Ski enthusiasts at the Taiziling Ski Resort in Jiuding Mountain, Mao County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan. Photo by AnYuan
(New Year grassroots) "The Country of Heaven" set off "ice and snow fever" Winter sports add color to the New Year festival
Chengdu, 19 Jan (China News Network) Title: "The Land of Heavenly Palace" Sets Off "Ice and Snow Fever" Winter Sports Add Color to the New Year Festival
Reporter Yue Yitong He Shaoqing
Stepping on a snowboard from the advanced track of Chengdu Xiling Snow Mountain Ski Resort, shoveling snowflakes on the side of the body, in the process of rapid decline, Cao Gang, a 28-year-old ski enthusiast, calmly exerted his strength, jumped from the back blade, landed on the front blade, and skillfully completed a 180-degree jump. The Year of the Tiger in the Lunar Calendar is approaching, and Cao Gang is about to enter his fifth year of friendship with skiing. Born and raised in Chengdu, where there is little snow in winter, he never thought he would fall in love with this ice and snow sport.
In recent years, with the help of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the grand vision of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports", the State General Administration of Sport of China has put forward the development plan of "North Ice South Exhibition". In this wave of ice and snow boom, the enthusiasm of southerners who have "never seen snow" is particularly high, whether it is Sichuan Xiling Snow Mountain, Jiuhuang Mountain, Leidongping, Jiuding Mountain, Bipenggou and other scenic spots, or the indoor snow rinks and ice rinks scattered in cities such as Sunac Snow World and Global Center, you can see people close to ice and snow.
Ski enthusiasts at the Taiziling Ski Resort in Jiuding Mountain, Mao County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan. Photo by AnYuan
Xiling Snow Mountain is the most popular ski resort around Chengdu. In addition to responding to the ice and snow heat caused by the Winter Olympics by developing intelligent queuing systems and strengthening infrastructure construction, Xiling Snow Mountain Ski School has also continued to launch the "free ski teaching" special service. It is also the first ski school in Sichuan to launch a free open ski class. "I hope that more tourists will learn the correct way to ski and better participate in the sport." School principal Liang Zhaoming said.
"Now there are more and more people skiing, and the pursuit of professionalism is gradually improving. Five years ago, there were only 20 or 30 people a day on the high-level road, and now there are more than 500 or 600 people a day. Liang Zhaoming told reporters that the trend of young age of the skiing crowd is obvious, and many parents choose to ski as their children's enlightenment.
The Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger will be Liang Zhaoming's 8th left-behind job, "Every year the number of tourists during the Spring Festival holiday will increase significantly, although it is more difficult, but watching more and more people fall in love with ice and snow, I am happy from the bottom of my heart." ”
In addition to the increasing preference for ice and snow sports by amateurs, the development of winter sports in Sichuan is also vigorous. Since taking the lead in establishing a winter sports management center and snow sports association in southern China province in September 2018, Sichuan's winter sports have achieved from scratch, currently covering short track speed skating, women's ice hockey, speed skating, curling, figure skating, ski jumping and so on.
At the end of last year, Xie Yong, a ski jumping coach, ended the stage preparation of the Chinese national team for ski jumping, returned to the Sichuan Winter Sports Management Center, and continued to be responsible for the management of ski jumping team members, including "jumping flying general" Song Qiwu. "Every day, I will learn about the training results of the team members through WeChat, the dynamics of thought, song Qiwu two stations of the domestic selection competition first, has locked the winter Olympic tickets."
Xie Yong recalled that when he was a rowing coach in 2018, he did not know much about winter sports when he came into contact with ski jumping through cross-border cross-sports. This time back home, winter sports have become a high-frequency word for friends and family to get together and chat. At present, there are 5 team members from Sichuan who jump to the national training team. I have a Yi student A Zhi Linhong from the skydiving project to ski jumping, although ski jumping has a certain danger, he is often injured, but the young man still insists, no other reason, is love. ”
Ice and snow cultural and creative products have added a fire to the continuous heat of winter sports. Just walked into the panda-themed chain retail store "panda house" in Chengdu's wide and narrow alleys, and the first thing that catches your eye is a row of winter sports-themed giant panda sweatshirts, refrigerator stickers, and postcards. Design director Li Wanglin introduced that they began to design ice and snow giant panda related cultural and creative products in March 2021, combining the blind box elements loved by young people nowadays, and rushed to the top three of the store's sales list as soon as they were launched.
"After the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics, there are more and more indoor ski simulators and dry snow fields in Chengdu, and more and more enthusiasts." Cao Gang said that through skiing, he saw a different scenery, enjoyed the sense of accomplishment of challenging himself, and made many like-minded friends. He also left a rapid sliding figure in the ski resorts of Hebei, Xinjiang, Jilin and other places. "This year's Spring Festival, our whole family will watch the Winter Olympics together." (End)