The Beijing Winter Olympics are in full swing, and the media of many countries around the world are also competing to report it. The book "A Brief History of the Winter Olympics: Humanistic Interpretation of the Winter Olympic Movement", written by Ji Cheng, an international referee at The Snowmobile and a postdoctoral researcher in the Humanities and Sociology of Sports at Beijing Sport University, conducts an overview scan and coherent writing of the time and space synthesis of the Winter Olympic Movement, traces and elucidates the evolution of the Centennial Winter Olympics and the pros and cons, and guides readers to feel and appreciate the excitement and charm of the Winter Olympics while overlooking the historical context of the Winter Olympics.
"Snow sports are the basic skills for survival"
In fact, as early as the ancient times when science and technology were not well developed, China and the West carried out simple and crude ice and snow activities, such as the "ice frolic" of the Song Dynasty on the mainland and the ski hunting in Northern Europe thousands of years ago, which showed that human beings respected, respected, conformed to and used the natural world. One hundred years ago, the Winter Olympics were derived from the long-standing human ice and snow activities, especially the indigenous people of ancient Scandinavia who used skis to engage in production and life in the ice and snow, which can be called the foundation and prototype of modern ice and snow sports and even the Winter Olympic skiing project, as the author said in the first chapter of the book " Human primitive ice and snow behavior is the source of the winter Olympic movement" .
In 2015, more than 30 ski research experts from 18 countries such as Norway, Sweden and Finland jointly issued the "Altay Declaration", agreeing that Xinjiang Altay is the oldest ski region in the world, which not only increases the weight of the mainland in the field of global ice and snow sports history research, but also provides new authoritative historical data for the in-depth development of human ice and snow culture research. In addition, the Bc Dutch have used tools to slide on the ice, archaeological research results show that the Dutch are the pioneers of the world's skating movement, these ice and snow knowledge and academic achievements, "A Brief History of the Winter Olympics" in the opening chapter made a detailed explanation and specific explanation.
As the first academic monograph in China to systematically study the history of the Winter Olympics, "A Brief History of the Winter Olympics" repeatedly clarifies in the preface that ice and snow sports are the basic skills on which the ancestors rely for survival, and this basic skill is closely related to hunting, war, travel and other behaviors, and it is through the evolution of a long historical period that ancient ice and snow sports have transformed into ice and snow sports in the modern sense, and finally become the ice and snow culture of the blessed and current generations.
Ice and snow in the ancient literature of the mainland mostly appear as cultural labels, the Chinese people from ancient times to the present has the interest and tradition of playing snow and ice appreciation, "suddenly like a night spring breeze, a thousand trees and pear blossoms" is people's praise and praise for Ruixue, "snow like Husha dark, ice like Han Yueming" is people's praise and excitement of clean ice, and the Winter Olympics with Ruixue ice as the basis and medium give people a lot of wonderful reverie, perhaps it is in this sense that many people think that the Winter Olympics is a fantasy and romantic ice and snow festival It is a sacred wonderland composed of flying snowflakes, crystal glaciers, blowing monsoons and bright sunshine, and is a pleasant world woven by stretching and elegance, speed and passion, wisdom and strength, but the book "A Brief History of the Winter Olympics" repeatedly emphasizes that the Winter Olympics is "beyond the limit under extremely cold and cold conditions" and "is a more thorough transcendence of the limit".
Reading and dissecting the whole book of "A Brief History of the Winter Olympics", it is not difficult to find a history of the Winter Olympics, that is, a history of the evolution of human ice and snow culture, but also a history of affinity and interaction between humans and the natural world, the Winter Olympics not only witnessed the concept of modern ice and snow sports, but also engraved the value concept and spiritual pursuit of ancient and modern Olympic movements, in other words, "A Brief History of the Winter Olympics" on the one hand introduces the little-known "cold knowledge" about the Winter Olympics in the form of historical works. On the other hand, from a humanistic perspective, we will deeply explore the historical origins and political and economic background of the Winter Olympic Games.
"The Winter Olympics are not going to be in good times"
The Winter Olympics are not only related to sports events, but also closely related to political, cultural, historical, ecological and other factors, and like the Summer Olympic Games, they are also difficult to start in the controversy and game of all parties, the Centennial Winter Olympics are full of arduous exploration and continuous innovation, from the book "Nordic opposition and Coubertin's insistence", "the Olympic Games suspended by war", "Cold War background" and "Samaranch defending Sarajevo" and other chapter titles can see the difficulties and twists and turns in the development of the Winter Olympics. The Winter Olympics began in France, the motherland of Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympics, began in Chamonix in the savoy province of northern France in 1924, and matured in the Valley of Nevada, California, in 1960.
As the starting point of the Winter Olympic Games, Chamonix is a resort town with beautiful scenery under the Alps, a place of tranquility and fresh air, and a resort where ski enthusiasts from the European continent gathered in the 19th century, with its unique geographical location and superior natural conditions, as well as the delicate relationship between France and Norway, Sweden and other countries at that time, making Chamonix logically become the center and hub of Winter Sports in Europe. In turn, under the planning and promotion of Coubertin, it became the birthplace of the Winter Olympic Games and the host of the "International Winter Sports Week".
A Brief History of the Winter Olympics provides a detailed introduction to Chamonix, the birthplace of the world's most famous ice and snow sports, and a detailed depiction of the first Winter Olympics, including skating, skiing, snowmobiling, ice hockey and curling competitions, intended to show that the Winter Olympics are by no means growing and developing in smooth and favorable circumstances, often showing dramatic twists and turns and ups and downs, just as the author wrote in the book, "If you count the winter Olympics, you will find an interesting phenomenon, that is, before the 1990s, The venues are almost all ski towns, and from the 1990s onwards, they have shifted to metropolises, such as Nagano in Japan in 1998, Salt Lake City in the United States in 2002, Turin in Italy in 2006, and Vancouver in Canada in 2010" "In the 21st century, the winter Olympic venues have gradually returned to some small cities, such as Sochi in Russia, Pyeongchang in South Korea, etc." Since the Chamonix Winter Olympics, the Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics have each excelled in their own strengths, displayed their own styles and complemented each other on the world Olympic sports competition stage, and gradually leapt into large-scale sports events and cultural exchange platforms that are closely followed and actively participated in by countries around the world.
"A Brief History of the Winter Olympics" examines and considers the Winter Olympics in the context of the history of human civilization, implants the concept of "macroscopic and broadening horizons" into the historical research of the Winter Olympics, and elaborates on the centennial Winter Olympics from a cultural perspective. And from the two dimensions of time and space to inventory and interpretation, so that the past and present lives of the Winter Olympics are more complete and accurate and clear.
However, the Winter Olympics, which spanned a hundred years, could hardly exhaust its true appearance and truth by relying only on a work of more than 100,000 words, but "A Brief History of the Winter Olympics" enlightened the Chinese people by providing professional knowledge and disseminating the Olympic spirit: only by pursuing the origin of human ice and snow sports can we build ice and snow culture self-confidence; only by understanding the tortuous course of the development of the Winter Olympics can we enhance the belief and confidence of human cultural diversity and "going to the future together". Looking back at the stars, the past has become a cloud of smoke, and the future can still be expected. As an important symbol of modern human civilization, the history of the Winter Olympics will be created by generations of ice and snow athletes, and will also be continued by generations of scholars, which is a logic and an inevitability.
A Brief History of the Winter Olympics: A Humanistic Interpretation of the Winter Olympic Movement is the author of Beijing United Publishing Company
(The title of this article is from Xinhua News Agency)
Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Xuewen Text Editor: Wang Yi
Source: Author: Liu Jinxiang
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