Focus on the Winter Olympics| Olympic Series Badge Tells the Story of "Ice Time in Old Beijing"

"Ice Time"

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Beijing, the "City of The Two Olympics", has been a land of abundant water and grass since ancient times, with five major water systems in the area: Chaobai River, North Canal, Yongding River, Daqing River and Ji Canal. Around the five major water systems, many ponds, canals, bays and lakes are distributed throughout the capital. Whenever winter comes, places with water naturally freeze. In ancient times, whether it was the emperor or the common people, they all knew how to use this unique resource to enjoy the fun of ice and snow, and Beijing also accumulated a deep cultural heritage of winter sports, forming a unique ice charm of the ancient capital, and the preparation of the Beijing Winter Olympics made this thousand-year-old capital exude charming ice and snow charm.

The Olympic emblem should not only reflect the Olympic spirit and the concept of running the Olympic Games, but also carry the role of telling The Chinese story well and showing the profound heritage and charm of Chinese culture. The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics licensed commodity "Ice Time in Old Beijing" series of badges, based on the geographical layout of the old Beijing water system, the overall design, unfolded a beautiful picture of ice sports in the ancient capital. The badge tells 15 stories of ice activities in old Beijing, including Tailiu Ice Play, Ice Bed Drinking, Changhe Ice Bed, Tsinghua Ball Game, etc. These stories range from the cold-off activities of the ancient court to the ordinary life of the people; there are both ice entertainment and ice competitions. They have given people a clearer understanding of the broad and profound history of China's ice and snow sports, and told the story of China to the world. As one of the mediums that tell the story of China's ice and snow, they show the archaeology skills of the designers.

Born in 1991, Ren Dongjie is the designer of the collection's badges. In the process of creation, this graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts traveled to the Forbidden City and the National Library of China many times to find inspiration and ideas from the old paper piles and lectures. "At the beginning, we published a picture book called 'Ice Time in Old Beijing', 12 stories, to promote ice and snow culture to teenagers. Later, we hope to use the form of badges to express the characteristic culture of the city, traditional culture and Winter Olympic culture. Ren Dongjie said.

In the process of badge design, Ren Dongjie found that restoring historical stories is really a science. "The badge looks small, but when designing, it is not only necessary to refer to photos, documents, and physical objects, such as ancient character costumes and geographical environment, which are changing with the water system." For example, there is a drum tower in Shichahai, which cannot be imagined at will when creating, and creation and investigation need to be carried out simultaneously. ”

In order to let consumers get a better cultural experience, designers have not spared no less thought. Ren Dongjie said: "When drawing the hot pots of the past, we need to find a basis from ancient records. Including our ink and rice paper scrolls as the carrier of the badge, it is also a way of expression of traditional Chinese art. The badge can be sucked onto a map of the water system made of rice paper with a magnet. Consumers get the product, find the corresponding location, suck the badge up, and learn the history in a fun interaction. ”

Ren Dongjie is not very old, but he has already designed a number of Olympic badges. She is the hand of a "Three Questions for the Olympics" badge, which was unveiled on the 1,000-day countdown to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The badge is based on the answer to Nankai President Zhang Boling's "Three Olympic Questions" more than 100 years ago, showing the historical moment when the Chinese delegation first participated in the Olympic Games in 1932, Liu Changchun raised the flag to enter, the silhouette of the classic sports shape of Xu Haifeng, china's first Olympic champion in 1984, and the iconic venue of China's first Olympic Games in 2008, the Bird's Nest. The shape of the badge is designed as an exploded firecracker, which on the one hand represents the "Three Questions of the Olympic Games" igniting China's Olympic dream, and on the other hand, it also symbolizes the start of the countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Ren Dongjie said that at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she was a sophomore in high school. "When I was a child, my first impression of the Olympic Games was a moment of national boiling after Samaranch read out the word 'Beijing' when the Olympic bid was successful. Later, I was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts to study design. At school, I listened to teachers talk about how to participate in the design of the Olympic Games, including how to light the torch; how to show the new face of China's science and technology, including the design process of the 'Big Footprint' fireworks. At that time, her dream was to design classic Olympic works like a teacher, and now this designer job makes her dream come true.

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Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporter Zhang Pinqiu

Editor: Han Ye

Process Editor Tai Shaofeng