The host countries of successive Olympic Games have integrated their own culture into the various elements of the Olympic Games.
This Winter Olympics, the design of the tinder table, which is in the same vein as the design of the torch and the tinder lamp, is inspired by the ancient Chinese bronze ware - Zun. This ceremonial vessel used for ancient celebrations carries the importance of Chinese festivals and has become a symbol of traditional Chinese culture.
Li Jianye, designer of the Tinder Stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics, said in an interview with Knews: "Everyone who sees this line will definitely associate with the traditional Chinese bronze ceremonial vessel - Zun, so this concept of its heavenly carrier can be mapped to the top of our current tinder basin, because it is very solid underneath, that is, it is connected to the earth, and then the top is very open, and it is a double-layer structure, and the double-layer structure is to ensure that the fire is not extinguished." Including its own material treatment, you can also see that from the bottom of the red slowly fades to silver, it is actually consistent with the feeling of the winter Olympic ice and snow passion and the Olympic flame in one piece. ”
Zun is a traditional Chinese bronze vessel, mainly used for serving wine, used for various celebrations and other occasions, and is an important ceremonial vessel. Ge Liang, deputy research librarian of the Shanghai Museum, told the knews reporter to look at the news: "The "zun" of the Shang Zhou character is to hold up a large wine jug in both hands, and the meaning of respect, honor, respect, etc. here is related to this, which can be seen to be very important, and these artifacts that are respected will be called zun. I think that although we have little record of the customs of festivals in ancient times, at that time they must have also taken the best things in their minds, and all kinds of the best utensils were arranged in sequence on the occasion of the festival, and the most beautiful things in the minds of the people at that time were made, reflected in the utensils, and came to their festival. ”
The Early Western Zhou Dynasty still continued the Shang culture, and there were bronze statues engraved with long inscriptions, the most representative of which is the "He Zun" that exists in the Baoji Bronze Museum in Shaanxi, in which the word "China" appears for the first time. Although "China" at that time was more of a geographical concept, it also laid the foundation for the concept of "China" in later generations. By the Spring and Autumn Period, bronze figures had basically disappeared. As a cultural relic, bronze ware represented by Zun has become an important carrier for future generations of research. In 1958, Shangbo set up a cultural relics restoration workshop, of which "Bronze Restoration and Reproduction Techniques" was rated as a "National Intangible Cultural Heritage Project" in 2020. Over the decades, Shangbo's cultural relics conservators have restored and copied tens of thousands of bronze cultural relics, allowing cultural relics that carry thousands of years of China's history to continue life and revitalize them.
(Look at the news knews reporter: Zhang Yanyan, Liang Hui, Ma Yue, intern editor: Qin Yujia)