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The artwork "Winter Dream" unveiled by 300 Winter Olympic volunteers from China University of Petroleum (Beijing)

The artwork "Winter Dream" unveiled by 300 Winter Olympic volunteers from China University of Petroleum (Beijing)

This week, volunteers from Yanqing Winter Olympic Village (Winter Paralympic Village) from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) will be on duty soon. In the early stage, some volunteers came to the volunteer home in advance to familiarize themselves with the environment. As soon as they entered the door, they were deeply attracted by a calligraphy work "Winter Dream". From a distance, it is just a calligraphy work, close to look, but there is Qiankun inside, it turns out that the two words "Winter Dream" were "spelled out" by the names of more than 300 Volunteers of the China University of Petroleum (Beijing) Winter Olympics.

Two young people come true to the dream of ice and snow

The work was co-authored by Jin Xianchi from Jianguomen Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, Deng Ting, volunteer manager of Yanqing Village for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Olympics, Zhou Xuezhi, secretary of the Youth League Committee of China University of Petroleum (Beijing), and Sun Lixiang from the Beijing Youth League Municipal Committee. Among them, Jin Xianchi and Sun Lixiang, two young cadres, are related to each other, and they also stem from the Olympic dream.

In 2008, at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, Chairman Logue used a word to evaluate - "unparalleled", which made Jin Xianchi, who was still studying at the Art College of Beijing Normal University at the time, remember vividly, and he felt for the first time the important role of volunteers in the Olympic Games.

The stage of the Olympic Games is the world, but also the most intuitive, after the Beijing 08 Olympics, he came up with the idea of creating for the Olympic Games, but at that time, he did not know that in a few years, Beijing will once again obtain the right to bid for the Olympic Games, and his dream of helping the Olympic Games will eventually be realized with a very perfect result.

In 2015, the news of Beijing's successful bid for the Olympic Games again gave Sun Lixiang a great encouragement to the newly hired Sun Lixiang, who grew up in the northern ice city of Heilongjiang, and he was very passionate about ice and snow projects.

Sun Lixiang's hometown is close to the "Snow Town of China", the Shuangfeng Forestry Farm of the Great Sea Forestry Bureau of Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. The snow period here is long and the snowfall is frequent, the snow period is up to 7 months, and the average annual snow thickness is 2 meters. Snow township embraces layers of snow, more than 100 households of residential areas are like a connected "igloo", snow township from the early winter ice flowers blooming clearly to the early spring fog trickling graceful, all the time emitting the charm of snow, there is "no three days of sunny saying", so that the seeds of his "winter dream" in his youth spread.

In December 2021, the two young people went to the Covenant of the Winter Olympics and sang the slogan song "Together to the Future". In the rehearsal process, the small partners jointly discussed what to do for the ordinary people in the preparation process of the Winter Olympics, and many ordinary people emerged in the preparation process of the Winter Olympics, and in ordinary days, they paid a lot and used their own hard work to gather warm forces. Their names deserve to be remembered. Thinking of this, everyone immediately agreed to create a work together to pay tribute to every ordinary person who has paid silent attention to the Olympic Games.

Volunteers are used as a theme to celebrate the Winter Olympics

Although the idea is good, how to achieve it is also a problem, in what way? Traditional calligraphy? Art design? painting? And most importantly, which ordinary people are representative? A series of problems followed, bothering them who had just been confident.

Sun Lixiang has participated in and served many major activities since 2019, and he has immersed himself again and again in the strength of Chinese young volunteers and the motherland in the new era.

After communicating with Deng Ting, volunteer manager of Yanqing Winter Olympic Village (Winter Paralympic Village), and Zhou Xuezhi, secretary of the Youth League Committee of China University of Petroleum (Beijing), deng Ting, who was then selected from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) to yanqing Winter Olympic Village (Winter Paralympic Village) venue operation team, she had a clever move, thinking that the University of Petroleum had just experienced almost the most stringent selection of Winter Olympic volunteers in history, why not use these outstanding young people as materials to show the style of Chinese youth in the new era? Secretary Zhou Xuezhi is also very supportive, packaging and sharing the volunteers' information.

The artwork "Winter Dream" unveiled by 300 Winter Olympic volunteers from China University of Petroleum (Beijing)

300 volunteer names spelled "Winter Dreams"

The material is available, and all that remains is to create, first determined that Jin Xianchi will write it and express it in the form of calligraphy that he is good at. But how to express, is still a difficult point, Sun Lixiang feels that this work should pay tribute to ordinary people, but also reflect the names of volunteers in the work, and at the same time related to the Winter Olympics.

So, a design with 300 names around the Winter Olympic logo was completed, but both people felt that the general, the characteristics were not distinctive enough, so it was overturned, the second time, this time it was used to use 300 names to combine into the Winter Olympic volunteer logo, it felt a little better, but still not satisfied, can only give up. Ideas like this appeared in the minds of Sun Lixiang and Jin Xianchi, but they were not satisfied.

Finally, Jin Xianchi locked his eyes on the two words of winter dream, because the winter Olympic dream, which is also the Chinese dream, is spelled into two words in the name of the volunteer, which is of extraordinary significance! After several rounds of repeated revisions of the manuscript, in the end, a "Winter Dream" calligraphy work composed of the names of more than 300 volunteers was born! It is 2.05 meters long and 1 meter wide, and the far right side is printed with the volunteer logo of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. From a distance, it is the two words of winter dream in traditional calligraphy, and if you look closely, you can find that these two words are composed of hundreds of small characters, and the names of each volunteer are embedded in the "winter dream", symbolizing that with the joint efforts of all volunteers, the "winter dream" will come true.

Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Liu Yang

Editor/Peng Zhang

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