China News Service, Beijing, March 2 (Reporter Liu Wenxi and Xu Jing) The pooled water ignited the "fire of origin" and "electronic fireworks" ignited the "fire of hope"... On the morning of the 2nd, at the Beijing Grand Canal Cao Transport Terminal, The China Braille Library and other places, the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics City Fire Collection Ceremony kicked off.
At 9:00 a.m., at the water transport terminal of the Grand Canal, four fire miners collected water from the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Yongding River and the Grand Canal, and jointly collected it into the firearm water tank.
The pooled water holds up the firearm and ignites the fire, igniting the "source of fire" in the form of water and fire.
On March 2, the tinder collection ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics was held at the China Braille Library.
The picture shows the first torchbearer Zhu Pengkai.
Photo by Zhang Xinglong
Qi Kaili, who has achieved excellent results in wheelchair foil, epee, and wheelchair table tennis competitions at home and abroad, is one of the four fire-pickers. "I was the torchbearer of the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It is a great honor to be a tinder collector for the Beijing Winter Paralympics," Qi Kaili said, "I participated in the Olympic Games more as an athlete before, but this time I participated as an ordinary person watching the games. All participating athletes can achieve great results in Beijing." She said that every athlete has his own story behind him, and I hope everyone's story can be wonderful.
The first torchbearer of the Caoyun Wharf was Wang Chaoshan, the principal of Peizhi School in Tongzhou District, Beijing.
Wang Chaoshan said that as a worker who is directly engaged in the education of the disabled, he hopes to convey the concepts of respect, understanding, tolerance and integration by participating in this activity.
He said that the torch will be placed in the school after the relay event, and at the same time, the concept of the Paralympic Games will be spread to the students at the flag-raising ceremony, which will stimulate students' self-improvement spirit.
The Grand Canal Water Transport Wharf is located in the Yinfeng Qiushi Scenic Spot of the Grand Canal Forest Park, covering an area of 18 acres.
Twenty-five days ago, the torch of the Beijing Winter Olympics was passed in the Grand Canal Forest Park, showing the world the ancient Grand Canal glowing with a new style.
Today, igniting the "fire of the source" in the form of the fusion of water and fire will once again ignite the Olympic passion and participation enthusiasm of the people on both sides of the canal.
In the Chinese Braille Library, two young blind people ignited the fire by writing "electronic fireworks".
The theme of the torch relay here is to collect "fire of hope".
At the collection activity site, two visually impaired youths, Yin Menglan and Zhang Junjun, used Braille pens to write a beautiful wish "Together to the Future" on the enlarged Braille board.
When the embossed characters are connected to the optical fiber, the electronic fireworks are triggered, and the fire is ignited - "the fire of hope", which means to ignite the flame of hope in the heart.
Zhu Pengkai, who won the gold medal in the men's javelin at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games and the 2012 London Paralympic Games, said that since the Beijing Olympics, he has felt that there are more and more auxiliary facilities such as blind lanes in Beijing, and the city has become more and more accessible to the disabled. more friendly.
The Braille library where the torch relay is located provides blind friends with opportunities to communicate and learn.
"I also call on more disabled people to participate in sports through my track and field project." Zhu Pengkai hopes that more and more disabled people can go out of the room to participate in sports, feel their own value in sports, and be more in sports. confidence.
This "tinder collection" is a distinctive part of the Winter Paralympic Torch Relay.
Unlike the fire for the Winter Olympics, which was taken from Greece, the birthplace of the Olympic movement, the fire for the Winter Paralympics comes from multiple locations.
This year's Beijing Winter Paralympic Games have designed nine types of fire, which will be collected by different regions and collectively collected into the official fire of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games.
On March 2, the first torchbearer Zhu Pengkai and the second torchbearer Zhou Shuna took a group photo with the audience.
Photo by Zhang Xinglong
One of them is collected from the spiritual birthplace of the disabled movement - Mandeville, England, and the other eight fires are collected from Beijing School for the Blind, Wangjing Street Warm Home, China Braille Library, Grand Canal Caoyun Pier, Badaling Ancient Great Wall, Zhangjiakou " Chuangba" Park, Zhangjiakou Yellow Emperor City, Temple of Heaven Park.
This afternoon, the eight-way fires collected by the Grand Canal Waterway Dock and the China Braille Library will hold a fire gathering ceremony in the Temple of Heaven Park to jointly generate the official fire for the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games.
After the fire gathering ceremony, the torch will continue to be passed in the Temple of Heaven Park with the theme of "Fire in the Nine Heavens".
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