When the wonderful Winter Olympics award ceremony and the joyful Lantern Festival "collide with each other", what kind of excitement will bloom in the interweaving of "Chinese red" and "ice and snow white"? When the "Chinese Flower Lantern" meets the "Ice and Snow Glory", what kind of sparks will collide?
February 15th, is the Chinese traditional festival Lantern Festival, Beijing Awards Square is the tenth award day, after experiencing the atmosphere of raising the five-star red flag many times, he ushered in another day with Chinese characteristics, but also showed a different from the past festive and vitality. The lanterns in the athletes' waiting room are in full swing, the Lantern Festival, which has just come out of the pot, is steaming, the volunteers' origami and lantern riddles are eye-catching, and the song and dance performances before the awards are wonderful. And on this day, the Beijing Awards Plaza welcomed China's sixth gold medal in the Winter Olympics, the winter Olympic snowboarding men's big jump final, and China's Su Yiming won the championship with a perfect performance.
The performances are colorful
Lantern Festival celebrations and reunions, in such a reunion festival, Beijing Awards Square with song and dance "Mountain and River Map", "Blind Love", "Spring, We Are Together" three characteristic warm-up programs for everyone to show China's magnificent mountains and rivers, welcome the enthusiasm of guests from all over the world, express the passion and joy of gathering together in Beijing to welcome the Lantern Festival.
As the venue and display place of the award ceremony, Beijing Awards Plaza shoulders the heavy responsibility of disseminating the Olympic spirit and sportsmanship, and will present the highlight moments and characteristics of athletes to the world. Crossing time and space, crossing national borders, under the spotlight of the Winter Olympics, in the unique atmosphere of the Lantern Festival, and in the moment when ice and snow athletes share glory, different civilizations are intertwined, reflecting the beautiful vision of the global human family of beauty and coexistence, harmony and symbiosis.
The Lantern is warm and cold in winter
The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a necessary food for the festival, the Lantern Has naturally become the "protagonist" on people's tables. Volunteers and staff are looking forward to eating a hot tangyuan on this special day. Black sesame seeds, peanuts, fruits, sweet potatoes... For the Lantern Festival with various fillings, everyone took advantage of the short dinner time to eat tangyuan together, satisfying the taste buds at the same time, conveying the joy and reunion warmth of traditional Chinese festivals. This festival is of great significance to the staff of the Winter Olympics, and the publicity manager Mai Nianhao said, "Although we can't be with our families, we are with the big family of the team and jointly cheer for the Winter Olympics in our motherland." ”
Flower lanterns reflect the full moon
The Lantern Festival is also known as the Shangyuan Festival and the Lantern Festival. As in the words "The East Wind Blooms a Thousand Trees at Night." More blowing down, the stars like rain" wrote, a full moon in the sky, and flowers and lanterns everywhere in the world. Lanterns are one of the typical elements of traditional Chinese culture, a symbol of festive and auspiciousness, and the prototype of the mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games, "Snow Rongrong", which everyone also wants to express their blessings for the Beijing Winter Olympics. Volunteers began to carefully arrange the Lantern Festival activities early in the morning, they carefully cut paper, pasted, made a lantern of the Year of the Tiger, and at the same time, at nightfall, everyone lit up their own flower lanterns, hung a variety of lanterns and lanterns on the media reception desk, ready to welcome the arrival of the media and the audience, although the outdoor cold wind, but this one by one flower lanterns warmed the hearts of everyone who came to work in the venue.
The riddles are fascinating
Volunteers in the waiting room of the ceremony celebration field also carefully prepared a number of bilingual riddles, hoping that the award-winning athletes from various countries could also participate in it and experience China's traditional culture and festivals. Riddles are written on red lanterns, which are very interesting. The riddles set up in this puzzle activity also incorporate elements of the Winter Olympics, which is not only fun, but also cheers for the athletes of the Beijing Winter Olympics in this unique way. Chinese culture has also burst out new sparks in successive exchanges, creating a more diverse and inclusive picture. "I wanted to create a festive home for all the winning athletes." Chen Li, manager of the waiting room in the ceremony celebration field, said.
Civilizations are enriched by exchanges, and civilizations are enriched by mutual learning. The Lantern Festival is an important traditional festival of the Chinese nation, containing the essence of traditional Chinese culture, and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will open a new window for exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations, and will also make the Olympic Movement shine with new brilliance.