"Together to the future" will never fade the Olympic flower, a unique Chinese romance

"Source of this article: Future Network"

【Editor's Note】

After 13 years, the Olympic flame was once again ignited in Beijing. Athletes work hard and all walks of life escort them. Taking both epidemic prevention and preparation, China has issued a warm invitation to the world to dream of ice and snow with the common sports language of the world. The Comment Department of the Future Network launched a series of articles on "Together to the Future", wishing the Winter Olympics a complete success, hoping that the ice and snow athletes will continue to be glorious, and the whole people will set off another ice and snow boom to go to the spring of a sports power. Looking forward to this "wonderful, extraordinary, excellent" Winter Olympics event, so that the world knows more and more.

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Recently, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games award elements were officially released, in which the award bouquet will change the traditional cut flowers, and use hand-made fleece thread to weave the bouquet, and award the medals to the winning athletes in the medal ceremony. The velvet bouquet not only retains the shape of the bouquet in the Olympic award ceremony, but also facilitates the athletes to carry it back and preserve it for a long time, becoming the "Olympic flower that never withers".

Different from the traditional cut flowers, the velvet bouquet not only overcomes the problem of long-term preservation, but also reduces the cost of transportation management, and practices the concept of green and clean Olympic Games. However, the birth of each bouquet of flowers, although "frugal", is not "simple".

The Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games awards will use 1251 bouquets, with a total of 16731 flowers, each with leaves and flowers, all hand-woven. From the design of the knotted drawings of the flowers, to the unification of everyone's craftsmanship and techniques, to the aggregation of the flowers into a bouquet, the weavers have spent a lot of time and energy to let the velvet flower bouquets survive the spring, summer, autumn and winter, and be placed on the world's ice and snow stage. Each bouquet of "unique" flowers condenses the beautiful expectations and wishes of many producers, and carries a unique Chinese romance.

A flower starts with a needle, and if it is all made by one person, the total process takes 8 hours. In order to improve efficiency, hundreds of producers work together, some people are responsible for making a single piece of flowers and leaves, some people are centrally screened, and some people carry out unified assembly of bouquets. Interlocking, everyone is united, and when all the bouquets are made, the total time will be close to 50,000 hours, outlining the portrait of the Chinese people who are united and cohesive. "To provide the best quality to the Beijing Winter Olympics", one of the leaders of this bouquet knitting project, Li Meimei, is responsible for quality control and final assembly, "I can guarantee that every bouquet of flowers is flawless." The bloom of each bouquet of flowers is nourished by the spirit of craftsmanship that strives for excellence, exuding a romantic atmosphere full of ritual.

Among the makers of the Winter Olympic bouquets, there are aunts from the border societies of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and other provinces and cities, there are disabled people from many urban areas of Beijing, there are the majority of young volunteers, and many people participate in the Winter Olympic Games in a unique way. They are about to complete this special mission and are the recipients of this "Flower of Glory."

The velvet bouquet adopts the "Haipai velvet thread weaving technique", in the form of intangible cultural heritage, it has become a unique bouquet in the history of the Olympic Games, which has both a warm and peaceful meaning and a never-say-die spirit, and has received a lot of praise from young netizens, "Can I buy it?" "It's really a cultural export!" The message of the screen is full of joy and pride. There are also many netizens who want to use the bouquet illustration for self-knotting, eager to try. This cultural heritage spans more than a hundred years and brings more young people closer.

The thread carries fraternity, tenacity, happiness, unity, victory, peace and strength. Lifelike and undefeated, this Winter Olympics gift is full of sincerity and expresses the goodwill of friendly exchanges with the world. The special technique used in the bouquet is a beautiful product of the encounter between Chinese and Western cultures. Velvet flowers appeared on the podium of the Winter Olympics, allowing art and sports to blend with each other, and using the common language of mankind to present cultural blessings with Chinese characteristics to the world. It is expected that this bouquet of flowers of the Winter Olympics that will never fade will make the people of the world more united, more loving, and weave a better future together. (Wu Manjing)