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Unit 10 I didn't choose to continue to do Unit 9, because I want to do works related to ancient Chinese mythology.

I want to combine ancient Chinese myths and modern things to create a story that is a little different from before.

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After I decided to change the theme, I began to choose the stories I was interested in in the ancient Chinese mythology.

Finally, I chose the most familiar story in my hometown city, Jingwei Reclamation. Because my hometown is a seaside city, people here used to take fishing as their business, and people had complex feelings for the sea. They are also afraid of the ocean while thanking the ocean for bringing them rich products.

Therefore, the story of "Jingwei Reclamation" is widely spread here. Because this story can reflect the spirit of people at the seaside who are not afraid of the turbulent sea and fish hard every day.

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Jingwei reclamation is a story that takes place on the sea, so I want to choose things related to the sea to combine with myths. I thought of the marine pollution that is often reported during this period, so I did some research on marine pollution.

After investigation, I found that marine pollution is mainly divided into three categories: garbage pollution, sewage pollution and reclamation projects. The most serious impact of these three pollutions on the marine environment is garbage pollution and sewage pollution.

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Plastic waste is particularly common and harmful in garbage pollution, because it is difficult to degrade and can exist in the ocean for hundreds of years. And plastics cause harm to marine ecosystems, marine organisms and human health. In addition, the random discharge of human domestic waste will have a great impact on marine water quality.

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Sewage pollution poses a serious threat to the environment and biological health. Sewage usually contains a variety of pollutants, including chemicals, toxic substances, pathogens, nutrients and solid waste, which can lead to water degradation and environmental damage.

Sewage poisons aquatic organisms and destroys the ecological balance, resulting in a reduction in biodiversity. The phenomenon of eutrophication leads to the excessive reproduction of algae, the consumption of oxygen in the water, and the suffocation and death of aquatic organisms.

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I saw this video during the research (the picture is a screenshot of the video), which is a cleaning team cleaning up the garbage. At first, I thought it was a corner of the garbage dump, but I didn't know it was a river filled with garbage until I saw them clean up a river. Seeing that this garbage is stacked together and can even make people move around on it, I thought that this is the reclamation effect that Jingwei wants to achieve. So I plan to combine garbage pollution with Jingwei reclamation to make a thought-thinking story.

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Jingwei Reclamation is an image in a traditional Chinese myth.

It tells the story of a bird constantly filling the sea to express its unremitting efforts against difficulties and challenges.

The connection with marine pollution is that the problem of marine pollution also requires continuous human efforts to solve it. Just like Jingwei reclamation, it requires persistent action and efforts to effectively deal with it.

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Because Jingwei was changed by a girl, the image of Jingwei is drawn as a fairy with wings or a bird with a human face in many paintings. But I plan to draw Jingwei directly into the form of a bird in my work, because the behavior of animals is often instinctive, and Jingwei's anger for the sea makes her repeat the behavior of throwing things day after day, and the separation from the human form can more directly show that an animal is shadowed by human activities. The feeling of sound.

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“The Classic of Mountains and Seas · The Classic of North Mountains”There are birds, which are like black, the head of the text, the white beak, the bare feet, the name is Jingwei.

This is the original description of the image of the Jingwei bird.

When I was searching for pictures of real birds, I found the bird India paradise flycatcher. This bird often flies around on the water to prey on insects. Its tail is as elegant as a ribbon, which looks very dreamy. I think it is in line with the appearance of mythical creatures.

India paradise flycatcher was used by me as a reference for the appearance of Jingwei.

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This is a children's three-dimensional book about environmental change that I made two years ago.

This time, I don't plan to continue to draw the story of Jingwei with this style. Because the target group of Jingwei I imagine is not those children, but most of the people who are really making garbage and have the ability to think independently. So I plan to draw in the style of traditional Chinese painting, and by the way, I can show Chinese style painting.

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I have researched ancient and modern Chinese painters and Chinese painting methods. The previous Chinese paintings were mainly light-colored lines to highlight the artistic conception brought by the painting, while the selected Chinese painter was characterized by gorgeous colors to attract attention, which would be more storylike.

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After further research, I found that ancient Chinese murals also use a variety of colors (basically blue, green, red, white and black) to record the story. The combination of these colors is very conspicuous and can highlight the protagonist.

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Because the protagonist is Jingwei and the various flying appearances of Jingwei will be repeated in the painting, I refer to some artists' way of portraying the bird's flight form and then combined it with the photos of the birds I found before.

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For the presentation form of the final work, I struggled between the organ book and the long scroll for a long time, and finally chose the long scroll to match. You can add text at the beginning and end of the painting to describe the content, and also consider that subsequent exhibitions can be displayed in a scrolling way.

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This is the story of Jingwei Reclamation that I have changed and improved.

The plot of the first picture is to introduce Jingwei's background, which has basically not changed much.

The second plot is the story of Jingwei today, thousands of years later, but there are two endings that I have been struggling with, and the two endings give people a completely different feeling.

The first one brings people a sense of black humor, using Jingwei to find people with the same goal to satirize people's behavior now.

The second is compared with the first one with a more positive ending. Jingwei found that now people are hurting marine life wantonly, so he changed his mind to take away the garbage in the ocean little by little.

