China News Service, Lanzhou, September 2 (Reporter Yang Na Gaoying) At the beginning of the new semester, Xing Tianyuan, a primary school student in Xigu District, Lanzhou City, made a decision that he would take his hand-painted 10-meter "Shan Hai Jing" scroll and his classmates during the summer vacation. Sharing, many students in the class like the story of Shanhaijing, and I can explain it for them.

  After painting 25 sacred animals and characters, he blurted out the myths and stories in them.

The names of the strange animals in the ancient times described in the "Shan Hai Jing" are all complicated and rare characters. Xing Tianyuan corrected his mother Cao Qing many times, told her the correct reading and explained in detail the special functions of each of the beasts.

In an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com, Cao Qing said that after spending three days awake and sleepless reading the "Shan Hai Jing" children's book, his son had the idea of ​​hand-painting the "Shan Hai Jing".

The picture shows the ten-meter scroll of "Shan Hai Jing" painted by Xing Tianyuan.

Photo by Yang Na

  9-year-old Xing Tianyuan has been "painting age" for four to five years.

Recalling the first time I saw a two-year-old son graffiti on a bed sheet with a marker pen, Cao Qing only thought it was a scribble from a child. After going to kindergarten, the son went home and told her: "Mom, I I want to paint."

  After observing his son's interest in painting, Cao Qing gave strong support.

Before going to kindergarten, Xing Tianyuan would scribble on the walls, the floor and even the sheets. Cao Qing would not scold him for this. He decorated the blackboard and white board at home, bought him paper and pen for painting, and guided him to follow his own interests. painting.

  "When he can understand the parents' requirements, I will set a place for him to paint." Cao Qing still retains his son's various graffiti works from childhood to childhood, from the simple and unstructured lines and colors to gradually Being able to draw a rough outline, Xing Tianyuan's paintings have been "quite thoughtful" in the late kindergarten.

  Compared to music, he prefers to learn painting. Influenced by his mother who is a major in fine arts, Xing Tianyuan feels that sitting at a table and painting is not something boring for his classmates. Unlike music, which is more prescriptive, painting can let him play freely. .

In one of his watercolor paintings, the firefighter in front is trying to put out the fire, while in the lawn next to it, small animals such as scarabs and ants are meeting in full swing.

Xing Tianyuan said that this is a picture he created himself, and he finds it very interesting.

The picture shows Xing Tianyuan explaining the story of Dayu's flood control.

Photo by Yang Na

  The nine-tailed fox, the rhinoceros with horns on their heads... the various magical animals and stories in "Shan Hai Jing" made Xing Tianyuan hold the book and love it during the summer vacation.

His mother bought him paper and pen for painting, and he began to select the content that he was interested in, copied the images of the illustrations in the book, and painted them on a 10-meter long scroll.

  After sketching the outline with a pencil, Xing Tianyuan painted it according to the colors in the book, and painted the background content such as mountains and trees, and he added his own ideas, striving to highlight the spirit of the beast.

Talking about the impact of painting on his son, Cao Qing said that compared with the previous three-minute concentration, painting has improved his son's concentration.

  Xing Tianyuan is full of interest in the world of painting. When he was 9 years old, when he watched cartoons and promotional videos, he was already an "inside person". He would observe the depiction of the characters' hands in these works and try to figure out the techniques.

In addition to painting watercolors, he likes painting on paper prints, sketches, gouache, etc.

  "Painting makes me more confident." Xing Tianyuan talked about the technical terms of painting.

Every holiday, his handwritten newspapers and other homework will be reviewed by the school after the start of school and will be rewarded.

The cheerful and confident personality is also the "most precious wealth that painting brings to him" in the eyes of his mother.

  Cao Qing believes that parents need to carefully observe their children and guide them appropriately after discovering their children's interests.

She has been learning painting since she was a child, and she knows that it is not easy to learn to paint well and requires great perseverance and perseverance.

When her son is older, she will communicate with him. If his interest in painting is still strong, she will let him receive systematic and professional training, and encourage him to overcome difficulties and persevere on this road.

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