Risshun, February 4.
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics opened.
Between the ice blue ink, the five rings broke through the ice.
The Winter Olympics kicked off with Chinese romance.
At the Winter Olympics, ice and snow battles are underway. Previously, the proposal of "300 million people participating in ice and snow sports" made the Winter Olympics not only a competition for gold and silver at the competitive level, but also attracted more people to participate in ice and snow sports and benefit from it.
Ice and snow, with the promotion of the ice and snow sports "south exhibition, west expansion, eastward expansion" strategy, drifted into the north and south of the river, and met and met people in the corners of various cities.
Shenzhen, Guangdong Skiing is in the middle of nowhere
During the 11th Golden Week of 2021, ski enthusiasts in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, are gathering at the airport to prepare for an ice and snow festival. The destination of their trip is not the old ski resorts in the three northeastern provinces, but in Altay in Xinjiang, located in the northwestern border, where the earliest outdoor skiing season of the year will kick off at the Cocoto Sea Ski Resort.
In 2020, the Cocoto Sea Snow Resort was officially put into operation, and in just two years, it has become a punch card for ski enthusiasts across the country, with the largest snow track in the country and the longest skiing time in Asia for eight months, so that enthusiasts looking for snow all over the world flock to this border town.
Qin Yu, the coach of the Shenzhen Snow Friends Group, is one of the enthusiasts, and he has brought students here for two consecutive years.
Ski Instructor Qin Yu: If life is just going to work, eating, and sleeping, it will definitely not be good. To make it a little richer, this is poetry and distance.
Skiing, once just Qin Yu's hobby, Shenzhen's booming ski market, let him from a snow friend to a coach, from a part-time coach to a full-time coach. The Shenzhen Snow Friends Club, which he participated in, was established just over a year ago and has more than 6,000 members.
Ski instructor Qin Yu: I think it's very good, we call them snow second generation, or even snow third generation, I hope that the second generation of snow will go further, and even one day, take the olympic sports.
Xinjiang, which is rich in ice and snow resources, has become one of the provinces with the most new ski resorts in recent years, and Xinjiang currently has 72 ski resorts, ranking second in the country after Heilongjiang. On the ski map of snow lovers, the new destination is far more than one in Xinjiang, and 28 provinces already have ski resorts. From flying all the way north to flying all over the country, snow friends have more choices to go to more poetic distances.
Jilin Beidahu Ski Resort
Xiaomei's first experience of skiing was the winter after Beijing's successful bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, and since then, stepping on a snowboard and flying in the wind has become a happy and free moment in Xiaomei's life.
Post-90s short video broadcaster Xiaomei: I can hear the wind whistling next to me, I can forget everything, I only need to see the direction I am going.
Xiaomei is a post-90s short video broadcaster, and her happiness when skiing often flies in all directions through the screen of her mobile phone.
Post-90s short video broadcaster Xiaomei: The first fire was wrestling, that is, falling a particularly tragic fall, falling a 360 degree. After sitting up, I was blindfolded, and then I threw up a mouthful of snow, because many people knew me because of the video, everyone thought I fell very cute, and I laughed for half a day after watching it.
Unlike many broadcasters who teach skiing skills, Xiaomei's videos do not preach and teach, but only present the real experience of ordinary people skiing with the kindness of the little sister next door.
Post-90s short video broadcaster Xiaomei: I have been a kind of person who has a hard time passing sports since I was a child, so I feel that I can represent most people like me who have bad movement cells, how can I work hard to exercise in the direction I like. Fans will say Xiaomei I really saw you from two steps to a fall, now you can slide down smoothly, there is a feeling of developing a game, just watch me improve.
Not long ago, the picture of Xiaomei wearing Hanfu skiing spread on the short video platform, which once again surprised the crowd.
Post-90s short video broadcaster Xiaomei: Like skiing is also a process of pursuing beauty, Hanfu is integrated in the snow, this picture is cool and sassy to think about.
Jilin City Beishan Public Welfare Ice Rink
The temperature dropped to about minus 10 degrees Celsius, and the thickness of the ice surface reached 15 centimeters, and the winter of Wang Feng officially began.
Wang Feng, 48, is the administrator of the Beishan Public Welfare Ice Rink and a native of Jilin Province. He learned to ski at the age of 7 and skate at the age of 11, and ice and snow constitute important memories of winter in his youth.
Wang Feng, administrator of the Beishan Public Welfare Ice Rink in Jilin City, Jilin Province: When I was a child, I also went to school skating in this lake, and at that time, because of the construction of the city, there may be more ice rinks, and I felt very lost at that time.
