THE BEIJINGREN
这是一幅表达“崇文记忆”的插画。
崇文区曾位列北京的四个中心城区，但是在2010年与东城区合并，“老崇文”的名字已不复存在。儿时欢闹过的胡同老院、上学时骑车路过的街巷、繁华现代的新世界商区、早已迁址的崇文门菜市场和磁器口豆汁店、富有历史厚重感的天坛和前门、我的初高中母校…..这里承载了几乎所有我青少年岁月的记忆。
我希望用这幅封面记录下这些“有名无实”或者“有实无名”，抑或仍“名实相符”的地方，将时光流逝中的城市变迁定格在同一幅画面中，表达我对老崇文的思念。
Happy to join this collaborative project to tell my own story of Beijing. The cover illustration I did is about memory of Chongwen District, a former district in the south of Beijing where I was born and brought up.
Chongwen doesn't exist right now, it merged into the Dongcheng District when I was in junior high school. So in my artwork, I would like to draw not only things which still exists, like the Temple of Heaven, Qianmen Street, my middle school and other buildings... but also something which changed or disappeared with old Chongwen, like the Chongwen Vegetable market and hutong.
So this illustration is a mixture of memory and existence to express my missing of old Chongwen that carry most of my childhood memory.
