Chinese characters, so fun!

Author:Object Time:2022.07.20

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Master Dharma:

Chinese characters are the spiritual home of all Chinese people, but we are in it, but we often don't know ourselves, ignoring the interest of Chinese characters.

Have you ever seen such Chinese characters?

From the left, it is "Hohe", from right to turn into "Hhone"; a small square rotation changes. From three directions, it is "Shijiazhuang"; "Chongqing" ...

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Netizens were excited to find their hometown, and lamented "Chinese characters can still play like this!"

In the video, the Chinese characters have become a real "block" standing up, with length, width, height, rather than existing in the plane.

The person who "stands up" is called Niu Nan. He walked on a little unpopular road and wanted to use 3D printing technology to make some interesting new things.

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Niu Nan's most circled work is the 3D Chinese character of the urban place name series. The broadcast volume on station B has exceeded six million.

But without inspiration at the last night of 2021, this series does not know when it will be born.

Niu Nan, Xi'an, stayed in Chongqing for more than 20 years. One day, he suddenly found that the city slogan itself was the creativity of Chinese characters:

"Thousands of miles are important, the vast number of celebrations", the word "Chongqing" is divided into "thousands of miles" and "vast", which means "traveling thousands of miles, to the vastness".

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Although inspiration is only a moment of instant, he feels that his love for this city is to add a fire to inspiration.

There is an unspeakable magic for love for cities. Perhaps many people will like this form -in Chinese characters, find a cordial hometown and the culture of the city. Therefore, he intends to start a "city series".

Two months have passed, and the work "Chongqing" is becoming more and more popular. Jiangxi Cultural Tourism also hopes to create a creative work for Nanchang. It hopes that like "Chongqing", it has deep meaning and creativity, and it is best to have a sense of history.

He wanted to continue to imitate the split method like "Chongqing", because "Kunming" was successfully demolished.

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Unexpectedly, the split effect of "Nanchang" was not good. He found that if it was just repeated, thinking about the relationship between Chinese characters and cities, his thinking would be solidified and creativity became deliberate. He simply spoiled every strokes in Nanchang, and tried to use the tenon -and -mortise that he had seen in the book. Imagine each stroke as a "room beam" and draw a convex and concave hollow to connect to the matching.

In the end, the "Nanchang" assembled in the tenon and tenon not only allows everyone to know the "tenon and tenon" again, but also think of the ancient building Tengwang Pavilion.

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It turns out that letting go and try, superimposed ideas, creative intuition will hit yourself.

From one block to express two words to the place name, to express three words. Especially in Heilongjiang, there are many three -character cities. This is a big difficulty in production, but as long as each city is made, millions or millions of people can see their hometown, and he wants to stick to it.

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After a block can satisfy three words, he began to try whether to show four words. Niu Nan remembered his hometown of Xi'an. In ancient times, it was called Changan. Think about whether "Xi'an" and "Changan" can be integrated.

Every time a city name is made, it takes more than thirty cities for more than a hundred days. He gathered these together and named the video "China is so big, live well, and meet slowly."

The small squares stringed the people in the south of the world, and people met here. Back to my hometown and met the hometown.

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Although some cities are provincial capitals, they are "sense of existence". Some netizens left a message, there was "Taiyuan", and a crying expression was left. The silent hometown will be remembered.

Niu Nan feels that the place is worth seeing without the size. Those ordinary people who cheer for their hometown also have the right to see.

In our opinion, Chinese characters "stand up", in fact, this is not accurate.

For Brother Nan, "3D printing Chinese characters" uses visual illusions to combine two, three or more Chinese characters as a whole. From different perspectives Chinese characters stand up.

Before we saw the finished product, there were many steps: conception, establishment of models, perfect fonts, 3D printing, removing support, polishing, ultraviolet light curing, and finally coloring ...

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It sounds complicated, but the most difficult thing is not the operation technology, but the idea of creativity.

It's like before choosing Chinese characters, Brother Nan also tried to print other things: portrait model, English, and numbers. But the effect is not good. The portrait model is difficult to resonate, and English and numbers, compared with Chinese characters, have a long shape, less strokes, not beautiful enough, and there is not much room for creative ideas.

He suddenly found that Chinese characters and square characters are the most perfect blocks and cube- "plane is a square, three -dimensional block". Perhaps, it is destined to use 3D printing to express creativity with 3D.

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Initially, he designed a series of "antonyms". Between rotation, from life to death, from blessing to misfortune. Or, the eyes are obviously "good" and "love", but the shadow on the wall is "evil" and "hate" ...

