Feng Xi Feng Xi returned to his hometown and traveled around the world to seek his phoenix.
Sima Xiangru's vast endowment has been passed down through the ages,
In the southwest border of this small city - Sichuan Peng'an,
Still nostalgic, nostalgic.
She uses this to remind herself not to forget her original intentions
This is the origin of all her imaginations.
Spring back on the banks of the Jialing River, boats in the river, water birds flying on the river from time to time, buffalo on the island, and splashing waves from the running of teenagers... Liu Lingjie looked at these familiar scenes in front of her and painted them all on the glass to make a crystal clear glass painting.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics not long ago, she spent 20 days before the end of the Winter Olympics, and completed 5 glass paintings with the theme of "Phoenix Returns to The Hometown and The Winter Olympics". Free skating, figure skating and other competitive sports combine elements such as phoenix and Sichuan bamboo leaves to present them on the glass one by one, converging into her tribute to the Olympic spirit.
"Phoenix Returns to Hometown Huang Yao Winter Olympics" Series Author: Liu Lingjie
Painting a winter Olympic glass painting is a fate and a feeling for Liu Lingjie.
In 2008, when she was still in Beijing, she did a series of advertisements for the Tencent Olympics, and the images of multiple Olympic champions signing their small books are still vivid. After so many years, she still had a surge in her heart when she recalled the scene at that time, so she decided to cheer for the Olympic spirit and present gifts to the motherland in her own way, in her hometown.
"These five glass works combine the five rings of the Olympic Games, and the five colors express the Olympic spirit; the phoenix is also a traditional Chinese auspicious sacred bird, so 'Phoenix - HuangYao Winter Olympics presents its auspiciousness', which is the core spirit of my creation."
Liu Lingjie, the inheritor of glass painting of intangible cultural heritage in Peng'an County
Liu Lingjie 10 years ago may not have imagined that one day it would collide with glass painting and spark. At that time, she worked for an advertising company in Beijing, and had served well-known corporate projects such as Tencent Olympics, Oreo, and Nestle, and achieved good results, but whenever she looked back at these works, she always felt as if something was missing.
Her mother accidentally sent her a photo of her hometown, the street vendors were selling fresh vegetables, and through the photos she seemed to smell the smell of her hometown, and the grass and trees, bricks and tiles of her hometown kept popping up in her mind, making her move the idea of returning to her hometown.
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In 2012, with the birth of her daughter, Liu Lingjie resolutely ended more than ten years of life in the north and returned to Peng'an, a small town where she thought about it day and night, with her mother and daughter. After returning to her hometown, she converted the Liu family's ancestral home into a studio, created the "Xiangru Story" art tea brand, and immersed herself in creating her own brand works.
The origin of "similar story" is just as literal, Peng'an is the hometown of Sima Xiangru, fate will meet, life cycles, after graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts, further study, love, work for more than ten years, Liu Lingjie returned to the place where she grew up. Combining the previous design experience and the gentle call of the hometown, there is naturally a brand of "Like a Story".
"The ideal of 'Like a Story' is to use traditional glass painting techniques to paint the style, human feelings, millennium tombstones and stories of the hometown, and then combine physical objects and brands to convey similar culture, convey Sichuan-style beauty and romance!"
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The history of glass painting dates back to the colored glass of ancient Egypt, which was introduced to China in the 18th century by the Italian painter Lang Shining. During the Qing Dynasty, glass painting was a very precious kind of painting. Glass painting takes a long time to make, due to the transparent nature of the pigment, the lines need to be colored repeatedly, so the painter is required not only to have a certain artistic foundation, but also to master the translucency technique. Learning to paint since childhood laid the foundation for her to paint glass.
Initially, she painted small teacups with simple glass and ceramic paints to experience this traditional skill. One afternoon, the sun shone into the studio, shining on the glassware she painted, and the colorful patterns and glass shone in the sun, "I found that I had never seen such a beautiful object, and I felt a touch in my heart, thinking that I should seriously do something beautiful, even if the road was sparsely populated." In an instant, she strengthened her determination to do it.
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Talking about the experience of initially learning glass painting skills, she said lightly: "The difficulties are not nothing, it may be forgotten, not mentioned." "The difficulties and hardships of the past have become unimportant to her, and now what she wants to do most is to learn the craft and let it continue to be passed on." I feel happy to be able to do what I love, it's my way of life, not the goal. ”
Retaining the traditional painting technique, Liu Lingjie uses mineral color and glass pigment combination, coupled with the unique texture of glass, and tries and breaks through time and again, so that the glass painting presents an unprecedented dreamlike picture.
"We had a hard time picking up the glass painting and hoping it would shine again." Compared with the previous glass paintings, the current works highlight the characteristics of glass, "the perfect combination of the transparent and shimmering picture and the glass, it will surely become a very precious and unique existence in the future." Liu Lingjie said confidently.
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As a mother, inheritor, and entrepreneur, multiple identities have made Liu Lingjie feel weak, but it is good to look back at every step she has taken, and she has the support and encouragement of her mother. My mother used to say, "I'll see you one day!" These words made her feel relieved when she was tired, and also gave her time and energy to devote herself to her artistic creation, "My mother's silent protection made me always full of confidence no matter how old I grew up and wherever I went." ”
In 2021, at the "Creative Art - Shanghai International IP Art Invitation Exhibition" sponsored by China Culture Media Group, Sichuan's glass paintings were invited and paid attention to by many parties; at the 16th Yiwu International Cultural Fair, glass paintings and cultural and creative products were invited by cultural and tourism units and well-known artists across the country; the combination of glass painting and the Winter Olympics was widely concerned by the central media and local media.
"Now the glass painting has also received everyone's enthusiastic attention, our glass painting cultural creation has become a famous brand in Nanchong, Sichuan, the crystal clear, dazzling picture effect presented by the glass painting makes people feel the beauty of culture, the beauty of craftsmanship, the beauty of ingenuity, thank the state for giving us the opportunity to let us travel in the traditional culture of the world." In her spare time, Liu Lingjie also teaches children and disabled people to draw glass paintings to experience the charm of traditional crafts and local culture.
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In the middle of the night, the jialing riverside is covered by fishing fires, and the slightly cool night is the most easy to make people think, she speculates on this teenager of a thousand years ago, looking for flickering inspiration and resonance. She plans to paint 100 works containing Peng'an and Xiangru culture, which will not only show the story of Sima Xiangru, but also land on the packaging of local agricultural products, becoming the dissemination carrier of Peng'an culture and Xiangru culture.
"Feng Xi Feng Xi returned to his hometown and traveled all over the world to seek his phoenix." This sentence comes from the most representative endowment of Xiangru culture, "Feng Qiu Phoenix", sima Xiangru's vast endowment, a gentle sentence that has been passed down through the ages, and in the southwest border of this small city - Peng'an, Sichuan, is still nostalgic and nostalgic.
The phoenix bird that traveled all over the world returned to her hometown, and also imprinted Liu Lingjie's deep feelings about returning home over the years, and she used this endowment to remind herself not to forget her original intention, which is the origin of all her imaginations.
Text: Wu Yuting
Image: Courtesy of the interviewee
Editor: Wu Yuting
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