Brewing for more than ten years, it took more than three years, and millions of knives were carved... The news that Ren Zhi, a 66-year-old Zhengding man, needed to create 100 huge paper cuts to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC was spread in Shijiazhuang. Recently, the reporter interviewed Ren Zhiyao, he said that this year's batch of paper-cutting will be publicly exhibited, and he also has a wish: "This is not only my exhibition, nor is it just to show my paper-cut works." I hope to take this as an opportunity to invite people from all walks of life to participate and contribute to the promotion of traditional culture and red culture. ”
Climbing a snowy mountain (Ren Zhi needs to cut paper).
Promoting red culture with paper-cutting is the most grounded and close to the people
Ren Zhizhi was born in 1956 in Zhengding, a thousand years old county. In the eyes of acquaintances, he has a successful career, is a deputy to the 13th People's Congress of Shijiazhuang City, and a model worker in Shijiazhuang City. He is also versatile and is a well-known martial artist (the fifth generation of martial arts taijiquan) and a calligrapher.
However, the news that Ren Zhi needed to create a hundred huge paper cuts to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the party still surprised many people, especially after everyone saw the full picture of these paper cuts at the Longchuan Cultural Museum Art Museum in Zhengding County, they couldn't help but marvel: "Shocking! Lifelike! ”
"Red Boats on the South Lake", "Nanchang Uprising", "Flying to Seize Luding Bridge", "Three Major Battles", "Founding Ceremony", "War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea"... These paper cuts take the centenary party history as the main content, each painting is 2.1 meters long and 1.2 meters wide, and after the completion of the mounting, it reaches 2.65 meters × 1.45 meters. The 100 paper cuts will be made into nine sets of 900 giant paper cuts, with a total area of nearly 5,000 square meters. All the paper-cut textures add up to 25,000 meters long, symbolizing the great spirit of the Long March. Shocking historical events, magnificent scenes of the times, and the unique "knife and scissor taste" of paper-cutting art shine together, presenting a highly impactful visual effect.
"When did you learn the paper-cutting from your teacher" "How did you think of using paper-cutting to show the history of the Party"... People marvel at the praise and are also curious. It turned out that Ren Zhi, who joined the party in 1989, had an idea very early on, and on the centennial birthday of the party, he wanted to express his inner joy in his own way. During this time, he pondered calligraphy and other forms, and finally thought of the paper-cutting he learned from the elderly in his family when he was young, "That was more than 40 years ago, the family was poor, and every New Year's Festival we cut paper to sell on the market." Don't look at my young age, the window flowers are still quite popular. "Later, as he went to school and worked, his life got better and better, and he never used a carving knife again." Paper-cutting is one of the oldest folk arts in China, the most close to the people, warm and grounded, and it is of special significance to present the party's centennial journey with the well-known paper-cutting art. People can feel the grandeur and fierceness of red culture and the profundity of traditional culture. ”
In 2018, Ren Zhi needed to re-operate the carving knife, and by May 2021, he had completed the paper-cutting creation of the centenary party history in more than 3 years. Some insiders commented that Ren Zhi needed this batch of paper-cuttings to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, which is not only a high-level theme creation, but also a perfect combination of Excellent Traditional Chinese Art and Realistic Themes.
Cross the meadow (Ren Zhi needs to cut paper).
We want to hold a red paper-cut exhibition that everyone can participate in
More than 3 years of dedicated creation, the bitterness of the intervening is unimaginable to outsiders.
Li Chenghui, director of the office of the Art Museum of the Longchuan Literature And Museum in Zhengding County, and others directly attacked Ren Zhiyao's creative process throughout the process, and he listed the following figures for the reporter - Ren Zhizhi did not have holidays, got up at 5 o'clock every day, went to bed around 11 o'clock in the evening, in addition to fixed boxing, eating, etc., he almost all the time was carved in advance of the case, during which he also had to be distracted to deal with work matters. In order to save time, he even quit playing chess, which he has loved for many years; according to the normal paper-cutting speed, 1 second carved 3 knives to calculate, 8 hours a day he will carve nearly 87,000 knives. Each paper-cut work is as short as 3 days to complete, need to carve nearly 300,000 knives, if you encounter a large number of characters, complex lines of the work, it takes 10 days to 15 days, need to carve nearly a million knives; Ren Zhi also specially created a lengthened version of red paper-cutting, for example, he created a 10-meter-long "Chinese Dragon" and a 5-meter-long "Founding Ceremony", etc., because the size is too large, Ren Zhi needs to work on the ground, lying on the ground for several hours a day is commonplace for him; the materials and tools used in hundred paper-cut drawings are also very special. All the paper is selected from the special paper products provided by the southern manufacturers, and there are strict requirements for the color of the paper, the thickness of the paper, the size and material of the paper, etc. The early carving knives were all polished by Ren Zhi himself... These are extremely challenging for young people in their twenties and thirties, not to mention that Ren Zhi needs to be a sixty-year-old.
