Cheering for the Winter Olympics The 78-year-old man in Langfang, Hebei Province, hand-painted a 15-meter-long scroll "Descendants of the Dragon"

Source: China News Network

Langfang, January 13 (Song Mintao, Cao Mingming) On the 13th, in a studio of less than 5 square meters, Wang Jingtang, 78 years old, was busy finishing a long scroll. He held the reading glasses in one hand, held the pen in the other, and the pen fell in his hand, and one image with national characteristics jumped on the paper. This long scroll, painted by Wang Jingtang specifically to bless the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, is about 15 meters long.

Wang Jingtang's hometown is in Luotuzhuang Three Villages, Tunhetou Township, Anci District, Langfang City, Hebei Province, and currently lives with his son in Qinhuangdao. In recent years, due to physical reasons, he can't often return to his hometown, but his heart is always worried about the land that gave birth to him and raised him. "I often pay attention to the situation in my hometown through my mobile phone, and at the same time, I feel the rapid changes in my hometown, and I have always hoped to do something meaningful for my hometown."

With the encouragement and support of his son, Wang Jingtang began to try to record his hometown with a paintbrush. In order to improve his painting skills, he specially bought books and picture books, and also went to the university of the elderly to sign up for drawing.

The picture shows Wang Jingtang displaying the long-scroll work "Descendants of the Dragon" (partial). Photo by Wang Jiaqi

While learning and painting, which lasted more than 3 years, Wang Jingtang painted a 100-meter-long volume "Seventy Years of Rural Dreams", reflecting the development and changes of rural production and life. Subsequently, he successively painted long volumes such as "Old Anci Folk Customs and Customs", "Traditional Folk Flower Society", and "Seventy Years of Great Deeds". In 2019, Wang Jingtang donated these long scrolls to the Anci District Library in Langfang City.

On the eve of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Wang Jingtang repeatedly conceived and consulted the materials on the Internet to determine the theme of 56 ethnic groups dancing together to bless the Winter Olympics, named "The Descendants of the Dragon". He first searched through his mobile phone to understand the characteristic costumes and dances of 56 ethnic groups, then drew outlines on rice paper with a pencil, and finally used a brush to outline and shape. The background of the painting was also determined after careful consideration, including the Great Wall, China's Heavenly Eye, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, etc., as well as the motherland's great rivers and mountains and the Winter Olympic mascot "Ice Pier" and "Snow Rongrong". ”

"Sometimes the proportions are uneven or the movements are not vivid, so you have to paint again." In the more than 6 months of drawing the long scroll, Wang Jingtang had to draw in the studio for three or four hours every day. Now that the long scroll has been drawn, the Dai, the Water, the Mountain... 56 ethnic compatriots wore characteristic costumes and sang and danced to bless the Winter Olympics. Wang Jingtang said: "The Beijing Winter Olympics is a worldwide sports event and the pride of the people of the whole country, and I must draw it with a paintbrush to cheer for the Winter Olympics!" (End)