(Beijing Winter Olympics) Eating glutinous rice balls and making palace lanterns, this is how the Lantern Festival is celebrated in the closed loop of the Winter Olympics
China News Service, Beijing, February 15th (Wang Hao Li Jun) On the 15th, it is the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival. Within the closed loop of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Winter Olympics Organizing Committee has launched a series of activities such as sending dumplings, guessing lantern riddles, and making palace lanterns. Various forms of activities, so that people in the closed loop can also feel the festive atmosphere.
The Beijing Winter Olympics, which opened on February 4, coincides with the traditional Chinese Lunar New Year, and the Lantern Festival is a traditional festival with great symbolic meaning.
On this day, the main media center restaurant of the Beijing Winter Olympics provided free dumplings to every journalist who came to dine.
At around 12 noon, it is the peak time for meals. At the Chinese food stall, as long as the reporter asks for it, the staff will bring them steaming dumplings.
There are two glutinous rice balls per serving, with black sesame fillings for lunch and fruit fillings for dinner.
It is not only Chinese journalists who eat dumplings, but also many foreign journalists. The Beijing Winter Olympics will give people from all over the world a chance to learn about traditional Chinese food.
After sitting down with the dumplings in hand, you will find that there are small notes pasted on the partitions of the seats in the restaurant, and the small notes are printed with the riddles of the quiz.
The puzzles are combined with pictures and texts, expressed in both Chinese and English, and the content is varied, including guessing the Winter Olympics events, guessing the names of athletes, and guessing the names of things.
While eating glutinous rice balls and guessing riddles, this Lantern Festival has a sense of ritual.
The most popular in the main media center restaurant is the activity of making palace lanterns.
The big red palace lanterns with the characters of blessing were assembled by the reporters themselves, which looked very festive.
The palace lanterns were collected soon after the event, and when the staff was "closing the booth", foreign reporters came to ask if they could still receive them. After hearing that the palace lanterns were gone, he hurriedly turned around to pick up the dumplings.
In addition to the main media center, the hotel where the reporter lived also prepared surprises.
In addition to the freshly cooked glutinous rice balls, the chef in the kitchen has been busy for two days and steamed a pot of steamed buns that look like bing pier, so that everyone had a special Lantern Festival dinner.
There are also some different layouts in the Beijing Winter Olympics Awards Plaza. Compared with usual, a lot of palace lanterns have been added here, and the lights on both sides of the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube complement each other, which is really beautiful.
And many guide volunteers are also carrying palace lanterns, and the modern Olympic movement suddenly has some classical charm.
The Lantern Festival is also the competition day of the Beijing Winter Olympics. For the normal operation of the event, countless staff are still sticking to their posts.
Due to the recent cold air, the outdoor temperature in Beijing is very low at night, but the volunteers at the shuttle bus platform are sticking to their posts.
On the Lantern Festival, they played palace lanterns and guessed lantern riddles at the volunteer home, celebrating the festival like family.
When asked if the working hours on the festival day were the same as usual, a volunteer smiled and said, "Of course!" (End)