Why the bouquet for the 2022 Winter Olympics award is not flowers

Because fresh-cut bouquets need to be transported from the southern planting base, the transportation and management costs are high, and the athletes are not convenient to carry.

On January 2, 2022, the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games award elements were officially released on the New Year's Eve 2021-2022 New Year's Eve. Among them, the award bouquet will be made of velvet bouquet - velvet flowers, rather than the traditional fresh cut flowers.

On the one hand, unlike fresh-cut bouquets, fresh bouquets need to be transported from the southern planting base, which greatly reduces transportation and management costs, and on the other hand, it is also convenient for athletes to carry back and store them for a long time.

In addition to "never withering", each award bouquet is also "unique". The Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics will use 1,251 bouquets for awards, with a total of 16,731 flowers. There are leaves and flowers on each flower material, and the "Shanghai style velvet braiding technique" that integrates Chinese and foreign velvet braiding techniques is adopted, all of which are handmade.

The production process of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games award bouquet

The Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics will use 1,251 bouquets of flowers, with a total of 16,731 flowers, which are hand-woven by hundreds of Chinese folk craftsmen with velvet threads.

Shanghai Grandma Li Meili is one of the people in charge of the bouquet braiding project of the Winter Olympics. As the inheritor of the "Shanghai-style velvet knitting technique" in Shanghai, she is mainly responsible for the design, training, quality control and final assembly of the award bouquet.

The flower used for the award of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is velvet flower.

The Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games used hand-knotted bouquets of velvet as the award bouquets and were presented to the winning athletes at the medal ceremony. Li Meimei, an intangible cultural heritage inheritor from Shanghai, is one of the leaders of the bouquet braiding project.

The Winter Olympics award bouquet includes six types of flowers, including rose, moon, lily of the valley, hydrangea, laurel and olive, which symbolize friendship, tenacity, happiness, unity, victory and peace. In the Winter Paralympic Awards Bouquet, a blue cosmos is added to the Winter Olympics award bouquet to symbolize strength.

The original intention of making a bouquet of velvet flowers

Chen Zhongwei, vice president of the Shanghai Association for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, said in an interview that after more than 3 months of design, discussion and revision of the design draft, and 5 months of training, braiding and packaging, these award bouquets will be unveiled at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The Organising Committee of the Olympic Games has been emphasizing that we are a low-carbon Olympic Games, and hand-weaving has indeed reached the ultimate in terms of environmental protection in the whole way. "When the winners stand on the podium, wear the award repentance card on their chests, hold the bouquet in their hands, salute the national flag, and thank the audience, it is their most glorious moment, but unfortunately the bouquet is not like a medal, it is inconvenient to preserve, can this bouquet of glory never wither, become an eternal memorial? We thought of the intangible cultural heritage of Shanghai-style velvet knitting skills.

Chen Zhongwei introduced the original intention of making velvet bouquets.

It is understood that braiding and knotting is one of the oldest handicrafts of mankind. More than 100 years ago, the velvet braiding skills were mainly introduced from Europe to China's coastal cities, and China's craftsmen combined the traditional oriental knotting techniques with the velvet braiding skills, which greatly enriched the needlework, patterns, carriers and applications of the velvet braiding.

The Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee said: "The Beijing Winter Olympics is a global sports event, and we present the award bouquet using the Shanghai-style velvet knitting technique that combines Chinese and Western techniques, which represents our warm welcome and congratulations to athletes from five continents, as well as our expectations and wishes for a better future for mankind." In addition, unlike fresh-cut bouquets, velvet bouquets need to be transported from the southern planting base, which greatly reduces transportation and management costs, and is also convenient for athletes to carry back to China and preserve for a long time, reducing carbon and being full of humanity.

The above content refers to the birth of the "Velvet Flower" of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

Olympic medal bouquets are including roses, moonflowers, lily of the valley, hydrangea, laurel, olives. They symbolize friendship, tenacity, happiness, unity, victory, and peace. A blue cosmos was added to the Paralympic Winter Games award bouquet to symbolize strength.

As the city flower of Hangzhou, the laurel in the award bouquet was woven by the weaving team of Ziyang Street, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou.

Olympic Award RegulationsIn order to comply with the relevant regulations of the new coronavirus, there will be a number of changes to the Tokyo Olympics medal ceremony. Athletes, award presenters, and volunteers are required to wear masks at all times; The podium area will be enlarged to allow athletes to maintain sufficient distance; Only one IOC representative and one representative of the International Federations will present awards to the athletes at each medal ceremony, and these award winners must be fully vaccinated.

The award bouquet for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is a never-withering velvet flower, crocheted using the Shanghai-style velvet knitting technique. Each bouquet has seven types of flowers, including: roses for friendship, moon for tenacity, lily of the valley for happiness, hydrangea for unity, laurel for victory, osmanthus for harvest, and olives for peace.

