CCTV news: In the history of the Olympic Games, the bouquets and medals are often important supporting roles with a high appearance rate. In 2008, the "gold and jade" medal of the Beijing Olympic Games stunned the world, and this year, the bouquet of awards at the Beijing Winter Olympics was even more ingenious. It does not use fresh-cut flowers, but handmade velvet thread-woven bouquets, which symbolize warmth, peace, and also practice the concept of sustainability, which can be preserved forever. This kind of craftsmanship is an intangible cultural heritage skill of Shanghai, and recently, the reporter visited the weaving team that is rushing to produce the bouquet of flowers for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. How are beautiful and never-withering velvet flowers woven?
"Haipai velvet thread weaving technique" Shanghai municipal inheritor Li Mei: This is the laurel flower in the bouquet, this is from Hangzhou, this bouquet is (from) all over the country, and the final summary is in our company headquarters.
Each flower is handmade
The Winter Olympics bouquet includes roses, moon seasons, bell orchids, hydrangeas, laurel and olives, which symbolize friendship, tenacity, happiness, unity, victory and peace. The Winter Paralympic Awards Bouquet added a blue cosmos symbolizing strength, a total of 1251 bouquets will be used, with a total of 16731 flowers. Each flower is handmade and takes 20 minutes to knot a single rose petal, and it takes at least 5 hours for a weaver to complete a single rose.
Beijing Winter Olympics Bouquet Shanghai Yangpu Weaving Team Member Huang Hongying: 2400 roses. The flower is divided into several parts, petals, flower holders, leaves, and flower stems. You see, this petal is very evenly distributed, really like a plant, raw, exactly the same.
Seven knotted societies across the country participate in the production of bouquets
Upon request, all bouquets need to be delivered by mid-January. In order to complete this task and allow more people to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, seven knotting societies in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces participated in the production of bouquets. Among them, the bouquet of flowers for the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games is mainly completed by the China Disabled Persons Welfare Foundation.
"Haipai velvet thread weaving technology" Shanghai municipal inheritor Li Meimei: (We) thought of a lot of ways, the nearest one is that we come to the door, hand in hand guidance, and there is an online one, using video, drawings.
Velvet thread is an imported product. More than 100 years ago, the technique of velvet weaving was introduced to China's coastal cities, and Chinese craftsmen combined the traditional knot rope techniques of the East with the techniques of Western knotting to form the Haipai velvet knotting technique.
Chen Zhongwei, vice president of the Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association: The Olympic Organizing Committee has always stressed that we are a low-carbon Olympic Games, hand-knitted, and indeed reached the extreme in the entire environmental protection.
After more than 3 months of design, discussion, revision of the design draft, 5 months of training, knitting and packaging, these award bouquets will be unveiled at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Beijing Winter Olympics Bouquet Shanghai Yangpu Weaving Team Member Mou Guoying: I am very happy to hear that it is the Olympic Games. It's a great honor for you to think that we're so old that we can participate in such a great, important job. I think this flower is a rose that never fades, flying overseas to inherit the treasures of the country, and athletes around the world see this flower and think of China, and their hearts are very warm.
Source: CCTV