China News Service, Beijing, March 2 (Bian Liqun and Xu Jing) On the 2nd, the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Torch Relay City Tinder Collection Ceremony was held at the China Braille Library.
Two blind young people ignited the fire by writing "electronic fireworks" and successfully collected the "fire of hope".
On the afternoon of the 2nd, the fire will hold a fire gathering ceremony together with other fires in Tiantan Park to form the official fire of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games.
Tinder successfully collected.
According to reports, the "Fire of Hope" collection site, the China Braille Library, also known as the China Visually Impaired Cultural Information Service Center, opened for operation on June 28, 2011. The building area is 28,000 square meters, which is the largest single area in the world The largest comprehensive cultural information service organization for the blind is the general library for the blind across the country.
At the fire collection site, two outstanding visually impaired youths, Yin Menglan and Zhang Junjun, used Braille pens to write their wish "to the future together" 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.
Collecting tinder in this way expresses good wishes for the majority of disabled groups to return to society and move towards a new life.
Subsequently, Zhu Pengkai, athlete of the Beijing Disabled Sports Team's track and field team, and Zhou Shuna, director of the Rehabilitation Department of Zhanlu Road Hospital, Xicheng District, Beijing, who served as torchbearers, participated in the torch relay.
Zhu Pengkai in the torch relay.
Photo by Bian Liqun
Zhu Pengkai once won the javelin championship in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games and the 2012 London Paralympic Games. As the torchbearer of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games this time, he couldn't hide his excitement and told reporters: "I am the first one. This is not only to pass on the 'fire of hope', but also a heavy responsibility in my hands. I am honored to be a dual Olympic torchbearer in the 'city of double Olympics' in Beijing, and I am very proud and proud."
Zhou Shuna said that her enthusiasm was completely ignited by the torch, "Beijing Winter Olympics has achieved world-renowned achievements, and I hope the Beijing Winter Paralympics will be equally exciting. I hope that disabled athletes can compete in the ice and snow arena while enjoying the Beijing Olympics. Life and food."
Zhou Shuna was interviewed
According to reports, "tinder collection" is a distinctive link in the Torch Relay of the Winter Paralympics.
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.
According to the requirements of the International Paralympic Committee and the basic philosophy of Paralympic Tinder, any individual, organization or city can contribute to the Paralympic Games.
Therefore, Paralympic fires are usually collected from cities and communities, and multiple fires converge together to become the official fire of the Paralympic Games.
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.
One of them is collected from the spiritual birthplace of the disabled movement - Mandeville, England. The other 8 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.
Collection ceremony site.
Photo by Bian Liqun
On the afternoon of March 2, Jiulu Fire will hold a fire gathering ceremony in the Temple of Heaven Park to gather together to form the official fire of 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".
It is understood that the torch relay of the Beijing Winter Paralympics will be held in Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou from March 2nd to 4th.
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