"What to eat tonight" brings fireworks to ancient villages

Cooking smoke, the setting sun stained the Qianfenxi Village, Pingcheng Township, Pingnan County, Fujian. The villager Xu Cuiqin's family, the stove fire burned upright. "Second Kitchen" Xie Tianjiao, under the guidance of the hostess, stir -fry the potato shreds in the big iron pot and scent. He Yulu, who was responsible for the side dishes, cut the cucumber in his hands, and Cheng Xin and Qiu Yitian were shooting "evidence collection" ... On the same day, several classmates had to do and eat a lively dinner together at Xu Cuiqin's house. This is also their "homework" about the construction of rural aesthetic education. The title is "What to eat tonight". After the "homework" is completed, they will be included in the aesthetic education exhibition hall opened in the village, becoming part of the rural cultural and creative in Qianfenxi Village.

Several classmates such as Cheng Xin have been to Qianfenxi Village for more than a year, and Wu Hongzhen has taken root in the village for 6 years. They are all graduates of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts and are now "new villagers" in Qianfenxi. This group of young "new villagers" bid farewell to the city, settled in the village's home, and committed to digging the local country culture, and jointly contributed to the rejuvenation of the countryside.

Under the influence of "new villagers", Qianfenxi Village, who was once silent, glowed with its birth and vitality. Cheng Xin's homework "What to eat tonight" is part of rural aesthetic activities. Talking about the original intention of the "What to eat tonight", Cheng Xin was very touched: "One day for lunch, we came to a villager's house. The owner was cooking and boiled a lot of porridge, but only two people dine. I only knew that there were fewer people in the family. In order to save trouble, there was more porridge at noon, and dinner was solved. The side dishes were simple and simple. "

"The countryside must be revitalized, and the dining table must be enriched." Cheng Xin and others planned the "What to eat tonight" activity. The activity process is: to get home with home, get their food memories and delicious expectations in gossip, and formulate recipes with them. "In the afternoon of the next day, bring the ingredients purchased, we go to the villagers' homes to make a dinner with the villagers to regain the local food culture, and to reflect on the changes of Qianfenxi Village together and think of the future together." Cheng Xin said As a aesthetic education worker in rural areas, we must take root in the countryside, connect artistic practice with social care, focus on people, things, and things of the countryside, and start from the local daily life to create the ideal of artistic township construction.

Qianfenxi Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the stream flows from the north to the south. "The black tiles in the village have a long history of black tiles, and they have a sense of vicissitudes." Wu Hongzhen said that he was from Pingnan. He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts in July 2016. The instructor introduced her to work in Hangzhou She returned to her hometown before joining the job. "Originally I wanted to give myself a vacation, but found that there were many rare traditional ancient villages in the country here. Most ancient architects went to the building, and many of them were mildew and collapsed, which was very heartbroken." Wu Hongzhen said that he returned home to hometown to the hometown to the hometown to the hometown to the hometown. She has greatly touched, an idea emerges in her heart -to build aesthetic education bases here, let teachers and students from all over the country come to Pingnan to carry out activities such as sketching, social practice, research travel and other activities, discover and feel the beauty of Pingnan, Let the beauty of the ancient village in Pingnan continue.

Subsequently, with the support of his family, Wu Hongzhen gave up his work in Hangzhou and chose to build aesthetic education base in Qianfenxi Village and other places. Through her matchmaking, in October 2019, the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts built a comprehensive social aesthetic education base in the village. The base is located at the Yuan Forestry Station, Supply and Marketing Cooperative and Grain Station venues at Qianfenxi Village. "Architectural design combines local cultural characteristics such as Pingnan County Gallery Bridge and Run Turkish Houses. It integrates‘ art education+research travel+Kangyang Tuanjian ’.” Wu Hongzhen introduced.

In the evening, a group of graduate students from the School of Communication of Fujian Normal University arrived at the aesthetic education practice base of Qianfenxi Village by car. They will launch a half -month artistic hometown creation event here. Wu Hongzhen, who came to the reception, was busy. Zhang Sunli, Secretary of the Pingcheng Township Party Committee, who came to the news, also helped to coordinate the arrangement. "Today, students from universities across the country often go to Qianfenxi Village to carry out cultural mining and artistic creation. At present, the base has received more than 30 batches of more than 30,000 people in more than 30 colleges and universities inside and outside the province." Become the county's research tourism distribution center, and the villagers have also realized "employment at home."

Wu Hongzhen said that the development of the village has also attracted more and more outstanding graduates to join, and they have successively become the "new villagers" in Qianfenxi Village. "In 2020, my younger brother Mao Hualei and Wang Run's family stayed in Qianfenxi Village after graduating from the two foreign provinces to establish the" Rural Art School ". Last year, Cheng Xin and other graduates also joined the 'Rural Art School' team." Wu Hongzhen said The main content of the "Rural Art School" is based on field research, rural activation, community construction, aesthetic education research, and talent cultivation. The number of beneficiaries reaches tens of thousands.

Earlier this year, Qianfenxi Village began to implement traditional villages' key improvement and improvement projects, and the ideal "new villagers" were actively participating."We mainly design and guide the renovation of the living environment in the village." Wu Hongzhen said that everyone adhered to the design concept of the traditional village of artistic activation, repaired the old road of the ancient village of Qianfenxi Village, cleaned the original ancient road, allowed the depression to sleep on the sink onThe historical path below the thick soil reproduces the world.At the same time, everyone also made artistic design for the facade, streets, and roads of the village houses."I hope that through everyone's actions, we will vigorously promote the protection of rural traditional culture, avoid the cultural tourism format of Qiancun, and share excellent art works with villagers, and truly leave their works on the ground." Wu Hongzhen said.The deeper at night, Qianfenxi Village under Xinghui still lightly light.The summer and insects in the fields are giving birth to infinite vitality ...

(Reporter Gao Jianjin)

【Edit: Fangjialiang】

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