Modern Express News (correspondent Zhong Xianjing reporter Yan Junchen) On the occasion of the two sessions of the National People's Congress, Gu Ruming, a non-hereditary heir of paper-cutting in Nantong City, walked into the campus with his elaborate paper-cut works on the theme of "56 Nationalities Joining Hands to Welcome the Grand Event". At Hai'an Experimental Primary School, he also taught children hand in hand to make five-pointed stars and five-star national flag paper-cut works.
The Modern Express reporter learned that Gu Ruming, who is more than 70 years old, is a veteran party member with more than 50 years of party experience, a member of the Chinese Folk Writers Association, an academician of the Shanghai Academy of Ethnic Painting, a first-class artist in China, and the inheritor of The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Nantong Hai'an Paper-cutting.
Over the years, Gu Ruming has been committed to inheriting and promoting the art of paper-cutting, and many of his works have won world-class and national awards. As a retired veteran teacher, he often walks into primary and secondary school campuses to teach his craft to children without reservation. In order to let the children remember history, he integrated party history education into his works. In 2021, in order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, he carefully created 16 paper-cut works to reproduce important events such as "Huishi Jinggangshan", "Liaoshen Campaign" and "Founding Ceremony".
"In order to welcome the two sessions of the National People's Congress and the next 20th National Congress of the Party, our Cultural, Guangdong and Tourism Bureau held a creative work conference, hoping that Gu Ruming and other local non-hereditary inheritors can blaze new trails and create more works on the theme of red culture." The Modern Express reporter learned from the Hai'an Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism that this time Gu Ruming made the "56 Nationalities Join Hands to Welcome the Grand Gathering" theme paper cut, which took about a month, and the characters presented in the work were vivid, distinctive, and very exquisitely conceived.
On March 3rd, Class 6 (4) of Haian Experimental Primary School held a theme class meeting. The 58 students spent two days in advance to produce the theme blackboard newspaper, and each searched and read the relevant news of the national "two sessions". At the theme class meeting, the teacher explained the relevant knowledge of the party emblem to everyone, and interacted with the students in the form of preemptive answers to test everyone's learning results. Subsequently, Gu Ruming brought his own works to the children, told everyone about his creative process, and gave everyone a special paper-cutting lesson, teaching the children to make five-pointed stars and five-star national flag paper-cutting works by hand.
According to reports, Hai'an currently has 105 intangible cultural heritage items at all levels, including Hai'an flower drum, Nantong tie-dyeing technology, Nantong crochet needle technology, Luohan dragon, canglong dance, lotus fall, glutinous rice aged wine brewing technology and other provincial-level projects. In order to let more people feel the intangible cultural heritage and join the ranks of protection and inheritance, the Hai'an Cultural and Guangdong Tourism Bureau plans to organize the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage projects such as Hai'an flower drums, dragon dances, tie-dyeing, paper cutting and so on to enter the campus and classroom to impart skills, and normalize the activities of non-genetic inheritance into the community and into the countryside.
(Courtesy of the correspondent)