From different directions, the meaning of the word is completely opposite: life and death, difficult to discern in good and evil, blessing and disaster, love and hate.

Sure enough, the volume of the work of "life and death" in the fast hand quickly exceeded millions.

Everyone left a message, and some people lamented, the moment of life and death turned. Some people think of the words in the book, and death and life are not opposite, but as a part of life.

The word is simple, but it is fascinating.

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Niu Nan feels that simple text may be imposed on others. And simple and intuitive things may bring more cure and touch.

"3D printing" is indeed intuitive and three -dimensional, but some people feel that this way of technology will weaken the cultural meaning of Chinese characters, which is worse than manual.

However, for Nange, the "horizontal vertical" of Chinese characters is easy to make, but "skimming hook" is difficult. Fortunately, the 3D printing technology appeared, and there was no problem to do how complicated, so there were more time to play creativity.

Machinery has expanded the width of design imagination. Just like he wrote in the platform profile, "Exploring Chinese characters has not changed for 5,000 years!"

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The process of exploring Chinese characters is not simple, but Brother Nan never thought of giving up, he said, "Those who have been there for a long time."

There are half of the sentence "dead but not dead". A person can not lose the spiritual residence to last long, because the spirit is based on the spirit. Before dying, there was also his own spiritual home, which was the real longevity.

Chinese characters are actually the spiritual home of all Chinese people, but we are in it, but we often don't know ourselves, ignoring the interest of Chinese characters.

Niu Nan entered the "3D printing Chinese characters", like walking into an uninhabited area. He recovered, built a spiritual residence, for himself, and for us.

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Brother Nan is very clear now, but looking back, it is full of forks.

In portrait models, numbers, and English, Niu Nan chose "Chinese characters"; after trying some types of Chinese characters, he chose the "city name".

Generally speaking, everyone wants smooth sailing and goes right at once. But Niu Nan seems to be "taking detours".

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He was originally a engineering student who studied and drawd. In the mechanical drawing class of the student, the teacher praised him, and he suddenly found his talent in his space thinking. Later, doing aviation photography measurement. Until 2018, he read a book related to "3D printing" and realized that his talent might be able to do "more interesting" things.

In my thirties, I was a little late. But for Nange, it doesn't matter if you spend more time in the choice direction, the important thing is the process.

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"All the roads have taken it again, the rest is the most suitable for you. The cost of 3D printing and trying and error is high. If there is no way back, you can't be abandoned halfway. If there are still people pay attention to it, it will continue.

These directions are actually determined by netizens. Chinese characters are used every day, and cities can cover 1.4 billion people. "He hoped to resonate with everyone.

It looks like "wanting to become popular". In fact, Niu Nan just wants to choose an unpopular road. It is interesting to turn unpopularity.

"No one can go to the cake. I don't want to imitate it. I don't need me anymore."

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I asked, will it bring a sense of accomplishment as a "pioneer"?

He immediately denied it.

Indeed, the 300 prefecture -level administrative regions across the country have been completed, and Nange is ready to open the place name series of 2,800 county -level administrative regions. This is obviously more upset. It is not necessarily possible to achieve success.

But he felt that this was "a bit social benefits" and he also "found some life positioning." It sounds a bit heavy and a bit official.

"If I chose another way, say this." It was like finding the direction, and naturally it would be firm. He is meaningful to life, not to life.

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Regarding the future, he said, "The city is just a little episode, and finally goes back to the text itself, but I haven't figured out what specific directions to discover Chinese culture in the way."

Niu Nan has gone ahead, and other 3D Chinese characters have appeared on the platform, "very similar to his early works.

He had thought about applying for copyright protection, but according to regulations, it was necessary to apply one by one, which was very cumbersome.

Later, I wanted to open it. As long as it is not too much, it can make Chinese characters better spread. Everyone is also participating in cultural creation. There is nothing to care about.

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This seems to be a bit too "don't care" and "too casual".

Whether it is an interview or a usual chat, Nan Ge "speaks well." After the first formal interview, I said that I hope the article can make more people like your "3D Chinese characters".

He just replied, everything was going on.

Brother Nan's surname is cow, but he is not always stubborn. Personality is on the strength of uprightness and innovation, but treating the ideal itself is extremely practical, and it is really "no personality."

Just like when he first saw the interview problem, he was very similar to a student. He organized language in advance and knocked on the answer to each question with the keyboard, and he was serious.

This may be, but if you do a good thing, ask the future.

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