78 year old hand-painted Beijing sub center vicissitude for the last ten years
source: the author of the Legal Evening News: Yang Xiaojia
the recent ten years, the development of Tongzhou has changed rapidly. Now Tongzhou is not a stranger, but ten years ago, Tongzhou, even if it is old Tongzhou, most of them can only be found from the memory, or a language description. And there is such an old man, he does not use language or words to describe the former Tongzhou, but with a sketch pen to show people the development and change of Tongzhou in the last ten years.
the old man, Zhao Xingbin, was 78 years old and retired at the Heilongjiang Institute of architectural design and research. After moving to Tongzhou in 2009, he began his hand painted Tongzhou life.
a pen, a sketch book, is all his tools. Whenever he has time and weather, he goes out to paint. At first, near the home, slowly and further away, the streets and alleys of Tongzhou basically traveled.
is not the same as other sketches in which Zhao has made a mark beside each painting, writing down the causes of his painting or the feeling at that time, like a simple "graphic diary". When
2009, Zhao Lao went to draw the landmark tower of Tongzhou's landmark, and some visitors asked him about the history of the tower. At that time, Zhao Lao was not familiar with the history and culture of Tongzhou. Tourists say that no one in Tongzhou knows the history of Tongzhou. He felt ashamed and determined to learn more, to see and draw more pictures from now on.
Zhao Xingbin / > the old man of Zhao Xingbin will divide the 9 years of his painting into three stages. The first stage is from 2009 to 2011. He called it the development stage of Tongzhou; the second stage is 2012 to 2014, which is the rapid development stage of Tongzhou; the third stage of 2014 to now is the new city of Tongzhou as the new city deputy center. Stage.
after hearing that Tongzhou is going to be the city's deputy center, he went on a bus and went on a hike to the traffic construction site at that time.
the latest work is the office building of the city deputy center of the new year's year in 2018. He painted a red sun with the title of "the tower of the tower and the red sun shining new town". As a new year's card, he made a circle of friends, and got a lot of friends.
in addition to Tongzhou, Zhao Lao also painted a lot of Beijing urban buildings, such as the Chinese respect, the interval one or two months to draw a picture, now there are more than 10 different stages of the picture. Zhao feels that unlike records of words and photographs, he depicts social changes through paintings that he is good at.
over the past nine years, he has drawn up more than 300 sketches of Tongzhou. The cupboards which store sketches in the family are two meters tall and full of stuff. Recently, the Tongzhou library scanned Zhao Lao's paintings. In the future, Zhao is ready to donate these works to help future generations.
in order to reflect the changes in Tongzhou over the past ten years, journalists have re visited the corresponding locations according to the paintings of Zhao Xingbin's old people, and as far as possible the latest appearance of things in the paintings is presented as much as possible.
2010 lighting tower in May />2010 is a landmark ancient building in Tongzhou.
2018 lamp tower in March 20th, it has a building in front of it.