The national style meets the Winter Olympics and shows cultural self-confidence

On the day of spring, the Winter Olympics began. On the evening of February 4, the eyes of the world once again focused on the "Bird's Nest" in Beijing, the boldness and heroism of the water of the Yellow River, the novelty and gentleness of the Five Olympic Rings breaking through the ice, in the romantic story of ice and snow, the opening ceremony of the 24th Beijing Winter Olympics once again amazed the world. When the "national style" meets the "Winter Olympics", it displays the long-standing traditional culture in the silent place, conveys the essence of the connotation of openness and inclusiveness, and shows the cultural self-confidence of the Chinese nation.

The ingenious "Chinese elements" give the world a "width" of China. The Winter Olympics is not only a global event for athletes to show their competitive strength and carry forward the Olympic spirit, but also a visual feast to show the world Chinese culture. Seal carvings and Chinese characters are skillfully integrated, and the flowing and flexible Winter Olympic emblem "Winter Dream" and "Leap" come out; the national treasure giant panda and the traditional red lantern turn gorgeously, the soft and cute mascot "Ice Pier" and "Snow Rongrong" are presented in front of you; the natural history and culture and the Winter Olympic venues shine together, and the "Chinese Elements" are displayed heroically in the Winter Olympic venues such as ice ribbons, snow flying swallows, and snow dragons... In the process of more than 5,000 years of civilization development, the Chinese nation has created a broad and profound splendid culture, concentric circles of jade bi, Western Han Changxin Palace lamps, bronze ceremonial vessels and other traditional elements have also been implanted in the olympic medals, tinder lamps, tinder table design, these "national style" elements of the appearance, people can't help but shout, this is the Chinese Olympics, is a unique Chinese flavor of the event, they carry a heavy oriental cultural heritage, telling a moving Chinese story, highlighting the cultural self-confidence of the Chinese nation.

The "Chinese wisdom" of the avenue to jane shows the "breadth" of China in the world. At the opening ceremony, all the participating delegations formed a huge snowflake platform, and as the torch was lit in the center of the snowflakes, the last surprise of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games was revealed: the last torch was the main torch. Replacing the ignition with no ignition and replacing the raging fire with a micro-fire has realized an ignition innovation in the history of the Olympic Games, containing the great wisdom of "the spark of the stars can burn the plains", and conveying the big concept of low carbon, environmental protection and green. At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, classic pictures such as Li Ningfei lighting a sacred flame were deeply engraved in the minds of the audience, and traditional elements such as picture scrolls, opera, Silk Road, liturgical music, and tai chi ran through the opening ceremony, and the sleepy-eyed oriental lion was eager to show his pride to the world. Today, 14 years later, China is really strong, we no longer need to rely only on grand scenes to show their cultural self-confidence, but to use the twenty-four solar terms as a countdown, use Chinese character strokes to arrange the order of appearance of athletes from all over the world, use a small torch to convey the Olympic spirit and environmental protection concept, and show the grandeur of the country, conveying China's more calm posture and deeper cultural self-confidence.

The "Voice of China" with one heart and one mind will show the world to China's "temperature". When the Olympic flag was raised, a group of innocent children wore tiger-headed clothes and tiger-toed shoes to sing "Ode to the Olympics" to the world on behalf of China. The 44 children are from Fuping County, Hebei Province, a state-level poverty county that has just lifted its hat out of poverty in 2020. Natural singing, innocent smiles, children in the mountains have touched countless people with their simple and ethereal voices, and I hope that the people of the world can see their truest appearance through this stage. This opening ceremony used a lot of high-tech sound and optoelectronics, but it did not make people feel high and cold, but full of intimacy. When the children's trumpeter played "My Motherland and Me" at the Bird's Nest, more than 100 representatives from all walks of life and 56 nationalities across the country passed on the national flag to the flag-raising platform. In just 14 years, from sparing no effort to show "my country" to show "our people" with ease, from the past "open doors" to the current "open mind", the theme slogan of "together to the future" is so pertinent. Tonight, when the eyes of the world are focused on China, we have demonstrated a more solid cultural self-confidence and more dignified contemporary China – not the long history of the past five thousand years, but the voice of China at this moment.

The report of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out: "Cultural self-confidence is the most basic, deepest and most lasting force in the development of a country and a nation. "From the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games telling the history of China's 5,000-year civilization in the world language, to this year's Winter Olympics telling the understanding, expectations and prospects of the community of human destiny in the new era, from "I" to "we", from "talking about history" to "to the future", the cultural self-confidence of the Chinese nation has been realized and sublimated in the construction of a community of human destiny, conveying the beautiful expectations of 1.4 billion Chinese sons and daughters: Under the inspiration of the Olympic spirit, we will work together with the people of the world to work together, watch over each other, and create a better future! (Li Mengyao)

Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Wanquan Zhang Wu Text Editor: Fang Ying

Source: Author: Xuzhou Net, China