"Jin Boyang defeated Jin Boyang!"
Confident and happy, Jin Boyang cried again.
(Image from the Internet)
In the fourth year of the previous life championship, he did not have the attention of yusheng, did not create history like Gu Ailing and Su Yiming, nor did he have a witty and impressive label like Li Wenlong, who had a witty and impressive label of "the little son of the people of the whole country".
The first Chinese figure skating men's singles person, under tremendous pressure, has brought the Chinese men's singles into the era of four-week jumping, and also created the best history of China's figure skating men's singles.
Although Jin Boyang did not win the medal, he definitely did not live up to his efforts and our expectations of him.
-Jin Boyang and the Coach- (Image from the Internet)
This year, the Chinese figure skating team has created history many times, and behind the competition results, they also used the competition costumes and performances to draw a Chinese picture, proving to the world that the "Chinese aesthetic" is not a big red with a big green, but a "night banquet", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and "only this green".
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"Great place to eat at your doorstep"
Compared to other Winter Olympics events, figure skating is probably the most "people-friendly" and most pleasing competition, and even laymen like me can enjoy the performances of athletes in an immersive way.
In this competition at the doorstep, it seems that every group of Chinese players has adopted a Chinese-style repertoire at least once, as the soul of the figure skating performance at that time.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which allowed Jin Boyang to enter the men's singles free skating gold medal competition, was a track he used at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Four years ago, he accompanied this song to create the best result in the Chinese figure skating men's singles event at the Winter Olympics.
The most classic clip of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is the battle of the bamboo forest between Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Runfa, the competition suit that Jin Boyang wore on February 8 this year, and the chest is a bamboo leaf composed of sequins, which extends to the back and becomes a floral style.
When the music started and the game started, he also posed as a Chinese kung fu.
These action designs and the training efforts behind them were not disappointed, and in the end, Jin Boyang successfully proved himself with promotion.
The choice of Chinese duo skating is even more amazing, and Peng Cheng and Jin Yang chose the suite of the movie "Night Feast" as the free skating accompaniment.
Jin Yang said in an interview that the Chinese style repertoire is the first choice, "I want to convey Chinese culture and tell Chinese stories well through my own interpretation."
Peng Cheng's race dress uses the traditional tie-dye process to reflect the feeling of ink gradient, and the peony on the costume is still non-heritage Su embroidery, which is hand-embroidered by silk thread and silver thread - it took two years just to perfectly restore the Su embroidery elements to the mesh material of the race suit.
Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu just chose this year's "blockbuster": "Only this green".
Inspired by the dance drama of the same name, their costumes also continue the color of the Northern Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", Liu Xinyue is "Qingshan" and Wang Shiyue is "Green Water", which interprets the magnificence and beauty of China's mountains and rivers on the white ice.
Liu Xinyu describes these designs as "inviting guests to dinner at home", and when guests come to China, (the host's family) will definitely cook some Chinese food.
His partner, Wang Shiyue, also feels that skating Chinese his own things at the Beijing Winter Olympics is a special significance.
"We also want to export Chinese culture with Chinese style - just like the concept of clothing, playing out the feeling of the motherland's great rivers and mountains."
Relying on these three Chinese-style figure skating performances, the Chinese figure skating team entered the second stage of the Olympic competition for the first time.
This wave was not only won by the Chinese figure skating team, but also by the "Chinese aesthetic".
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"The difference between Chinese aesthetics is greater than the gap between rich and poor"
About two or three years ago, "Chinese aesthetic" was still a derogatory term.
Our dislike of the word may come from our parents' newly renovated house;
Probably from Hebei Baiyangdian Lotus Grand View Garden Jin'ao Pavilion;
It may also come from the Sichuan Grotto Buddha statue that was crowdfunded and restored by well-meaning local people.
But has Chinese aesthetic always been like this? Nor is it.