As an adult, Wang Feng worked in the garden department, and the ice and snow complex of his youth has always lingered. He contracted an ice rink just to finish a happy dream of skating in the long winter days of the north.
Almost every morning in the winter, a group of old ice friends appear here on time, and together with Wang Feng, they are busy sweeping snow, shoveling ice, and watering, calling themselves the "Elderly Ice Guard Team".
In 2014, the fifth year of Wang Feng's contract for ice rinks, the Jilin municipal government began to invest in the construction of indoor and outdoor public welfare ice rinks throughout the city, and in 7 years, the city's public welfare ice rinks increased from 6 to 135. Wang Feng's ice rink has also received public welfare subsidies and has begun to be open to the public for free, more and more people come to skate, and the workload of ice protection is also increasing.
For more than a decade, the old faces of these Beishan Public Welfare Ice Rink Ice Protection Team have always been there, Wang Feng is familiar with their faces and skating figures, but he can't call out most people's names, and they have been with them for many years, they are the most familiar strangers.
Jilin City, Jilin Province, Beishan Public Welfare Ice Rink Administrator Wang Feng: Everyone is together, skating, nagging is very good, there is this atmosphere, if it is not cold, they are not in a hurry to go home, maybe skating only skating for an hour, nagging for two hours, but is not this what you want? Happiness is enough, right?
Because he loves skating and opened an ice rink, Wang Feng does not have much time to skate on his own because he wants to guard the ice rink and ice friends, but the winter in Jilin always carries his deepest expectations for beauty and happiness.
In this northeastern city, which is beautiful because of snow and frozen by cold, it is people's innate nature to enjoy ice and snow.
Jilin Changbai Island Public Welfare Ice Rink
11-year-old Lin Zeren has been able to easily find fun on the ice after snow since he was a child.
Lin Zeren: Playing a slippery northeast children should be about the same, is the most basic game in the northeast, just the feeling of spontaneous. Walking on the road and seeing a piece of ice, no matter how small it is, I always feel that whether I can slide it or not, I have to try it.
Lin Zeren wanted to learn to skate seriously because of the memory of watching the winter Olympic skating competition.
Lin Zeren: I'm particularly interested in short track speed skating, and I have some athletes I like more, like Wu Dajing, and I feel like they really feel like the wind when they skate, and I want to be like them. Later, my mother bought me an ice knife, and at the beginning I bought an ice knife because I was blindly slippery and slippery.
Lin Zeren did not ask a coach, used to learn on his own, groping for skating skills in wrestling.
Lin Zeren: When you encounter a lot of setbacks, as soon as you get on the ice, this ice knife can't stand and get stuck, and then get up and get up and get stuck again, just repeat it many times to master that balance.
Lin Zeren is in the sixth grade this year, and this winter vacation, he plans to practice all the basic movements of the starting on his own, and then upgrade next winter. Lin Zeren does not intend to use more professional standards to demand himself, only hope that in the future life, skating will become his eternal happy companion.
Outside of the Winter Olympics, the number of people participating in ice and snow sports in China has reached 346 million today, with a total of 654 standard ice rinks and 803 ski resorts in the country, an increase of 317% and 41% compared with Beijing's bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2015. Inside and outside the arena, "cold ice and snow" are "hot sports".
Beijing Yanqing
In the year of Beijing's successful bid for the Zhangjiakou Olympic Games, Wang Kevin, who was born in Yanqing, was three years old and has become famous in the local ski circle.
In the third year of the successful Olympic bid, Wang Kevin was six years old, and he reached the highest level of skiing in Beijing.
In the fifth year of the successful Olympic bid, Wang Kevin was eight years old, and the trophies, medals and certificates he received in various competitions across the country had already hung on a wall.
Beijing Yanqing No. 2 primary school student Wang Kevin: My dream is to win the Olympic champion in the three sports of double board, snowboard and freestyle. The Olympics really can't win the championship, and it is better to be a world champion.
Today, this ski-loving genius boy has punched almost all the ski resorts in the country, from Yabuli to Altay, from the outdoor snow field in the north to the indoor snow field in Chengdu and Guangzhou; Wang Kevin's snowboard has followed the goal of "300 million people participating in ice and snow sports" from the north to everywhere, from winter to four seasons.
