Chinanews client, Beijing, February 5th, title: From "Auspicious Clouds" to "Flying" How does "Double Olympic City" inherit and sublimate?
Reporter Wang Yu
Fourteen years ago, "Auspicious Clouds" came to the world, entrusting the world's expectation and vision for the Olympic light to come to the land of China for the first time;
Fourteen years later, "Flying" danced, looking forward to the "faster, higher, stronger" competitive spirit forever casting the soul of Eastern ice and snow sports.
On February 4, on the first anniversary of the countdown to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the torch "Flying" of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics was officially launched.
The picture shows the torch pattern of the Beijing Winter Olympics released that day.
China News Service released the picture for Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee
Only 24 hours before the beginning of spring, the torch of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be officially launched.
In the following year, the "Double Olympic City" Beijing and the Winter Olympics will also take advantage of this spring breeze to dance toward the new starting point that many people are looking forward to.
From China Millennium Monument to Water Cube
On the evening of April 26, 2007, the China Millennium Monument in Beijing witnessed the historical moment of the birth of the 29th Olympic torch "Auspicious Clouds".
Five thousand and thirty-three days later, the "Auspicious Clouds" torch regained a "new life" in the Water Cube, which was only a few steps away from the Bird's Nest where it was shining hot.
Data map: The picture shows the water cube lighting ceremony.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
When the heat and anticipation of summer faded, it was replaced by a stage decorated with blue ice crystal geometric patterns and the water cube shell of the "Double Olympic Stadium". Accompanied by "Bingdundun" and "Snow Rongrong", Beijing For the first time, the torch of the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be "flying".
The moment the torch was released on site.
Either by coincidence or ingenuity, the "Water Cube" 14 years later has also turned into an "Ice Cube", becoming the world's first venue to achieve "water-to-ice conversion" and will assume the role of Beijing winter The competition task of the Olympic curling project.
No longer will there be great swimmers flying forward in the waves, curling athletes will climb this blue sky and compete in a showdown. The transition between winter and summer is like a fleeting change, and the inheritance is inadvertently continued and sublimated.
Data map: Bird's Nest.
Photo by Sun Hongjie issued by China News Agency
From the 2008 Olympics in Beijing to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, time flies, spring passes and autumn comes, but our pursuit and exploration of the Olympic spirit has never changed.
From the China Millennium Monument to the National Aquatics Center "Water Cube", the "Double Olympic City" Beijing is also between the needles of "Auspicious Clouds" and "Flying", realizing the hand in hand between the past and the future.
From "peak" to new "peak"
The idea of the Beijing Olympic torch is inspired by the "Auspicious Clouds" pattern of "Symbiosis of Origins, Harmony and Inclusion".
Xiangyun's cultural concept has a time span of thousands of years in China and is a representative Chinese cultural symbol.
The torch of the Beijing Olympic Games won praise from the International Olympic Committee as soon as it came out.
Rogge, then President of the International Olympic Committee, once praised: "The excellent design of the (Xiangyun) torch adds a unique Chinese color to the torch relay.'Xiangyun' spreads the message of auspicious and peaceful Beijing Olympic Games to the world."
Beijing Olympic torch "Auspicious Clouds".
Image source: IOC official website
Now that time passes, the baton of inheritance is also delivered to Feiyang.
The torch of the Beijing Winter Olympics is red and silver, which means ice and fire meet, and passion is flying.
The red line runs up and down with the turning of the torch, symbolizing the passionate ice and snow track, and also represents the eternal fire, bright and upward, expressing humanity's endless, longing for peace, pursuit of excellence, and the strength of the Olympic movement.
When the torch is handed over, the tops of the two torches can be closely interlocked, which is not only a clever design innovation, symbolizing the exchanges and mutual learning of different civilizations, but also embodies the vision of the Beijing Winter Olympics to make the world more acquainted with each other.
On February 4, on the first anniversary of the countdown to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the torch "Flying" of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics was officially launched.
The picture shows the torch pattern of the Beijing Winter Olympics released that day.
China News Service released the picture for Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee
In addition, using hydrogen as fuel and using high-temperature carbon fiber materials, the design of the torch adheres to the concept of green and sustainability. It not only realizes the icy tempering that can withstand extreme cold weather and combustion environments above 800 ℃, but also strives to integrate artistic design and technological innovation. Fused together.
The meaning of "Flying" design is layered and layered, and technological methods are used cleverly, but what remains unchanged is that it shares the profound essence of Chinese culture with the world.
