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Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

author:Xinhua

June 15

On the occasion of the 100-day countdown to the opening of the Hangzhou Asian Games

Asian Games Tinder in Liangzhu Ancient City Ruins Park Damojiao Mountain

Successful acquisition

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

Beijing Asian Games in 1990

The tinder is collected under the peak of Nianqing Tangula

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

Guangzhou Asian Games

The tinder was collected at the north beacon tower of the Great Wall in Juyongguan, Beijing

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

This Hangzhou Asian Games

Why did you choose Liangzhu Ancient City Ruins?

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

Before answering this question

We might as well re-recognize the ruins of the ancient city of Liangzhu

6 Jul 2019

The ruins of the ancient city of Liangzhu at the 43rd session of the World Heritage Conference

Inscribed on the World Heritage List

This marks the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization it represents

It has been widely recognized internationally

The ruins of the ancient city of Liangzhu also became

"A sacred place for the empirical history of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization"

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

"Gather tinder here

It symbolizes the light of civilization in Liangzhu

Through time and space

Ignite the flame of the Asian Games in a new era

It symbolizes the inheritance and continuation of the spirit of sportsmanship"

Xiang Ming, director of the Zhejiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

Attentive netizens may also have found out

The fire mining device is designed in the shape of jade

The placement table of the tinder box is made of jade

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?
Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

Design it this way

More than just aesthetics

More exquisite

Jade bi and jade cun are important representative jade ritual vessels of Liangzhu civilization

Bi symbolizes the light of the sky and the sun

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

It is a ritual vessel used by the Liangzhu people to worship the gods

The inner circle of Liangzhu Yuqian symbolizes heaven and earth

It represents the cosmic concept of the Liangzhu people at that time

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

It's big and small

The outer wall has four corners and four straight grooves, showing all directions

And carved the sun-god-style ancestor god statue

The perforation in the center is both a channel for communicating heaven and earth

It is also the rotating axis of the universe

Heaven and earth spin, heaven and man are one

It is the earliest cosmological model of Chinese civilization

It is also the long and profound Chinese civilization

Important cultural identity

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

It is worth mentioning

The design creativity of the Hangzhou Asian Games torch "torch"

It is also a jade shape from the Liangzhu culture

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

And in Qianjiang New Town in Hangzhou

There is also a group of buildings shaped like jade

That's where the Hangzhou Civic Center is located

It became an important landmark in Hangzhou from the West Lake era to the Qiantang River era

Therefore, the fire mining device is designed in the shape of jade

The tinder box placement table is designed in the shape of a jade

It contains the beautiful meaning of connecting the past and the future with the flame of the Hangzhou Asian Games

It fits the theme of "heart to heart, @未来"

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

Besides

There were 19 fire-harvesting messengers during the fire-picking ceremony

Symbolizing the 19th Asian Games

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

More than 40 "Liangzhu ancestors" in the performance

It symbolizes the participation of more than 40 countries and regions in this Asian Games

They follow the tinder

Coming together from all directions

Representing the athletes

Unity and common prosperity, always climbing the peak, surpassing oneself

Chasing the Light | The "torch" is passed down, why Liangzhu?

It's more special

The tinder box is lit at the same time as the tinder gathering ceremony

The online relay of the "Digital Torchbearer" of the Hangzhou Asian Games was also launched

September 23

Opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games

It will present the world with the first digital ignition ceremony in the history of the Asian Games

"Asian Games Digital Torchbearers" from around the world

It resonates with the real world at the same frequency in the digital world

Ignite the flame of the Asian Games together

Let's look forward to it together!

Reporter: Xia Liang, Hu Jiali

Images: Liu Dawei, Huang Zongzhi, Jiang Han, Weng Xinyang, Xu Yu

Editor: Ji Jiadong