China's 5,000-year civilization has injected the Chinese spirit into the Olympics

Xinhua News Agency reporters Chu Mengmeng, Li Yunlu and Ma Xinran

The quaint Summer Palace, decorated with painted palace lights and Winter Olympic flags, incarnated as "the largest ice rink in Beijing"; in the Ice and Snow World Park in Harbin, designers created "Meng Hu Tiantuan" ice sculptures to interact with the main tower shaped like a Winter Olympic torch; Shanxi Xindi, the "hometown of face sculpture", 83-year-old inheritor Wang Wenhua used his magical hands to pinch out the vivid "ice pier" and "snow rongrong"...

The Winter Olympics coincide with the Chinese New Year, and the land of China is full of "Chinese romance" that spans ancient and modern times. With its long civilization and full of enthusiasm, China has injected the spirit of the ancient oriental country into this ice and snow sports event that belongs to the world.

Profound: An ancient cultural feast

"Ruyi Proud Snow", "Cow Baby Skiing"... In Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, where the Winter Olympic Snow Project was held, Wei County, which is famous for paper-cutting, almost every household is pasted with Winter Olympics-themed window flowers.

Fan Haifeng's family is no exception. They also designed a new paper cut according to the Winter Olympics competition, hoping to add some flavor to the bag of the eldest daughter Fan Jingshu. "Spring Festival, my daughter spent the Winter Olympics together." The old couple was quite proud.

Fan Jingshu, 26, is a closed-loop doctor at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and her new New Year's clothes are the Beijing Winter Olympics work uniforms of "Ink Great Wall Ornament".

Fan Jingshu's first Spring Festival away from home was not alone. In the days that accompanied the Winter Olympics, the "rich and beautiful" Chinese style surrounded her at all times: "Bright Sky Ji Blue" was a young volunteer; "Heavy Great Wall Gray" was a technical official; more staff, like her, were "pulsating xiaguang red and deep ink color".

From the display of Chinese culture such as "Countdown to the Twenty-Four Solar Terms" and "The Water of the Yellow River" at the opening ceremony, to the ceremonial personnel wearing costumes such as "Ruixue Xiangyun", "Hongyun Landscape" and "TangHua Feixue" at the award ceremony, whether it is the color system, the core graphics, or the emblem, mascot, sports icon, torch, a series of visual elements are the fusion of ancient Chinese wisdom and the Olympic spirit, and the perfect integration of Chinese culture and ice culture and Olympic culture.

The "flying" torch, which connects "heaven, earth and man" and contains the philosophical contemplation of "Taoism and Nature, Unity of Heaven and Man", was unveiled on the first anniversary of the countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics. The Olympic tinder from Athens carried in "Feiyang" was brought back to Beijing by a tinder lamp shaped like the lamp of the Changxin Palace of the Western Han Dynasty.

At this moment, the "flying" torch with the meaning of "ice and fire meet, passion soars, illuminates ice and snow, and warms the world" is burning at the "Bird's Nest" of the National Gymnasium of China, reflecting the whole process of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Temperament: The passion for ice and snow from ancient times

In the Chongli division, the main torchbearer of this Winter Olympics, Diniger Yilamujiang, finished the competition on the first competition day and finished 43rd.

For Diniger, a 21-year-old member of China's national cross-country skiing team, engaging in this sport is "the call of genes".

Diniger's hometown is Altay, Xinjiang, known as the "birthplace of human skiing": in 2005, a petroglyph depicting ski hunting activities was found here, identified as from the Paleolithic Age, at least 10,000 years ago, and the world's earliest archaeological data reflecting skiing scenes.

Bingjiao, as a sport, the Song Dynasty has been, the Ming Dynasty has become a court sports activity, the Qing Dynasty is listed as a mandatory military technology project. The Palace Museum has two "Ice Paintings" in its collection, which reproduce the grand scene of ice play in the palace at that time. Today, the Yiyang Hall in Beihai, Beijing, is the place where the emperors of the Qing Dynasty watched the ice.

