Zhangzhou is an addictive small town.
If you are willing to follow someone, staying in a city
must be deeply in love with this person and this city
In Guishan Island in Zhao'an, Zhangzhou
After 90, Ru Ping can be said She is a magical girl
As soon as she graduated from Central America, others were racking their brains about staying in Beijing. It would be better for her to go back to the countryside with her loved one and live in the forest.
Hello everyone, I am Chen Ruping, the founder of a plant handicraft brand. Many people know me through a piece of news about "a post-90s girl living in seclusion in the forest."
This news put me in the top three of the Weibo hot search list. It was read 3 million times in half a day. It was reported by hundreds of media including Xinhuanet , Tencent News, Ifeng.com, Yitiao, One Person, One City, etc.
The media named me the “Master of Plant Craftsmanship”.
I was also fortunate to be a special guest of "Tiantian Shang Shang",
presented my works,
but I know that all of this is based on "things that plants taught me".
htmlI was born in 1991,graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts majoring in art history.
Compared with the black, white and gray that most art students advocate,
I only love a touch of plant green.
In 2014, I established my own plant handicraft studio in Beijing.
Yiduo Studio, and met my true love during project cooperation - Mr. "Black Earth" who is 7 years older than me.
once followed Heitu back to his hometown, Fujian and Minnan Zhao'an . I was "enchanted" by the lush forest on the island.
"Let's settle down here," I said to Kurotsuchi.
If you want to live your ideal life,
it depends on how determined you are.
Moving bricks and building walls and doing it ourselves,
we spent 60,000 yuan on hard decoration
to build a 100㎡ house
and a 200㎡ courtyard.
Then we simply moved our home and work together.
In this space that belongs to us,
is filled with green plants transplanted from the mountains.
Looking around, the place where I work is all green, and I feel so comfortable.
We also used waste wood to transform sofas and coffee tables, and also made wooden walls. In this way,
began a semi-reclusive life.
Sometimes we care a lot about the evaluation of the outside world
but ignore our own inner voice
In the process of plant handicrafts
plants will become the most intimate medium for us to talk to ourselves.
Doing plant hand painting is a practice for me
In the early morning, prepare the plant materials
It can be rose hips commonly seen in the flower market
Ferns common in southern mountains
Or the arrogant sea iron tree...
Prepare Good canvas, fine watercolor paint pens
In China, people are still very unfamiliar with the concept of "botanical artist", and some students don't understand my choice. Why do I make works that "please the eyes and are skilled in craftsmanship" after graduating from CAFA? ?
But my teacher strengthened my confidence, "There are no absolute standards for art, and there is no level of media."
Kurotsuchi, who majored in software development, and his younger brother who is engaged in hardware development are my technical backing, helping Yiduo to explore commercialization such as online sales.
And the founding teams from famous institutions such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts , Beijing Normal University and other famous institutions gave me the energy to persevere.
Later, from a world of two people to a family of three,
years later, I had my child Xiaotuo.I tried to simplify the hand-painting of plants so that children can participate. Each plant has its own character. I believe that plants can be children’s best teachers.
The cactus has thorns all over its body, but its heart is soft. It can grow freely even in the desert and can teach him peace; the fern can teach him freedom; the agave can teach him happiness...
These paintings are the first ones given to Little Potato. A small gift,
I hope he can understand that
we are different from birth,
will also meet more unique people.
But there are always some common things between us that move each other.
Let us be willing to live together because of these moves.
Others said: "After you have a child, you have to return to reality, right?"
But Ruping and Heitu have no plans to return to the city because of their children. Ruping said that she doesn't even want Tudou to go to kindergarten unless he himself think.
Leaving the countryside, there are big cities as well as small cities. If you buy a house in a school district, there are better houses in the school district. There are always better schools. But time is equal, and the time to accompany each other is only 24 hours a day at most.
"We may not be able to give our children the best school, but we can give him the best company."
"Concentration and perception are more important."
If he has concentration, it will not be a problem for him to learn anything in the future; if not Perception of happiness, even if you give him the best of everything, he may not be happy.
