The Paper's reporter Wu Dong and Xu Haifeng
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on people's lives and spirits, something that no one wants to see. With the mutation of the virus, the development of the epidemic situation is becoming more and more severe, the city is closed and no longer noisy, and the vast majority of people have to stay at home, quarantine points, or stay in special places.
After the surging news "Horizon" launched a collection of children's paintings, many children submitted paintings to us, and on April 20, 2022, we launched the third issue of "Painting Epidemic". Through their innocent eyes and rambling nature, let everyone see the life and spiritual outlook of children under the epidemic. We also hope that through these paintings of theirs, people can get a breathing space and bring a smile in the severe epidemic.
"Shanghai Refueling" Hu Zicheng, 6 years old, Wangde Kindergarten
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Audio from 6-year-old Hu Zicheng
Hu Zicheng, a 6-year-old child, painted a little girl looking out the window, and outside the window was a "big white" wearing a mask. The painting is very colorful, the little girl has yellow hair, a blue dress, her pants are green, and there are red sleeves, and even the big white mask is green. Despite the severe situation of the epidemic, the world in the eyes of children is still colorful, full of curiosity and yearning for the outside world. "I think 'Big White' is very hard, he got up so early to do nucleic acid for us." Hu Zicheng said he also said that he most wanted to drink milk because there was very little milk at home.
"The Tree Outside the Window" Hu Xintian, 3 years old, Recreation Nursery
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Hu Xintian, 3 years old, painted a tree, a tree full of greenery and full of vitality. She used a pen on the paper, little by little, she pointed out the leaves and flowers, and the childish brushstrokes were very cute and very "sophisticated", careless and rigorously laid out, like the pursuit of a famous painter who had cultivated the Tao and finally returned to the basics. This is a painting that belongs to children, a precious feeling. The butterfly was hastily completed by her hastily, full of movement. The little yellow bee has a certain aggression, which may not be observed enough for her, and appears too sloppy, which does not hinder the painting as a whole, and it plays a kind of compositional balance.
Xiao Xintian also told us that this tree was a tree in front of her house, and that the small insects were painted because she thought they were "beautiful", but the epidemic trapped her at home.
The innocent child helplessly sighed to her mother: "I feel so lonely." Apparently, she used this vocabulary that went beyond kindergarten. Loneliness is an emotion, more than 20 days of sealing, this "loneliness" emotion climbed up to her young heart at a certain moment.
Xiao Xintian said that she wanted to go out to play with children, and she wanted to eat strawberry ice cream, and when she heard her mother say that the epidemic was over and took her to eat, Xiao Xintian's happiness overflowed into words, and she even said three "okay".
"Outside the Window under the Epidemic" Fan Yifan, 4 years old, Star Kindergarten
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4-year-old Fan Yifan's paintings have a lot of details and layers, there is Shanghai's iconic Lujiazui skyline in the distance, the middle scene is cars running on the elevated road, in the high-rise buildings in front of the windows nearby, people are doing their own things, the fifth floor is playing drums, the fourth floor is playing the piano, the third floor seems to be playing the guitar, the second floor is singing, he must be a child who loves music.
In addition, Fan Yifan even drew purple curtains in front of him and masks hanging on hangers. The child's perception of the world comes from reality and his strong enthusiasm, and it is inseparable from the protection of his parents and parents. Fan Yifan said that despite the epidemic outside, he still had a good life. He also said, "I want to go back to kindergarten, but I miss kindergarten." His feelings of missing came from sincerity and friendship.
"Outside the Window in the Eyes" Guo Amy, 6 years old, Shanghai Municipal Kindergarten
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6-year-old Guo Amy painted a pair of hands at the bottom of the painting, the child said, that is, she held the window sill, she looked out of the window, the blue sky and white clouds, sunny in the spring, birds singing. When she was at home, she saw lights in every house in the tall building, as well as empty elevated roads and sidewalks. Amy Guo painted all of this, and she said she wanted to tell people how she felt during the epidemic.
Guo Amy's mother said in an interview with the surging news that children like to draw and do handicrafts. In the interview, Xiaoguo Amy expressed her wish very humorously, she said that she wanted to go out for a walk, and then seriously emphasized: "It is a baby, that is, my mother is slipping me." ”
"After the epidemic is over, I will take the little rabbit and my parents and grandparents to a picnic. Otherwise, I'm going to go crazy. Little Guo Amy said.
Lu Tian, 6 years old, Huji Harbor Kindergarten
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The painting of a 6-year-old Lu Tian child is colorful, and the house in this painting is like a person with long feet, injected into life. And the blue sky appeared one by one white round object, we don't know what it was, maybe it was an elf, maybe it was a virus, but for her, this special thing that would float.
Lu Tian said, "The house is rainbow colored, and if there is no one in the world, it is eerily quiet, but it still looks colorful." The innocent and optimistic Lu Tian's voice was full of a sense of stability, a well-behaved shanghai girl, the kind of well-behaved little person who would only greet people he knew when he went out, shy and quiet. She said that after the epidemic was over, she wanted to eat M-brand cakes and go to the museum to see what she had not seen. Her father laughed.
"Outside the Window" Qian Xinyue, 5 years old, Shanghai Municipal Kindergarten
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Qian Xinyu, 5, painted the way she looked out the window, she drew nine grids of the window, there were three trees and three birds outside the window, and she also drew three seagulls in the corner, as if the birds in the farther place were also what she longed for. "Three little birds talking." Qian Xinyu said, "The bird does not need to do nucleic acid, it can fly freely." "Qian Xinyue's children are afraid that they have been on the balcony of their homes countless times, looking at the birds flying freely outside the window with their eyes wide open, and their hearts are eager to look outside like birds.
