Weifang Daily, Weifang Rong Media News A few days ago, the Weixian Concentration Camp Museum of the Le Taoyuan Academy received a special gift - "Dove of Peace" made of sapphire . This is Sun Sigao of Wutu Village, Wutu Street, Changle County, who spent half a year creating it and donated it to the museum for free.
Sun Sigao showing the donation certificate.
Sun Sigao is 70 years old this year. The "Dove of Peace" donated to the Weixian Concentration Camp Museum of the Ledao Academy is about 20 cm long. It is shaped like a flying dove and is inlaid with hundreds of sapphires. It is difficult to think that making handicrafts is not his main business.
Sun Sigao loved medicine since childhood and taught himself acupuncture and moxibustion techniques. In the 1970s, he signed up for medical training courses. Through systematic study and practice, he became a barefoot doctor. He has treated and saved countless lives for decades. Born in the "hometown of sapphire" Changle , Sun Sigao has an infinite love for the treasures of his hometown. "I hope that Changle sapphire can speak." Since 1997, Sun Sigao has been making sapphire handicrafts, which are important nationally or locally. Gifts on festivals and anniversaries, telling stories and conveying emotions with sapphire.
's sapphire work "Dove of Peace"
is due to the high hardness of sapphire. The production process requires cutting, splicing and other links. It is a test of skill and patience. A piece of valuable sapphire may be cut off accidentally. It took Sun Sigao more than half a year from conception to completion of "Dove of Peace", and the production process went through many twists and turns.
talked about the original intention of creation, Sun Sigao said: "Last year Weifang City was selected as an international city of peace, and I wanted to create a piece of work with this theme. After the Spring Festival, I started to conceive, and when I created the first two pieces, I always felt that the shape was not good enough. I am not satisfied until I create the third work." Donated together with "Dove of Peace", there is also a lyric composed by Sun Sigao, "The people of the world are one family, don't talk about yellow and black skin, dove of peace, fly fast..."
So far, Sun Sigao has donated more than 20 pieces of sapphire works, with a total weight of more than 10,000 carats, and the processing time has accumulated to 5 years. When Hong Kong returned to in 1997, he carefully conceived and carved a "gem dragon", which used 1842 sapphires; in 2012, the world-renowned "Shen Jiu" spacecraft landed safely, and he used 2012.6 carats of pure natural The sapphire is carved into a 9.1-centimeter-high " God 9 " model, a tribute to the astronaut ...
The sapphire used by Sun Sigao's donation works is mostly accumulated by himself in his early years. Many people had persuaded him that he could make a lot of money if these gems were processed or traded. But in Sun Sigao's view, making money is not the most important thing. He wants to express his patriotic enthusiasm by donating sapphire works. In the process of creating "Dove of Peace", he received strong support from Zhao Yongtai, an enthusiastic citizen.
has a pure heart and loves patriotism. For years of dedication and gratuitous donations, Sun Sigao has won many honors. In the face of praise, he has only one sentence: "It's nothing, these are all things that should be done."
Weifang Daily All Media Reporter: Luo Fumiao/Wen Pan Laikui/Photo
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