"A great soup has a bad taste, and a great treasure has a bad taste. A good job is a bad job." It was with this "I'll do mine first, your comments are for reference only" attitude that I began to play with clay, a puddle of mud that I have been working with for 20 years. Don't be perfect, try boldly, in the face of the difficult start, the boring climb, the question of success, we have to do is to try to do what they can do. Time flies as winter turns to spring. Standing in the spring of 2022, looking at the little buds on the branches outside the window, I seem to see me playing with clay more than 20 years ago, young, fresh and full of hope. In 2000, I fell in love with clay because of the British Aardman Animation Studio's clay stop-motion animated film Shaun the Sheep. Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, I became the chief lecturer of the clay section of "Shaun the Sheep" tour in China. When I first started kneading clay, there were very few references other than a few cartoons. Some of you may wonder why I don't look for information online. You do not know that in 2000, the underdeveloped level of network and logistics was unimaginable.

It was in such a relatively "slow" era that my road to clay began. "No. 7 Person" from the screen name to the brand. My mother's job is to draw antique porcelain, so I began to learn art when I was young. Later, I specialized in graphic design and multimedia design. I can do some design works by hand, take photos and play with the computer for a few times. These little skills soon allowed me to create several pieces of clay in a funky shape and color. I uploaded my work to the Internet and soon received an email from the editor of the website, saying that he liked my work very much and wanted to make a special topic on Internet clay, so he needed me to provide a screen name. It's not hard to make, there are a few out there, but the screen name stumps me. What's a screen name? What should I call it? Can you change this screen name after you are not satisfied? It was as if I had "baggage" and thought it was a big deal -- a big deal for my reputation. Seeing the due date, I still haven't figured out my screen name. One afternoon, after playing football with my classmates, I was sitting on the steps to rest, suddenly heard a tender voice behind me sounded: "No. 7, No. 7." Looking back, it was a little girl of six or seven years old. It was the number "7" on the back of my jersey that inspired her. In this way, the name of "No. 7" was "laughed" by me. I hope I can be like the "No. 7" player on the field, not only able to control the overall situation, participate in the defense, but also able to attack the city, score goals, and become a big star on the "field" of the Internet! Generally speaking, I am not very clever person, a little clever, because often "smart is wrong by smart", so I do not often shake clever, slowly, things become more rigid, belong to the kind of road to the black. This may not be the right personality for a career in finance or business, but if you work on clay, you can produce a lot of work in a short time. As my work increased online, some media outlets found out about me, and even one of my favorite magazines asked me for a series. At that time, it was very honorable to buy a magazine with the "Clay Story of No.7 Man" [illustration] in a Beijing street kiosk.

At the same time as my vanity was greatly satisfied, I also received the recognition that I had never had in my life. I made up my mind to keep pinching and make "Number 7" known to more people. Thus, with the development of the Internet and media industry, the net name "No.7 Person" has been published on many websites and magazines, such as China High School Students' Daily and Taobao World, etc. I also received invitations from CCTV's Wisdom Tree, Hunan TV's Happy Camp, Beijing TV's Fortune Story and other programs to show my clay skills on TV. And many brands, enterprises cooperation. It's easy to say, but it took me 10 years to get there in just a few lines. With the increase of popularity and cooperation, I gradually realized the necessity of the branding of "No.7 Man". It is not an easy task to turn the "Big Brother of clay" into a recognized brand and expand its products and business scope. Therefore, with the help of my friends, I registered "No.7 Person" as a trademark, and started to register the company, build a website, operation and maintenance forum, etc. The bigger the business, the more capital, manpower and other resources will be needed. Gradually, I found that I could not keep up with myself in all aspects, especially the emergence of various new platforms, which made the forum I built and the micro blog I operated lose its vitality. A prosperous city built with years of painstaking efforts becomes a desolate land within a few months. So I began to learn to operate the public account and create video content. Putting my work on everyone's favorite platform is what I do every day these days. Although I soon made some achievements, and the number of subscribers of the official account exceeded 10,000 in less than a year, and the number of video accounts was also played by millions of viewers. However, the commercialization road was not ideal, just as we often say, "good but not popular". After all, clay is not a necessity of life, and people are more likely to use it to enrich their life, decorate their life and play with it in their leisure time. At this time, in fact, some family members and friends advised me, saying: "clay can play, you have played all the time, no one can play clay as high as you, you can not change to do something else, after all, it is too tired and not much profit." But I am not willing to do more than ten years of their career do not want to put down, I can do only insist. To judge whether it is true love, one must go through a painful test. Can easily give up, is not important things. So I started to explore opening a studio, recruiting and training, making clay products, everything to do with clay. In a blink of an eye, it has been more than 10 years, and the courses and products of the brand "No.7 People" have been recognized and liked by more families. In 2014, I participated in the exhibition tour of Shaun the Sheep by Aardman Animation Studio in China, planned and customized clay courses for Shaun, and participated in the teaching of 100 courses, spreading the happiness of clay making to thousands of families. To turn a net name into a brand, I went through a lot with the teachers in the studio. Looking back, I only have four words in my heart: "glad" and "grateful". Fortunately, we insist, grateful to everyone who helped us. These four words are not surprising, but they are true.

