[Explanation] The 14th National Games is coming soon. More and more people in Xi’an have joined the fitness circle. Table tennis, badminton, and horizontal bar dumbbells have become common sights in parks around the city. Happy Week for the elderly who love table tennis is one of them. One member.
In addition to his love for sports, he is also an artist who is full of art. Apart from his daily activities, Xian Xian Zhou hand-painted a 14-meter-long morning exercise picture of citizens in Xi’an Moat Scenic Area, titled "The Morning Rhyme of Ancient City" .
On July 19, the reporter went to the old man's home to explore the creative story behind the "Ancient City Morning Rhyme".
It is understood that Happy Zhou studied at Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in the 1960s. After graduation, he has been an art teacher for many years. He loves painting and loves calligraphy. The table tennis he loves has a lot to do with it.
[Concurrent] Happy Week for the Elderly
After retiring in 2004, I wanted to find something very happy for myself, so I often went to this city ring park to wander around and participated in various sports activities. I saw them in the city ring park. People who play table tennis, badminton, and hoop rollers, I wonder if I can use painting to express these happy people, various sports activities and various activities in the form of painting.
[Explanation] In order to make the picture of the scroll more vivid, going to the Huancheng Park to collect the scenery has become a daily routine of Happy Week. In a few years, he has walked around the city wall many times, and the characters in the paintings are all based on his What you see and hear.
More than 1,800 people are involved in the 14-meter-long scroll, which vividly shows the changes in the park around the city in recent years and the scenes of people's movement in Xi'an.
[Concurrent] Happy Week for the Elderly
First of all, I have to prepare this camera, and then prepare this sketchbook. Then every morning I will walk east from the entrance of Hanguang Gate to the Great East Gate. The distance between this is about four or five miles. Walking in the park, watching, watching and walking, if you encounter the picture I need, compare the action I think can be drawn, I have to sketch quickly, if some people move faster and faster, you dance ballroom dance like him Yes, then I have to quickly take a camera and take pictures of others.
[Explanation] Happy Zhou said, "The Morning Rhyme of the Ancient City" is longer. He added a lot of Shaanxi elements, such as Qinqiang and waist drums, in the creation process. Because of the mixed content of the picture scroll, he was tired because of lack of inspiration. .
[Concurrent] Happy Week for the Elderly
Sometimes this painting is easy to draw, then maybe a painting can be finished in about ten days and a half a month, and some are not satisfied after painting, and still not satisfied after painting. What should I do if I am not satisfied? Think, forget it, then go to the city wall and then go around the city park.
[Explanation] Facing the upcoming 14th National Games, Happy Zhou felt very happy. He said that in fact, Xi’an people’s love for sports has been manifested a long time ago. Perhaps this "Ancient City Morning Rhyme" was born. In order to welcome the arrival of the Fourteenth National Games.
Party Tianye Gaocheng reports from Xi'an
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]