Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 2
——Revelation of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games award bouquets
Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Xingji
The awarding elements of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be officially released on the New Year’s Eve from 2021 to 2022. Among them, the prize-awarding bouquets will use woolen thread bouquets-velvet flowers, instead of traditional fresh cut flowers.
On the one hand, velvet bouquets are not like fresh-cut bouquets that require flowers to be transported from the southern planting base, which greatly reduces transportation and management costs. On the other hand, it is also convenient for athletes to carry and return for long-term storage.
Except for “never withering”, each award bouquet is “unique”. The Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics will use 1,251 bouquets for the awards, totaling 16,731 flowers. Each flower material has leaves and flowers, and the “Shanghai style knitting technique” that combines Chinese and foreign knitting techniques is purely handmade.
Behind the uniqueness is a lot of manpower and time. Taking a rose as an example, it takes 20 minutes to knit a petal, while a pruning rose consists of ten petals, plus three leaves and stems, and it takes at least five hours for a knitting division.
It is estimated that it will take nearly 50,000 hours to make all the prize bouquets for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics. This glorious and arduous task is undertaken by Hengyuanxiang Group, the official sponsor of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, and the inheritance unit of “Shanghai Style Wool Knitting Technique”.
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