张宝军想把“点土成金”这神话变成现实。他是中央工艺美术学院陶瓷系86届的毕业生。他在四年的学习中学到了“点土”之术——如何选土,如何拉坯,如何塑形。他一直梦想着还要使泥土变成“金”——让泥土直接产生价值。张宝军从小生长在河北省涞水县的贫困山区,自幼喜欢画画和玩泥巴。他饱尝饥饿的滋味,曾试图跳出穷山沟。高中毕业后四处投师学画,拼博了几年,1981年考入中央 Zhang Baojun wants to make the myth of “soil into gold” a reality. He is a graduate of the Ceramics Department of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. During his four years of study, he learned the art of “earthworking” - how to choose soil, how to draw and how to shape it. He had always dreamed of turning the earth into gold - giving the earth direct value. Zhang Baojun grew up in a poor mountainous area in Huangshui County, Hebei Province, and liked to draw and play mud for a child. He had a taste of hunger, had tried to jump out of the poor ravine. After graduating from high school, he studied painting and spearheaded for several years and was admitted to the Central Government in 1981