The "Flower of the Winter Olympics" that never fades away inherits the Chinese romance of ingenuity

Ice and snow, "velvet" blooms. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Awards bouquets will feature hand-woven velvet bouquets instead of traditional cut flowers. The bouquet includes roses, moon seasons, bell orchids, hydrangeas, laurel and olives, which symbolize friendship, tenacity, happiness, unity, victory and peace, respectively, and a blue cosmos is added to the bouquet of the Winter Paralympic Awards, symbolizing strength.

Meticulous, finger temperature conveys the "craftsman spirit". The Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games awards will use 1251 bouquets, with a total of 16731 flowers, all handmade. Behind the bouquet strives to be exquisite and expressive, there is the inheritance of skills, a lot of manpower and time. It can take up to 35 hours to complete a beautiful bouquet, and it will take close to 50,000 hours to make all the bouquets. "The heart is in one art, and its art must be worked; the heart is in one post, and its duty will be lifted." Bouquet weavers joke that they are "weavers" with Chinese style. Standards and sizes are printed in the heart, a needle and a thread, persistent focus, excellence, meticulousness, the pursuit of excellence, more than 10,000 velvet flowers with Chinese flavor, each of which can be just right at the fingertip "bloom", which conveys the traditional Chinese skills and the craftsman spirit of Chinese.

Unique, design details interpret "Chinese romance". 14 years ago in the Beijing Olympic Games, the "gold and jade" medal stunned the world, and now the Beijing Winter Olympics awards bouquet is even more ingenious, fixing beautiful emotions into eternal memories. The Winter Olympics is not only a stage for athletes to show their sportsmanship, but also an opportunity to show Chinese culture to the world. "Chinese romance" is showing endless charm to every attention through the window of the Winter Olympics. Tinder lamp design, Chinese-style stone table stone bench, antique red gate, red lantern full of flavor... Every link of the Beijing Winter Olympics has integrated Chinese cultural elements, piece by piece, scene by scene, frame by frame, hidden in the details, are Chinese engraved in the bones of the romance, carrying the connotation of Chinese culture, highlighting the cultural self-confidence of the Chinese nation.

Love leads the way, never withers to the "green covenant". Unlike fresh-cut bouquets, which require flowers to be transported from southern planting bases, velvet bouquets greatly reduce transportation and management costs, and are convenient for athletes to carry back and preserve for a long time. Practicing frugality highlights the Olympic concept of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games striving to achieve green environmental protection and sustainable development. Movingly, the Weaver Girls often choose to use the neck or other soft parts of the body to pinch the bouquet grip. Because athletes without upper limbs, after winning the bouquet, will also make the same action, to ensure that the copper wire is not exposed, in order to prevent injury to disabled athletes. Chinese people often say that "love leads the line", and this velvet thread that carries truth, goodness and beauty can make people on the five continents who have become alienated by the impact of the new crown epidemic more united, and weave a beautiful future for the world with infinite threads.

The Winter Olympics are gradually approaching, "thousands of purples and thousands of reds are always spring", 1251 bunches of "velvet" flowers waiting for visitors from all over the world, not only the award ceremony at the Winter Paralympic Games, but also the "glory" gift that expresses ingenuity, tells romance and conveys emotions. (Zhang Yan)

Source: Nantong Network