Qilu Network Lightning News, February 12, what kind of works can become souvenirs for the Beijing Winter Olympics? It must be a work full of national characteristics and can show the spirit of the Winter Olympics, and it is proud that Zhang Yanru, a non-hereditary inheritor of Weihai, as a representative of the cultural and tourism talents in Huancui District, successfully selected the paper-cut works she designed were successfully selected as souvenirs for the Winter Olympics.
The names of the five Fuwa in this set of paper-cut works are Yiyi, Qiqi, Xiangxiang, Weiwei and Lailai, which is taken from the meaning of "going to the future together".
In 2020, the Beijing Winter Olympics souvenir tender, Zhang Yanru thought of exerting her own skills, using the Chinese paper-cutting dyeing technique, designed this set of Fuwa works, and finally successfully selected.
Zhang Yanru is the representative inheritor of Weihai's intangible cultural heritage project "Weihai Paper Bucket", and is also a paper-cutting artist, since she was a child, she has had an indissoluble relationship with paper, and after entering the university, she officially studied paper-cutting skills under the Door of Chinese paper-cutting master Gao Tuoliang. The paper-cut works of Gao Youliang at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics were also selected as souvenirs for the athletes, and the two masters and apprentices jointly used exquisite paper-cut works to show the charm of traditional Chinese culture to athletes from all over the world
Zhang Yanru has been committed to the inheritance and innovation of modern paper-cutting for many years, after contacting foreign paper-cutting and painting, through the combination of various art forms, he has created a three-dimensional multi-layer paper-cut painting that has been rated as "Weihai Characteristic Cultural and Creative Products", with a beautiful coastline and a white swan spreading its wings... The beautiful Weihai, vivid under her scissors, this time she also used her own works to send the warmest blessings to the Winter Olympic athletes. "Together to the future" seems to be a force that calls on people of different colors, races and beliefs all over the world to move forward hand in hand under the Olympic flag and move forward together towards the future.