The Winter Olympics have come to an end, but the scene of the ice and snow athletes winning the championship is still unforgettable. One by one, the ice and snow athletes defeated themselves on the field, won glory for the country, and left an exciting moment to win the championship. Zhang Qingheng, a post-90s Nanjing railway boy, also used his spare time to spend a week to create 13 sand paintings, which fixed the wonderful moments of the Beijing Winter Olympics and was named by the officials of the Winter Olympics.
Intern Zhou Chuanling Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Xu Yuanyuan
13 national wind and sand paintings freeze the moment of the Winter Olympics
Zhang Qingheng is a cargo inspector in the cargo inspection workshop of Nanjing East Railway Station. Since entering the railway, Zhang Qingheng has created a series of works with sand paintings around the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, the fight against the new crown epidemic, sticking to the local New Year, poverty alleviation, taking the high-speed rail to see China and other major event nodes, carrying forward the positive energy of society. His representative works "Hello, New Era", "Take the High-speed Rail, See China", "Warm Spring Festival HomeComing" and so on have been played on major platforms many times. He also won the second prize of the "Best Creative Award" of the Youth Creative Micro Video Competition. The number of views on the whole network exceeded 100 million.
The theme sand painting works of this Winter Olympics mainly use the form of Chinese style to publicize the competition projects of the Winter Olympics, so Zhang Qingheng has integrated a lot of Chinese elements into this work, such as the use of our national treasures giant panda and tiger in the Year of the Tiger, Peking Opera, and some characters in domestic cartoons, such as Ne Da, Sun Wukong, as well as snow children, gourds, etc. "The main reason for using these Chinese elements for creation is to let the world know more about our Chinese history and culture and promote Chinese culture." ”
In the sand painting video created by Zhang Qingheng, we can see many Chinese elements. There is the mascot of this Winter Olympics, "Ice Pier"; there is the Chinese high-speed railway speeding on the railway tracks, there is the "flying sky" on the Dunhuang mural, the terracotta warriors of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin in Xi'an, and various characters appear in Chinese cartoons. When making sand paintings, since I have not studied professional art, I can only grasp the body movements and states of the characters when performing different sports by watching the competition video. The placement of the arms, the trajectory of the legs, these small movements require Zhang Qingheng to draw on the sketch paper and constantly explore.
In order to create a video, Zhang Qingheng drew more than 20 drafts and used thousands of sketches. In the sand paintings of the Winter Olympics, Chinese style elements such as qipao, terracotta warriors, Chinese animation, and fuxing can be seen everywhere. Gu Ailing, Ren Ziwei, Gao Tingyu... When the figures of China's Winter Olympic champions jumped on the sand, the strong motivation of Chinese ice and snow athletes to work hard and forge ahead jumped in front of them. With 20 million+ sand painting Weibo readings and more than 100 million video readings, it confidently shows the world the beauty of Chinese history, the beauty of mountains and rivers, and the beauty of culture.
He is a railway worker and a post-90s Internet celebrity sand painter
Zhang Qingheng is a 28-year-old railway worker from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, who works at Nanjing East Railway Station of China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd. However, netizens affectionately call Zhang Qingheng "post-90s internet celebrity sand painter". When talking about why he began to create sand paintings, Zhang Qingheng said that when he first entered the university in 2012, he accidentally went shopping with his classmates and saw a foreigner in the mall creating sand paintings, which he felt very novel and had a strong interest in sand paintings. He thought that if he could express the story of the railway in sand paintings, it would be very interesting! So he used his spare time to teach himself online while creating sand paintings. Once when he took the high-speed train home, he saw the sand paintings played on the TV, which strengthened his confidence and began to officially create sand paintings with railway themes.
The road to learning sand painting is not smooth. Because of the time conflict and the inability to study normally, Zhang Qingheng begged the teacher many times. In the end, the teacher was touched by the determination of this young man, and with his break time, he held a small class alone. Every time I go to study, the round trip takes more than 3 hours. In order to make a reasonable use of time, Zhang Qingheng flipped through books related to sand painting on the subway. To this day, he still practices sand painting and calligraphy every day in his dormitory.
In the process of learning sand painting, he was most impressed in 2014, when he created his first sand painting, which painted four brothers in the dormitory, showing the scene of the roommates getting up early together for class, playing ball, and studying by themselves. At that time, after the painting was deeply loved by his roommates and classmates, zhang Qingheng was given the motivation to continue to learn sand painting, so he went to systematically understand sand painting and create sand painting works.
The most popular is a sand painting he created in 2016, with the railway as the theme, called "Warm Spring Festival HomeComing". It tells the story of an elderly passenger with leg and foot inconvenience, with the help of the staff of Lei Feng Service Station of Nanjing Station, from "brushing his face" to enter the station, waiting for the train in the special area, getting on the bus in advance to getting off the train to pick up the station, all the way to the green light, unimpeded. In this one work alone, Weibo has been read by tens of millions.
He also created sand paintings such as "Tribute to the Most Beautiful Retrograde Pedestrians" and "New Year in Place" to publicize the touching deeds during the epidemic prevention and control period and pay tribute to the heroes who fought in the frontline of the epidemic. He also created sand paintings for flood fighting and rescue, paying tribute to the "soldiers" who rushed to the front line of flood relief. "I think it is more difficult to create characters in the process of sand painting, buildings and vehicles are simpler, and people's facial features are the most difficult to portray." The reporter learned that the secret of Zhang Qingheng's success is, "I try to sketch out everyone's looks, especially to depict a lot of touching details." ”
In the field of life, sand painting is also very popular. In addition to resting, he also walked into Nanjing Langya Road Primary School to popularize the knowledge of the Winter Olympics for his classmates and taught primary school students to draw sand paintings of the Winter Olympics. Zhang Qingheng said that especially when colleagues get married or they have children, they often find themselves to paint portraits of some people for them and send them wedding blessings.
One more word
The legend of chasing dreams of ice and snow became clearer and clearer in the piles of colored sand, and the winter Olympic sand paintings containing Chinese style elements became more and more inspiring in the praise.
In the sand paintings of the Winter Olympics, Chinese style elements such as qipao, terracotta warriors, Chinese animation, and fuxing can be seen everywhere. Presenting Chinese culture to the world is not only a deep embodiment of the integration of tradition and modernity, but also a national pride that inspires the younger generation. Gu Ailing, Ren Ziwei, Gao Tingyu... When the figures of China's Winter Olympic champions jumped on the sand, the strong motivation of Chinese ice and snow athletes to work hard and forge ahead jumped in front of them. More than 100 media reports, 20 million + sand painting Weibo reads, exceeded 100 million video readings, so that we can confidently show the beauty of Chinese history, the beauty of mountains and rivers, and the beauty of culture to the world.
Through the small sand paintings, I saw the vitality of the post-90s railway youth struggling upwards. In-depth publicity in community schools not only raises people's awareness of knowing the road and loving the road and building a safe railway, but also shows the image of the people's railway as a railway enterprise for the people.
Zhang Qingheng's own work is not well known to passengers behind the scenes of hard work, nevertheless, to maintain interest in sand painting creation, more valuable, the railway station work area young workers compared with the older generation of railway people, now the amateur life is richer, the spiritual world is more diverse. Xu Chen
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