The Qianlong Emperor, the "big pig's trotter", is not only a stamped demon and a well-known Coser, but also a fanatic of the Beijing Imperial City Winter Olympics. What's going on? Take a look.
The Qianlong Emperor's imperial dress resembles a shaft
In the city of Beijing in the Qing Dynasty, the official name of the Winter Olympics was "Tailiu Ice Play". Ice play, commonly known as "running skates", that is, skating. The Manchus, who live in the black waters of the White Mountains in the northeast, have mastered the sport of skating very early.
During the later Jin Dynasty, the Qing Taizu Nurhaci was besieged in the city of Morgen. At the time of crisis, his general Fei Gulie led an artillery unit wearing skates on his feet, pulled the cannon with a climbing plough, skated at great speed, and traveled seven hundred miles a day, finally breaking the siege. One year, in the first month of the year, Nurhaci also held the earliest recorded "Ice Games" on the Taizi River near Shengjing (present-day Shenyang), including ice kicking, racing and other sports.
The Qianlong Emperor dressed in Hanfu
After entering the customs, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty continued the entertainment method of the Ming Dynasty royals playing ice in xiyuan, and added the component of competition, enriching the content of ice sports.
In the Qianlong period, Bingxiao developed to the peak, subdivided into two kinds of major national festivals and royal daily entertainment, and was determined as a national custom of the Qing Dynasty in the Qianlong Decade (1745), and the Winter Olympics of the Imperial City of Beijing with Manchu characteristics appeared.
The Qianlong Emperor was an avid lover of the "Winter Olympics in the Imperial City" and the emperor of the Qing Dynasty who held the largest and most numerous ice frolic festivals – from the seventeenth year of Qianlong (1752) to the sixty years of Qianlong (1795), he watched the ice frolic more than one hundred and fifty times; after abdication, he continued to dominate the ice frolic festival every year as emperor taishang until his death.
During the Qianlong period, every winter month in the ice and snow, the royal family had to select far-flung mobilizations from the elite Eight Banners units guarding the Beijing Division for centralized training to prepare for ice play.
Qing Dynasty Jin Kun et al. drawn the "Ice Play Map": the landscape around the Tailiu Pond
So, where was the venue for the Qing Dynasty Winter Olympics? Located in Beijing's Xiyuan Tailiu Pond (located inside the Imperial City, west of the Forbidden City), this huge water surface composed of the North Sea, the Middle Sea and the South China Sea is a perfect place to skate in the cold winter months.
What are the events of the Imperial City Winter Olympics? Speed skating, figure skating, the same does not fall.
Qing Dynasty Zhang Weibang and others drawn the "Ice Play Map": grab and wait
At that time, speed skating on ice was called "rushing to wait". Athletes wearing skates lined up at the starting point, heard the sound of firecrackers, and quickly slid to the finish line- where the imperial guards in front of the emperor's throne stood, and the imperial guards determined the order.
The "Ice Map" drawn by Zhang Weibang and others in the Qing Dynasty: grabbing the ball
Snatching the ball is a game of ice similar to modern rugby. The athletes were divided into two teams, the left team wore red coats, and the right team wore yellow coats, waiting for the imperial guards to kick off in the middle, and the two teams grabbed the ball to score. To facilitate the scramble, they wore a special type of non-skating shoes without ice knives.
Qing Dynasty Zhang Weibang and others drew the "Ice Map": turning the dragon to shoot the ball
The most ornamental event is the "Dragon Shooting Ball", which is a bit like today's figure skating, except that there are many figure skaters on the field at the same time. The slide with the dragon pattern painted on the ice surface, the distant mobilizers in the order of the eight flags (in this way, yellow, white, red, white, red, blue, blue), blue) lined up on the dragon slide, while sliding while making a variety of difficult technical movements, each flag has a flag bearer and archer, and sometimes several performers of instrumental music and acrobatics interspersed. As the party approaches the Emperor's throne, they pass by a gate where archers need to draw their bows and shoot the celestial balls on the gate as soon as they glide through the gate.
The whole performance can be said to be very gorgeous, Qianlong once wrote a small essay of more than 1300 words "Ice Frolic Endowment" to express his love for ice frolicking sports. The question is, where did the emperor watch the Winter Olympics?
At this time, we have to mention a magical invention - the ice bed.
The emperor's imperial ice bed has a variety of styles: such as the "Yellow Ice Bed" with a wooden boat at the bottom and a car on it; such as the "Canopy Ice Bed" with a canopy on the Taishi chair and the Taishi chair; such as the low "Straight Ice Bed" with bright yellow cushions... The emperor rode these special ice beds to the Tailiu Pool to watch the ice play, and his ice beds were generally pushed forward by six guards, followed by janissaries, internal servants, and ministers. Sometimes, some princes and ministers were rewarded with riding on ice beds, which was a great honor.
Qing Dynasty Qian Weicheng's "Imperial Snow Sitting on the Ice Bed Scene Scroll": There is an ice bed of the emperor in the painting
At that time, only emperors, civil and military officials, envoys from vassal states and foreign countries could watch the Winter Olympics on the Tailiu Pond of the Imperial City, while ordinary civilians were not eligible. But ordinary people have also found their own way of winter entertainment – skating on the moats of Beijing, performing various fighting and dance moves, and enjoying themselves.
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