A teacher from Yilong No. 1 Primary School in Sichuan created 38 paper-cuts to reproduce the Olympic "Golden Moment"
The image is simple, the lines are thick, and the style is simple...In order to pay tribute to the Olympic athletes, Liu Xiuzhen, a teacher of Xinzheng Primary School in Yilong County, Nanchong City, created 38 paper-cut works, marking the wonderful moments of Chinese athletes winning the Tokyo Olympics.
Liu Xiuzhen is a paper-cutting lover. When she was in college, she met two paper-cut teachers, He Zuolin and Xie Maoqin. He Zuolin is the inheritor of the provincial paper-cut art intangible heritage project.
Instructed by the famous teacher, Liu Xiuzhen found her own style and created paper-cut cultural and creative works closely related to life, and won many awards.
Today, she has also become the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage paper-cut in Yilong County.
Liu Xiuzhen said that on the day of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, she had the idea of making a series of paper-cuts for the Chinese Olympic champions.
After the closing ceremony, she began to cut.
However, it is not easy to complete the paper-cut works of these Chinese champions.
Liu Xiuzhen said that she first found the photos of the champions on the Internet, and then went to learn about each sport, watched the game video over and over again, tried to figure out the athletes' movements, observed the athletes' height, body shape, finger posture, facial expressions, etc., and finally screened. Incorporating the characteristics of paper-cutting to modify the original sample, and then hook drawing into a draft, after further depicting and designing to make a model.
After complicated procedures and the use of fine paper-cutting skills, she finally finished a paper-cutting work.
"These lovely athletes have paid a lot of sweat and tears to stand on the highest podium, let the national anthem be played on the Olympics arena, let us experience the pride and pride of being Chinese. We can describe them with the art of paper-cutting that we are most familiar with. , I feel very honored." Liu Xiuzhen said.
Among the 38 paper-cut works she created, there are diving, shooting, weightlifting, fencing... the characters are in various shapes and lifelike.
Liu Xiuzhen also brought paper-cutting to the campus to let students understand the rich and colorful history and culture of paper-cutting and teach paper-cutting skills.
Liu Jiming, a 12-year-old pupil of Xinzheng Primary School in Yilong County, is one of Liu Xiuzhen's students. Under Liu Xiuzhen's guidance, she created 5 exquisite paper-cutting works based on diving champion Quan Hongchan and shooting champion Yang Qian.
Tang Mingping Zhang Minghongxing News reporter Wang Chao