"I really don't feel tired by carving tens of thousands of knives a day, but I am very comfortable and enjoyable." In Ren Zhiyao's view, it is a sacred cause to use the traditional culture and art of paper-cutting to tell the story of party history and spread the red spirit. "At a time when the Communist Party of China is leading the people to make great strides toward the second century, we need to draw wisdom and strength from the party's glorious century-old history of struggle, and strive to be a positive and upward-looking strivers in the new era." I hope to convey this spirit through paper-cut works, which will be beneficial to future generations and society. I also never felt like I was giving or giving, just doing what a party member should do and can do. ”
Therefore, Ren Zhi needs to make a lot of ideas for the upcoming red paper-cutting exhibition to be held this year, including: collecting excellent calligraphy and paintings and poetry manuscripts on the red theme, and setting up corresponding awards for selection; jointly with relevant units and organizations to hold a thousand-person poetry recitation conference, by the recitation of everyone and folk recitation enthusiasts to recite excellent poetry works, "My paper-cutting is just an introduction, every visitor at the exhibition site can also be a participant, you can write calligraphy on the spot, create poetry, etc., we relive the spirit of the red boat, the spirit of Jinggangshan, The spirit of the Long March, the spirit of Yan'an, the spirit of Xibaipo and other great spirits. ”
In addition, Ren Zhiyao and related units also plan to send 100 paper-cut works together with supporting poetry and calligraphy works to the old revolutionary areas to add red education and red tourism content to the people in the old areas, so that people can have a more intuitive feeling and deepen their understanding of the CPC's centennial journey while visiting the old revolutionary areas.
Ren Zhi needs to create paper-cut works.
Build a cultural platform in Zhengding to inherit the red gene
Zhengding is a famous historical and cultural city at home and abroad, attracting people from all over the world to seek ancient exploration here. As a Zhengding person, Ren Zhiyi has always had a long-cherished wish to build a cultural platform in his hometown and "build Zhengding into a highland for promoting red culture and traditional culture." In the future, people will not only visit the ancient world but also explore the present, feel the red culture, and inherit the red gene. ”
In Ren Zhiyao's view, he is the beneficiary of traditional culture and red culture. His hometown Zhengding, a hot land with a long history, soaked and nourished his spirit, and his persistent martial arts training and calligraphy made him deeply influenced by traditional culture, even after more than 40 years, he once again picked up a carving knife to create paper-cutting. As a veteran party member, he deeply realized that history and the people chose the Cpc because the CPC always adhered to its original mission and mission, and the spirit of the Chinese nation's unremitting struggle always shone in the communists. The more critical the moment, the more we must look for rich mirrors from the revolutionary history and draw deep nourishment from the red culture'. For many years, I have been pondering a question - how to build a broad platform based on excellent traditional culture and led by red culture? How can more people get involved? ”
To this end, Ren Zhi needs to create red paper-cuts while also creating and investing in the construction of the Red Culture Museum of Zhengding Long ChuanWen Academy. According to his vision, after the completion of the Red Culture Museum, in addition to collecting his hundred-year-old huge paper-cut works and national poetry calligraphy manuscripts, it will also collect paper-cut works, poetry works, calligraphy works and other folk works related to red culture from the whole country, integrating more and richer red resources together to spread and promote red culture from multiple angles. In the future, the museum will not only be used as a visiting experience, but also will hold a red tourism festival and various activities of red culture, combined with the thousand-year history and culture of Zhengding Ancient City, and make the Red Culture Museum another business card of Zhengding, which will be promoted to the whole country and the world. "In addition to museums, a series of derivatives and industries related to red culture can also be developed, such as red animation, film and television, clothing, school bags, pen boxes, and puzzles." Ren Zhi needs to say.
"The times call for responsibility, and now I have the ability and strength to promote red culture and continue the red gene, if I don't do it, it will be the biggest waste." Ren Zhi needs to say that he believes in a sentence: a person has done what should be done, the force should be out, success is in it, and happiness is also in it.
Wen YanZhao Evening News Rong media reporter Huang Ying
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