Security guard gives origami flowers and paper-cut works on Arbor Day

Because paper-cutting and origami have the characteristics of easily available materials and simple and easy-to-learn techniques, anyone can show their talents in origami and paper-cutting at any time. Recently, we saw from Taiwan Strait Network that a 50-year-old security guard became obsessed with origami flowers by chance. Created exquisite origami flowers and paper-cut works!

Nowadays, in order to prevent H1N1 influenza, body temperature measurement is a "daily lesson" in every school. A few days ago, Hu Jianping, a 50-year-old security guard at the former Punan District Primary School, cut a paper-cut of "Preventing A-flu, Measure Body Temperature" based on this theme. The poses and expressions of the characters are quite lifelike.

Although he is a grown man, he has never touched paper-cutting before, but strangely enough, Lao Hu can cut out the shapes he wants one by one just by "observation". Not only can he cut paper, but he also taught himself how to fold paper flowers. The origami flowers can be "real", which impressed many teachers in the school.

"My method of folding paper flowers was not learned from a book, but figured out by myself." Lao Hu said that learning origami flowers and paper-cutting was purely accidental. At the beginning of last year, he helped a teachers child complete the homework of origami flowers. Unexpectedly, he folded paper flowers very well once he folded them. The teacher praised him again, and he became interested.

In order to make the folding more realistic, Lao Hu, who has always been very frugal, even spent hundreds of dollars to buy a variety of real flowers, and then opened the petals layer by layer to observe, from the color of the leaves to the veins, and then Go to the leaf teeth and study them one by one. "What kind of flower is there now, where are its leaves, what are the layers of the flower, and what is the shape of the flower? I can draw it with my eyes closed," said Old Hu.

Because Lao Hu is very good at observing things around him, every scene in the school, principals, teachers, students, relatives and friends, etc. have all become images under his scissors. On March 8th this year, Lao Hu made a paper-cut to celebrate Women’s Day and gave it to the female teachers in the school. In the past few days, he has been working on paper-cut works for Arbor Day.