On the morning of February 8, with the astonishing leap of everyone's attention, Gu Ailing won the third gold medal for China in this Winter Olympic Games. In the afternoon, Liu Heqin of Gaobeidian City used the traditional paper-cutting art to reproduce the confident and sunny smile of this "genius girl" after winning the championship.
Liu Heqin, 52, the inheritor of Gaobeidian's intangible cultural heritage, the art of paper-cutting, fell in love with this traditional Chinese culture when she was influenced by the family atmosphere and learned paper-cutting with her grandmother and grandmother. Later, when she came into contact with the computer, she began to conceive her own paper-cut shapes, and whenever she saw her favorite pattern, she could design and cut it.
When the Beijing Winter Olympics were still in the preparatory stage, Liu and Qin pondered how to show the Olympic spirit through paper cutting. By chance, she saw the ink Chinese painting "Jiangshan WanliTu", and immediately became inspired, "Aren't many ice and snow sports carried out on the high mountains?" I want to integrate the Winter Olympics into the great rivers and mountains of the motherland! ”
In November 2021, a 5-meter-long paper-cut book of the Beijing Winter Olympics was released, and at the top of the mountains, 24 Winter Olympic events were like a rainbow, and the "ice piers" and "snow rongrong" led everyone to "go to the future together".
For Liu heqin, this work is not yet complete, and the moment when chinese Winter Olympic athletes win gold is a more dazzling chapter.
On February 4, the Beijing Winter Olympic Games officially opened, and Liu and Qin paid attention to the progress of the game all the time. From the short track speed skating mixed team relay to win the first gold, to Ren Ziwei won the short track speed skating men's 1000 meters championship, and then to the freestyle ski women's big jump "Ling" air to win the championship, she always looked for the most impactful pictures on the Internet at the first time, and then matched with the Olympic five rings, the Winter Olympic logo and text introduction, made into a wonderful, rich and warm paper-cut work.
"Each work is the size of A4 paper, which takes about 4 hours, the design takes 2 to 3 hours, and the paper cut takes 1 hour." Liu he and Qin said that he will continue to pay attention to the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Chinese Winter Olympic athletes, and freeze their majestic victory in the paper-cutting, and jointly form a complete paper-cut book of the Beijing Winter Olympics as a precious collection of ice and snow events.
Over the years, Liu Heqin regards paper-cut works as treasures and carefully collects them into volumes, and now there are more than 500 works in 6 volumes, including the traditional themes of "Hundred Rats and Spring Figures" and "Five Bulls", as well as modern themes of "Red Classics", "The Most Beautiful Retrograde Pedestrian", "All People Fighting the Epidemic" and other works. During last year's Tokyo Olympics, she also made paper cuts for Chinese Olympic athletes.
In these works, Liu Heqin poured the most effort into it, and cherished it the most, and what she recorded with the art of paper-cutting was the great development process of the Communist Party of China.
This series of paper-cut works in party history took three years to complete, and she spent two years collecting materials and another year completing paper-cutting. The 80-meter-long scroll contains a total of 21 historical nodes, 9 long scrolls and 121 characters from the departure of the red ship to the motherland. "Through paper cutting, we relived the far-reaching significance of the centenary of the founding of the party, and it was a rare study and education in party history."
At the Third Baoding Characteristic Cultural Products Expo, Liu Heqin brought this set of party history series paper-cut works to the scene, which immediately attracted a large number of citizens to visit, drawing strength and inspiring people.
In 2021, Gaobeidian paper-cutting was selected as the seventh batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Baoding. Liu and Qin began to think more, how can the ancient and simple traditional paper-cutting be better inherited at the moment?
With the strong support of gaobeidian municipal cultural and tourism bureau and cultural center, Beiku Town set up a studio for Liu heqin. Every day, she volunteered to teach children paper-cutting at the "Winter Olympic Free School".
Liu and Qin's home is not far from the town of Beiku, and she is used to walking on weekdays, about 20 minutes away. Since the Spring Festival, riding an electric car has become her daily routine.
"Teacher Liu, we have all arrived, when are you coming?" It turned out that the children came here early every day to wait for Liu and Qin. "Hearing the children's calls, my heart melted and I just wanted to see them quickly."
A piece of red paper, a pair of scissors, a pair of skillful hands, so that Liu and Qin gained a lot of "small fans". As long as she picked up the scissors and paper, the children immediately quieted down, and looked at it with good eyes, how did an ordinary piece of red paper come out of so many tricks in Teacher Liu's light dancing hand?
"All that is taught to children is a pattern that can appear with a few scissors, and it can be completed in half an hour at most." They are very serious and both learn quickly. "Liu and Qin integrated the Elements of the Winter Olympics into the paper-cutting, and one by one the Winter Olympic projects emerged in the dexterous little hands, and the children all showed their surprised eyes." If you are interested and like to learn, traditional culture can be inherited. At the same time, let them feel the Olympic spirit more deeply and cheer for the Winter Olympic athletes! ”
Editor: Zhang Tianyu
Reporter: Zhao Lin
Video: Gaobeidian Rong Media Center, Wang Juan, Liu Ziye
Editor: Zhao Lin Meng took advantage of the scene
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