Pei Haozheng

**Pei Haozheng** (Chinese: 裴浩正; Pinyin: *Péi Hào Zhèng*; born Nanjing, Jiangsu in 1996), also known as **Hotz Pei**, is a Chinese origami artist, TV program designer, and the holder of two Guinness World Records. He received his master's degree from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore in 2021.

Pei has designed several origami-themed TV projects

Pei has been a judge or guest on the programs *Super Brain*, *Forward to the Future*, *Voice*, *Day Day Up*, and *Power of Youth*. His artwork has received many awards such as “China Outstanding Cultural, Social, and Educational Case”, etc., and is collected by many museums, including the Guinness World Records Museum, etc. 

In 2019, Pei attended the Zijin Grass International Peace Summer School and taught origami to several international peace envoys. In June of that year, he devoted to the "Micro Light Program" jointly initiated by Amity Foundation and Ergeng Public Welfare, which has enlightened more than 50,000 students.

In 2021, Pei participated in an exhibition — "The Praise of Youth · Centennial of the Original Mind" in Beijing, China, which attracted over 72,500 visitors. 

In April 2022, to celebrate the 103rd anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, Pei released a tutorial on how to fold a newspaper into a flower, named *The Flower in May* representing the country’s young generation. On 9 September of that year, he set a Guinness World Record for the most origami flowers made from a single sheet of paper. A team of four led by him spent five days folding an origami deer with 100 twisty roses on its antlers from a 3-meter-long square sheet of paper. In November, he was awarded the honorary title of "Boao Youth Leader" by a former Chinese foreign minister at the Boao Youth Development Conference.

In March 2023, Pei set his second Guinness World Record for the largest origami snail. He then gave a lecture, "The Mark of Origami", at MSL of Tianjin University. In June, as a special guest of the Lenovo Beijing Future Center, he gave a lecture, "A Glimpse of Science and Art with a Piece of Paper". In July, he attended Youyang Poetry Festival in Chongqing with many famous artists, scientists, and cultural relics experts.

## Variety shows 
In 2017 and 2018, Pei was invited to the Chinese version of *Super Brain*, a competitive reality show on Jiangsu Satellite TV. The show gave him an opportunity to meet Mr. Lang, both as judges for the show. Pei made 20 models for display there and received the praise of Mr. Lang for his repertoire of techniques.

In 2021, on behalf of Chinese youth, Pei was invited to express his ideas at *Voice*, the first open class for youth on China Central Television. He gave an "Ice Cube" Voronoi tessellation model to Zheng Fang, the architect of several Olympic stadiums in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

In 2022, Pei was invited to deliver a speech titled "5 Minutes to Change the Future" at *Day Day Up* on Hunan Satellite TV, bringing a new perspective to the audience.
* 2013, *Phoenix*, Asian Youth Games, Nanjing
* 2015, *Jiao Ren* ("Mermaid"), UNESCO, Beijing
* 2016, *Lotus’ Charm*, First China Service Trade Innovation and Development Summit, Wuhan, China
* 2018, *Crane*, Robert Desimone — director of the MIT McGovern Institute, Cambridge, USA
* 2018, *Shou Wang* ("Antelope") and *Dragonfly Standing on a Lotus*, Jiangsu Satellite TV, Nanjing
* 2019, *Join Hands to Build a Peaceful China*, International Poster Biennale for Peace (IPBP), Nanjing
* 2021, *Yuanhang Bainian* ("100 Years of Sailing"), Chinese Communist Party, Beijing
* 2022, *Huasheng Manlu* ("Deer with 100 Flowers") and *Flower in May*, China Daily, Beijing
* 2023, *Fibonacci Snail*, China International Cittaslow Museum, Nanjing

File:Deer with 100 Flowers.jpg|Huasheng Manlu
File:Zijin Grass Set.jpg|Zijin Grass
File:Grand Rabbit.jpg|Grand Rabbit
File:Chinese Phoenix.jpg|Phoenix
File:100 Years of Sailing.jpg|100 Years of Sailing
File:Dragonfly Standing on a Lotus.jpg|Dragonfly Standing on a Lotus
File:Origami Poster.jpg|Join Hands to Build a Peaceful China
File:Lotus' Charm.jpg|Lotus' Charm
File:Qilin Origami.jpg|Qilin
File:Ice Cube Tessellation.jpg|Ice Cube
File:Deer with a Red Scarf (II).jpg|Bailuyuan
File:Flying Apsaras.jpg|Flying Apsaras
File:Deity of Deer.jpg|Deity of Deer
File:Fibonacci Snail.jpg|Fibonacci Snail
File:Deity of Mirror.jpg|Deity of Mirror
File:美人鱼.jpg|Mermaid
File:Antelope Origami.jpg|Shou Wang
File:Nonuple Roses.jpg|Nonuple Roses
File:Earth Origami.jpg|Earth
File:Chinese Crane.jpg|Crane
File:Solar Panel (I).jpg|Solar Panel
File:Chang'e (II).jpg|Chang'e
File:Countdown to Death 2.jpg|Countdown to Death
File:Light from Heaven (Double Angels).jpg|Light from Heaven
File:Tale of Two Dragons.jpg|A Tale of Two Dragons
File:Hermit Crab Origami.jpg|Hermit Crab
File:Giant Squid Attacks a Rosy Boat.jpg|Squid Attacks a Boat
File:Flower in May.jpg|Flower in May

## Awards and honors 
## Students 
* Christoph Reinhardt: the great-grandson of German businessman John Rabe, often described as China's Oskar Schindler 

* Stephen Brady: a relative of US doctor Richard Freeman Brady, who helped to set up a protection zone during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937
* The left-behind children at Nanjing Gaochun Xilian Primary School

## References 
## Other websites 
* Pei Haozheng in Baidu Baike (in Chinese)
* Pei Haozheng on Sina Weibo (in Chinese)
* Pei Haozheng on Facebook
* Interview with Pei Haozheng, by Wang Qian, featured in *China Daily*, 2021