"Do you have an 'ice pier'?" Recently, this sentence has become a greeting for many people to meet. After the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the mascot "ice pier" became the new "top stream", and the old and young were captured by the cute "ice pier", which can be described as a "pier" is difficult to find.
In the past few days, Zhao Jinwei, a 37-year-old folk paper-cutting artist in Funing District, has realized the freedom of "ice pier", and he has made his own paper-cut works "Ice Pier" and "Snow Rongrong", cheering for Olympic athletes in his own way.
On the morning of February 10, Zhao Jinwei showed reporters the paper-cut works he had completed a few days earlier. The "ice piers" and "snow melting" made of large red rice paper are about 13 centimeters high and 14 centimeters wide, and are carefully framed with wooden picture frames. The "ice pier" has large eyes, a rounded face and chin, and a cute posture, and a pattern of five rings on the chest. The partner standing next to it, "Snow Rongrong", is also dressed in red, with a Great Wall pattern on his head, lively and playful.
Zhao Jinwei said that with the opening ceremony and several events on TV, He was particularly excited when he saw the opening ceremony and several events on TV. When he saw the winners each holding a cute "ice pier", he loved it. "The 'ice pier' is particularly hot, I heard that it is very difficult to buy in kind now, and a 'pier' is difficult to find." Since you can't buy it, let's get a paper cutout. ”
Zhao Jinwei, 37, is the representative inheritor of the fourth batch of Funing paper-cutting intangible cultural heritage projects in 2021, a folk paper-cutting artist, and a director of the Civic Artists Association, a member of the Municipal Writers Association, a member of the Funing District Poetry Society and other associations.
As a folk paper-cutting artist, he began to learn paper-cutting in 2016, and also made a special trip to Zhangjiakou Wei County to learn skills with old artists, and through several years of study, his paper-cutting skills have become more and more exquisite. A few days ago, after the idea of making a paper-cut version of the "ice pier", Zhao Jinwei began to draw drawings. Coincidentally, a paper-cutting artist friend of Zhao Jinwei's family in Chicheng County, Hebei Province, drew a drawing for him, and he revised and improved it on this basis.
"Paper-cutting tools have scissors and engraving knives, I choose to use a carving knife, drawing the most time-consuming, carving up fast, in one go." From drawing to finishing the work, Zhao Jinwei only took two or three days. Zhao Jinwei said that after the completion of the "ice pier", he also presented the mascot of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, "Snow Rongrong", in the form of paper cuts, and then framed.
Later, when looking at the paper-cut works, he found a small problem in the details, "There is a small red heart in the palm of the 'ice pier', this is allegorical, and there is no small red heart on the pattern provided by the friend." Zhao Jinwei joined Xiaohongxin again to complete a new version of the paper-cut work.
Knowing that Zhao Jinwei had achieved the freedom of the paper-cut version of the "ice pier", many friends were particularly envious, and they all asked him for "ice pier", "In the past few days, several pairs of 'ice piers' and 'snow melting' have been sent out." Zhao Jinwei said with a smile that he was particularly happy to cheer for the Olympic athletes with the paper cut he was best at.
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Source: Qinhuangdao Evening News