There are many different options for you to choose from, and the best part is that you most likely have some great paper lying around the house. You don't need any previous knowledge of origami to fold these! All you need are a few sheets of paper.Īt the end of this course, you'll have some awesome origami skills to impress your friends! We start by going over the different types of paper that can be used to fold our three flowers. These flowers range in difficulty and style, including a tulip, an iris, and a rose (which is fractal so it can be folded with as many petals as you want).
#Origami flowers how to
This course guides you through the basics of origami while you learn how to fold 3 different flowers. Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Heritage Bureau (in Chinese).Transforming a sheet of paper into a work of art is a fulfilling and meditative art form. ↑ "Results of 2021 China Excellent Museum-Related Cultural, Social and Educational Projects".National Cultural Heritage Administration (in Chinese). ↑ "Results of the 1st Cultural and Creative Product Promotion Campaign in China".The People's Government of Gaochun, Nanjing (in Chinese). ↑ "The 1st Zijin Grass International Peace School held in China Porcelain Town".↑ "Origami artist remembers victims with 'flower of peace' ".↑ 7.0 7.1 "Moral of Zijin Grass in Nanjing: Remember history cherish Peace".The Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders (in Chinese). ↑ "One sheet folds the world - youth reveals the centennial mind".↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "On Qingming eve, fold Zijin Grass to pray for peace! JsChina interviews Zijin Grass designer Haozheng Pei".↑ 2.0 2.1 "Fold Zijin Grass on the coming Qingming to pay tribute to the victims of the Nanjing Massacre".
#Origami flowers series
In 2021, a related project titled "The Zijin Grass in Bloom" and a series of "The Zijin Grass Cultural and Creative Products", both developed by the Memorial Hall, were respectively selected as the China Excellent Cultural, Social and Educational Project and the China Top 100 Cultural and Creative Products.
These models were noticed by the Memorial Hall and thus became one of its official collections as well as cultural and creative designs. Inspired by the story, Haozheng Pei created several purple flower models and placed them near a bronze statue in the Memorial Hall in the 2000s. Its moral is: "Remember history cherish peace". Since then, the flower has been dubbed as "the flower of peace". In over two decades, every year he would take a train and throw the seeds out of window in hopes of letting these little wild violet-like flowers bloom across Japan.Īt the 1985 World Horticultural Exposition in Tsukuba, Japan, Yamaguchi's son donated 1 million seeds and told his father's story to visitors from worldwide. Yamaguchi sent the seeds as gifts to friends and family members and suggested them to plant the seeds in their backyards. He named the flower Zijin Grass, also known as Chinese violet cress and February orchid. When he left the ruined city in 1939, he collected a handful of seeds of a local purple flower blossoming at the foot of Zijin Mountain and brought them back to Japan. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), a Japanese army doctor named Yamaguchi Seitarou (Chinese: 山口诚太郎 Japanese: 山口 誠太郎/やまぐち せいたろう) was deployed to Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province.