The Winter Olympics coincide with the Chinese New Year "Ice and Snow Sports" becoming a new fashion in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger

Source: China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily

Ice and fire dance together, beauty and beauty

The Winter Olympics coincide with the Chinese New Year

Reporter Chai Yaxin

The Year of the Tiger is a different kind of "encounter" during the Winter Olympics.

The Spring Festival is the most grand traditional festival of the Chinese nation, people paste the Spring Festival, eat reunion dinner, wrap dumplings, watch the Spring Festival Gala... In the reunion and expectation, there is an unchanging taste of the new year.

However, when the passionate Chinese red and white ice and snow meet, the collision of "sparks" and "snowflakes" is destined to make the ancient New Year taste a little different: "to bring 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports", Chinese left a romantic memory of the New Year and ice and snow; some friends came from afar, while expressing the good wishes of "going to the future together", China and the world played the "Song of Ice and Fire" and shared the beauty and common Chinese New Year.

The cold is hard to stop the enthusiasm, and "ice and snow sports" have become a new trend in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger

A fire in this Spring Festival, lit by ice and snow sports. The "City of The Two Olympics" Beijing's park ice rinks are bustling with people, Heilongjiang's ice and snow world is flashing with neon, and many ski resorts across the country are "hard to find"... North and south of the great river, the Chinese people celebrate the Red New Year in ice and snow sports.

On the afternoon of the first day of the Chinese New Year, the reporter came to the Shichahai Ice Rink in Beijing. Under the blue sky, people either step on ice knives or ride ice bikes and enjoy the fun of ice and snow sports.

"It's an old ice rink, and my family lives nearby and comes here every winter to skate. These two years have been particularly lively, with more and more young people and children coming to play! "Guo Xiangmin, a 58-year-old skating enthusiast, changed his skates while sharing his feelings about the Shichahai Ice Rink with reporters." Shichahai ice is good, the facilities are complete, and you can also see the scenery. After the spring, the weather is warm, such a natural ice rink will be closed, take advantage of the current slide a few times. ”

Skating in outdoor natural ice rinks such as Beihai and Shichahai is the winter memory of old Beijingers. It is understood that Shichahai has opened more than ten ice sports facilities, in addition to skating, playing ice carts and other projects, there are ice and snow activities with traditional characteristics such as ice and wood shooting, ice pounding pills, etc.

"The Shichahai Ice Rink operates on an area of 160,000 square meters, and the waters located in the Qianhai and Houhai seas can accommodate 12,000 people to go to ice at the same time." According to Xu Jian, a staff member of the ice rink, the Winter Olympics will drive the enthusiasm of the whole people for ice and snow sports to continue to rise. "In the more than 40 days since the ice rink opened in previous years, the reception of 120,000 people is the peak, and although the opening hours this year are shorter than in previous years, the number of receptions has already exceeded 120,000."

The bustle of the Shichahai Ice Rink is the epitome of the "New Year on ice and snow". Nowadays, inside and outside the Great Wall, the pace of ice and snow sports "south exhibition west expansion and eastward expansion" is accelerating. Through the preparation of the Winter Olympic Games and the promotion of the Winter Olympics, more and more Chinese have stepped on the snow and entered the ice rink, and the goal of "bringing 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports" has been achieved.

In China, ice skating is a traditional winter sport with a long history. Since the sui and tang dynasties, ice sports such as "bamboo horse", "ice bed" and "ice play" have appeared, of which "ice play" developed the most in the Qing Dynasty. If skating is an "old sport" that gives "new life", then skiing is moving from "niche" to "public".

As night falls, the temperature of the ski resort begins to drop, but this does not stop the enthusiasm of skiers. Above the high-grade slopes, skiers take the cable car to the high places, and then gallop down, enjoying the sense of weightlessness; on the beginner slopes, the magic carpet brings beginners downhill to the upper slopes, and the people up and down are rushing up and down, eager to try...

"Skiing for the New Year" is a new tourism trend in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger. On multiple tourism platforms, the search for ski attractions is also much higher than last year. According to Ctrip data, the proportion of surrounding users booking skis during the Spring Festival reached 85%. Moreover, with the improvement of ski facilities, there are more and more ski resorts at the doorstep, and for every 10 users who choose to ski, more than 8 choose to ski nearby. In addition to Beijing, where the Winter Olympics will be held, the southwest region represented by Chengdu, Chongqing and Guizhou Liupanshui, the East China region represented by Hangzhou, Anji and Wuxi, and the central China region represented by Huanggang and Shennongjia are the most popular ski destinations for tourists during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger.