When it comes to what she loves to eat, Qian Xinyue says it is ice cream, because it is so delicious for her.
"Great White Is Hard" Zheng Ziyu, 6 years old, Wunan Kindergarten
Zheng Ziyu's pinyin diary: Now we are all isolated at home, there is a positive person in building seven, and the big white downstairs is doing nucleic acid for everyone, the big white is really too hard, we all have to thank the big white.
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The name of the painting painted by 6-year-old Zheng Ziyu's children is ""Great White" is hard. Every morning, as soon as the sun rises, "Big White" starts to help the children make nucleic acid. "Big White" left a deep impression on Xiao Ziyu. In her paintings, the children who make nucleic acid are dressed in very beautiful clothes, and it is very interesting for "Big White" to turn his eyes to look at the children, and I don't know which "Big White" left such a deep impression on her. At the same time, Ziyu's children also wrote a diary in Pinyin, talking about their feelings during the anti-epidemic period, and also drew a cute little butterfly on the side. Zheng Ziyu, who still can't write, has one more homework than her peers - writing a diary, and she runs ahead.
"I want to thank The Great White and thank them for protecting us. Zheng Ziyu said. She also misses the kindergarten teachers and children. "If the epidemic doesn't end, we'll graduate and we won't see teachers and children." What Zheng Ziyu said was a little sad.
"Moonlight Outside the Window" Wan Youyou, 13 years old, the Third Affiliated Experimental School of Shanghai Normal University
"The View From the Window" Wan Meixian, 5 years old, Wangde Kindergarten
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Wan Youyou, 13, and Wan Meixian, 5, are ms. Wang's two daughters, the eldest daughter Wan Youyou has a foundation in painting, and her painting "Moonlight Outside the Window" is sophisticated and decisive, and the low-saturated colors depict quiet buildings and bright moonlight. Wan You lobbied that her picture was based on a photograph: outside the window, in the empty night, there was a light on.
And the younger sister Wan Meixian, who does not have much of a painting foundation, is very unrestrained, she painted the trees, butterflies, birds, houses, bird nests on the trees, as well as the sun, airplanes, and blue sky that she saw outside her window. This is probably the most original and natural expression of a child. The world of children and adults is sometimes difficult to understand.
Her sister Wan Youyou loves to read, and she said she wanted to go to the library after unsealing. "There are still many books that have not been borrowed, like Wilde's Portrait of Dowling Gray and the science fiction trilogy of Galactic Empire." When asked about her sister Meixian's wishes, her sister also said that she wanted to go to the library to read books. My sister is really a role model sister.
"Can you read these books?" The sister asked the sister.
"Well..." The sister hesitated, "I can understand." ”
Wang Ziyi, 5 years old, New Century Kindergarten in Xuhui District
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Seeing this 5-year-old Wang Ziyi painting of this little girl with wide eyes and open mouth to do nucleic acid, we all felt that we also made an "ah" sound. She uses colored pens, stroke by stroke, to fill the whole picture with colorful colors, and the colors of each part are not heavy, which may be the world that children want in their minds.
Xiao Ziyi's father was temporarily separated because of the new crown virus, and he sent us a short recording at the isolation medical point. In the recording, Xiao Ziyi said her wish at home. "I hope the epidemic will disappear soon, so that uncle express can go to work and I can buy toys!"
"The Community in The Sealed Control" Hu Yanchen, 5 years old, Xu Huiwei Kindergarten
5-year-old Hu Yanchen has an amazing ability to observe logic, and under the crooked strokes, the scattered perspective depicts the scene of nucleic acid testing in the community: the door opening of the community, the gate, the shelves stacked with express delivery, the residents in the orderly queue of the two-meter line and the hard white, everything is presented in his pen. As he said: "The whites are very hard, I hope that the epidemic will pass soon, and the children can play happily together", the blue sky and birds in the upper left corner of the picture may be a portrayal of freedom in his heart.
Wang Peng, Kindergarten, Dong'an Village Kindergarten, Xuhui District, Shanghai
This work is a creative work of Wang Qian's children and his father, the children's fathers have to go to the community every day to participate in volunteers, and when they arrive home in the evening, they will lie on the windowsill and watch the sunset and the birds returning home, talking and laughing, and their thoughts fly around like birds, which is the happy time of the father and son every day. At the top of the work, wang qian smeared and collaged three fried birds in the night and the birds photographed by the child's father, who freely rested and played outside. Wang Peng and his father believe that we will be able to defeat the virus as soon as possible and run happily in the sun.
【Request for Papers】
1- Make a simple text description of the painting you have made: time, place or neighborhood, describe the scene you painted. Your impressions (if you have one)
2- Creation time: Since the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020
3- If possible, record a clear audio for us and ask your child the following questions:
(A) Mom and Dad don't go to work, you can't go to school, everyone stays at home and can't go out, do you know why?
(B) What are you painting and why are you painting this?
(C) What do you want to eat and why? Or who do you miss the most and want to say something to him?
(D) After the epidemic is over, what is the first thing you want to do?
4- Deadline for works: April 21, 2022
5- There is no limit to painting materials and techniques
6- Be under 14 years of age
7- Please write the basic information of the creator in the email
8- After the painting is completed, please take a high-definition photo and upload it to the mailbox
9- Remuneration is paid according to the situation of the work
Please send to: [email protected], Wu reporter
Editor-in-Charge: Shen Guanzhe
Proofreader: Ding Xiao