In our traditional education, we always give up our own lives to satisfy our children and plan a good life for our children.
The whole family even gave up everything to buy a house in a school district and focused everything on their children. Then one day the children didn't do as they wished, and they blamed us and said, "Are you worthy of our efforts?"
But children will have their own lives and will choose what kind of person they will be, just like the little whale that will eventually grow up and swim to wider seas to build its own island.
What parents can do is to cultivate his ability to choose, to love himself and the world.
At the beginning of 2018, in order to welcome the arrival of Xiaotuo, Ruping and Heitu built a second phase. Although it is still a tin house, the iron sheet has been thickened and the comfort level has skyrocketed. The space is still filled with great-looking plants, but has a more spacious open kitchen.
In the second phase of 0200㎡, almost half is used as a living room.
has a whole large bookshelf.
has Heitu’s professional books on software engineering,
has Ru Ping’s books on handicrafts and design, and
also has Dodou’s picture books and story books.
The entire public space has almost no partitions,
so that no matter whether working, receiving guests or eating,
can interact with Tudou.
The whole space is a playground for Tudou.
Ru Ping complained about herself, living like an "old man's routine" at such a young age.
At 5 o'clock every day, while urbanites may still be sleeping, Ru Ping and Mr. Kuitu have already gotten up and started working.
The place they are at is Guishan Island in Zhao'an, Heitu's hometown.
It is said to be an island, but it is actually a delta created by the downstream of the river. There are only about 30 households, and they still maintain the lifestyle of 10 or 20 years ago.
There is only one bridge to enter the island, and the grandparents who herd cattle in Guishan Village pass by it every day.
This is a very slow place. People here are more concerned about what they ate today than making a lot of money.
For her, in addition to the flowers that all girls love, she also likes all plants with a natural flavor.
likes everything about plants, and she stays with them all day long, like an instinct hidden in her body: "Maybe I came from the forest in my previous life!"
Chen Ruping, founder of Yiduo Studio, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts Academy. In 2014, he founded the plant lifestyle brand Adore, and then moved to the mountains of southern Fujian. Along the way, he tried to explore "more possibilities of a plant" through handicrafts, paintings, photography, etc., and proposed the concept of plant hand-painting for the first time - to A creative form that combines hand-painted paintings with natural immortal plants. Regularly cooperates with various brands to bring creative inspiration back to the city in the form of exhibitions.
The third prize for the graduation work of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in July 2015.
held a solo exhibition "Plant Awareness" at Xiamen University in May 2016.
cooperated with MUJI in the exhibition "My Plant Handmade Table" in October 2016.
participated in the Hangzhou ADM Asian Design Forum in November 2016.
was invited to give a lecture on plant handicrafts at the Central Academy of Fine Arts School of Design in December 2016.
In February 2017, he was invited to design hand-painted plants for Gubei Water Town.
In July 2018, the old warehouse Handmade designated cooperative brand
published a personal book "It's better to be a plant" in November 2018
Media interviews:
"Everyday Upward" column team, a short video, Central Academy of Fine Arts School of Design, let's get started, one person, one city, spend your time well, Ten O'clock Reading, CAFA Maker, Shanghai Life Weekly, Straits TV, etc.
's works are included in:
"Flower Vision" series, " Cultural Monthly ", "Chinese Handicrafts", "Beyond Architecture +", "Chinese Women" magazine, "Flower Art Eyes", "What is an ideal life" , "Strait Travel" magazine, etc.
A reporter once asked her during an interview
what plant she most resembled.
She said:
"Maybe it is some kind of slow-growing tree.
It needs natural space to spread its branches and bloom.
It needs a long time to grow quietly."
We are all looking for a lifestyle that is more suitable for us
Calm down
Maybe you can find the answer from plants
- Postscript -
In addition to cows
What we see most every day are probably trees all over the sky
Windy evenings
Egrets They flew over the roof
and landed in the woods on both sides
croaking and screaming
A person who lives in seclusion in the mountains
is a "rich" person
because the plants in the whole mountain are hers
- END -
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