Wheat straw paintings depicting the Great Wall and the Mascot of the Winter Olympics, children's paintings with elements such as the Winter Olympics and Beijing landmarks, and the "ice pier" dough pinched by folk craftsmen... On February 17, a group of special Winter Olympic gifts from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, spanning nearly 500 kilometers, came to the 2022 Beijing News Center, conveying the local hearts of young and old to enjoy and help the Winter Olympics.
This morning, gifts from children, non-hereditary inheritors and folk craftsmen from Hohhot were delivered to the 2022 Beijing News Center through reporters from inner Mongolia Radio and Television Station in Beijing. Tian Yuhong, director of the 2022 Beijing News Center, was very touched by the thick pile of paintings and handicrafts, "These works are very attentive, and we are very encouraged by everyone's practical actions to support the Beijing Winter Olympics." I wish you all happiness and happiness, healthy growth of children, and we will move forward together into the future! Through the lens of the media, Tian Yuhong thanked the friends of the old and young who carefully made gifts.
The colorful and imaginative paintings of the children in Hohhot attracted the reporters of the press center. A work set against the backdrop of Tiananmen, the Hall of Prayer for the New Year, and the Bird's Nest paints several winter Olympic events such as figure skating, short track speed skating, and ice hockey, and the ice piers and snow rongrong have entered the five Olympic rings, which is very cute; there is also a child, who painted his favorite athlete Gu Ailing, wearing a red and white ski suit, heroic and cool.
In the online interview, the children of The Greenland Primary School in Hohhot City expressed their winter Olympic wishes. "I hope to use my works to help the Beijing Winter Olympics a complete success." Elementary school student Qile Mig said. "I really wanted to cheer for the Chinese team, so I pinched an ice pier and melted snow." Elementary school student Su Jinghan said.
A wheat straw painting called "Together to the Future" has a distinctive feature. In the paintings, elements such as the Great Wall, the Five Olympic Rings, the Winter Olympic mascot and the peony flower are all made of wheat straw with pure natural colors. Its creator is the 66-year-old Xiao Junguang, who is also the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage wheat straw painting. Xiao Junguang introduced that this work took several months from collecting wheat straw to making it, of which the raw materials of six flowers came from Qinghai and Inner Mongolia provinces and five places, "As an old man who has passed the age of flower armor, although I cannot participate in the Winter Olympics, I can use my family's heirloom skills to cheer for the success of the Winter Olympics." ”
Inner Mongolia is a large province of ice and snow, the people's enthusiasm for participating in ice and snow sports is unprecedented, and people send winter Olympic blessings through various ways. The reporter learned that among the Winter Olympic gifts that crossed nearly 500 kilometers to Beijing, dozens of children's paintings, intangible cultural heritage works, and folk craftsmen's works were included, which is only a small part of the winter Olympic works collected.