[Explanation] With the help of the brushes of college students, the faces of the volunteer martyrs who died on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea are reproduced.

On September 30, the reporter saw in a studio of Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology that several college students were restoring portraits of martyrs who died on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea.

According to Meng Yuanhang, secretary of the Youth League Committee of the School of Art and Design of the school, since 2020, the Youth League Committee of Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology has cooperated with Songjiang Martyrs Cemetery to restore portraits of volunteer martyrs who have not left their portraits in the park.

　　[Concurrent] Meng Yuanhang, Secretary of the Youth League Committee of the School of Art and Design, Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology

　　Songjiang Martyrs Cemetery has images of only 70 of the 170 martyrs in their entire cemetery. After many martyrs have found their relatives, their relatives are very sorry, that is, they have not seen my father or my brother.

Because they went directly to the battlefield, no images were left.

　　[Explanation] Meng Yuanhang recalled that once the idea of ​​restoring the portraits of these martyrs was put forward, it immediately received positive responses from many students with art expertise in the school.

　　[Concurrent] College student Ji Xiaopeng

　　I was participating in a project to restore portraits of martyrs, and we formed a team specifically to restore portraits of deceased martyrs to bring warmth and comfort to their relatives.

　　[Concurrent] College student Gao Hua

　　In this way, we not only let our project members remember the stories of these veterans, but what they looked like.

More importantly, what we want to do is to let more young college students in the follow-up continue to remember the stories and appearances of these veterans.

　　[Explanation] After consulting the families of the martyrs and sorting out the list of the first 13 martyrs, the college student volunteers responsible for restoring the portraits first came to the cemetery of the martyrs to learn about the deeds of the martyrs, and then visited the families of the martyrs, through the appearance and family members of the martyrs' close relatives. The description of the painting, the restoration work was carried out by the combination of brushes and technology, and the manuscript was changed several times, and finally the image of the martyr was reproduced.

During this period, oral narration by martyrs’ families and comrades in arms was the main way to obtain clues about the appearance of martyrs. However, most of the interviewees were old, their language expressions were vague, and many elderly people could only communicate in local dialects, so college student volunteers could only visit multiple times. , reviewing, drawing drafts, and figuring out and revising the details repeatedly. During the whole drawing process, there were more than 100 scraps, and it took more than a month to complete one.

　　[Concurrent] Meng Yuanhang, Secretary of the Youth League Committee of the School of Art and Design, Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology

　　Through the development concept of art and technology in our academy, we can restore the static painting with some of our technology, or let it live, let it move, and carry out some interactive designs, so that martyrs can really follow His family has a dialogue across time and space, which is what we are already doing in the future (early stage).

　　Zhang Jian reports from Shanghai

Responsible editor: [Fang Jialiang]