"Wow, I didn't expect butterflies to be so beautiful as specimens, and her dorm cabinets are like a mini insect museum, super beautiful!" A group of students in Dormitory 250, Building 1, Hangzhou Business School, Zhejiang Gongshang University, could not help but sigh.
250 dormitories, one of the hosts is Xie Jiajia, a student majoring in advertising at the School of Humanities and Art Design of Hangzhou Business School of Zhejiang Gongshang University. Because of her hobbies, she spent more than 1200 days "accidentally" building a miniature insect herbarium in her bedroom.
Producing specimens, she became a small lecturer in the student apartment building
Xie Jiajia has been curious about new and unknown things since childhood, and likes to crouch in the grass to observe insects. At the age of 17, she joined an insect society called the Rainforest Society.
After entering the university, Xie Jiajia responded to the call of the school's dormitory cultural festival and opened her own insect specimen studio in the dormitory. She arranged the bedroom into an ideal multi-functional space, and the prepared insect specimens were placed from the bookcase in the bedroom to the cabinet on the balcony.
Many students who are interested in insects have come to visit. The students who have visited once said with emotion: "So many exquisite insect specimens have opened my eyes. Slowly, the "insect museum" in the dormitory became more and more famous. In the face of many "new" insect lovers, Xie Jiajia decided to open the special "Shetang Small Private School" course of Hangzhou Shang College to share more and more interesting insect knowledge with everyone. She was also hired as a small lecturer at the college, spending an hour a week teaching insect specimen making to her classmates. Chen Qi, a counselor at the college, told reporters that due to the novel content of the course, he used the college students' own perspective and language to speak, and suddenly got the attention of the students. More than a dozen seats were suddenly snatched up by the students, and many students even stood and listened to the lessons.
Innovative mode, she has her own punk mechanical style
Xie Jiajia said: "Although insects are small, the production process of specimens is not simple. She also uses her spare time to watch popular science videos on species categories and learn novel ways to make them from other insect bloggers.
In the past two years, punk mechanical insects have swept the Internet, and Xie Jiajia, who has a strong ability to start from a young age, does not skimp on her creative talent, and she begins her own innovative research.
Xie Jiajia found in "Play" that the remains of insects in autumn are fragile and fragile, and some of them have dried and cannot be softened. So she thinks it might be better to deal with the more popular punk style on the Internet. So she bought some mechanical watch gears to repair the missing parts of the insect body, and added some interesting patterns to decorate them to make them look more complete. She inserted one gear after another into the insect's body, carefully fixed it with glue, took a fan to dry it, made it into the back of the insect, and then used paper clips to make insect feet...
"We went back to our bedroom after dinner, and she was still lying on her stomach under the lamp to study." Xie Jiajia's roommate said. Under the tedious steps, Xie Jiajia's rigorous thinking and repeated exercises, "The insect model is a work of art, I think our bedroom is crowded a little, but it is very distinctive." ”
Immersed in research, she combines hobbies with learning
The big blue butterfly is one of Xie Jiajia's favorite insects, and the specimens made are more delicate than other insects. When it comes to production methods, Xie Jiajia is like a family treasure. She said that she first clamped the big blue shining wings with forceps, soaked its joints with hot water, then used a specimen needle to insert into the butterfly's chest, fixed it on the spread wing plate, and then spread its wings with sulfuric acid paper. "The more you do, the more you become skilled, you know how to be perfect." After spreading your wings, put it in a dry place for ten days and half a month, remove the styling needle, and the limb will not return to its original position. Finally, it is saved and boxed.
Xie Jiajia told reporters that after entering the "insect world" in college, she no longer used to watch dramas and games to spend time outside of studying as before, but mainly made insect specimens.
The change of interests and hobbies has not dragged down professional learning. She will apply the creative thinking training in professional courses to insect research, observe wing patterns, and make punk mechanical insects; she will also flexibly apply the thinking experience and hands-on practical ability of studying insects and making insect specimens to professional learning. "Looking up the literature to identify insects also exercised my observation and retrieval skills."
Xie Jiajia's classmates said that they did not expect to feel the beauty of insects without leaving the school, understand the value of insects, pass on the concept of reverence for nature and reverence for life, and highlight the fantasy style of humanistic nature.