Jimu news reporter Li Qing
Correspondent Zhong Lifang
On the morning of February 8, When Chinese player Gu Ailing had just won the gold medal in the women's freestyle ski jump at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Wang Jingzhang excitedly ran into the study, found rice paper with the words freestyle skiing written on it, and wrote down Gu Ailing's achievements neatly on the paper with a brush on his mobile phone. Lately, watching the Winter Olympics every day, creating poetry and calligraphy has become the 79-year-old's most enjoyable thing.
In the Tea Harbor Community of Guoguohu Street in Wuchang District, Wang Jingzhang is a famous "calligraphy grandfather". Just after retiring in 2008, he created 273 calligraphy works related to the Beijing Summer Olympic Games. On the 100th anniversary of the founding of the PARTY in 2021, Wang Jingzhang carefully created 100 calligraphy works reflecting the history of the party in the past century, and the works are also exhibited in the community. Wang Jingzhang said: "Writing calligraphy is not only a pleasure for the elderly, but also a process of self-learning. Beijing is the city of the Double Olympic Games, and I also want to write the works of the Double Olympic Games and continue to learn the knowledge of the Olympic Games. ”
Walking into Wang Jingzhang's home, you can see paintings and calligraphy decorations hanging on the walls everywhere, most of which are created by Wang Jingzhang himself. In order to welcome the Beijing Winter Olympics, Wang Jingzhang's study was covered with calligraphy works of the Winter Olympics on the floor, cabinets and tables.
Each of these works is about 1.5 meters long, and there are both introductions to the three venues of the Winter Olympic Games, as well as the results of various Winter Olympic events that are updated every day; and the major events of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. The form of the work is mostly a large character or word in the middle, surrounded by Wang Jingzhang's self-created poems or important information related to this work. Since the beijing winter olympics flame was lit in Athens on October 18, 2021, Wang Jingzhang searched for information related to the Winter Olympics from television, newspapers and mobile phones every day, refined, and written into narrative poems in the style of oil poems, and then written in various fonts such as kai, seal, and li. He has written more than 110 poems. These works contain various types of information such as the construction of Winter Olympic venues, software services, and epidemic prevention measures.
In addition to creating at home, Wang Jingzhang also publishes his works in the WeChat circle of friends every day. Take pictures, crop photos, use software to retouch, change the background color in one go. In order to make the work more clear, he also paid for VIP members of the retouching software, and the skillful operation made people think that this was an old man who was nearly 80 years old. Wang Jingzhang spoke in a loud voice, talking about the knowledge of the Winter Olympics, the head is the Tao, he said: "I come together every day to find the Winter Olympics information, the TV at home has basically locked the sports channel, and recently in order to watch the Winter Olympic Games, I often go to bed very late. My wife was very supportive of me and became my right-hand man. We are old, there is no way to experience winter sports, but the Winter Olympics is a national event, we also want to participate in it in our own way, feel the atmosphere of the Beijing Winter Olympics at the same time, publicize the Winter Olympics, so that more people understand winter sports. ”