Guangzhou, Guangdong
Wild snow gives people the opportunity to dance with nature; indoor ski resorts make it possible for more places to embrace ice and snow. On New Year's Day 2022, at the largest indoor ski resort in South China, people greet the arrival of the new year in the cool. With an outdoor temperature of 22 degrees Celsius and minus 6 degrees Celsius inside the ski resort, skiing is a fresh experience in the warm winter of the Lingnan region.
Citizen: I haven't been in a very cold place, so probably the biggest experience is that it will be very cold.
Reporter: Do you like to play with snow?
Child: I haven't seen it, but I see northerners having fun.
According to the data of the "2020 China Ski Industry White Paper", the mainland indoor ski resort projects have shown an explosive growth trend, and the indoor ski resorts opened in China have increased from 12 in 2016 to 36 in 2020, the number has ranked first in the world, and the world's top three indoor ski resorts are all from China. In the field of indoor ski resorts, China has achieved overtaking in curves.
Ski instructor Wang Huanan came to Guangzhou from the northeast, and as the ski resort spread rapidly from north to south, the coaches from the north also flew south. When he first arrived, the Northeast coach was amazed by the enthusiasm of the southerners for ice and snow.
Guangdong Province Guangzhou Sunac Snow World Gold Medal Coach Wang Huanan: Catch snow, throw snow, throw snow, fight snowball, see what the snow does at the first moment, lie on the ground and roll, to touch the snow more intimately, they will also touch the snow with their faces, if you don't look at it, immediately he will stuff the snow into his mouth.
An obvious change after Wang Hua went south to Guangzhou was that as a coach in the north, there was only one busy winter, and here, spring, summer, autumn and winter were all peak seasons.
Wang Huanan, Gold Medal Coach of Sunac Snow World in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province: The peak opening time was from 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock in the evening, and there were 9 classes, that is to say, there were 13 hours without stopping, and there were always students.
Warm south, at the other end of the city, riding the snow dream against the wind, there is this high school girl who has just turned 17.
Zhang Yueyi: Skating is quite accidental, once a classmate's birthday, saw the ice rink, we wanted to say try it and come in. When I first started on the ice, I was very scared, but then I slowly tried, found it very fun, saw those athletes are also very powerful, their posture is really beautiful, they were attracted, and decided to learn.
Three years ago, Zhang Yueyi was 14 years old, attracted by the beauty of ballet on ice, and stood on the ice rink in the state of a blank piece of paper. At that time, she was a junior high school student, and no matter her physical condition or study time, it was not the best time to learn figure skating.
Zhang Yueyi: Physical fitness has not kept up with children, so jumping is the most difficult for me, because the higher you grow, the more difficult it is to grasp your balance by jumping, it will be easy to twist, and it will hurt a lot.
Because she was attracted by beauty, Zhang Yueyi chose to insist, and in the persistence, she accidentally discovered a new dimension of the inner world.
Zhang Yueyi: The main thing is to teach me to persevere, in fact, when I was a child, I was still lazy about other things, but after learning this, I slowly became less lazy and learned to insist on this matter. Every fall is very painful and painful, but I will still stick to it
When she was a child, Zhang Yueyi felt that she was a girl who was lost in the crowd, ordinary and ordinary, had secret dreams, and had a lot of power that she could not reach. But the process of dancing on the ice, falling down, and getting up again gave her more good times to be proud of.
Zhang Yueyi: When you just learn to do an action, you won't, and you have to fall many times, as if you want to solve a math problem, the scratch paper is full, you may not be able to calculate it, but if you insist on it, you may figure it out, and suddenly it will be, just like skating.
For three years, Zhang Yueyi has spent her spare time on the ice rink, and every time she put on her skates, the ice rink has become her stage, and this stage has infinite size.
Zhang Yueyi: Figure skating for me may be inseparable from my life now, two or three days without skating on the itch, I want to go to the ice to skate, and I also want to become a figure skating coach.
Chengdu, Sichuan
After retirement, Lao Zhong lives in his daughter's house in Chengdu, and every morning, bicycles, subways, high-speed railways, and taxis, Lao Zhong has to change to four means of transportation, which lasts two and a half hours to go skiing.
Citizen Old Zhong: That silky speed goes down, it is indeed to say something from the heart, I am this age right, I can walk like this, others praise me for my modesty, can I be unhappy with myself.
In this indoor ski resort in Chengdu, skiing once pulled the old bell out of the trough of life. Seven years ago, Lao Zhong's wife died of cancer, and Lao Zhong's physical condition also plummeted, weighing less than 100 pounds at one point. But after starting skiing, Lao Zhong not only recovered his health, but also his mind was healed.
