Chao News Reporter Li Hua Sharing Alliance Jiulong Lake Cen Siyi.
In Qinshan Village, Jiulonghu Town, Zhenhai District, Ningbo, most of the villagers are surnamed Qin, and Qin Lei, who walked out from here, always did not forget to add a sentence when introducing his identity as a Qinshan person: "You see my surname is Qin." ”
At the age of 17, he went out to learn art, and at the age of 50, he returned to his hometown to open a museum to teach.
Recently, the Qinshan Flower Arrangement Art Museum, which he runs, has reopened after completing an upgrade. After returning to the village for 6 years, Qin Lei sowed the ideal of "beauty" in the countryside, which is gradually shining into reality.
Classes are held in the village three days a week.
Qinshan Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side faces the lake, two mountain streams meet here, and the villagers' houses are arranged along the lake, like a paradise.
The Qinshan Flower Arrangement Art Museum located in the village is very down-to-earth. A two-story village-style building, the first floor is a vegetable market that satisfies the villagers' three meals a day, and the second floor is the Qinshan Flower Arrangement Art Museum that satisfies the spiritual life. At the corner of the staircase, there are Qin Lei's flower arrangement works, most of the materials are ordinary flowers and plants in the mountains, but the form is delicate and the artistic conception is lofty.
Qin Lei demonstrates the making of combined potted plants in class. Yuan Jiaying Qin Lei, who came out of the voice, behaved elegantly, and when he shook hands, he could feel that his palms were unusually rough, presumably because he had been dealing with flowers, branches, trees, and gardening tools for a long time.
Seeing that we were interested in a flower arrangement work in the corner, Qin Lei immediately introduced: "This is a plate flower in China's traditional flower arrangement, with the spring flower branches hanging upright upside down as the main branch, with osmanthus, chrysanthemum and other autumn white and yellow systems, and then with rotten wood as a rockery, to create a late autumn artistic conception." It can be seen that Qin Lei is very satisfied with this work that was just completed in the morning.
As he spoke, he reached out and turned on the downlight overhead. In an instant, the light and shadow of the inverted branches and leaves are projected on the wall, and the reflection of flowers and plants gives the work a three-dimensional sense and dynamic beauty in an instant. "Isn't it completely different? This is the fun of traditional Chinese flower arrangement. Qin Lei said with a smile.
This village-level flower arrangement art gallery was established in 2018. At that time, Qin Lei was already the vice president of the World Chinese Flower Arrangement Association and the executive vice president of the China Flower Arrangement Association.
At the age of 17, Qin Lei walked out of Qinshan Village to learn art, learning the landscape gardening he was most interested in, and he never left the garden career after joining the work. Later, he became interested in flower arrangement, and once worshipped Wang Lianying, the representative inheritor of traditional flower arrangement, the national intangible cultural heritage, as his teacher.
In 2004, when Qin Lei participated in the exchange exhibition of the World Horticultural Exposition in Shizuoka, Japan, he attracted wide attention with his floral works with the theme of "Mighty Spirit". Since then, he has won the gold medal of the China Beijing World Horticultural Exposition ("Beautiful Life" Flower Arrangement) competition, the special prize of the China Provincial (Autonomous Region, City) Indoor Exhibits Competition of the Beijing World Horticultural Exposition, China, and has been a guest of art flower arrangement performance for important events such as the Olympic Games and the Asian Games for many times. In 2006, he became one of the first batch of flower arrangement masters in China, and only 9 people in the country were awarded.
In 2018, after being invited to join the Qinshan Village Township Sage Counselor's Association as a village sage, Qin Lei came up with the idea of building a flower arrangement art museum in the village. "I hope to give full play to my strengths and let art play a role in rural revitalization. Qin Lei said that the threshold for flower arrangement is not high, everyone can learn and appreciate, and it is a very suitable art project to be carried out in the countryside.
Since the establishment of the art museum, Qin Lei has generally stayed in the village three days a week to teach classes in person. This class not only accepts professional flower arrangement Xi students, but also provides free flower arrangement teaching for villagers.
Let the flower arrangement class be closer to nature.
While talking, the villagers who were attending classes came to the art museum one after another. Many of the participants on the day were homestay operators. Therefore, Qin Lei set the teaching content as a combination of bonsai production. "Combination potted plants are very commonly used in the layout of homestays, and villagers can use them after learning them. Qin Lei explained.
Compared with taking classes at school, Qin Lei has more relaxed requirements for rural classrooms, and some of the students have not had time to take off their aprons, and some have taken their babies to "go into battle".
