The rural fairy tale world written by "Ma Liang, the magic pen"

Nezha, Sun Wukong, forest, small animals, "Spirited Away", "My Neighbor Totoro" and many cartoon characters from the animation are jumping on the wall, as if they have entered a fairy tale world. You can't help but ask where is this?

This is a village in Xinxiang, Henan Province. This is Xiaotun Village. It used to be gray walls and dilapidated streets, but how did they become what they are now?

You can see a young man carrying paint and painting something on the wall with a brush in his hand from all the way. He has been painting here for two years.

This young man is called Shang Qinjie, and he is from Xinxiang, Henan. In 2020, Shang Qinjie went home to celebrate the New Year and went to play at a friend's house in Xiaotun Village next door. Unexpectedly, the epidemic suddenly struck and he was trapped in Xiaotun Village. Several young people chatted and played games together.

Shang Qinjie used to be a wall painter. Before the epidemic, he worked in an art examination training center in Beijing with a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan. The work pressure in Beijing was very high. When chatting about the high pressure at work, my friend said: "Since the pressure is so high and you are not happy doing it, let's paint in our village."

Shang Qinjie took it seriously and did what he said. I brought the paint and started painting on the wall. Xiaotun Village was unblocked, and all his friends went out to work. Only Shang Qinjie stayed. He refunded his air ticket back to Beijing, quit his job with a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan in Beijing, and concentrated on painting in Xiaotun Village. wall painting.

At the beginning, the village leader asked him to draw some traditional wheat, crops, cattle and sheep, crops, slogans, etc. But Shang Qinjie also had his own ideas. He wanted to draw some animation characters and cartoon characters that young people like. After consultation and communication with the leader, the leader agreed, so he lived in Xiaotun Village for two years. .

In the summer, he kept painting under the scorching sun, and his skin was tanned, like an African. In the winter, he continued to paint despite severe weather conditions. His hands were frostbitten and cracked. He never gave up, and it seemed that painting on the walls had become his mission.

Although it was very hard, he enjoyed himself. He was very happy to see Xiaotun Village transform from the gloomy and dilapidated past into a magical fairy tale world now.

He made a short video of his creative experience and posted it online. Netizens like it very much. Many people asked for the specific address and wanted to come and see what happened. In this way, Xiaotun Village has grown from a little-known village to a popular tourist attraction among Internet celebrities.

During the Spring Festival of 2021, the passenger flow of Xiaotun Village reached five to six thousand people every day, and many people started catering and various specialty snack businesses at their doorsteps. An old man made more than 20,000 yuan by selling fruits in the 15 days of the Spring Festival; a man selling cold skin made a net profit of more than 2,000 yuan in the first five days of May Day. Because Shang Qinjie's wall paintings have boosted the economy of Xiaotun Village.

Now Xiaotun Village has put on a light show again and sold tickets. All these changes are thanks to Shang Qinjie.

Netizens praise him as the contemporary Ma Liang. Shang Qinjie wants to use his paintbrush to decorate the nearby villages into a fairy tale world. He also has a dream: he wants more villages in China to be given new clothes in his writing, and truly become magical, dreamy and beautiful villages in the new era.

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