"China's ice and snow history is an indispensable part of the world's ice and snow history, and the cultural characteristics contained in it contribute Chinese wisdom to the world's ice and snow culture." Sports collector Guo Lei said. Since China's bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2013, he has collected more than 2,000 pieces of related collections.

In Chinese folklore, a variety of ice and snow activities such as climbing plows, ruddering ice, and smoking ice have become a long-standing folk custom. To this day, the herders of the Altay region still inherit the wisdom of their ancestors.

"When the snow in the pastoral area closes the mountains, people travel on fur skis." Sengel, a furboard making expert in Hemu Village, said that this kind of ski is made of pine, horsehair and cowhide, and it is easy to catch the ground uphill, and it is easy to accelerate down the mountain.

Three years ago, Sengar and 8 fellow villagers, stepping on fur skis, slid 300 kilometers in the Altai Mountains, hoping to introduce the traditional ice and snow culture of their hometown to more people.

From the ancient rock paintings depicting hunters pedaling skis and holding single poles in Xinjiang 10,000 years ago, to the national ice and snow enthusiasm that successfully led 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports by hosting the Winter Olympics today, the "Frozen" of Chinese is constantly being written.

Radiance: "One under the heavens" world empathy

American bobsleigh player SummerBridge followed the artificial intelligence to learn tai chi seriously in front of a large screen in the Winter Olympic Village; Japanese journalist Yoshido Tsujioka "showed off" several "ice pier" badges bought to the studio host in the live broadcast connection; more and more athletes showed the charm of "China on the tip of the tongue" through personal accounts in the high-tech Winter Olympic Village restaurant.

In the Winter Olympic Village and the main media center, the decorations such as Fuzi, red lanterns, Chinese knots, and Jingyan kites set off a festive atmosphere, and intangible cultural heritage and Traditional Chinese medicine culture tell the story of thousand-year-old China in the exhibition hall. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics welcome guests from afar with exquisite cultural elements, let people of different backgrounds share the joy of sports here with profound cultural heritage, and attract people from all over the world to cheer with infinite cultural charm.

At the 4th China Light show in Serbia, Chinese dragons, lanterns, terracotta warriors and other colorful lights illuminated the night sky on the Banks of the Sava River, and lucky spectators were given the winter Olympic mascot dolls; Cambodia had a calligraphy photo exhibition with the theme of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Chinese New Year, with 238 photos and more than 100 calligraphy works attracting the attention of locals; in a Sino-Nepalese baseball friendly match in Nicaragua, the audience wore cultural shirts and baseball caps with elements of the Winter Olympics and Spring Festival to cheer for the players of the two countries.

When the unprecedented changes in a century encounter the epidemic of the century, breaking down barriers, resolving contradictions and understanding each other has become the mission of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. "From a worldwide perspective, the era of winter sports can be divided into before and after the Beijing Winter Olympics, and China has ushered in a new era for global ice and snow sports." IOC President Bach said.

At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the guides of the delegations held aloft snowflake-shaped guidance plaques and gathered in the center of the "Bird's Nest", condensing into a large snowflake and protecting the holy Olympic fire in the middle. As Zhang Yimou, general director of the opening ceremony, said, what is shown here is not only "me", but also "we", showing the common human emotion of "going to the future together".

At the opening ceremony, Alex, a Russian student at Peking University, and young people from different countries, accompanied by the warm singing of "Let the World Be Full of Love", walked hand in hand in the center of the stage, "We showed the world the style of young people, transcending national borders and crossing the wind and rain together."

"Yang and Qi, everything is spring". The crystalline Olympic rings broke the ice and rose. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is nurturing a better spring. (Participating reporters: Luo Xin, Zhao Xuetong, Ren Liying, Ji Ye, Zhou Ye, Wang Yong)

Source: Xinhua News Agency