Too cool!Yunnan's "post -95" wall painter returns to the hometown creation fire out of fire

September 12

"People's Daily Overseas Edition" published articles

Praise Liu Zhicheng, the "post -95" wall painter of Lijiang

Experience of returning home creation

Let's look at it together

The interview with "Liu Xiaosi" began before drawing the "Aquarium" in 3D walls. The "Aquarium" was painted above the pond of an net red catering courtyard in the village. "Liu Xiaosi" Mali climbed out of the pond along the tripod and sat under the tree to be interviewed by reporters. The companion Yuanyuan continued to step on the water plants below the water. In order to sunscreen, only two eyes were exposed; Kai Kai shot the drawing process from time to time -and other paintings to complete the video and upload it to the Internet.

"Liu Xiaosi", whose real name is Liu Zhicheng, is a "post -95" wall painter. More than a year ago, he returned to his hometown of Xingyi Village, Chenghai Town, Yongsheng County, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province. He planned to draw 100 wall paintings in two years to realize the dream of changing the village with wall painting. Nowadays, the two people paint and two people, plus one operation, Liu Zhicheng and his companions have more than 30 offline wall paintings, and online video reading has exceeded tens of millions.

Liu Zhicheng (right) created in the village. (Photos of drones) Jiang Wenyao Photo

Change the village with dreams

Entering Xingyi Village, the exquisite walls are painted, including exquisite animals, innocent and cute cartoon animation, antique landscape scenery, and so on. These are from Liu Zhicheng and his companions.

"When come to my family painting?" Liu Zhicheng was shouted by the villagers from time to time with the reporter. For more than a year, from the beginning, from the beginning, it has not been understood and ignored to becoming the most popular person today. Liu Zhicheng has gradually won the trust and recognition of the villagers with a piece of works. Follow and love.

Liu Zhicheng's growth experience is quite inspirational. He once dropped out of school to learn painting. After traveling in many places, he was already famous and he chose to return to his hometown to transform public welfare painting for the walls of the village.

"The countryside also needs color and art. In the past, there were not many people trying to try." Liu Zhicheng said, "Every wall of my hometown may be a place where I was climbing and catching fish when I was a kid. , I am full of motivation. "

In the first painting of the village, Liu Zhicheng chose the courtyard wall of his old house. The wall skin was severely falling off. He simply created a child who was drawing wall painting, and the half -face wall painted became the beginning of his dream to change the village.

However, it is easy to paint on your own wall, and it is difficult to draw elsewhere. At first, in order to find a wall, Liu Zhicheng did not touch the wall. Most villagers have never heard of wall painting and chose to ignore it. Several elderly people even bluntly criticized. In order to let the villagers understand the wall painting, Liu Zhicheng spent a lot of effort. For example, before the painting, we first communicated with the cadres in the village and sought the consent of the owner. After the painting, I had to take a group photo together.

"With the more and more wall painting, especially the traditional wall paintings such as Chang'e running the moon and the bridge meeting, the villagers slowly accepted the existence of wall painting." Liu Zhicheng said. As a native of this village, he understands the villagers' thoughts and knows the "trick" with everyone, that is, "can do it if you can do it, you can bypass it first." Only villagers like it can wall painting slowly have more space.

Liu Zhicheng (second from left) took a group photo with the villagers before painting. Interviewee confidence

Inspiration comes from life and nature

There is a road leading to Cheng Haihu in Xingyi Village. Now the wall painting here has been stringed.

A cute big cat who is preparing to catch the mouse with a head is painted on the door. The corner is a naughty mouse. Between the opening and closing is a small game of a cat catching mice; a giraffe raised his head to "eat" the tree next to the tree. Leaves, I found that the leaves it ate were not painted, but the leaves of the real tree in front of the door ... Liu Zhicheng's inspiration of painting signs a lot of inspiration from life and nature.

"I try to let my wall paint not only show my own thoughts, but also allow most villagers to accept." Liu Zhicheng said. After continuous exploration, he found that painting is actually a process of co -creation with the villagers. For example, a picture of the "Qixi Festival" in the village is the theme of the cowherd and weaver girl to meet, that is, a villager insists on drawing, because behind the wall is his cattle.

"Creation is not as good as copying. To let the wall paint and the surrounding environment integrate." The old man in the village had a soft spot for "panda", and Liu Zhicheng drew a few pieces. One of them, a small tree in front of the wall just blocked the painting, and the villagers were ready to cut the tree after reading it. Liu Xiaosi hurriedly pulled, and painted a larger tree behind the tree, so that the real tree naturally integrated into the wall painting.

In the village, the group that Liu Zhicheng cares most is children. This year's "June 1st" International Children's Day, Liu Xiaosi walked into Meilian Kindergarten in Xingyi Village, and painted the cartoon images of Sun Wukong and Nezha they liked with the children. Among all wall painting, he was most proud of "war" and "Tsing Yi" because they were most popular with children.

"Some children read my wall painting and wanted to learn painting. I felt that I had done a special thing. I would listen and encourage them carefully. The seeds of dreams. "Liu Zhicheng said.

Liu Zhicheng's wall painting is well integrated with nature. Interviewee confidence

The future of nurturing beautiful villages

After uploading the video of Liu Zhicheng's creative wall painting process, he received the attention of tens of millions of netizens, and was cordially referred to as "Modern Edition God Pen Ma Liang" by netizens. Because of the wall painting, Xingyi Village also attracted many outside eyes, and even overseas, many people came to check in. The small village, which was once unattended, embarked on a new road to rural tourism. "There are 10,000 acres of lotus ponds in Sanchuan Town, and there are Chenghai Wetland. Xingyi Village is just on the road of two attractions. The original wall painting on this road should be an attractive hiking line." Liu Zhicheng said. In his opinion, Xingyi Village has the conditions to develop tourism, but at the same time he realized that the two or three videos he posted on the fire did not mean that the tourism of Xingyi Village was hot.

"I want to spend 100 years of work in two years, so that it is worth running for foreign netizens to come to Xingyi Village." Liu Zhicheng said.

The simple wall painting takes three or five days, the complex ones are seven to ten days, and the average of 50 days on average, one year is 50. The wall painting is not easy, and the iron frame is dry and holds it. One year returning to the hometown, some netizens in the video barrage said, "Liu Xiaosi has a lot of darkness", but Liu Zhicheng is among them. He regards these two years as a process of realizing his ideals. At that time, the lakes and plants in the distance were all very satisfied. "

In the short video, Liu Zhicheng not only recorded the creative process of wall painting, but also showed the local style and humanistic style related to wall painting. "The emergence of short video platforms allows wall painting creation to no longer be niche, but can attract the public. By shooting painting works and integrating the real scenes of rural life, more people can see the life behind art." Liu Zhicheng said.

Liu Zhicheng, who became a "net celebrity", did not be proud and impetuous, but was even more humble and grateful. He said that it was an opportunity for the times, and the vast soil in the countryside gave him the stage. With the rapid development of the Internet and the continuous advancement of rural revitalization strategies, like Liu Zhicheng, more and more young people using new technologies such as short videos, live broadcasts, new methods to open rural construction channels have been used. On the huge "canvas" in the countryside, they are constantly depicting beauty with their "brushes", adding color to the countryside, and feeding the future of beautiful villages.

Source People's Daily Overseas Edition (Yang Civilization)

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