Who are the celebrities in Xinyi?

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There is an ordinary old man in Bayang Village, Hegou Town. She had a rough life and never left Xinyi, but she was awarded the title of "Folk Arts and Crafts Artist" by UNESCO and China Folk Writers Association. With scissors in her hand, she showed an ordinary rural woman's profound understanding of life and described the rich rural scenery and farmers' yearning for a better life. She is Wang Guiying, a peasant paper-cutting artist in our city.

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When you walk into Wang Guiying's home, you will be immediately surrounded by a strong "local customs". All kinds of paper-cuts are pasted on walls, glass windows and furniture. As long as there is open space at home, she hangs the paper-cut that she is most satisfied with. In her words, "I like these paper-cuts, and they look practical."

Wang Guiying's father died before she was one year old. At the age of seven, her mother left her again. Wang Guiying didn't get a good education in his childhood. His only pleasure was reading the woodcarving patterns left by his father, who was a carpenter, and some embroidery left by his mother. Maybe it's her parents' genetic factors. Wang Guiying, a toddler, can pick up scissors and learn how to cut wood carving and embroidery pictures on waste paper. Since then, she has forged a lifelong indissoluble bond with paper-cutting.

Over the past 60 years, scissors seem to have spirituality, colorful flowers, dragon's claws, flying phoenix, lifelike Chinese zodiac, colorful double happiness patterns in her hands, dazzling.

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Wang Guiying's paper-cut is a pair of scissors. It doesn't need painting or other auxiliary tools. She can cut whatever she sees at will, maintaining the original flavor of the original ecological paper-cutting art. In her own words, what she thinks is ordinary life.

The early 1980s was a historic turning point in the development of paper-cut art in Wang Guiying. Previously, most of her works were limited to traditional window grilles, and occasionally there were themes related to some folk stories. Once, a tourist said, "Can your paper-cutting be more modern?" It is this sentence that inspired Wang Guiying's thought: Paper-cutting is manual, and the process cannot be modernized, but the content can be "modernized". Since then, her paper-cut works have new sources: Spread Pancakes, Make People Rich with Pig Fat, Beating Medicine in the Wheat Field, Sending Ai at the Dragon Boat Festival, Returning Grains to Warehouse and other creative works from life, which are presented to people with the simplicity of life and the fragrance of earth, and push the paper-cut art in Wang Guiying to a new peak. Especially in recent years, nearly 100 of her works, such as Beating the Field, Digging the Sweet Potato, Washing the Bed Sheets, Farmhouse and Four Seasons Happy Events in the Countryside, have won prizes in international and domestic exhibitions, and many of them have been collected by art galleries in Beijing and other places and international friends.

Wang Guiying's fame is getting bigger and bigger. His life and achievements have been included in the Who's Who of China Folk, and his works have been exhibited at many folk art fairs in Shanghai, Hongkong and Macau. Many media from Shanghai, Jiangsu, Taiwan Province and other places made a special trip to interview her. One TV station even stayed at her house for more than half a year just to record a feature film for her ... However, Wang Guiying is not narcissistic. She still leads a dull and poor life as usual. She also wants to sell her works to improve her life. However, she only sells them to people who know how to appreciate them, and does not desecrate her works for the sake of life.

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In fact, Wang Guiying's paper-cut creation was interrupted. It was during the ten-year catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution that her paper-cutting was banned as "old culture". "At that time, I left my beloved paper-cut, and my spiritual emptiness was hard to express," Wang Guiying said. "Now that the party and the government support me, I will use scissors to serve the times."

When she first arrived at her home in Wang Guiying, she was creating a group of paper-cut works to show the prosperity of the motherland and welcome The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Just as the reporter lamented, the old man took out a set of works "Welcome to the Olympics". A reporter in the same trade pointed to a work called "The Ball Match" and asked her, "Do you like football at your age?" A neighbor's girl interjected: "In order to cut this picture, my aunt watched the ball game on TV for a week!" " "Everyone laughed, and so did Wang Guiying." Creation is inseparable from life! Pointing to the group of "Welcome to the 17th National Congress" works, she said, "For these paintings, I also rode my bike around the city and the development zone for several days. "

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Wang Guiying told reporters that she hopes to hand over the paper-cut works of "Welcome to the Olympics" to the "heroes" on the sports field, and hopes to hold a personal paper-cut exhibition in the future. In the interview, the reporter deeply felt from the words of the old man that in fact, the greatest hope of the old man is that there will be successors in the paper-cutting cause. In the interview, Wang Guiying, who is old and thin, lamented more than once that there are not many young people looking for her to learn paper-cutting. In order to promote the art of paper-cutting and make teenagers like and learn paper-cutting, Wang Guiying took the initiative to contact the local central primary school and became a voluntary school counselor. Every Saturday afternoon, she teaches the children in the paper-cutting interest class on time.