On January 31, coinciding with the Chinese New Year's Eve of the year of the ox in the Chinese lunar calendar, media reporters from various countries at the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics also felt the strong taste of the Chinese New Year. Xu Jicheng (fourth from right), director of the Media Operation Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, and the staff wrote the Spring Festival to celebrate the New Year. Photo by Mao Jianjun, reporter of China News Service
(Beijing Winter Olympics) Chinese New Year's Eve in the closed loop of the Winter Olympics
China News Service, Beijing, January 31 Title: Chinese New Year's Eve in the closed loop of the Winter Olympics
China News Service reporter Xing Chong
Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old charms.
The 31st is the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar, and the new year flavor in the closed loop of the Beijing Winter Olympics is equally strong. Leaving the media hotel in the morning, the staff of the Asian Games Village Hotel are posting Spring League and Fu characters. "When you come back in the evening, let's keep the old age together!"
Last night Beijing quietly drifted snow, and there was a chill when I got up in the morning. Ruixue Mega Year, in addition to the old to welcome the new spring, a sports feast is about to step on the same time as the footsteps of spring.
On January 31, the staff wrote a blessing to a staff member who came to China to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics. On the same day, the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics held an event to welcome the arrival of the Chinese New Year of the Tiger. Photo by Cui Nan, a reporter from China News Service
In the main media center, foreign reporters gathered around the volunteers to write the Spring Festival, not only writing in a similar way, but also asking from time to time about the meaning of the Chinese characters on the Spring League. A journalist from Russia admitted that it is difficult to write Chinese characters, but in the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, "it must be tried."
"I came to cover the Beijing Olympics 14 years ago, and I was deeply impressed by traditional Chinese culture at that time." Later, he said, he often participated in the New Year activities held by local Chinese in Russia, so he immediately recognized the word "Fu". "I know it means good fortune."
On January 31, coinciding with the Chinese New Year's Eve of the year of the ox in the Chinese lunar calendar, media reporters from various countries at the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics also felt the strong taste of the Chinese New Year. The picture shows volunteers introducing traditional Chinese paper-cutting art lanterns to foreign journalists. Photo by Mao Jianjun, reporter of China News Service
There are also reporters who make red envelopes by hand, and Whitebreed from the United Kingdom deliberately learned to draw a tiger head on the red packets. He has covered many Winter Olympics, but when the Winter Olympics meet the Chinese New Year, he says the feeling is wonderful. "It's an experience like never before, and I'm going to give this special gift to someone special."
At smart restaurants, dumplings, a traditional Chinese dish, have become the most popular meals Chinese New Year's Eve. Around 1 p.m., there are still many people waiting in long lines for dumplings, and they almost have to buy three fresh and pork cabbage at a time. Watching the "robot" use the mechanical arm to put the cooked dumplings out of the pot, plate, end the plate, and eat, everyone shouted surprise.
On January 31, coinciding with the Chinese New Year's Eve of the year of the ox in the Chinese lunar calendar, media reporters from various countries at the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics also felt the strong taste of the Chinese New Year. The picture shows that the dumplings cooked by the robot have become the hot products of the smart restaurant. Photo by Mao Jianjun, reporter of China News Service
Eat and drink enough, but also move your muscles and bones. In the traditional Chinese medicine culture display space in the main media center, staff member Song Yingmei told reporters that there were several times more people who came to play tai chi today than usual. "Playing a set of tai chi can smoke a blind box, and everyone is especially interested in the tiger hand in the five-bird play, and the tiger is a tiger in the year of the tiger!"
Beijing Winter Olympic Village also has a traditional Chinese medicine exhibition area, and Chinese New Year's Eve has also become a punching place for many athletes on the same day. At present, many teams have carried out pre-competition venue adaptation training, and the scraping board and meridian socks in the display area are the most popular. One foreign athlete said he often came here because he could relax well after training.
Data chart: On January 30, the Chinese short track speed skating team conducted pre-competition training at the Beijing Capital Gymnasium. Photo by Mao Jianjun, reporter of China News Service
As the competition approaches, many Chinese players Chinese New Year's Eve spent in training. For example, The Chinese figure skating men's single skater Jin Boyang came to the Capital Gymnasium for ice practice on the same day. He said that as athletes, we have become accustomed to preparing for the Spring Festival holiday, "although we have sacrificed a lot, but because we all have the same dream and work in the same direction, we feel that it is all worth it." ”
Chinese New Year's Eve at the end of the year, Chinese pay attention to eating a reunion Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and the Chinese New Year's Eve meal in the closed loop is also quite "exquisite". In the "Ice Cube", the specialties of the World Curling Federation technical officials were amazed: "Curling Jade" is made of "assembled" from otherwise unrelated ingredients such as pickled pepper claws, cuttlefish juice, chocolate, etc., and the shape is a mini curling; when the "table gold" abalone meets the "black diamond in the sea" caviar, forming a "linglong cube"...
On January 31, coinciding with the Chinese New Year's Eve of the year of the ox in the Chinese lunar calendar, media reporters from various countries at the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics also felt the strong taste of the Chinese New Year. The picture shows media reporters enjoying dishes fried by robots. Photo by Mao Jianjun, reporter of China News Service
As Liu Jia, catering manager of the National Aquatics Center (Ice Cube), said, the dishes taste the taste, leave behind the memory, and convey the culture and emotion.
At night, the lights of beijing Olympic Park are lit up and the lights are overflowing. The countdown on the Linglong Tower shows the number 4 – there are still 4 days to go, and the Beijing Winter Olympics are about to kick off. When the centennial Winter Olympics first come to China and integrate into the culture of the Millennium Spring Festival, this pure ice and snow covenant will also be more passionate and poetic because of "Chinese red".
On the shuttle bus back to the media hotel, there are already thousands of lights outside the window. Because of the Winter Olympics, this Chinese New Year's Eve has more of a special meaning for the Chinese people, thousands of households sit in groups to welcome the arrival of spring and a grand event. (End)