China News Service, September 16 (Wish Huan) 13 years old is the carefree age in middle school. What are you doing at this age?
At that time, were you still dividing the 38th line with the same table for the "territory"?
Are you still struggling with the obscure classical Chinese texts in Chinese textbooks?
Are you still looking forward to a beautiful and dynamic high school life?
The first scene of the new book "Guo Guo Hua Chengdu".
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However, at the age of 11, the "post-00" girl from Chengdu, Yao Guoguo, had already published a book!
In 2018, 11-year-old Yao Guoguo officially published his first picture book "Guoguo Painting Chengdu".
Two years later, Yao Guoguo's second picture book will be published soon.
At the age of 13, she has entered a busy third year life, and her painting has not fallen behind. She participates in sketch training every morning to lay the foundation for professional learning.
She is still preparing for the third picture book with the theme of Chengdu city landmarks while ensuring her studies...
by chance
The dream of painting originated from school activities
Sichuan cuisine, hot pot, Sanjiao, Dongzikou Zhang Jelly, egg-baked cakes... These unique Chengdu-style foods are vivid and mouth-watering in the works of Yao Guoguo, who has 7 years of "painting age".
Giant pandas dressed in red are riding tricycles selling crisp and refreshing egg cakes, giant pandas wearing yellow aprons are making three sweet but not greasy three cannons, a lot of giant pandas are waiting in line to eat Mao Cai... Yao Guo Guo's works are inseparable from the naive giant pandas. The works with giant pandas as the protagonist reflect the real life of Chengdu people.
The leisure life of Chengdu people described by Yao Guoguo.
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Yao Guoguo's painting dream began with an exchange activity organized by the school in the first grade.
She was in elementary school at the time and participated in the exchange activities between Chengdu Experimental Primary School and overseas schools. Because of language barrier, she chose to introduce her hometown of Chengdu to foreign children in a universal form of comics.
In the comics, she takes the cute giant panda as the protagonist, and uses brightly colored paintings to show the beauty of Chengdu and its surrounding scenic spots.
Communication activities.
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Since then, Yao Guoguo has always used giant pandas as the protagonist in his creations, and has persisted to the present, this painting is 7 years old.
In the past 7 years, her works have gradually changed from immature to mature, and foreign tourists can use her works to follow the giant pandas to enjoy Chengdu.
“When I was a child, I saw giant pandas at the giant panda base, and I thought it was very cute and I liked it a lot.” When talking about why giant pandas are the protagonists of his works, Yao Guoguo said, “Giant pandas are China’s national treasures, and they are also from Sichuan. Features. By painting giant pandas, visitors from other places can learn more about giant pandas and more features of Chengdu."
Childish works when I was young.
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With the publication of the picture book "Guoguo Huacheng Chengdu" in 2018, Yao Guoguo's works of Chengdu feature more and more.
An event organized by the school ignited a little girl's painting dream, and a little painter was formed by chance.
Traveled all over Chengdu
Creative inspiration comes from life
Wenshu Monastery, Kuanzhai Alley, Jinli, Wuhou Temple...Yao Guoguo's footprints can be found in every scenic spot in Chengdu; Niutou Fang, twice-cooked pork, three big artillery... Yao Guoguo has tasted Chengdu's special cuisine; "Zhufeifeier" "Fei Chacha"... Yao Guoguo has a deep and superficial taste of the flavor of Sichuan dialect.
Sharing meeting scene.
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"Reading ten thousand books is worse than traveling ten thousand miles." Yao Guoguo's mother Luo Donglai is an art educator.
But in the process of her daughter's study, she just played the role of a mother, letting the child draw freely without being constrained by outdated routines.
Before her daughter was in junior high school, Yao Guoguo had never been trained in painting.
Luo Donglai has always believed that children's imagination has endless potential.
She encouraged Yao Guoguo to write boldly and also cultivated her child's self-confident character.
Luo Donglai took Yao Guoguo around for a tour.
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Luo Donglai, who has been engaged in art education for more than 20 years, believes that in order to paint vivid works, we must not only see the surface of things, but also understand the stories behind them.
As a teacher, Luo Donglai spends his winter and summer vacations with his daughter to walk around every corner of Chengdu to explore the unique memories of Chengdu.
Kuanzhai Alley described by Yao Guoguo.
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Luo Donglai took Yao Guoguo to explore Chengdu cuisine and listened to the chef telling the production process of each cuisine and the stories contained therein.
Yao Guoguo listened patiently, observed, took pictures, tasted, and then went home and merged his own creativity to draw pictures of the food he tasted.
Go to Kuanzhai Alley and Jinli to see the production process of the Three Cannons, listen to the three crisp sounds of "Dangdangdang" and taste the soft and sweet snacks. In the process, the little girl feels not only the charm of Chengdu cuisine, but also There is the traditional culture of Chengdu.
To make the image of the giant panda more plump, Luo Donglai took Yao Guoguo to the giant panda base to visit, and kept communicating with the giant panda keepers to learn about the appearance of giant pandas and their unknown habits.
“In the past, the eyes of a panda were simply drawn in two circles, but now they are drawn into a figure-eight-shaped eye.” Through the visit, Yao Guoguo improved the protagonist of his work.
Paint Chengdu
The "post-00" girl uses actions to promote her hometown
Yao Guoguo’s creative inspiration comes from life. Through her five senses, she incorporates the Chengdu in her memory into the painting. The published "Fruit Painting Chengdu" and the upcoming picture book both reflect Yao Guoguo as a native of Chengdu people's perception of the city's food, attractions and culture.
The Scattered Flower Academy described by Yao Guoguo.
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In addition to these, Chinese traditional culture is extensive and profound, and Sichuan dialect has a natural sense of humor.
As a "post-00" child, Yao Guoguo communicates in Mandarin in her daily study, and there are not many opportunities to truly understand Sichuan dialect.
Now, Yao Guoguo has allowed giant pandas to interpret Sichuan dialects vividly from a childish perspective, and has also enriched his language library.
"The language of a city is a good entry point for understanding a city. Guoguo uses childlike cartoons to'retain' the dialect, giving the dialect a stronger sense of picture, which is helpful for the inheritance and promotion of the dialect and Chengdu culture." Luo Donglai hopes that no matter where her daughter goes in the future, she can speak authentic Sichuan dialect, and she can remember that she is from Chengdu, Sichuan, and she has the imprint of her hometown culture.
Introduce Chengdu to basketball star Yi Jianlian.
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Nowadays, Yao Guoguo also participates in large and small activities because of his excellent painting: introducing Chengdu to basketball star Yi Jianlian, holding his own new book launching conference, and the animation designed by him is made into a cultural and creative product as a companion in Qingyang District of Chengdu Gifts to guests.
She also won the third prize of the 2nd Sichuan Postcard Cultural Creative Design Competition, the gold medal of the 2017 Global Nature Day Global Finals, and the first prize of the 31st Chengdu Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition Science Fiction Competition... With the help of their parents, the children established a public welfare micro-shop on December 26, 2016. Mobile phone cases, t-shirts, cushions, mugs...the derivatives of Yao Guoguo’s works are dazzlingly displayed in public welfare micro-shops and offline specialty stores. .
Yao Guoguo donated part of the income from the public welfare micro-shop and the income from offline charity sales to the elderly people in the community and other people in need.
Cultural and creative products.
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Yao Guoguo, this typical "child of someone else's family", can not only give full play to his expertise to promote Chengdu's cuisine, scenic spots, architecture, dialects and other cultures, and help more people understand Chengdu, but also through this way Help the group in need, and praise this young painter in the future.