Nanjing East Railway Station of Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd., and has been teaching himself sand painting since 2012 and has created more than 20 sand painting works in nine years.
Zhang Qingheng
The Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter learned that these works not only tell the railway people who stuck to their posts during the Spring Festival and could not go home for the New Year, but also the works that called on everyone not to return home during the Spring Festival last year. Among them, the sand painting work "Hello, New Era" also won the "Hello, New Era" of The Central Radio and Television Corporation. Second prize of "Best Creative Award" of "Youth Creative Micro Video Competition".
In August this year, the Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News held a "Tribute to this City!" Nanjing boy used sand paintings to record the epidemic: every detail is touching", reporting that he expressed his admiration for the angels in white and the community epidemic prevention volunteers through the sand painting "Perseverance".
Zhang Qingheng said that in the next time, he will continue to create a series of sand painting videos for the Beijing Winter Olympics, "I will integrate traditional Chinese culture into a series of sand paintings of the Winter Olympics, such as the zodiac signs and ancient historical figures, etc., to combine traditional Chinese culture with winter Olympic culture, so that more people will feel proud." ”
Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News trainee reporter Yan Chunxu
Proofread by Xu Heng
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