Original title: "Ice Pier" and "Snow Rongrong" Jumped on Paper Shangshi Paper Cut Unveiled at the Beijing Winter Olympics
A pair of scissors, a piece of red paper, flipped and folded, after a few minutes, the vivid "ice pier", "heroic posture of the arena" and "tiger treasure" jumped on the paper... Recently, teachers and students of Shangqiu City's intangible cultural heritage "folk multi-layer paper-cutting" carefully created 4 paper-cut works at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Among them, there are three works that are 7 meters long and 18 centimeters wide, and the works also contain Chinese elements such as the Great Wall and many urban landmarks.
"Welcoming the Winter Olympics"
"Ice piers" and "snow melting" jumped on the paper to present the Beijing Winter Olympic Games
Tuanhua is one of the oldest and most traditional layout formats in paper-cutting, folding diagonally for two, three, four, and five times, and can cut out several evenly sided figures. The overall shape is mostly round, symbolizing reunion and beauty, and is deeply loved by everyone.
"We are very honored to have the opportunity to successfully complete this paper-cut work and be sent to Beijing as a national gift to appear at the Beijing Winter Olympics." Jia Yanmei, instructor of the multi-storey paper-cutting studio of the School of Art and Design of Shangqiu Normal University, said.
"On the one hand, the design of the Olympic team flower shows the Olympic style and the spirit of taking responsibility as a big country, and at the same time reflects the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese culture." The studio extracted auspicious motifs such as the Emblem of the Winter Olympic Games, the Ice Pier, the Snow Rongrong, the Winter Olympic Project, the Heroic Posture of the Arena, and the Year of the Tiger as the creative elements. Jia Yanmei introduced that after a week of careful design and repeated revision, ten students created 7 Winter Olympic group flowers and 2 winter Paralympic group flowers.
"The design of the Olympic team flowers this time not only shows the traditional paper-cutting skills, but also makes the students feel the strength of China and the pride of being a Chinese." We wish the Olympic athletes the style, level and achievements, and hope that the students in the studio will have the courage to make breakthroughs, dare to innovate, and continue to work hard. Teacher Bai Yu said.
"Winter Olympic Tiger Lotus Shengwei"
Many "national ceremonies" have been produced and collected by heads of government of many countries
In fact, this is not the first time they have made a national ceremony. As early as December 2015, the 14th meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the SCO member states was held in Zhengzhou, and Jia Yanmei's teacher and student team was invited to produce a paper-cut portrait of the "National Ceremony", and the work was collected by many heads of government.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, the teachers and students of the paper-cutting studio also specially created 9 long scrolls and more than 30 paper-cut works to participate in the school's "Red Paper-cutting Reflecting the Initial Heart" theme paper-cutting works exhibition, which was unanimously praised by teachers and students.
It is understood that since the school's multi-layer paper-cutting studio was approved as the first batch of Chinese excellent traditional culture inheritance bases in Henan Province in 2019, on the one hand, it has popularized the traditional paper-cutting culture around the construction of the curriculum, on the other hand, strengthened the comprehensive construction of the studio, and strived to build the base into the characteristics and brand of Shangqiu Normal College.
"Dream of Ice and Snow"
"Ba Xian Qi Welcomes the Winter Olympics"
"Proud Snow Frost Celebrating the Winter Olympics"
"Winter Olympic Ice Lotus Plum"
"Guo Se Tianxiang Welcomes Distant Guests"
"Star Tiger Ruyi Winter Olympics"
"Snow Condenses into Flowers"
(Big River Network)
Source: Great River Network