Jimu news reporter Wang Chenxi
"The disabled hold hands with the global village, self-improvement and unremittingly cast the soul... The love is infinite, and the memory of the double Olympic is full of capital." On March 14, the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games was successfully concluded, there was a "calligraphy grandfather" in Wuhan, his home was covered with brushes written in a variety of Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic poetry works, in the past month, every day with "a poem and a book" to record this four-year ice and snow event is the happiest thing for this nearly eighty-year-old man.
Wang Jingzhang, who lives in the Chagang community in Wuchang District, is a famous calligraphy enthusiast in the community. After retiring from the Provincial Administration of Organ Affairs in 2008, he created 273 calligraphy works related to the Beijing Summer Olympic Games. At the beginning of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, he also participated in the creation of the whole process, from october 18, 2021, when the Beijing Winter Olympic Flame was lit in Athens to the Winter Paralympic Flame was extinguished at the Bird's Nest, and he composed nearly 200 poems.
Jimu news reporter walked into Wang Jingzhang's home, he was shocked by the various calligraphy works of this "calligraphy grandfather", the living room floor is displayed with Wang Jingzhang's works, a large rice paper neatly records the results of the Chinese athletes in this Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympic Games, the reporter struggled to step over the floor of the calligraphy works into the study, the wall hung a picture of the Winter Olympics gold winning moment, marked with specific locations and gold-winning athletes, the time is more accurate to the point, Wang Jingzhang's strict demand for details appeared here, he told reporters that after the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games, it is necessary to write the works of the double Olympic Games in the form of calligraphy, so as to leave a tangible and intangible heritage, enhance people's memory, and permanently preserve and carry forward.
Each of Wang Jingzhang's calligraphy works is about 1.5 meters long, and they not only introduce the venue of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, but also the popular science of the competition projects and the records of major events. The forms of expression of the works are mostly a large character or word written in the middle of the rice paper, surrounded by Wang Jingzhang's self-created poems or information related to this work, these calligraphy works are written in five fonts of Lishu, Xingshu, Kaishu, Seal, and Xingcao, and after the Chinese athletes won the gold, he would also improvise tibetan poems to cheer for Chinese Olympic athletes. In addition to the calligraphy works presented on rice paper, Wang Jingzhang also printed out the poems and sorted them into a book, and the reporter flipped through a thick stack of books, which had more than 500 pages.
Because there is no extra space in the home to display works, Wang Jingzhang, after completing the physical calligraphy works, began to upload his proud works for many years to the Internet, taking pictures, using software to modify pictures, changing fonts, changing artistic backgrounds, copywriting, uploading circles of friends, a series of skillful and rapid operations, if it is not the reporter's own eyes, it is difficult to imagine that this is the operation of the nearly octogenarian. "I am very pleased to be able to live to the age of nearly 80, to be able to write poems and books at these two historical nodes, two grand events of far-reaching significance, leaving something for historical witness, the significance of the successful holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympic Games is not only in the event itself, its spillover significance is even greater, it comprehensively demonstrates the Chinese concept, Chinese wisdom, Chinese strength, Chinese system, and carries forward the Olympic spirit and the new concept of the new era." Wang Jingzhang told reporters.