"Can you still make another face man ice pier?" I have twin children, if I only bring back one..." The words of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, drew a kind laugh from the surroundings. On February 5th, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, many foreign heads of state and dignitaries who came to participate in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games gathered together, and before the luncheon began, eight Beijing intangible cultural heritage projects, including face sculptures, paper cuttings, Peking opera faces, New Year paintings, kites, Chinese knots, and sachets, were displayed in the hall.
In front of the booth of the national intangible cultural heritage project Lang Pai's face sculpture, Prince Albert II of Monaco picked up a soon-to-be-made ice pier face and looked at it carefully, and at the suggestion of the inheritor Lang Jiaziyu, he placed a pair of eyes on the panda's face and completed the creation. Three or four centimeters tall, although not wrapped in a transparent ice shell, the five-ring color lines of the face are hand-painted and very delicate. Lang Jia Ziyu's booth also has ski ice piers, ice hockey ice piers, winter two projects ice piers and other finished products, intangible cultural heritage skills with the theme of the Winter Olympics, the creation of works are very novel. Other works, such as the representative figures of the 36 Lines of Beijing, as well as the Peking Opera images of Xiang Yu, Guan Yu, Liang Hongyu and other characters, have also been generally welcomed by foreign dignitaries.
IOC President Thomas Bach also told the "inside story" of the mascot's selection when he saw the ice pier. "Generally, the mascot of the Olympic Games is determined after a very heated discussion, and it takes several hours to determine it. However, when the Beijing Winter Olympic mascot image ice pier was brought to the organizing committee, everyone thought it was really cute at a glance, and it was all passed in a minute or two. Bach recalled.
In front of the booth of Zhao Nan, the fourth generation of the Peking Opera genre Qian Jinfu (Qian Pai) Facebook, SingaporeAn President Halima stopped to take a closer look at a face of the god of wealth in front of her. This god of wealth face is particularly eye-catching, it is based on the stage image of Zhao Gongming, a character in the Peking Opera "Great Blessing". The forehead of the face is painted with flames to symbolize prosperity, and the cheeks are painted with coins to symbolize wealth. Zhao Nan introduced: "Today is the fifth day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, the day to welcome the god of wealth. You bring good luck to this god of wealth face, which means that the economy will flourish in the coming year. When Halima heard this introduction, she raised her pen very seriously to put an eye on the god of wealth, dipped in joy, and asked for a good head.
The paper-cut work "Welcome to the Ice Pier" by Xu Yang, the inheritor of Paper-cutting in Beijing, was also appreciated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Guterres, and was given as a gift to dignitaries of many countries. This work uses five kinds of flowers, peony, lotus, spring flower, plum blossom and daffodil, around the ice pier, highlighting the celebration of a hundred flowers welcoming spring and a hundred flowers, while breaking the symmetrical layout of traditional paper-cutting in the design, more modern. The tiger head spring character hanging above the ice pier transforms the lower part of the spring character into a tiger head, and sends the blessing of the Year of the Tiger, which is loved.
Source Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Li Yang
Edited by Jin Liwei
Process Editor Liu Weili