In the air, the festive "Spring Festival Overture" was faintly floating, and everyone was smiling on their faces. Yesterday was the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Chinese lunar calendar, and the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics also had a little more festive flavor. When traditional Chinese festivals meet the Winter Olympics, the vast and profound Chinese culture has amazed the various media who have come to the scene. Learn to speak Chinese, eat a dumpling feast... This Chinese New Year's Eve, there is warmth and surprise.
Learn to speak Chinese
Chinese New Year's Eve afternoon, a unique temple fair was being held in the outdoor square of the main press center of the Winter Olympics. Volunteers set up stalls for foreign journalists to experience folk customs. Foreign journalists learn to write blessing characters here according to the gourd painting scoop, and they can also pick up scissors and experience the more difficult window flowers. Many people have learned Chinese with the volunteers, "Tiger tiger shengwei", "Wishing you prosperity", "more than every year"... Strings of unsatisfactory blessings came out of the mouths of foreign journalists, creating a warm festive atmosphere for this closed-loop Chinese New Year's Eve night.
What is it like to experience the Chinese New Year at the Winter Olympics? Former figure skater Valentina Macchey from Italy smiled as if she had just finished writing her ink. "Every volunteer here is particularly enthusiastic and wants to make you a part of [the festival]. The feeling is particularly warm. In her view, this is also what the Olympic Games hope to bring to people - the Olympic Games are not only sports events, but also the exchange of cultures and the integration of hearts, "This is the special charm of the Olympic Games." ”
Because of the closed-loop management of the epidemic, such a temple fair arrangement gives foreign journalists who have no chance to go out to see the scenery of Beijing have the opportunity to understand Chinese culture. "Everyone should know that the closed loop is to maximize the safety of Olympic participants, so that athletes can compete normally and compete at a high level." The Olympics are going through the toughest times, but the Chinese Winter Olympics are doing a fantastic job! "Macchey, who was once a top athlete, can better feel the hard-won beijing Winter Olympics held as scheduled," as President Bach said, the Olympics make us more united! ”
In the impression of foreign journalists, Chinese red is the main theme of the Spring Festival, in addition to red envelopes, hanging lanterns and various dragon and lion dances. In the work room of the media center, the reporter let four foreign colleagues learn to speak Shanghainese to pray for the New Year, "read the night newspaper, read the Winter Olympics, happy new year", behind the very joyful pronunciation, is the warm exchange of joy.
Special Chinese New Year's Eve meal
Chinese New Year's Eve night, where to eat Chinese New Year's Eve meals in the closed loop is a problem. Many reporters choose the Internet celebrity robot restaurant in the main media center.
In the kitchen, robots are at work — a dozen machines that cook independently and serve meals automatically without human intervention. Dishes include traditional Chinese stir-fry, Western burgers and fries. All robots are located behind transparent glass, so everyone can watch the cooking process. Interestingly, in the robot restaurant, there are many more spectators per day than people eating.
The ordering process in smart restaurants goes like this: customers go to the cashier (and use manual for the time being) to order food, have a variety of different dishes every day, and then get a seat number. After that, a robot chef begins the production, a process that takes 4 to 6 minutes. It also takes 2 to 4 minutes to get the dishes to the table. When the dish is ready and plated, a trolley-like carrier loads the dish and moves along a fully transparent glass track to take it above the designated table. Once at the designated location, the tray containing the food will "fall from the sky", and the ordered food will be in front of the customer, who only needs to remove it from the tray.
Yesterday, compared with the past, the popularity of dumpling stalls was much stronger. Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings are also made by robot chefs, from the noodles to the rolling of the skin to the filling, and then boiled in the pot, baked and plated... The whole process is done in one go. A bowl of hot dumplings came to the table, "Eating dumplings is the New Year!" The Chinese reporters who met each other looked at each other and smiled, and all their blessings were in silence.
Author: Sports Hub Studio (Author Li Ranran)
Photo: Photo by Li Ran
Source: Xinmin Evening News