Beijing, 29 Dec (Xinhua) -- The blue sky is like a wash, and the Chinese Pavilion in Beijing's Shiyuan Park is full of joy and laughter.
On the 29th, the Beijing Winter Olympics Tinder Display Event came to Yanqing, and was held in conjunction with the graduation ceremony of the third phase of the "Winter Olympics with Her, Blooming the Future - Female Small and Micro Entrepreneurs Training Project". A group of smiling Yanqing sisters in the venue happily introduced their handicraft works to everyone.
"The Winter Olympics have her bloom the future" excellent student works booth
Xin Jinping, a horticultural teacher at the Yanqing District Adult Education Center, stood by the booth and enthusiastically introduced her botanical paintings to reporters. In front of her is a painting depicting alpine skiing, with brown-gray leaves making mountains and red and orange leaves making figures, and the steepness of the mountains and the speed of skiing come to life. "Because alpine skiing is a winter Olympic project in Yanqing, this project is in the high mountains, very steep, and our athletes are not afraid of hardships, not afraid of the cold, hard work, I think this is the spirit we should learn."
Xin Jinping's botanical paintings based on the theme of alpine skiing
Xin Jinping is even more proud of another depiction of the Great Wall, which she won the gold medal in the handicraft innovation competition organized by Yanqing District. On the screen, the pale yellow Great Wall winds among the mountains decorated with orange-red leaves, stretching out towards the skyline on the steep ridge.
The work took more than a year. After the success of the winter olympics, Xin Jinping began to look for creative inspiration with the encouragement of her colleagues, but "it was really not formed when it was first done", and the work that was done for a week was temporarily abandoned. For a year, Xin Jinping occasionally thought of this unfinished "Great Wall Map", and a year later she took out this work again and finally achieved a breakthrough. "In fact, with this composition, you may be able to complete it in a week or three or five days, but if it is really a work that makes you feel that you can get your hands on it, it often has to be polished, modified, modified, and modified."
Some of The Botanical Paintings by Xin Jinping
From the beginning of her exposure to plant painting in college to becoming a teacher, Xin Jinping's passion for plant painting has remained for more than 20 years, and there are tens of thousands of students who have been trained and guided by her. As a resident of Yanqing who came to the scene of the Beijing Winter Olympics tinder display, Xin Jinping not only brought exquisite works, but also brought expectations for the Winter Olympics.
"When the fire comes to Yanqing, our hearts are as excited as 'on fire', and the closer it is, the more excited we are, and we can't wait for it (the Winter Olympics)." She said, "I feel that the changes in Yanqing are earth-shaking. The original bungalows became high-rise buildings, the streets became particularly regular and tidy, and became a civilized city. People's inner beings are also changing, everyone's civilized and conscious consciousness is increasing, and the visible and invisible are changing. ”
Among all the exhibits, the thick and cute "ice piers" and "snow melting" beckoned to everyone happily, and next to them were hand-crocheted pillows with the olympic rings as elements. Their author, Zhang Yonghua, is from the Lotus Garden community in Baiquan Street, Yanqing District.
Zhang Yonghua's "Ice Pier" and "Snow Rongrong" crochet works
Zhang Yonghua has been doing crochet weaving for 6 years, and although it is only a side business, it also brings her an annual income of about 50,000 yuan. "We have a handicraft association in the Women's Federation, which provides us with a platform to participate in learning." She said, "As long as it is a handicraft that we have in China, basically we can learn it." There are several big trainings every year, training in various crafts. ”
In addition to handicraft technology training, Zhang Yonghua has also received incubation training for small and micro enterprises. "A set of programs to teach you from scratch, if you have the ability you can do it, if you don't have this ability you can learn." I have my own studio, I often design my own things to exhibit and sell, and there are more than a dozen of them who work with me. ”
Crochet and thread are particularly obedient in Zhang Yonghua's hands, and a three-dimensional mascot image of a work can be completed in only one week, but from design to completion. "For example, this 'snow rongrong', the picture you get is only a plane, but this work is 360 degrees, and you have to calculate a whole three-dimensional (shape) from the plane, and then design the thread and stitching." She pointed to "Xue Rongrong" and said, "For example, this is a short needle, to use a 3 cm line, this is a medium and long needle, to use 5 cm, a long needle to use 7 cm, all have calculations, such as how much material is used, how much filler is inside." ”
Zhang Yonghua's crocheted works
"Originally, we did 'little buddy flowers' and 'little buds' at the World Horticultural Games, and now we do 'ice piers' and 'snow melting' at the Winter Olympics. I think one of the things that shows people is that we have a pair of skillful hands, and all departments are paying attention to our small and micro enterprises, motivating us to work hard to move forward. ”
Gu Haoning, deputy director of the Market Development Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said that equality is one of the most important cultural concepts in the Olympic Games, and gender equality is one of them, and the activities of many enterprises are also carried out according to this concept.
Gu Haoning spoke at the Display of Fire at the Beijing Winter Olympics
"Hosting the Winter Olympics in a big country like China, the attention and participation of female friends is one of the most important signs of success. Such a special public welfare project co-organized by multiple parties focuses on women's groups, and by mobilizing women's participation in the Winter Olympics, it provides more participation and attention to the preparation of the Winter Olympic Games, and can also support women's entrepreneurship. The handicraft works we have just seen are both real and beautiful, and will surely make every foreign (regional) athlete and media reporter who comes to China to participate in the Winter Olympic Games fall in love, which is precisely a very good platform for us to tell the story of China through a Winter Olympics. Gu Haoning said.
"One of the important purposes of hosting the Winter Olympics is to promote the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, improve the economic level, and promote the transformation of the economic structure." The Winter Olympics has its own project, which excavates the high-quality tourism resources and long-standing historical and cultural heritage related to the Winter Olympics and displays them in front of the world. It is a very good support for Yanqing's next step in the development of cultural and sports tourism industry, which can create very rich economic value. ”
Editors: Ding Wenxian, Wu Bowen, Ji Jiadong, Wang Haoyu