Although it seems to be a change of good ideas, it also means that Jingwei's protection of the ocean like this is actually as ineffective as the landfill that she has lasted for thousands of years. It is also satirizing what people now call protecting the environment (a small number of people are protecting, and most people are destroying).

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At the end of the second picture, I chose the first ending, ending with Jingwei joining hands with human beings to landfill the ocean. The reason why I didn't choose the second one is that after thinking about it, I think Jingwei's obsession with the anger that has lasted for thousands of years should not disappear at once and then decide to help the ocean, which is unreasonable.

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On the bottom plate of the picture, I use rice paper patterns to make the bottom, which can present a more realistic sense of picture scroll. I used an ink brush in the choice of brushes.

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In order to reflect Jingwei's incarnation of a bird and rushing out of the ocean, he not only drew a broken boat, but also painted the drowned girl in red in the waves.

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The change of the moon is used to express the passage of time, which also represents the stone thrown by Jingwei into the sea. On the large sphere, I use white lines to indicate that plastic pollution (also known as white pollution) is gradually covering the ocean.

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This reflects the harsh living environment of marine life, followed by garbage in front of sewage. And Jingwei followed the traces of pollution to the source.

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The white lines interspersed in the picture connect every important story point, which is also to enhance the coherence of the picture.

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This scene itself is the feeling of a group of people surging forward from the same angle, in order to express the "cooperation" relationship between Jingwei and human beings. But because it seemed too messy, I deleted it and changed it to Jingwei holding a plastic bag and throwing it into the sea.

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In order to make it easier for the viewer to understand better, I troubled me to write the explanation of the picture at the beginning and end of the picture (please check the clear picture in pdf).

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The PDF version of the picture looks clearer.

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In the end, I imitated the effect of the organ book with the software, which was not very good, because the folding place would destroy the integrity of the picture.

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Replay the shrinkage of the drawing process.

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Jingwei ( traditional Chinese: 精衛; simplified Chinese: 精卫; pinyin: Jīngwèi ; Wade-Giles: Ching-wei ; lit. 'Spirit Guardian')[1] is a bird in Chinese mythology, who was transformed from Yandi's daughter Nüwa.[a][2] She is also a goddess in Chinese mythology.[3] After she drowned when playing in the Eastern Sea, she metamorphosed into a bird called Jingwei.[2] Jingwei is determined to fill up the sea, so she continuously carries a pebble or twig in her mouth and drops it into the Eastern Sea.[2]

Jingwei as depicted in the 1597 edition of the Shanhaijing

The story is recorded in the Shanhaijing:

Three thousand ninety li farther southeast, then northeast, stands Departing-Doves Mountain. On its heights are many mulberry trees. There is a bird dwelling here whose form resembles a crow with a patterned head, white beak, and red feet. It is called Jingwei and makes a sound like its name. She is the younger daughter of the Flame Thearch named Nüwa. Nüwa was swimming in the Eastern Sea when she was unable to return to shore and drowned. She then transformed into the bird Spirit-Guardian and regularly carries twigs and stones from the Western Mountains to fill up the Eastern Sea. The Zhang River emanates from here and flows eastward into the Yellow River.[4]

The poet Tao Qian mentioned Jingwei in his Thirteen Poems upon Reading the Guideways through Mountains and Seas, where he made an association between Jingwei and Xingtian in their persistence to overcome tragedies but also mentions their inability to be free from it:[5]

"[Jingwei] bites hold of twigs, determined to fill up the deep-blue sea. Xingtian dances wildly with spear and shield, his old ambitions still burn fiercely. After blending with things, no anxieties should remain. After metamorphosing, all one's regrets should flee. In vain do they cling to their hearts from the past. How can they, a better day, foresee?"[6]

Jingwei has a dialogue with the sea where the sea scoffs at her, saying that she won't be able to fill it up even in a million years, whereupon she retorts that she will spend ten million years, even one hundred million years, whatever it takes to fill up the sea so that others would not have to perish as she did. From this myth comes the Chinese chengyu (four-character idiom) "Jingwei Tries To Fill the Sea" ( Jīngwèi tián hǎi 精衛填海), meaning dogged determination and perseverance in the face of seemingly impossible odds.

She is also a playable Smite heroine.

Professor Manyuan Long of the University of Chicago named a Drosophila gene (jgw) after Jingwei[7] because it is - like the princess - "reincarnated" with a new function and a new appearance (structure). Related genes were named following Chinese mythology.

This is not to be confused with the goddess ^ Nüwa who created mankind and repaired the heavens (Yang & An, 2005).

1. ^ Strassberg (2002), 132. "SPIRIT-GUARDIAN (JINGWEI) 精衛"

2. ^ a b c Yang & An (2005), 154-155.

3. ^ Strassberg, 132.

4. ^ Translation in Strassberg (2002), 132.

5. ^ Strassberg, 18.

6. ^ Translation in Strassberg (2002), 18.

7. Long, M., C. H. Langley 1993. Natural selection and the origin of jingwei, a chimeric processed functional gene in Drosophila. Science 260: 91-95.^ [1]

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Jingwei ( traditional Chinese: 精衛; simplified Chinese: 精卫; pinyin: Jīngwèi ; Wade-Giles: Ching-wei ; lit.