(Beijing Winter Olympics) "Double Olympic City" Beijing uses Chinese stories to tell the beauty of a different kind of Winter Olympics

　　China News Service, Beijing, January 24th (Reporter Ying Ni) This past weekend, in the unexpected light snow, in the rhythm of music, wonderful brushwork and heart-moving words, the "city of double Olympics" Beijing used Chinese. Aesthetics and Chinese stories present a different beauty of the Winter Olympics.

On January 20, Beijing Tiananmen Square, the Winter Olympics landscape theme flower bed in the snow.

On the same day, Beijing ushered in its first snowfall this year.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yi Haifei

Listen: the sound of snow falling

　　When the familiar melody of "Together to the Future" sounded in Zhongshan Concert Hall, "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics Original Works Concert" brought more than 10 new Winter Olympic songs.

　　Since Beijing's successful bid to host the Winter Olympics, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee has held three consecutive Winter Olympics song collection activities, which have received positive responses from the majority of songwriters and the public.

The songs sung in this concert are the outstanding works selected in these solicitation and selection activities.

　　"Every snowflake is a medal / We have common expectations", "The Future of Beauty" conveys the expectation of beauty, harmony and common; "Different skin colors fly with passion / Extend your hands to convey strength / There will be warm sun in the cold winter. ", the lyrics of "Winter Olympics have me" condensed the faster, higher and stronger Olympic spirit; in "Winter Olympics!

In "We Embrace You", the phrase "Boil a pot of jasmine in the hometown of the dragon/We will wait for you under the Great Wall" even turns the agitation of the arena into an elegant Chinese painting, as if one can smell the dense aroma of jasmine tea...

　　As the general planner of the concert, Zhao Jinbo, vice-chairman and secretary-general of the Beijing Musicians Association, told reporters that Beijing is the only "city with two Olympics" in the world that has hosted both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics.

To successfully hold the Beijing Winter Olympics and to show the world a sunny, prosperous, open and confident image of China is the aspiration of the whole Chinese people, including the citizens of the capital.

Flutter: The Light of Colorful Life

　　In the National Art Museum of China, the "Light of Life" accompanied by the "Olympic Dream" stirred in this national art hall.

The 2022 Ninth China Beijing International Art Biennale, which is being held, uses all the venues of the museum.

The exhibition displays 707 works (groups) of 573 artists from 117 countries and regions, including 487 works from foreign countries (including special exhibitions) and 220 works from China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan).

　　Li Hongjun's Chinese painting "Light of Life" is 7.88 meters long and 3.33 meters wide. In the picture, from traditional ice and snow sports to Winter Olympic venues and competition scenes, from national fitness to the moment Olympic athletes win the championship, the light of the Winter Olympics emblem shines Under this, Chinese and Western athletes will show their glory together.

In Wang Xuexian's oil painting "Dream of a Powerful Sports Country", scenes such as the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team, the 100-meter flying man Su Bingtian, the table tennis world champion Xu Xin, and the Shougang Grand Jumping platform of the Winter Olympics are linked together like time travel. , in the interweaving of ice and fire, movement and stillness, showing the shock of sportsmanship to people's souls.

　　As one of the chief planners of the biennale, Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum of China, pointed out that at a time when the world is facing the challenges of the new crown epidemic, the 24th Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics will be held as scheduled in Beijing and Zhangjiakou in 2022. Extraordinary.

"Sports is the bright light of life, art is the bright color of life, and a hymn of life is written in visual language," he said, interpreting the spirit of the Olympic Games and the anti-epidemic spirit in a broader sense from the perspective of art, setting off the humanistic and artistic atmosphere of the Winter Olympics, and once again integrating the whole Humanity unites under the Olympic flag.

Precipitation: Heavy "Double Olympics" Love

　　In 2006, at the invitation of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, Sun Jingyan, a female reportage writer, followed up and interviewed the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and wrote and published a long reportage "China under the Five Rings".

Ten years later, she reconnected with the Olympic Games, started an in-depth interview on the Chinese Winter Olympics, and released her latest work "China Winter Olympics" by the People's Literature Publishing House.

At the book launch last weekend, she joked that she had also won the reputation of a "double Olympic writer".

　　In order to write this book, Sun Jingyan spent five years, in-depth interviews with more than 200 people related to the Winter Olympics at home and abroad, and comprehensively wrote about the hardships and difficulties in the construction of the venues for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics. The challenges and achievements recorded the shining process of Beijing, the "city of double Olympics" and Zhangjiakou Chongli, in the 2022 Winter Olympics to create the Olympic Games of Science and Technology, the Olympics of Humanity, the Olympics of Environmental Protection, and the Olympics of Thrift, highlighting the famous Winter Olympics, The grace and long-term dedication of coaches and organizers in ice and snow sports.

　　She admitted that the preparation of the Winter Olympics is a long process, and it is also a process of integrating new Olympic concepts into daily life and promoting social development.

　　In February 2022, Beijing, the "city of double Olympics", will once again shine in the world, blooming with gorgeous flowers of the Winter Olympics.

In Sun Jingyan's view, the Winter Olympics once again provided China with an opportunity to showcase Chinese culture in the world.

The completion of the Winter Olympics venues and the outstanding performance of the athletes signify that China has grown into a sports power, and as the country grows in strength, China will be more closely integrated into the global system.

　　As sung in "Winter Olympics With Me", "The rivers and mountains are beautiful, and the story of Jingzhang is long. Listen to me tell you slowly..." (End)