"A great soup has a bad taste, and a great treasure has a bad taste. A good job is a bad job." It was with this "I'll do mine first, your comments are for reference only" attitude that I began to play with clay, a puddle of mud that I have been working with for 20 years. Don't be perfect, try boldly, in the face of the difficult start, the boring climb, the question of success, we have to do is to try to do what they can do. Time flies as winter turns to spring. Standing in the spring of 2022, looking at the little buds on the branches outside the window, I seem to see me playing with clay more than 20 years ago, young, fresh and full of hope. In 2000, I fell in love with clay because of the British Aardman Animation Studio's clay stop-motion animated film Shaun the Sheep. Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, I became the chief lecturer of the clay section of "Shaun the Sheep" tour in China. When I first started kneading clay, there were very few references other than a few cartoons. Some of you may wonder why I don't look for information online. You do not know that in 2000, the underdeveloped level of network and logistics was unimaginable.

It was in such a relatively "slow" era that my road to clay began. "No. 7 Person" from the screen name to the brand. My mother's job is to draw antique porcelain, so I began to learn art when I was young. Later, I specialized in graphic design and multimedia design. I can do some design works by hand, take photos and play with the computer for a few times. These little skills soon allowed me to create several pieces of clay in a funky shape and color. I uploaded my work to the Internet and soon received an email from the editor of the website, saying that he liked my work very much and wanted to make a special topic on Internet clay, so he needed me to provide a screen name. It's not hard to make, there are a few out there, but the screen name stumps me. What's a screen name? What should I call it? Can you change this screen name after you are not satisfied? It was as if I had "baggage" and thought it was a big deal -- a big deal for my reputation. Seeing the due date, I still haven't figured out my screen name. One afternoon, after playing football with my classmates, I was sitting on the steps to rest, suddenly heard a tender voice behind me sounded: "No. 7, No. 7." Looking back, it was a little girl of six or seven years old. It was the number "7" on the back of my jersey that inspired her. In this way, the name of "No. 7" was "laughed" by me. I hope I can be like the "No. 7" player on the field, not only able to control the overall situation, participate in the defense, but also able to attack the city, score goals, and become a big star on the "field" of the Internet! Generally speaking, I am not very clever person, a little clever, because often "smart is wrong by smart", so I do not often shake clever, slowly, things become more rigid, belong to the kind of road to the black. This may not be the right personality for a career in finance or business, but if you work on clay, you can produce a lot of work in a short time. As my work increased online, some media outlets found out about me, and even one of my favorite magazines asked me for a series. At that time, it was very honorable to buy a magazine with the "Clay Story of No.7 Man" [illustration] in a Beijing street kiosk.

At the same time as my vanity was greatly satisfied, I also received the recognition that I had never had in my life. I made up my mind to keep pinching and make "Number 7" known to more people. Thus, with the development of the Internet and media industry, the net name "No.7 Person" has been published on many websites and magazines, such as China High School Students' Daily and Taobao World, etc. I also received invitations from CCTV's Wisdom Tree, Hunan TV's Happy Camp, Beijing TV's Fortune Story and other programs to show my clay skills on TV. And many brands, enterprises cooperation. It's easy to say, but it took me 10 years to get there in just a few lines. With the increase of popularity and cooperation, I gradually realized the necessity of the branding of "No.7 Man". It is not an easy task to turn the "Big Brother of clay" into a recognized brand and expand its products and business scope. Therefore, with the help of my friends, I registered "No.7 Person" as a trademark, and started to register the company, build a website, operation and maintenance forum, etc. The bigger the business, the more capital, manpower and other resources will be needed. Gradually, I found that I could not keep up with myself in all aspects, especially the emergence of various new platforms, which made the forum I built and the micro blog I operated lose its vitality. A prosperous city built with years of painstaking efforts becomes a desolate land within a few months. So I began to learn to operate the public account and create video content. Putting my work on everyone's favorite platform is what I do every day these days. Although I soon made some achievements, and the number of subscribers of the official account exceeded 10,000 in less than a year, and the number of video accounts was also played by millions of viewers. However, the commercialization road was not ideal, just as we often say, "good but not popular". After all, clay is not a necessity of life, and people are more likely to use it to enrich their life, decorate their life and play with it in their leisure time. At this time, in fact, some family members and friends advised me, saying: "clay can play, you have played all the time, no one can play clay as high as you, you can not change to do something else, after all, it is too tired and not much profit." But I am not willing to do more than ten years of their career do not want to put down, I can do only insist. To judge whether it is true love, one must go through a painful test. Can easily give up, is not important things. So I started to explore opening a studio, recruiting and training, making clay products, everything to do with clay. In a blink of an eye, it has been more than 10 years, and the courses and products of the brand "No.7 People" have been recognized and liked by more families. In 2014, I participated in the exhibition tour of Shaun the Sheep by Aardman Animation Studio in China, planned and customized clay courses for Shaun, and participated in the teaching of 100 courses, spreading the happiness of clay making to thousands of families. To turn a net name into a brand, I went through a lot with the teachers in the studio. Looking back, I only have four words in my heart: "glad" and "grateful". Fortunately, we insist, grateful to everyone who helped us. These four words are not surprising, but they are true.