In mid-April, the sixth congress of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles was held in Yidu, Hubei Province, one of the top 100 counties and cities in the country, the country's culturally advanced counties and cities, and the hometown of Chinese folk tales, all attended by the city's literary and art leaders.
The sculpture works become cultural identity cultural landscapes
Among these elites, there is a disabled elderly man who is limping but has an artist's temperament.
Statue of Qu Yuan, a "celebrity of world culture" created by Zhou Changqing
He was a disabled Zhijian who skillfully "resurrected" Qu Yuan, a "world cultural celebrity", "reappeared" Lu Xun, a politician and military figure of the State of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, and "regenerated" the well-known sculptor Zhou Changqing, an outstanding historical geographer in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.
Zhou Changqing, Ziyuan Song, Ya number to build mud. Born in October 1956 to a peasant family in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, he was permanently disabled in his left leg in 1964 due to an illness.
Statue by Zhou Changqing of The Historical Geographer Yang Shoujing of the Late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty
"At that time, although I was young, I thought that I had a leg disability that delayed my studies and my family, so I had a very painful life." Zhou Changqing said.
"I've loved to draw since I was a kid and often practice on the ground with small branches." Flowers, birds, insects, fish, birds and animals, a few strokes of the perimeter appear vivid. He was often immersed in the world of his paintings, forgetting the pain.
Statue of Yang Shoujing created by Zhou Changqing
Zhou Changqing is also good at playing with mud. He has a special love for clay sculpture processes such as circular carving and relief, and is committed to it. His handmade circular sculptures "Qu Yuan", "Wang Zhaojun" and many other works have won national and provincial awards, and have become a well-known sculptor inside and outside the province by virtue of his strength.
His sculptures such as "The Rhyme of Spring", "The Wind of the Ages", "Lu Xun", "Yang Shoujing" and so on stand in Yidu Square, parks, scenic spots, villages and other places, and have become cultural identities and cultural landscapes with distinct regional characteristics. The statue of "Chairman Mao's Lecture on the Party" in the square of the Party School of the Yichang Municipal PARTY Committee has further highlighted the distinctive characteristics of the "Party School Surnamed Party."
Leaving home, the nobles introduced them to learn sculpture from famous teachers
In 1970, with the courage not to bow to fate and not to yield to setbacks, Zhou Changqing left his hometown and embarked on the road of life with an uncertain future. In 1976, he went down the river to Yichang, Hubei, the "capital of hydropower", to study murals while looking for a job.
The bronze sculpture "Chairman Mao Lectures on the Party" created by Zhou Changqing stands in the square of the Party School of the Yichang Municipal Party Committee
A few years later, Zhou Changqing relied on self-study and hard work, and with his talent for painting art, he was introduced by a noble person to study under Shi Zhaoming, a senior arts and crafts artist, a member of the China Sculpture Society, and a professor of modeling design in the Department of Architecture of Wuhan University of Technology.
In 1988, Zhou Changqing achieved the first gorgeous turn of his life - he was admitted to the former Wuhan University of Technology to study in the Department of Architecture and Design (now Wuhan University of Technology). He cherished this hard-won opportunity very much, and was hungry and thirsty, studying hard and overcoming difficulties that ordinary people could not overcome.
Zhou Changqing and the statue of Yang Shoujing, a cultural celebrity of the Qing Dynasty, he pinched out
On the eve of graduation, his three-dimensional sculpture "Listen to Beethoven's Symphony of Destiny" was rated as an excellent design work by the school. In 1990, Zhou Changqing graduated from the Department of Architecture of Wuhan University of Technology, majoring in modeling design, and successively created relief murals and sculptures in Wuhan, Yichang, Shashi, Qianjiang, Danyang, Jingmen, Jingzhou, Zhijiang and other places.
Three years later, Zhou Changqing came to Yidu to start a business and settle down. In the early days, he rented a narrow and small private house at the old south gate of Lucheng, looking for scattered mural work while recruiting some students to teach painting to make a living. After a long period of polishing, the plastic art has gradually grown, and the number of friends I know has increased.
Lu Xun "resurrected", and the square statue became a "punch point"
In 1998, Yidu Urban Construction planning and development, planning to expand the square in the original location of the Jiefang Ice Rink on Chenghe Avenue, wanted to make a sculpture of Lu Xun, a famous figure in the history of Yidu. After this matter was known to an old mayor, he suggested that Zhou Changqing complete the Lu Xun sculpture.
Zhou Changqing created a landmark statue for Lu Xun Square in Yidu City - Lu Xun, a politician and military figure of the State of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period
After day and night of hard work, consulting historical materials, outlining the image of the character... After 20 days, the manuscript designed by Zhou Changqing was approved by the government department.
Three months later, the large-scale sculpture "Lu Xun" with Lu Xun as the theme was finally unveiled in Lu Xun Square as scheduled, becoming a historical epitome and cultural symbol of Yidu, and the cadres and masses and Chinese and foreign tourists who took a group photo to "punch in" here were endless.
The 5.8-ton large teapot created by Zhou Changqing has become the "treasure of the town and village" of Lujiaao Village, Tujia Cottage in Yidu City
In 2000, Zhou Changqing created two sculptures in the "People's Square" of the Yidu Municipal Government, "Ancient Winds" and "Pearl of the Two Rivers", which were called masterpieces by authoritative figures, and the people of Yidu also knew this disabled person who was turned and corrupted - Zhou Changqing.
In order to develop his career, Zhou Changqing established the "Evergreen Sculpture Art Studio", established the "Yidu Zhuojie Art Workshop", and registered his own company.