The popularity of ice and snow tourism has soared, and traditional culture and the atmosphere of the Winter Olympics complement each other

This Spring Festival, the "hot" by the Winter Olympics is not only ice and snow sports, but also ice and snow tourism; not only the fire is around the arena, but also benefits thousands of miles away.

The Spring Festival in The Arctic Village in Mohe City, Heilongjiang Province, ushered in a batch of "cold-chasing" tourists. In the Arctic Village post office, many tourists will come here to "punch in" by mailing postcards. In front of some homestays in the village, snowmen with the appearance of "ice piers" and "snow melting" have been piled up, and curling rinks and ice hockey rinks related to the Winter Olympics have been built in the play area.

"This year, we have added many landscape and entertainment projects related to the Beijing Winter Olympics, adding new elements to the time-honored brand of Xuexiang." Zhang Kexin, assistant secretary of the party branch of The Arctic Village, said.

Go to the ice and snow village to feel the beautiful scenery of "thousands of miles of ice and snow drifting", to the ice and snow resort to experience the "double heaven" of ice and snow and hot springs, to the ice sculpture garden to appreciate the creativity of "ice clear jade, exquisite and clear"... According to Ctrip data, during this year's Spring Festival, air ticket bookings in the three northeastern provinces increased by more than 50% year-on-year; relevant data show that the order volume of ice and snow tourism related goods in the Spring Festival of the Tiger increased by more than 30% compared with last year's Spring Festival.

"Driven by the Beijing Winter Olympics, ice and snow tourism has become the hottest tourism industry during the Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger." Wu Ruoshan, a special researcher at the Tourism Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that many types of products such as ice and snow sports tours, ice and snow folk tourism, ice and snow health tours and indoor ice and snow tours have brought many choices for tourists to play with ice and snow, and new subdivisions such as ice climbing, curling, and snow extreme sports have attracted the attention of more young people.

The Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger is a trip, and the atmosphere of the Winter Olympics complements the traditional culture. On Tiananmen Square, a giant Chinese knot inlaid with the emblem of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the overall red Chinese knot and a blue and white snowflake in the middle are integrated, which is particularly eye-catching against the blue sky.

"We pay attention to the high integration of winter Olympic elements and Spring Festival folk elements. The emblems of the Winter Olympics, mascots, ice and snow patterns, these elements of the Winter Olympics and the folk elements of the Spring Festival, such as Chinese knots, lanterns, lighting, zodiac signs, and lucky characters, have been well integrated. Zhang Yan, deputy director of the Beijing Urban Management Committee, said when introducing the highlights during the Beijing Urban Landscape Winter Olympics.

China in the New Year's taste pays attention to the sense of ceremony. Every year during the Spring Festival, the Temple of Heaven in Beijing will hold traditional Chinese cultural activities related to the blessing culture of the Temple of Heaven, in which visitors can not only learn traditional cultural knowledge, but also harvest New Year blessings from the Temple of Heaven.

The Temple of Heaven Prayer Hall was the place where the Qing Dynasty held the prayer valley ceremony, and the word "pray" means to pray and pray; the shape of "nian" in hieroglyphs is a person carrying a bundle of ripe grain, symbolizing the harvest of grain. The Hall of Prayer for the New Year is a beautiful vision of the ancient Chinese people praying for smooth winds and rains, abundant grains, and Guotai Min'an.

This year's Spring Festival, many tourists who came to pray for blessings held up the sign of "Passing on Blessings and Building Dreams and Building the Winter Olympics" and took a group photo in front of the Prayer Hall. According to reports, the Temple of Heaven Park takes the "Temple of Heaven Blessing" culture as the main line, combines the atmosphere of the Winter Olympics with traditional culture, and creates a number of theme activities such as "knowing the five grains, accepting the five blessings, and celebrating the New Year" and "'Ice and Snow Magic' on paper".

Approach the national treasure to explore the elements of the Winter Olympics, and experience the feelings of home and country through light and shadow

Watching exhibitions in museums and celebrating the New Year in movie theaters has become a "New Year's custom" for many people in recent years.

