Buoshi Park opening and Mr. Fu Baoshi statue unveiling ceremony was held in Xinyu, Jiangxi Province
China's first park named after the painter, with a total investment of 300 million September 30, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province, in the center of the park, a sea of people, colorful ball flying, flags fluttering, dressed in red, yellow costumes of drummers group up to ring the gong, the sound of the drums and gongs stirred in the plaza, donned in festive attire of the Holding Stone Park has become a sea of joy. This day, for the people of Xinyu is a special commemorative day, because the total investment of three hundred million "holding stone park opening and unveiling ceremony of the statue of Mr. Fu Baoshi" officially opened the curtain.
9:00 a.m., Xinyu City, vice mayor Song Diwei announced the beginning of the ceremony, holding the stone park renovation project leading group office director Comrade HuangHuaLei introduced the project overview, he said: "holding the stone park is approved by the people's government of jiangxi province in 1984 began to prepare for the construction of the official opening to the public in 1985, is China's first to the painter named the park, then Gradually become the public's main leisure, entertainment venues, the number of people to the park every year to play more than 100,000 people. After many years, holding the stone park infrastructure and recreational facilities and other functions have not been able to meet the needs of leisure, recreation and the city's economic and social development is not compatible. To this end, in May 2006, the municipal party committee and the municipal government decided to invest by the government to hold the stone park to carry out a comprehensive renovation, around the 'culture, leisure, entertainment' three major themes, it will be transformed into 'the province's first-class, nationally renowned' park. After the transformation of the stone park retained the original Fu Baoshi Memorial Hall and other 10 attractions, added Mr. Fu Baoshi statue, the moon to the boat, Zhu Li Hall, the curved corridor sunset, ginkgo biloba Avenue and other 12 attractions, a new 13970 square meters of the East Square and the North Square, the new and dredging the water system of 25,700 square meters, a new park up to the length of the North Road of more than 580 meters. The remodeled park is lush with grass and trees and beautiful scenery."
Fu Ershi, honorary director of Jiangsu Fu Baoshi Memorial Hall, said fondly on behalf of his family, "Today, we came to our beautiful hometown of Xinyu City to visit the opening of Baoshi Park and the unveiling ceremony of my father's statue, and I feel very happy and honored. Today we see this beautiful park named after my father's name, as well as towering in front of us this statue of my father, it is the hometown people of my father's deep feelings and deep remembrance of the best proof. We - the descendants of Fu Baoshi - are overwhelmed with emotion at today's ceremony. On behalf of my family, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks and high regards to the leaders of Xinyu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and to the comrades who have worked hard and made great contributions to the reconstruction project of Fu Baoshi Park. My brother-in-law, Mr. Ye Zonghao, is the author of this statue. In order to complete the statue, he and the sculptor, Mr. Luo Shiping and his assistants, overcame many difficulties in a very short period of time, and finally made it possible to hold today's event as scheduled.
Fu Ershi also said that his father, Fu Baoshi, had deep feelings for his hometown during his lifetime. Seventy years ago on February 25, 1938, my father with the family from Nanchang back to Xinyu Zhangtang village hometown. I was only two years old at that time. In June of the same year, we left Xinyu hometown, in the subsequent decades, although experienced numerous twists and turns and ups and downs, and my father has never forgotten his hometown, he has two sides of the common seal engraved by himself, one side of the 'new metaphor'', one side of the 'new metaphor Fu's '. Every painting, always titled 'new metaphor Fu Baoshi', and then stamped 'new metaphor' this side of the chapter. He always remembered that he was the son of Xinyu people, no matter what kind of performance he made in his career, he also wanted to give glory to his hometown people. Today, the people of my hometown honor my father in various ways. In Xinyu, everywhere can feel the hometown people of my father's immense reverence. 18 years ago, 'hold stone park' was established, set a precedent for the painter's name to name the park. And today's 'holding stone park' more with its new look has become the people of Xinyu favorite place of leisure and entertainment with high cultural taste. Now my father has been turned into a granite boulder, his image and his great spirit will be with this majestic statue forever **** exist. He will be able to see his hometown people under the leadership of the party to build their hometown more and more beautiful, to see the happiness and joy of the people of his hometown. Father's spirit in heaven will also feel great comfort and smile. Once again, thank you for the leadership and people of my hometown, thank you for my father's love, we, Fu Baoshi's descendants will never forget your deep affection.