The giant sculpture of Baogu Wine created by Zhou Changqing towers over the Panjiawan Tujia Autonomous Township in Yidu City, becoming a beautiful scenery for rural revitalization
After thirty years of wind and rain, the statue comes to add color. Zhou Changqing's works have spread throughout Yichang and even The cities and villages of Jingchu, and have had a wide and positive impact. His creative achievements and tenacious fighting spirit have won unanimous praise from the industry and become a dazzling star among the representatives of this wendai meeting.
On-site statue, two hours pinched into a "news master"
Zhou Changqing is extremely good at on-site statues of characters. A lump of mud, kneaded several times in his hand, is a living work of art.
Zhou Changqing (left) is a statue created by Liu Hongjin (right), a "senior media person + news expert". The picture shows the two holding up the sculpture for a group photo
a picture is worth a thousand words. In May 2019, coinciding with the first anniversary of the establishment of the New Media Alliance of Strange Commune, more than 30 new media big Vs from all over the country and more than 10 experts and scholars, social elites and well-known people gathered together to hold a forum on "Rural Tourism Tea and Poetry" in the Muqiaoxi Xianghualing Homestay Area of Gaojiayan Town, Changyang County, and Zhou Changqing was also invited to participate.
Zhou Changqing (right) and Shao Dingwu (left)
At the forum site, he first observed the participants, then set up a wooden bracket, carried a bucket of mud, squatted down and buried his head to pinch the clay man, and used his skillful hand to press the mud lump to the bracket. Two hours later, a clay figure model was presented in front of everyone, and everyone fixed their eyes on it and shouted in unison - isn't this Liu Hongjin, chairman of the Strange Alliance?
Zhou Changqing and his wife Deng Shuqiong show a sample of the Baogu wine jug
The scene is unique and pours out the crowd. The portrait sculpture of Liu Hongjin, a senior media person + news expert, caused a sensation in the audience, and all praised Zhou Changqing.
The hand of God brought historical figures out of the books
Zhou Changqing, who has been engaged in sculpture art for more than 40 years, has been praised by the industry as a sculpture magician and entrepreneurial model with the perseverance and skill of "not falling into lingyunzhi, skillfully weaving splendid embroidery".
Zhou Changqing and his relief works
His sculptural artistic feelings have long been integrated into the blood of "Chu culture", and he has won many honors such as "Hubei Sunshine Talent", "Yichang City Advanced Model of Independent Entrepreneurship", "Yidu Self-Improvement Model", "The Most Beautiful Anti-epidemic Defender", etc., and has also been elected as the executive director of Hubei Provincial Arts and Crafts Association, the chairman of Yidu Disabled Persons Association, and the vice chairman of Yidu Folk Writers Association...
Zhou Changqing said: "The earth can give me a space, and let my works stand there, which is the greatest joy in my life." ”
Zhou Changqing sculpture art collection exchange and sharing meeting
Today, Yichang Lu Xun, Yang Shoujing, Qu Yuan, Wang Zhaojun, Zhao Zilong, and other historical figures, the first Communist Party member Hu Di, the anti-US hero Cao Guangsheng, the heroic policeman Hu Qinchun, and other martyrs and heroic models, have all stepped out of historical books and compilations of glorious deeds through his hands, and come to reality with a rich sculptural language, in squares, parks, cemeteries, streets, villages, towns, schools, and other places for people to watch and commemorate and remember.
Shao Dingwu (1st from right), the author of this article, commented on the relief of the group portrait of the anti-epidemic heroes created by Zhou Changqing (2nd right)
【About the Author】
Shao Dingwu, male, born in 1962, from Yidu, Hubei Province. With a strong sense of social responsibility, he has participated in the "anti-epidemic" in Beijing. He loves literature and art, and was the vice chairman of the Yidu Folk Writers Association. He is currently a member of the Yidu Yang Shoujing Academic Research Association, a member of the Yichang Writers Association, the deputy leader of the Yidu Rural "Manuscript Family" Volunteer Service Team, and the president of the Yidu "Silly Child" Literary Society. A number of papers, reportage, essays, novels, poetry and other works have been adopted by all media such as newspapers and periodicals at all levels, and have won the first, second and third prizes and excellent awards of various types of essays at all levels.
When Hu Zhendong was the director of the office of the bank, he insisted on using his spare time to track down and report on Qin Xiangguan, the "father of China's rural cooperative medical care" for more than 10 years. The picture shows Qin Xiangguan (right) in Changyang County in 2002
Hu Zhendong, born in 1963, is a native of Changyang, Hubei Province. Qin Xiangguan, the "Father of Rural Cooperative Medical Care in China", "People's Daily", "People's Political Consultative Conference Daily", "Economic Daily", "Farmers Daily", "China Traditional Chinese Medicine News", "Hubei Daily", "Yangtze River Daily", Chutian Metropolis Daily, Wuhan Evening News, "Three Gorges Daily", "Three Gorges Evening News", "Three Gorges Evening News", "China Story", "Legend Story", "Legendary Story", "People's Daily", "People's Daily", "China Traditional Chinese Medicine Daily", "Hubei Daily", "Yangtze River Daily", "Chutian Metropolis Daily", "Wuhan Evening News", "Three Gorges Daily", "Three Gorges Evening News", "China Story", "Legend story", "Legend story". Readers' Original Edition" published more than 500 reports on cooperative medical figures in all media such as the People's Daily and Xinhua Net, and was praised as "a professional household that publicized Qin Xiangguan".
(Courtesy photo: Shao Dingwu, the author of this article)
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