This is a village in Xinxiang, Henan Province, and this is Xiaotun Village. It turned out to be a gray wall, a run-down street. How did this happen?
You can see a young man drawing something on the wall with paint in his hand in the distance. He has been painting here for two years.
This young man is called Shang. He is from Xinxiang, Henan. In 2020, I still went home for the New Year and went to a friend's house in Xiaotun Village next door. Unexpectedly, the epidemic suddenly came, and he was trapped in Xiaotun Village. Several young people are chatting and playing games together.
Shang used to be a mural artist. Before the epidemic, I worked in an art test training center in Beijing, with a monthly salary of 30 thousand, and I was under great pressure to work in Beijing. When talking about work pressure, a friend said, "Since the pressure is so great and you are unhappy, draw in our village."
Businessmen took it seriously and did it. Pick up the paint, pick up the brush and start painting on the wall. Xiaotun village was unsealed, and all my friends went out to work. Only Shang stayed. He returned his plane ticket to Beijing, resigned from his job with a monthly salary of 30 thousand, and devoted himself to painting wall paintings in Xiaotun Village.
At first, the village leaders asked him to draw some traditional wheat, crops, cattle and sheep, crops, slogans and so on. But businessmen also have their own ideas. He wants to draw some 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 summer, he kept painting in the hot sun, and his skin was tanned like an African. In winter, he braved the serious traffic jam and didn't stop painting. His hand was frostbitten and he cracked. He never gave up. It seems that painting on the wall has become his mission.
Although it was very hard, he enjoyed it, and his heart was full of joy when he saw Xiaotun village change from the gloomy and dilapidated past to the 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 about the specific address and wanted to see the scene. In this way, Xiaotun Village has changed from an unknown village to a popular punching point among network celebrities.
During the 20021Spring Festival, the daily passenger flow in Xiaotun Village reached 5,000 to 6,000, and many people started catering and various specialty snacks at their doorsteps. An uncle earned more than 20,000 yuan selling fruit during the Spring Festival 15 days. A seller of cold rice noodles made a net profit of more than 2,000 yuan in May 15. Because the murals of Shang promoted the economy of Xiaotun Village.
Now Xiaotun Village has set up a light show and sold tickets. All these changes are attributed to business.
Netizens praised him as a contemporary Ma Liang. Still want to use his brush to decorate the nearby village into a fairy tale world. He also has a dream. He wants more villages in China to put on new clothes in his works, and truly become the magical and dreamy beautiful countryside of the new era.
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