Citizen Old Bell: People always have to have a pursuit, even if you are old and have nothing, you also have your own way of life, a happy way of life.
Too many people have found their spiritual home in the snow and ice like the old clock. Among them, there are coaches who have failed to start a business and are saved by skiing, children who are relaxing in the burden of schoolwork, and young people who have found emotional sustenance here. The ski resort is big enough to accommodate men, women and children, and it can also accommodate a hundred flavors of life.
For young people in Chengdu, snowboarding, which is freer and more personalized, seems to be the coolest and most fashionable choice for them.
Chengdu citizen of Sichuan Province: Children like, dare to try, our parents are still relatively supportive, the road of life is the same, the child grows up, he will stumble, it is the same, right?
At nightfall, for the old bell, invite a few familiar snow friends to eat a steaming Chengdu hot pot, and the day of enrichment officially ends. In many cities, ice and snow sports have truly entered the ordinary alleys and entered the life of the city.
Luanchuan County, Henan Province
In the ski resort deep in the mountains of Luanchuan, Henan, more than a hundred special children are undergoing ski training.
Wu Yongjun, principal of Luanchuan County Special Education School in Luoyang City, Henan Province: Not only deaf and mute children, they have cerebral palsy, autism, autism, Down syndrome, and children with multiple disabilities.
In order to allow children with disabilities to touch the sunshine of ice and snow sports, with the efforts of all parties, professional coaches are equipped in place. But no matter how hard the coach tries, some children still have a hard time getting involved, and Lou Jiayuan, who has autism, is one of them.
Wu Tao, external physical training coach of Luanchuan County Special Education School in Henan Province: Calling ten times and twenty times will not pay attention to you, after a long time, slowly, step by step.
Ice and snow sports are difficult and demanding, which can ignite people's passion and temper people's will. The same action, children have to pay more effort; but the tempering is doubled, the happiness is doubled, and skiing gives them a brighter smile and a tougher character.
Wu Fei, external coach of Luanchuan County Special Education School in Luoyang City, Henan Province: In fact, they are not bad compared to normal children, as long as he likes this thing, he will also practice desperately.
Zhang Jiayi, a student at Luanchuan County Special Education School in Luoyang City, Henan Province: I very much want to participate in the competition.
In December 2019, 22 children represented the school on the national Special Olympics. Lou Jiayuan, who suffered from autism, insisted on participating with illness due to high fever and eventually won the silver medal in the men's cross-country skiing event.
Zhang Jiayi, a deaf-mute student, insisted on sliding the entire course with only one snowboard when a snowboard was dropped.
Wu Yongjun, principal of Luanchuan County Special Education School in Luoyang City, Henan Province: These children may not be able to hear the applause and shouts of cheering, but from the bottom of his heart, he can still feel that he must have courage! Have perseverance! Go fight!
Unlike any other railway line, winter is coming, and on weekends, train captain Lu Pan can clearly feel the surge in passenger traffic.
Lv Pan, conductor of the Beijing Passenger Transport Section Beijing-Zhang high-speed rail team: The main venue of the first Winter Olympics is here, and the second is that more and more ski enthusiasts come here to ski. Snowboarding a trip to the car to carry the most more than 40, in addition to the ski storage cabinet, we also have reserved three rows of seats, these three rows of seats are not sold, specially stored ski equipment.
The Chongli Branch Line of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-Speed Railway is a smart train to and from the "Ice and Snow World", which connects Beijing with Zhangjiakou Chongli and is a key transportation supporting project for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. On weekends, Lu Pan and her colleagues put on comfortable sportswear and go to the skiing fun field with the passengers.
Passengers are full of curiosity about this special train, and the conductor Lu Pan has also remembered the faces of many passengers in more than three years of comings and goings, which is an experience she has never had in her previous career.
Lv Pan, train captain of the Beijing Passenger Section Beijing-Zhang High-speed Railway Team: When the line was long or there were many passengers before, you did not have this time to understand, but this line is short, and he often sits, so it is possible to meet on the platform, just like a good friend often say hello, it feels very kind.
Xu Danian has counted the number of times this is the first time to take the Chongli branch line of the Beijing-Zhang high-speed railway, unlike other passengers, Xu Danian, a former railway safety inspector and photography enthusiast, recorded the entire process of the construction and opening of this line with his own lens.
Xu Danian: Because I work for the railway, all aspects of my work for so many years have been related to the railway. When the Chongli Line was built, everyone called it the Olympic Line, and I wanted to start its complete construction to completion, and I recorded it.