The New Year coincided with the Winter Olympics, and many museums integrated the Elements of the Winter Olympics into the activities, online and offline to present the audience with the "feast" of the New Year's flavor culture: the Capital Museum's "Inheritance and Transcendence - The Road to the Double Olympics Chinese Sports Culture Exhibition" told the story of Chinese sports through more than 200 sports relics; the Gansu Provincial Museum held a series of activities for the Winter Olympics Cultural Spring Festival, designing for children "Tiger Head Tiger Brain - Making Tiger Head Hat" "Linghu Sending Blessing - Tiger Pulp Painting DIY" and other traditional cultural elements and interactive activities combined with the Winter Olympics...

As the "top stream" in the museum, the Opening Year Exhibition of the Palace Museum also had a "dream linkage" with the Winter Olympics. Guided by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Palace Museum in Beijing and the Central Radio and Television Corporation in Beijing jointly held 29 museums, more than 130 precious cultural relics (sets) such as He Zun, Changxin Palace Lamp, and the Tibetan "Four Medical Classics" gathered in the Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City, showing the origin and development of Chinese civilization, brilliant achievements and major contributions to human civilization.

The Lamp of Changxin Palace in the Western Han Dynasty is known as "the first lamp in China" and is one of the most eye-catching exhibits in this exhibition. Its shape is light and gorgeous, a kneeling palace maid holding the lamp, holding the lamp plate in the left hand, the center of the lamp plate has a wick, the right arm is held high, and the hanging cuff tube becomes a lampshade; the design is clever and environmentally friendly, the cuff of the palace girl is connected with the body to form a flue, when the lamp candle is lit, the soot slowly enters the hollow body along the sleeve tube, thereby keeping the indoor environment clean.

"The idea of the Beijing Winter Olympics Tinder Lantern originated from the Changxin Palace Lamp of the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, hoping to use the meaning of 'Changxin' to express people's pursuit and yearning for light and hope." Li Jianye, the designer of the Beijing Winter Olympic Torch, introduced that the design team modernized the tinder lamp on the basis of retaining the basic shape of the Changxin Palace lamp, and the flying red ribbon surrounded the top of the tinder lamp, which was visually unified with the torch "flying", symbolizing the Olympic spirit of hard work.

In a separate display case, He Zun, a "star cultural relic" from the Baoji Bronze Museum, is also not far from the Winter Olympics - it is the source of inspiration for the design of the Tinder Terrace of the Winter Olympics. The Beijing Winter Olympics Ceremony Tinder Terrace takes "bearing the heavens and carrying things" as the design concept, adopts the curved shape of the zun, and the base is calm, symbolizing "all things on the ground".

In addition to watching the Winter Olympics, many people also go to the cinema to enjoy "family fun". In this year's Spring Festival, a number of films with different characteristics were released - the anti-US and aid-Korea theme movies "The Water gate bridge of Chosin Lake" and "Sniper", the comedy movie "This Killer Is Not Calm", the animated movie "Bear Haunting , Returning to the Earth", "Pleasant Goat and the Basket of the Gray Wolf Out of the Future", etc., providing the audience with a wealth of movie viewing options. According to the real-time data of Lighthouse Professional Edition, as of 15:28 on February 5, the total box office (including pre-sales) of the Spring Festival in 2022 (1.31-2.6) exceeded 5 billion. "The Water Gate Bridge of Chosin Lake" has broken 2.3 billion at the box office, ranking first in the Spring Festival file.

From the perspective of theme, "The Water Gate Bridge of Chosin Lake" and "Sniper" both tell the story of the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. "'Chosin Lake's Shuimun Bridge' is a historical war film that wins with magnificent scenes, while 'Sniper' is a small cut-in angle, attracting audiences with suspenseful, partial actions, and tactical actions." Yin Hong, a professor at Tsinghua University and vice chairman of the China Filmmakers Association, believes that the two films complement each other and enhance the audience's understanding of that period of history from two perspectives.

Usually, comedies are the "darlings" of the Spring Festival stalls. This year, the serious theme of the war film is hot, the reputation is good, and the feelings of home and country have become the distinctive background of the Spring Festival file of the Year of the Tiger. Whether it is the "seven companies should be 157 people, the actual 1 person" in "Chosin Lake's Water Gate Bridge", or the young sniper who fell in a pool of blood in "Sniper", let the audience realize that today's happy life is won for us by the most lovely people.

