#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.

The origami has been folded by many international pacifists from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, the United States, etc.

Many Zijin Grass collection boxes are placed in public places including schools, hotels, communities, cultural exhibition venues, subway stations, etc.

The Zijin Grass tutorials, posters, and related documentaries have received over 170 million of views online.

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. To flatten them after folding leave them under a book overnight.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.

Both the flower and the leaf are flat.

It’s not necessary to use paper with a different color on each side.

The finished origami flower and the leaf show only one side of the paper.

Make the leaf with a paper of the same size as the flower.

The dark center of the origami flower is made by inserting a tiny black paper square and then locking it with a few folds.

If you are making a flower as an accessory for an origami skull, use a square whose side measures one third the side of the square used for the skull.

A 6×6-inch (15x15cm.) square is perfect for learning each of these models.

The origami flower and the leaf are both made with square pieces of paper.

Tips and suggestions for making the origami flower and leaf

#Origami flowers how to

The following video will demonstrate how to make this flower and leaf. It is also holds its own as a stand-alone model. In addition to making a marvelous head ornament for an origami skull, this origami flower can be used to embellish a greeting card such as birthday, get well, sympathy, or thank-you card. The language of flowers expresses many different sentiments. The dark center of the origami model is made by inserting a tiny black paper square and then locking it with a few folds. There is a slight difference between a real flower and the model though, as the origami version has four petals, not five. If this origami flower is made with orange paper, it looks like a flower known as Spanish Eye (Thunbergia Alata). This origami flower and leaf makes a marvelous head ornament when creating a “Calavera Catrina”, a cultural Mexican icon and an integral part of the of the Day of the Dead celebrations.