Jingcai praise: tell the Chinese story well in front of the "microphone" of the Winter Olympics

A world power often has to go through three stages: knowing itself, becoming itself, and expressing itself. The Winter Olympics will once again hand over the "microphone" to our hands, a "strong" China, a vigorous and new Beijing, but also to tell the world the story of a long history and culture, self-confidence.

The opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics has entered the countdown, and the cultural flavor of "Chinese style" has become stronger and stronger. During the games, the intangible cultural heritage exhibits represented by the "Yanjing Eight Absolutes" will enter important places such as the Winter Olympic Village, and each district will also launch the "Five Tiger Sticks" exhibition and performance, eat "QiaoQiao Rice" and "Factory Dian YanXuan Spring Trial Pen Club" and other activities based on their own characteristics. A spokesman for the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee said: As the host, we sincerely hope that audiences around the world can feel the charm of Chinese culture while watching the wonderful events.

The Olympic Games are both a sports event and a cultural event. Promoting cultural exchanges and mutual learning and enhancing global understanding and recognition of their own cultures has always been an important goal of the host country. In 2004, the Greeks used more than 2,000 tons of water to "move" the proud Aegean Sea into the stadium, constituting a metaphor for the long river of history and a symbol of all things; the Rio Olympic Games, samba, rock, and posanova music vividly expressed the passion and joy of Brazilians; in 2014, Sochi, symphony, ballet, literary masterpieces and other fields of essence constituted a symphony of Russian history and culture... These vivid expressions convey a country's strong desire to translate its local culture to the whole world, and together they form an ode to the Olympic spirit.

As an ancient civilization, China's culture has a long history; as an emerging power, China's image is becoming increasingly important. The Olympic Games are an important platform for expressing Chinese culture and showing China's image. Looking back at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, there are countless "circle fans" of Chinese culture that can be felt, and the world has re-recognized an open and confident China. 14 years like a white colt, the Winter Olympics will once again hand over the "microphone" to our hands, a "strong" China, a vigorous and new Beijing, but also to tell the long history and culture, self-confidence of the times story to the world. A good story is better than a bunch of big truths, Chinese symbols, calligraphy and painting, folk art, drama rhyme and tea fragrance, all are vivid carriers of Chinese culture, and all are powerful tools for dissolving barriers and diaphragms.

From a larger perspective, the Winter Olympics can be called a big military training for us to enhance our ability to spread "self-plasticity" to the outside world. In today's international public opinion field, there is still a huge deviation between "discourse China" and real China, and arguments such as "collapse" and "threat" are common in foreign media, and there are also many foreign netizens who issue ironic questions such as "Is China electrified?" This cognitive split stems from the arrogance and prejudice of some people, and also from our own lack of vocal ability. It is obviously unrealistic to hope that the biased people will automatically let go of their prejudices, or that the Western people will break through the information barriers on their own to objectively understand China, but only to take the initiative to build their own narratives. We must be good at using story elements that can cross language barriers and transcend cultural disputes, sincerely and skillfully tell Chinese values, and self-shape our image in active external communication.

A world power often has to go through three stages: knowing itself, becoming itself, and expressing itself. In this sense, the Beijing Winter Olympics is a good opportunity. On the one hand, this is the "world's top" for some time to come, athletes and journalists from all over the world come to Beijing to experience the customs and customs, and the global media will lead countless pairs of eyes to appreciate the style of this oriental power. On the other hand, as a great gathering of human peace, the Olympic Games themselves carry the pursuit of "more unity", and the world that has been burdened by the epidemic for a long time is also very much looking forward to taking this opportunity to let go of some anxiety, appreciate the passion of competition, and feel the charm of culture. It can be said that the stage has been prepared, the audience has been in place, as the host of Beijing, is not only a famous historical and cultural city, but also a national cultural center, to strive to achieve "Chinese story, international expression", so that the Olympic wind and "Chinese style" fly to all corners of the world together.

The significance of telling a good Chinese story is not only "Chinese expression", but also includes public values. The so-called "literature carries the tao", the aesthetics of the Olympic items, and the folklore of the intangible cultural heritage exhibitions all carry the Chinese way. From the tolerant mentality of "the beauty of the soup lies in the unity of differences" to the traditional philosophy of "do not do to others what you do not want"; from the concept of righteousness and profit of "mountains and rivers are exotic, the wind and the moon are the same day", to the ideal of "brotherhood in all seas", this Chinese value is full of Chinese wisdom and feelings, and also provides a new "world view" to inspire the international community. It can be said that the Chinese story has a worldwide significance, and telling the Chinese way well through the stage of the Winter Olympics is also a necessary move to practice the Olympic spirit.

"Which country have you visited that is completely different from what is described?" On a foreign Q&A platform, there was such a hot topic, a large number of foreign netizens answered "China", some of them lamented that "after living in China for a few years, I found a lot of spam in the Western media." "There is no shortage of traffic in China today, but we need to be accurately recognized by the outside world." Constantly enhance the "self-plastic ability" of foreign communication, talk about the peace, amiability and civilization of the country, and talk about the self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement of the people, a China that is understood by people will gain more respect and will better help the world.

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Source: Beijing Daily