The Spring Festival gives the Winter Olympics a richer cultural connotation and appreciates the beauty of Chinese civilization with the world

In the flow of the twenty-four solar terms, the countdown starts from the "rain" to the "Lichun" settlement, and the green is surging in the center of the bird's nest - the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics coincides with the Lichun, and the ingenious countdown deeply integrates traditional Chinese culture and transmits the unique romance of the Chinese to the world.

"We have deliberated repeatedly and tried to explain the meaning of solar terms in a way that foreigners can understand. Art is universal, we must adhere to cultural self-confidence, and believe that foreign audiences can feel the aesthetic intention we want to convey. Zhang Yimou, general director of the opening ceremony, said that the twenty-four solar terms embody the ancient wisdom of Chinese observing nature, showing the picturesque rivers and mountains in the change of spring, summer, autumn and winter, full of poetic charm of winter to spring and thriving, and containing Chinese outlook on life, values and cosmology.

The Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger is to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, it is a family reunion, and it is also an opening door to welcome guests. This Spring Festival, foreign friends and Chinese people from afar rejoiced together for the New Year, and the strong New Year flavor also gave a richer cultural connotation to this ice and snow event.

"As early as when we applied for the Winter Olympics, we designed the Spring Festival link to show the traditional Chinese festival culture and New Year culture." Yu Zaiqing, vice president of the International Olympic Committee and vice chairman of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, said that the New Year culture is the most unique in China, and hosting the Winter Olympics is the best opportunity to show the world the Chinese New Year flavor and traditional Chinese culture.

In Yanqing Winter Olympic Village, the cute "ice pier" and "snow rongrong" greet guests at the entrance of the restaurant, Chinese knots, small lanterns and other decorations with Chinese elements can be seen everywhere, and the window flowers and paper cuts will be arranged in a new way...

"On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, we prepared Chinese New Year's Eve meals, and also prepared paper and brushes for the athletes and officials of various delegations, and some foreigners wrote down the Spring Festival by hand and hung them at the door of their rooms to celebrate the Spring Festival together in this way." Wen Tong, a volunteer at the Yanqing Division of the Beijing Winter Olympics, said.

At the official licensed retail store of the main media center of the Winter Olympics, there is an endless stream of foreigners queuing up every day to buy souvenirs. Ryan Jordan, who was responsible for broadcasting the opening ceremony to NBC viewers, held two boxes of winter Paralympic mascots, Snow Rongrong. "I bought a lot of gifts with Chinese cultural characteristics and prepared to bring them back to the United States to give to my friends and family." Jordan said that the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year is very strong, and he hopes to come back to China and experience the culture and cuisine here more.

"A pier is difficult to find", "dream love pier", "frozen into an ice pier, I still did not grab the ice pier"... "ice pier" has become a new "top stream", which can be on several hot searches a day.

On February 2, a Japanese journalist unzipped his coat while reporting on the pre-match at the Capital Gymnasium, only to see six ice pier badges hanging from his chest ID rope. In addition to journalists, many foreign athletes also shared their love for the peripheral products of the Beijing Winter Olympics on social media. Czech figure skater Natalie Tashkrelova showed off in her Vlog the memorabilia she received: pillows on the ice piers that could be changed into blankets, keychains, dolls, and said she had long been "mesmerized" by the ice piers.

Under the cute appearance, the mascot's belly "has ink", which is the perfect combination of Chinese culture and Olympic spirit: the design and creation prototype of the ice pier, the panda, is a National Treasure of China, and is loved by people of all countries; the snow rongrong has a ruyi ring and a paper-cut pattern on the top of the head, which fits the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, and the luminous attribute of the lantern shape means to light up dreams and warm the world, representing friendship, courage and strength, and conforming to people's yearning and expectations for a better life in the background of different civilizations...

During the Spring Festival, the reunion dinner table symbolizes home and happiness; the Olympic Games, the colorful five rings symbolize the unity of the world. "Spring Festival is a day when families are together, and when the Spring Festival is together, we are also a family." Zhao Weidong, spokesman for the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said: This Winter Olympics is a New Year's gift that China has brought to the world with full sincerity and affection.