When the Chongli Line began construction, Xu Danian had retired, and he communicated with relevant departments in his personal name and won support with enthusiasm and initial heart. From the beginning of a pile, the railway line slowly appeared in Xu Danian's lens until the day of its opening.
Xu Danian: A project in our country was finally completed, and for me the three years of follow-up shooting was also a successful completion, so that day I was very happy, I took another shot of the Prince Edward City Station after the opening of the traffic, at that time I didn't pay too much attention, I was too excited, the shooting time was long, the fingernail cover was frozen off, because it was too cold that day, I really had a fondness for this line.
After the train opened, Xu Danian came to Chongli many times to continue to record the operation of the train and the Chongli images of preparing for the Olympics, this time, Xu Danian took his four-year-old grandson to ski, he hoped to let the children see the railways and cities he had eaten and recorded, and remember this special journey.
Chongli, a small mountain city with unique ice and snow resources, the ongoing Beijing Winter Olympics will produce 109 gold medals, of which 51 will be born here.
It is also because of the opportunity of the Winter Olympics that this small town with 7 ski resorts and 169 ski slopes has been heard and seen by more people in recent years.
Ski instructor Xu Zhongxing was born in a village and town eight kilometers away from this ski resort, and he has a deep memory of the "cold" of his hometown since childhood.
Ski instructor Xu Zhongxing: Every winter everyone feels very tormented and very cold, and then wears a cotton suit, basically indoor activities, always in a place where the heat is very warm.
During the winter vacation of his second year of college, Xu Zhongxing went to the ski resort to work part-time, standing on the top of the snow field, and for the first time, he carefully examined the magnificent "cold resources" in his hometown.
Ski Instructor Xu Zhongxing: Go to a higher and farther place to feel Chongli, to feel what the forest of the ski resort is like in winter, what the air in the ski resort is like in winter, and what the surrounding environment is like on the top of Chongli Mountain in winter.
Because of skiing, people are no longer afraid of the cold, and Chongli has a new business card. In 2011, Xu Zhongxing chose to stay in the snow field after graduating from university. At that time, not only in Chongli, but also in the national ski market was still in its infancy and the initial stage of nurturing customers.
Ski instructor Xu Zhongxing: Remember very clearly, at that time the whole snow field in the weekdays may be more than 100 people, these people are familiar at a glance, but also wait until the winter to find a job, can have some income, wait until the skiing snow season is over, snow melted, the heart is like blood, and then every year there will be nearly a month of depression, that kind of uncontrollable future, insecurity is there, from your income, the realization of the value of life, and then to the security of your life, Everyone is actually encountering some difficulties.
As a practitioner, Xu Zhongxing feels confused while loving. But if you jump out of your personal perspective and look at the entire industry, the huge potential of China's ski market has become a consensus. In 2015, Beijing and Zhangjiakou successfully bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, and Xu Zhongxing, a Chongli person, clearly felt that the winter in his hometown was gradually heating up, and the snow field was "boiling" as never before.
Ski Instructor Xu Zhongxing: The snow field is overcrowded, we say that the snow slopes are "dumplings", a thriving situation. The second is that the level of Xueyou has really improved a lot, because many foreign systems have come to China for training and provided a lot of technical and theoretical help. Since the 2015 and 2016 snow seasons, we have called the Chinese ski system a hundred schools of thought.
Chongli is in line with the international ski market as a ski town, and Xu Zhongxing was also selected for the training of the "China Ski Instructor Program" in Switzerland, he flew to Europe and spent two years punching in the world's first-class ski resorts and receiving teaching training. When he returned to China, he was thirty years old, the pace of the Winter Olympics was accelerating, and he was full of ambition, ready to create a new, international first-class teaching system suitable for Chinese snow friends.
Ski coach Xu Zhongxing: I feel that I have a sense of mission, to do a good job in the industry I love, so that the job of ski coach is respected by everyone, you can realize the value of life on this matter, and you can use it as a lifelong struggle. When I was a child, my father told me that when you grow up, don't go anywhere, and return to Chongli, saying that Chongli is a treasure of feng shui and is the idea of their older generation. They didn't think that his son had changed his life's fate, and that was what the Olympics had brought to the locals over the years.
The Winter Olympics schedule is more than halfway through, and the heat of ice and snow, the burning of ice and snow, has long lit up the daily life of many people across the country. In the future, in the post-Winter Olympic era, how will China's ice and snow story continue? What kind of new look will ice and snow sports take?