However, the teaching is not perfunctory at all. "Today we are going to use bamboo, purple leaves, and calamus to make a combination of potted plants. Putting away the dialect commonly used to chat with the villagers, Qin Lei spoke Mandarin, which meant that it was time to teach.
Students make potted plants in class. Photo by Yuan Jiaying Because many students have zero foundation, Qin Lei tries to avoid using professional vocabulary when teaching, but more action demonstrations. "The leaves must not stick to the soil, it will not look good. During the explanation, the garden scissors in his hand deftly flipped the angle, and after a while, a bamboo became slim in his hand.
Basic principles such as ** segmentation, Qin Lei will particularly emphasize. "Is it better to plant in the middle, or to plant on the side? Let's feel that you are stupid when you plant it in the middle? "Flower arrangement is not like growing vegetables in a vegetable garden, and the biggest taboo is the average score. ”
After Qin Lei's demonstration, the next step was the hands-on practice of the students, who imitated Qin Lei's technique and began to serve the materials on the table. Qin Lei paced among the students, sometimes answering questions, sometimes correcting actions.
Zhang Lianping has a focused expression and quick movements, she runs a farmhouse next door to the Flower Arrangement Art Museum, and she has been learning flower arrangement here since the opening Xi of the art museum, and she has almost never fallen behind.
The villagers were a little skeptical at first, and they had to help mobilize the trainees in the town and village. Zhang Lianping was one of the first batch of "circle fans" by flower arrangement. The work was taken back and put on display, and the guests praised it and were interested. Zhang Lianping said that with the flower arrangement class, everyone not only gained a skill, but also cultivated sentiment.
The countryside is close to nature, and the promotion of flower arrangement has a unique advantage. Qin Lei said that the highest level of flower arrangement is to advocate nature. The flower arrangement class is set up in the village in the hope of being closer to nature. Qin Lei sometimes moves his classes to the mountains, allowing students to find creative materials and inspiration in the natural world.
Use life aesthetics to shape the soul of the countryside.
Qin Lei's home is in the deepest part of Qinshan Village, and the house looks like it is no different from other villages, but when you step into the backyard, you will find that there is a hole in the world. In this bonsai garden that Qin Lei has spent many years of hard work building, all kinds of rare and exotic trees are dizzying.
Look at this cypress, the trunk is more than half withered, but it is vigorous and gives people a strong visual impact. "Don't look at this small tree, ** is the effect of a towering tree." "If this plant is raised for another year, its shape will come out"...Shuttling between large and small bonsai, Qin Lei introduced these works to everyone one by one, just like a loving father introducing his children.
Some of the works on display at the Qinshan Flower Arrangement Art Museum. Photo by Yuan Jiaying "Just like potted plants and flower arrangement, many arts are similar in technique, and the most important thing is the ability to appreciate beauty. Qin Lei said that the people's yearning for a better life is very specific in the matter of flower arrangement. What he wants to do is to stimulate the villagers' ability to appreciate and create beauty through flower arrangement, so as to root the concept of aesthetics in the hearts of the villagers.
Like flower arrangement, the village should have a shape and a spirit, and implanting life aesthetics through art is to shape the soul of the village. Qin Lei said. To this end, he was hired as an art consultant for rural revitalization in Qinshan Village, guiding the village to carry out rural transformation with the characteristics of "Life Aesthetics Village".
A few wine urns are used as flowers, and the red flowers are inserted, which becomes a small scene; Bamboo made from local materials is delicately woven to become an installation full of agricultural interest...Nowadays, walking in Qinshan Village, you can see the shadow of aesthetic design everywhere.
Even more colorful is the courtyard of the villagers. Under the guidance of Qin Lei, almost every household in the village grows flowers and plants, every household has green plants, and the courtyard is also integrated into various landscapes in combination with the characteristics of the houses.
It turned out that we were all blind seeds, and Mr. Qin dialed a little, and we realized that there was so much attention to planting flowers. Zhang Lianping said while tending to the flower beds in her yard. In this small courtyard, the flowers, green plants, and small scenes of high and low scatteredness contrast with each other, and when the flowers are in bloom, they will also attract many tourists to take pictures and check in, which makes Zhang Lianping particularly proud.
Today, Qinshan Village is a 3A-level scenic village in Zhejiang, in addition to the flower arrangement art museum, in June this year, the village also completed the first village-level village museum in Zhenhai District. Qin Lei said that he hopes that in the future, more cultural and artistic carriers will settle in the village, so that the rural ecological aesthetics will be more lively, and a culture-driven rural revitalization road will be embarked.
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