Thirteen years ago, Rogge praised the 2008 Beijing Olympics as "a truly unparalleled Olympic event."
Today, with the advent of the torch "flying" as the symbol and the first anniversary of the countdown as a new starting point, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is also striding forward from the "peak" to another "peak".
National Speed Skating Hall The National Speed Skating Hall is a landmark venue for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
During the Winter Olympics, the National Speed Skating Stadium will undertake speed skating competitions, where 14 gold medals will be born.
At present, the National Speed Skating Stadium has completed the first ice making of the speed skating track, and has the conditions for the test competition.
The picture shows the National Speed Skating Stadium where ice production has been completed on January 28, 2021.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
From "Auspicious Clouds" to "Flying"
Beijing will become the world's first double Olympic city to host the Summer and Winter Olympics in 2022.
Therefore, compared with the torch of the 2008 Olympic Games, this torch is both inheritance and innovation.
Speaking of the torch, the first thing that appeared in the mind of the torch designer Li Jianye was the "Auspicious Clouds" of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The unique oriental beauty of the scroll of auspicious clouds imprinted on him.
Although the manuscripts have been changed several times, in every version of the drawings, almost all retained the "Double Olympic City" concept.
"The feeling that this torch wants to express is that the entire Chinese nation is going up with an open attitude and thriving." He said.
The ignition ceremony of each Olympic Games strives to be wonderful and unique. There is no doubt that the Beijing Olympics has achieved it.
Under the focus of the projection lamp, Li Ning, holding the Olympic flame, stepped on a spacewalk and circled the bird’s nest. At this moment, Li Ning looked like Armstrong on the moon. Every small step he took was a major achievement in China’s Olympic history. step.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Ren Chenming
As a result, the "flying" torch that finally appeared in the public eye, the overall appearance echoed the shape of the main torch tower for the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, reflecting the heritage and development of the City of Double Olympics.
From bottom to top, it gradually transitions from the auspicious cloud pattern to the paper-cut snowflake pattern, which rotates and rises like a ribbon fluttering, and finally appears as a flying flame.
Xiangyun conveys auspicious meaning and is the continuation of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games; snowflakes express the characteristics of the Winter Olympics and are the innovation of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
At that time, "Auspicious Clouds" lit the sacred flame across the five continents, reached the summit of Qomolangma, and passed the millennium Chinese civilization to the world;
Nowadays, the fire of the Olympics has once again "flyed" in the ancient eastern country, showing a more open and uplifting modern China.
It's just that the harmonious journey of the torch relay of the Beijing Olympics under the "lucky clouds" shining down has eternally been recorded in Olympic history; and the "flying" passionate journey of ice and snow is waiting to be written.
On February 4, on the first anniversary of the countdown to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the torch "Flying" of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics was officially launched.
The picture shows the torch pattern of the Beijing Winter Olympics released that day.
China News Service released the picture for Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee
From "Harmony and Harmony" to "Harmony of Man and Nature"
The torch design for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Paralympic Winter Games is in the same line as the overall image landscape design, and both are derived from the traditional Chinese philosophy of "the way of nature and the unity of man and nature".
This also complements the "Auspicious Clouds" pattern of the Beijing Olympic torch "Symbiosis, Harmony and Harmony".
However, in the early stages of design, limited by the mechanized thinking and creative methods of industrial design, the winding form of the streamers inside and outside the torch was always too regular. The overall concept of "the way of nature and the unity of nature and man" seemed to be "out of sight". .
A flexible and graceful leaf inspired the design team.
The lines of nature cannot be realized in computer design software.
So the designers used the "Tao Law to Nature" as a guide on the whiteboard, and copied them like calligraphy.
2008 Beijing Olympic torch on Mount Everest
After countless attempts, there are finally a few sketches that vaguely capture the power of life.
"Actually, this is a process from gradual realization to epiphany." Li Jianye, the designer of the torch exterior, recalled.
In terms of appearance, the overall shape of "Flying" is inspired by nature, and the streamline force of nature is full of vitality; in terms of fuel, hydrogen is taken from water, and after combustion, it becomes water, realizing zero carbon emissions and practicing "Green Winter Olympics" concept.
In the end, the "Flying" design concept was highly affirmed by the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee.
They believe that the design of the torch once again proves that the Olympic Games is an ingenious combination of sports and culture, art and technology.
With both cultural heritage and technological innovation, Chinese culture and art are perfectly displayed.
Not only embodies the characteristics of the Double Olympic City, but also shows the spirit of the Olympics.
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