In ancient times, the Song Dynasty was the pinnacle of Chinese cultural aesthetics, and the so-called "culture of the Chinese nation, which has evolved over thousands of years, was created in the world of Zhao and Song."
Flowers, incense, paintings, tea, and porcelain, although they were not created by the Song people, they were all endowed with elegant qualities by the Song people.
The "beauty of silence" and "craftsman spirit" in Japanese aesthetics can find their source in Song Dynasty artifacts; the same minimalist style of the Song Dynasty is also on the cusp of the world's trend.
-Northern Song Dynasty Wang Ximeng's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" - (Picture from the Internet, it is recommended to swipe horizontal screen to view)
In modern times, the "circle of painting hands" has Xu Beihong and Zhang Daqian, the "art circle" has Zhang Yimou and Li An, and the "small skirt circle" has a cheongsam and a new style of Hanfu...
They are all promoting Chinese culture and showing China's aesthetic self-confidence.
(Image from Xinhua News Agency)
But today, those excellent aesthetic cases seem to be rare in daily life, and even the street signs have been unified into the most ugly appearance, as if the entire Fault line of Chinese aesthetics has been made.
I carefully tasted this stubborn energy, when Yongzheng looked at Qianlong, it may be this feeling.
What is even more difficult to say is that after the "earthy wind" became popular, some foreign big names tried to ground themselves, but they accidentally picked up the foot, and the whole netizens returned to the magical 90s.
In Tanabata in 2020, Balenciaga launched a series of advertisements, and the "interpretation" of Chinese elements in the advertisement quickly triggered group ridicule.
It's the second decade of the 21st century, not to mention Paris, and even Balitun can't see this style.
This story tells us that it is not terrible for our families to "dress up ugly" behind closed doors, but what is terrible is that people outside think we are really ugly!
Look at the understanding of Chinese elements in the European and American fashion circles, either red and green, joyful; or pan dragons and phoenixes, yellow robes and bodies.
Whether it is Disney's "Mulan" in 2020 or Marvel's "Shangqi" in 2021, it is a kind of interpretation of Chinese culture by foreigners, and it is also exploding at the foreign box office, and it is difficult to say anything in China - "Shangqi" is even more suspected of insulting China.
Although the Internet has developed into a metacosm, if our understanding of European and American culture is 80 points, then the understanding of Chinese culture in Europe and the United States may still be only 60 points.
Because of this, I really want to thank the "international stage" of the Winter Olympics, and I also want to thank these athletes who actively justify the "Chinese aesthetic".
Although Jin Boyang did not win the medal, when those Chinese rhythms sounded in the Olympic arena that attracted global attention, I believe that everyone Chinese will be honored with you.
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"Come to Japan for a long time!"
I remember in 2008, when Beijing hosted the Olympic Games, SHE sang a song "Chinese Dialect" on the spring evening, and I heard that some foreigners thought we all had long braids before coming to China.
Today, 14 years later, the misunderstanding of us in the Western world still exists, but we have more opportunities and a bigger stage for the world to see how beautiful the "Chinese aesthetic" is.
The image comes from Weibo
With the exception of pair skating, figure skating in China has always been weak.
We don't have a perfect genius girl like "K Bao", nor do we have the elegant "Figure Skating Prince" like Yu shengyu.
Some netizens said that the reason why our figure skaters do not have the reputation of foreign athletes is because foreign figure skaters feel particularly relaxed and at ease, and "our children" always feel that they are humiliated and burdened on the field.
-In fact, in private, he is a cute and cute big boy- (Image from the Internet)
But I think maybe that's the national character of Chinese, our style has always been pragmatic, hard-working, and then fighting, growing out of setbacks.
Therefore, even in such an elegant sport as figure skating, the Chinese figure skating team will not be "light and light", but is destined to be "thick and colorful".
Whether it is Jin Boyang or Chinese figure skating, they are still coming to Japan!
Resources:
90.98 points! The perfect interpretation of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Jin Boyang was excited and shed tears
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