The 66-year-old chongqing man used a needle and a thread to embroider the "Qingming River Map" with a length of about 24 meters and a width of about 0.74 meters.
The Spring Festival is approaching, and the new year is here again. For Jiang Zhongrong, who lives in the South Bank District, the most happy thing for himself is that it took 9 years to finally embroider the "Qingming River Map". A large pocket, 48 different colors of threads, all turned into the exquisite scenery and the smiles of the characters in the work...
After retirement, I bought 48 kinds of threads
"Qingming River Map" was composed by Zhang Zeduan. In the more than 5 meters of the scroll, a large number of various characters, cattle, mules, donkeys and other livestock, as well as various houses, bridges, city towers and other colorful buildings, etc., have high historical and artistic value.
Talking about why he thought of using needle and thread to embroider such a difficult "Qingming River Map", Jiang Zhongrong said that he has always liked the bustling city depicted in the paintings, through the paintings, you can imagine how colorful people's lives were at that time, and you can also guess their state of mind from the expressions of the characters in the paintings.
After retiring, Jiang Zhongrong's spare time to rest increased, and she suddenly had the idea of embroidering a "Qingming River Map".
"I usually like to embroider cross stitch, I thought it was embroidery anyway, it was better to embroider a work that I really liked." In the past, I was busy at work, and I didn't have time or heart, but after I retired, I made up my mind to finish this work. Jiang Zhongrong said that after he made this decision, he began to make preparations. She bought a large pocket of threads, divided into 48 types, and a whole package of needles.
At the beginning of embroidery, looking at the blank cross-stitch fabric, Jiang Zhongrong also hesitated for a moment, feeling that he was trying to accomplish an incredible thing. She didn't know how long she would need to embroider to finish, and even when she first embroidered, she didn't know where to start.
But when she picked up the needle and thread and really took the first step to start embroidery, she felt that everything was really only difficult at the beginning, and once she started, she felt that it was not so difficult.
Completed the work in 9 years
Looking back on 9 years of time, embroidering "Qingming on the River" with needle and thread has brought fun to Jiang Zhongrong, passed some boring time, and even found a new goal for her retirement life. But she had to admit that this was an extremely patient thing, and she had thought about giving up many times in the process of embroidery.
"There are a lot of characters in the Qingming River Map, as well as a large number of animals and plants, in terms of coloring, in order to show the form of the characters, etc., the color levels are very clear, and when I embroider, I can also clearly feel the difficulty." Jiang Zhongrong said that especially in the part of the embroidery bridge where there was a dense crowd standing, he changed the thread while embroidering, and his eyes had to see the flowers.
Whenever jiang zhongrong looked at the 24-meter cloth, he would feel tired, and he always felt that he might not be able to complete it, so he thought about whether to give up. But when he thought that he had embroidered so much, he did not turn back to open the bow, so he gritted his teeth and persevered.
In addition to feeling sorry to give up, there is another reason to support Jiang Zhongrong. When embroidering the "Qingming Upper River Map", Jiang Zhongrong was also extremely meticulous in appreciating the "Qingming Upper River Map", and this masterpiece was really more and more liked the more he looked at it. Those who carried the goods, the shops that opened their doors to do business, seemed to take her back to the Song Dynasty... The more this happened, the more Jiang Zhongrong felt that the sages of the Chinese nation possessed an amazing spirit of craftsmanship.
Jiang Zhongrong told the upstream news reporter that he also hopes to infect the people around him and infect future generations with the spirit of unremitting craftsmanship.
After 9 years of "tempering", the cross-stitch work of "Qingming on the River Map" was finally completed, looking at the grass and trees on the work, one person and one scene, one needle and one thread, as if all this was the condensation of 9 years.
But Jiang Zhongrong will not stop, this goal is completed, she will run to the starting point of another goal.
Source: Upstream News