▲ On February 20, the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics held a fireworks display, and "One Family Under Heaven" bloomed over the Bird's Nest. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
When children light up the world with snowflake lanterns, when the zodiac ice car slides to carve out a huge Chinese knot, when the snowflake at the opening ceremony puts on the new Chinese clothes that shines with brilliance, when the willows converge into the colors of spring... At the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the national style reappeared, and the unique emotional expression of Chinese conveyed the beautiful vision of "one family under the world" to the world.
The heart is like a double silk mesh, with thousands of knots. In particular, the Chinese knot "worn" by that snowflake is different from before. Sha Xiaolan, director of the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, said, "The design of the Chinese knot draws on many elements of China, including cloisonné, blue and white porcelain, silk, red ribbon, as well as snow and rime. "Connecting everyone together through the Chinese knot can better reflect the concept of this community with a shared future for mankind."
The knot condenses the most primitive care between people. The twisting of the rope is the wordless telling of the inner voice of the weaver, and the Chinese knot skillfully combines the spirituality of nature and the spirit of humanity. In today's rapid social development, Chinese knots can still emit a unique warm glow, awakening people's pursuit and desire for simplicity and natural feelings.
▲ On February 20, the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the actors performed around the Chinese knot in the center of the field. Beijing News reporter Tao Ran photographed
It can be said that the Chinese knot at the Winter Olympics is an innovation in traditional Chinese culture and a national cultural symbol with symbolic significance, cohesion, appeal and spread. Such symbolic inheritance and innovation is also an active practice of inheriting and developing traditional culture, exerting its influence and radiation power, and enhancing cultural self-confidence. It also tells the world that this is a beautiful world that is "connected and interlocked", and a community of destiny in which "you have me, I have you".
The opening welcome is pine, and the closing is folded off the willow. At the closing ceremony, the most touching scene was the love link of folding willows, and the director expressed the solemn ceremony with the aesthetic beauty of six "ones" of "a song, a group of people, a bunch of willow branches, a beam of light, a green shade, and together to the future". As Zhang Yimou, director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics, said, "We don't have much sadness, but more of a deep memorial and a green hope that has risen again." ”
This kind of commemoration is in the arms of "once upon a time, Willow Yiyi", this hope is in the friendship of "only the ruler is broken and can be planted, and the faith is eternally virtuous and enviable". Willow, stay also; silk, si also. From the initial vague and brief description of The Italian style to the exhaustive brush stroke, a thin willow silk represents the reluctance of the sender, which has become the archetypal image of the poetry recognized by the Chinese nation, and also loaded with many beautiful emotions in the heart of the Chinese.
▲At the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the "folding willows to send affection" link. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Yang Liu and the Chinese nation's gentle and generous national character are consistent. In fact, the ancients not only had the style of "folding willows to give farewell", but also the custom of "folding willows to send far away". Mr. Qian Zhongshu once analyzed the function of folding willows in two ways: one is to send farewell, and the other is to send far away. Most of the folded willows used in the poems for gifting and sending far away are probably only symbolic and do not necessarily have substantive actions, but this is an important embodiment of Chinese poetic temperament.
Especially when the melody of "Farewell" sounded, the rivers of civilization once again met wonderfully on the Olympic stage. "Farewell" is a 1915 song written by Chinese musician and educator Li Shutong, based on the American song "Dreaming of Home and Mother" composed by John Pound Otway. Such music is Chinese and the world, it is the Chinese thought of "asking the king when to go here", and it is also the world dream of "Home, Dear home, childhood happy home".
"Smoke and fog, thousands of whiskers fall into the light." For the reporter to take a break, half stay and send half welcome. Although this "truly unparalleled Winter Olympics" has slowly come to an end, China's rich cultural implications are far from being displayed, waiting for everyone who yearns for it to discover, to enjoy, to indulge.
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