Wang Ping, mayor of Xinyu City, said at the unveiling ceremony, in the country to welcome *** and the country's 58th birthday and the party's seventeenth congress is about to be held at a good time, today we are here to hold a grand opening of BaoShi Park and the unveiling of the Mr. FuBaoshi statue, which is the city's urban construction has achieved another major achievement, but also is the whole city's people to the 58th anniversary of the National Day and the party's seventeenth congress to dedicate a deep love! Gift. Here, I would like to on behalf of the Chinese *** Xinyu Municipal Committee, Xinyu Municipal People's Government, to hold the stone park opened and Mr. Fu Baoshi statue unveiled to express warm congratulations! Mr. Fu Baoshi is an outstanding representative of the people of Xinyu, is the hometown people's eternal pride and joy. Holding the stone park renovation and the construction of Mr. Fu Baoshi statue, not only is the hometown people y remember Mr. Fu Baoshi, inspire future generations to work hard specific actions; but also the municipal party committee and municipal government to speed up the pace of urban construction, enhance the city's taste, the construction of Jiangxi's most beautiful city's specific embodiment. Her completion, not only for Xinyu to add historical and cultural connotations, shaping a new image of the modern city injected new vitality, but also from the culture, entertainment, sightseeing, leisure and other aspects of the start, all-round improvement of the living environment, to the people of the city to provide a multi-functional tourism, entertainment, sightseeing, and other recreational venues as a whole.
After the remodeling of the Holding Stone Park, the park area expanded from the original 436 acres to 711 acres, divided into five functional areas of prosperity, elegance, show, integration, music. The park not only retained the original exhibition hall, drunken pen pavilion, two Xiang pavilion, the game pavilion, art peak tower and other landscapes, but also added the ginkgo biloba avenue, drop Yinghuai stone, curved corridor sunset, butterfly valley flower stream, autumn forest water pavilion, seal pavilion, appreciate the heart of the pavilion, inviting the moon pavilion, the cloud pavilion, the moon to boat, bamboo museum, landscape tower and other attractions, and many of the amusement spots for the reconstruction and expansion, such as the zoo by the original 5 acres of the 12 acre extension, amusement park Expanded from the original 30 acres to 120 acres. The new hold stone park, increased leisure projects, enrich the humanities landscape, rich play content, can greatly meet the new Yu city and even the surrounding areas of the masses of culture, leisure, entertainment needs, marking the new Yu city towards the construction of Ganxi important center of the city and the goal of Jiangxi's most beautiful city and a step forward.
Then, Mayor Wang Ping, Mr. Fu Ershi, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Wu Zhiyun, Chairman of the Municipal People's Consultative Conference Xiong Wei, Municipal Party Committee Secretary General Zhang Rongsheng, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, Li Jianli, for the opening of the Holding Stone Park to cut the ribbon; and finally, Mayor Wang Ping and Fu Ershi unveiled the statue of Mr. Fu Baoshi.
Fu Baoshi statue of the author of Mr. Ye Zonghao also detailed the creation of the statue process: in March this year, to Xinyu City, holding the stone park renovation project Deng Ruohai, headed by a delegation to Nanjing to ask him to do a Fu Baoshi's statue, due to the age of the physical strength is now limited, but taking into account the hometown of the people's business, he still accepted the task, a little bit of a time crunch, the general large-scale sculpture requires 1-2 Years, only a few months, the difficulty is relatively large, because the sculpture is a project, is relying on a combination of physical and mental engineering, he has done a lot of Fu Baoshi's like, this time the main want to do a Fu Baoshi in the period of Jiangxi, the performance of Fu Baoshi in middle age, Ye Zonghao studied a lot of photographs, some of the demeanor of the eyebrow, according to the Fu Baoshi in the 1940s when the photographs. Because Fu Baoshi is a painter, not a leading figure, which decided to be different from other sculptures, not too big, from the beginning of the pole, set down 5.5 meters high, from the square to see there, until the front. Would have liked to add a screen wall at the back, both width and height, and now looks okay, the demeanor was chosen to conceptualize the feeling of painting, the left hand to hold the paper, the right hand to the pen. After the final draft, by the sculptor Luo Shiping enlargement, Ye Zong-ho then climbed up to engage in, two months he did not sit on a minute bench. Until 12 noon on September 29, the 5.5-meter-high, 40-ton granite sculpture was made.
Culture is a symbol of urban development, Xinyu City attaches importance to its own urban image, with a generation of master artists patriotic dedication to the spirit of the public to influence the construction of the city's culture, in the promotion of a harmonious culture today, Xinyu City, this initiative is worth learning from.