Source: Xinhua Net
"The five-ring color banner welcomes the spring dance, and the nine-domain red plum is proud of the snow.". Before returning home during the Spring Festival, Liu Tao, a citizen of Shijiazhuang, pasted a special pair of Spring Festival couplets on his door.
"This year is a special Spring Festival, and the time when the whole family is reunited and the family is happy is the opening of the Winter Olympic Games, which is considered to be 'joy on top of joy'." Therefore, in the Spring League, I also want to reflect the integration of these two elements. Liu Tao said.
"The Spring Festival Winter Olympics add joy, Huaxia Merlin blooms new flowers", "Ice and snow rise rainbow dreams, athletes dance to open spring flowers", "Fu Lin Beijing Winter Olympics, happy to the world's tens of millions of homes"... At the New Year goods market in Zhujiawazi Village, Junan County, Linyi, Shandong, the Winter Olympics-themed Spring Festival Has become the "new favorite" of young returnees.
Calligraphy volunteers from Huining Village, Xindu District, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, displayed the written "Winter Olympics" theme Spring Festival. (Photo by Chen Lei)
In addition to the Spring League, the Winter Olympic mascots "Ice Pier" and "Snow Rongrong" also wore red colors and quietly "jumped" on the doors and windows of the people's homes.
In Wei County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, "Tiger Baby Play Winter Olympics", "Ruyi Proud Snow", "Cow Baby Skiing", "Ice Fun Map"... The dot paper-cuttings with yin carvings as the main and yang carvings as the supplement will integrate the handicraft art that has been handed down for more than 200 years with ice and snow sports, injecting new elements and vitality into the ancient tradition.
Villagers in Nanmeng Village, Dongzhen Town, Lincheng County, Hebei Province, cut paper around the theme of "Welcoming the Winter Olympics". (Photo by Chen Lei)
Spring league, window flowers, lucky characters, lanterns... Blessings are eternal and unchanging; paper cuts, branding, egg carvings, interior paintings... Intangible Cultural Heritage shows its skills. People "decorate" the Spring Festival with their hearts, full of happy expectations for the New Year, and at the same time, they are also silently blessing and looking forward to the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics.
The "Passionate Winter Olympics" series of paintings created by artists in Taocheng District, Hengshui City. (Photo by Chen Kang)
In addition to decorating the house, food has also become an important carrier of double wishes.
In Xiong'an New District, Hou Jingzheng, the non-hereditary heir of Rongcheng County's face sculpture, uses noodles as the main material, adds pigments of different colors, integrates Xiong'an elements such as Baiyangdian lotus flowers and Ronghe Pagoda, and uses a pair of skillful hands to transform into a "face sculpture ice and snow athlete".
Li Huiqing, the non-hereditary heir of the face sculpture in Zaoqiang County, Hengshui City, made the "ice pier" and "snow rongrong" into flower cakes and flower buns, and the well-fermented dough was fully reflected in the roundness and cuteness of the mascot under the kneading of skillful hands.
"We are here for the New Year, and every household steamed flower cake, which means 'high every year'. This year, many customers have specially customized the flower cake of the Olympic mascot, which has also given me great inspiration. In the future, in the creation of shapes, we can think about combining more important large-scale activities in the country, and we can also open up new markets in another way. Li Huiqing said.
Sun Fugen, a 74-year-old resident of Hengshui, made flower cakes themed after the Winter Olympics and the Year of the Tiger. (Photo by Wang Tieliang)
At the same time, the Winter Olympics-themed sugar paintings and sugar people also enrich the children's New Year's food list. In Luquan, Gu'an and other places in Hebei Province, children taste miniature "platform jumping", "snowboarding" and "skiing" sugar paintings made of maltose. In addition, the "ice piers" and "snow melting" blown by the craftsmen after melting the maltose made the children who visited the big market line up in a long line.
"The Spring Festival is an important festival in China, and the Winter Olympics is an important event in the world." After the encounter, it brought new elements to each other and made the beginning of 2022 extraordinary. 'Spring is the solution of the year', the arrival of this special spring, is very memorable. Zhang Yuan, a citizen of Shijiazhuang, said. (Reporter Ren Liying)