The 24th Winter Olympic Games will kick off in Beijing on February 4, 2022.
The Sports Department of Chinanews.com has launched a series of column "Hundred Questions about the Winter Olympics", which aims to popularize the knowledge of the Winter Olympics, answer hot questions, share interesting stories about ice and snow, and help everyone have a better viewing experience at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The 86th Winter Olympics 100 Questions | Award bouquet, how to present Chinese romance?
From the use of 100% green and clean electricity in the venues to the large-scale use of carbon dioxide (R744) transcritical direct refrigeration systems to make ice, the Beijing Winter Olympics will have many innovations.
Even from the element of the award bouquet, you can feel the difference of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
This bouquet of Olympic flowers, known as "never withering", is full of Chinese romance.
In previous Winter Olympics, fresh cut flowers were generally used for award bouquets.
However, fresh cut flowers are difficult to keep fresh for a long time, which makes it difficult to keep them for a long time, and also brings about the problem of increased transportation management costs.
Different from this, the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics use hand-knitted woollen bouquets as award bouquets, which are presented to the winning athletes together with the medals during the medal presentation ceremony.
A flower starts from the needle. If it is made by one person, the total process takes 8 hours.
Photo by Tang Yanjun
The velvet bouquet not only retains the shape of the bouquet in the Olympic award ceremony, but also implements the concept of sustainability, implying warmth and peace, which can be preserved forever, becoming the "never withering Olympic flower".
This special bouquet of flowers is another example of Beijing's implementation of the concept of green and clean hosting of the Olympic Games.
The Beijing Winter Olympics awards bouquets include roses, roses, lily-of-the-valley, hydrangea, laurel and olives in 6 beautiful flower shapes, which symbolize friendship, perseverance, happiness, unity, victory and peace. The ribbons are the colors of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The blue in the system, with a combination of shades, highlights the elements of ice and snow sports.
In the award bouquet of the Beijing Winter Paralympics, a blue cosmos is added to the award bouquet of the Winter Olympics, symbolizing strength, and the ribbon of the bouquet is yellow in the color system of the Beijing Winter Olympics. with vigor.
It is understood that the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games will use 1,251 bouquets, all of which are hand-woven.
It not only condenses the author's best wishes for athletes, but also carries a unique romance.
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