The bouquet of awards for the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games was "red-hot". The bouquet as a whole is spire-shaped, 40 cm high, 25 cm diameter at breast height, the main flower material of each bouquet is composed of 9 "Chinese red" moon seasons, and at the same time 6 fire dragon balls, 6 fake dragon heads, 6 mango leaves, 6 hosta leaves, 6 pieces of booktail grass are used as the flowers and leaves, taking the meaning of "long and long", "six six Shun", "smooth sailing". It symbolizes the national spirit of the Chinese nation of unremitting self-improvement and unity, and the Olympic spirit of constantly pursuing friendship, unity and fair competition.

There are seven categories of flowers for the Beijing Winter Olympics award bouquet, including: roses symbolizing friendship, moon seasons symbolizing tenacity, lily of the valley symbolizing happiness, hydrangea symbolizing unity, laurel symbolizing victory, osmanthus symbolizing harvest, and olives symbolizing peace, and on January 1, 2022, the award bouquet of the Beijing Winter Olympics was also officially announced. Different from the traditional bouquet of flowers in the past, the award bouquet of this Winter Olympics is crocheted with the Shanghai-style velvet knitting technique, which is a velvet flower that will never wither.

Bouquet selection. There are seven types of flowers for the Beijing Winter Olympics award bouquet, including: roses symbolizing friendship, mooncakes symbolizing tenacity, lily of the valley symbolizing happiness, hydrangea symbolizing unity, laurel symbolizing victory, osmanthus symbolizing harvest, and olives symbolizing peace.

The selection of these flowers is very particular, such as the moon season, it is the protagonist of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games award bouquet, the moon season originated in China, prevailing in the world, is one of the top ten famous flowers in China, but also the city flower of Beijing, the choice of the moon season is echoed with the Beijing Olympic Games bouquet, showing the cultural heritage of the "double Olympic city", and the selection of olives means to pay tribute to the Olympic tradition.

Bouquet shape. The flowers are shaped and bundled into a bouquet with a height of 34 cm and a diameter at breast height of 24 cm. The bow ribbon on the handle of the bouquet is printed with the words "beijing2022", and the bouquet is fresh and natural as a whole, which is in line with the main color of the Beijing Winter Olympics, highlighting the distinctive characteristics of ice and snow sports.

The award bouquet of this year's Winter Olympics is innovative, and the award bouquet used this time is made of Chinese elements of forehead velvet flowers, which include roses, moon seasons, lily of the valley, hydrangea, laurel and olives, which have a very beautiful meaning, symbolizing friendship, tenacity, happiness, unity, victory and peace.

The Beijing Winter Olympics did not use flowers, but chose to weave velvet flowers, in order to never wither, and the whole bouquet has a total of 7 kinds of woven flowers, they are: a rose symbolizing friendship, a symbol of tenacity, a symbol of happiness, a symbol of unity, a laurel symbolizing victory, a symbol of harvest osmanthus and a symbol of peace olives.

The skills and materials for the weaving of the entire bouquet were provided by Hengyuanxiang, and Hengyuanxiang also provided clothing for the athletes of the Chinese delegation.

The Winter Olympics used velvet thread as the material, crocheted with crochet flowers, roses and lilies. Such flowers do not wilt and can be preserved forever.

It's handmade. All are unique.

The flower used for the award of the Winter Olympics is velvet flower, which is the intangible cultural heritage of our country.

The Winter Olympics award bouquet includes six types of flowers, including roses, moon seasons, lily of the valley, hydrangeas, moon trembling laurels and olives, which symbolize friendship, tenacity, happiness, unity, victory and peace.

At the same time, there are 7 kinds of woven flowers in the whole bouquet, which are: roses symbolizing friendship, symbolizing tenacity, lily of the valley symbolizing happiness, hydrangea symbolizing group debate, laurel symbolizing victory, osmanthus symbolizing harvest and olives symbolizing peace.

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games award elements have been officially released. Among them, the award bouquet "The Olympic Flower That Never Withers" is handmade by hand, a representative project of Shanghai's intangible cultural heritage, "Shanghai-style velvet knitting technique". The velvet bouquet not only retains the shape of the bouquet in the Olympic medal ceremony, but also practices the concept of frugality and sustainability, implying warmth and peace, which can be preserved forever and become the "flower of the Olympic Games that will never wither".

They will be presented to the winning athletes, along with the medals, at the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games medal ceremonies.

The Winter Olympics award bouquet is made of velvet thread, including rose, moon, lily of the valley, hydrangea, laurel and olive, which symbolize friendship, tenacity, happiness, unity, victory and peace. In the Winter Paralympic Awards bouquet, a blue cosmos was added to symbolize strength.

It seems to be dominated by sun chrysanthemums and carnations.