[New Tang Dynasty News from January 3, 2022, Beijing time]Beijing will host the Winter Olympics in February this year. The Winter Olympics Organizing Committee has announced three sets of award-giving costumes. Mom doesn’t want to wear it.”
According to the official website of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, the awarding elements of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics were released on December 31 last year, including the award table, the award tray, the award tray placement table, the customized version of the mascot souvenir of the winning athletes, Award bouquets and award ceremony costumes.
The Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee stated that there are three sets of award-giving ceremonial costumes, namely “Ruixue Xiangyun”, “Hongyun Landscape” and “Tanghua Feixue”. The organizing committee emphasized that the design was inspired by traditional Chinese cultural elements such as “Swiss Snow”, “Auspicious Clouds”, the famous painting “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”, and traditional Tang Dynasty fabrics, which will appear in the award ceremonies of the snow stadium, ice stadium and award plaza respectively.
The three series of award costumes are divided into leader costumes and tray costumes, each distinguished by blue and red. Each award costume includes jackets, hats, gloves, non-slip boots, heat-generating thermal underwear and other sets.
However, when the first plan was announced, netizens thought the three sets of costumes were very ugly, and criticized, “My mom doesn’t want to wear it”, “It’s really shameful”, “Ugly enough”, “Why is the Chinese aesthetics like this every year in the Olympic Games?” “Really? Don’t know what to wear? Let the sponsors provide down jackets, it’s not shameful”, “Chinese style is not like Chinese style, nation is not like nation”, “The hat is really not good-looking”, and some even directly referred to the “Pyongyang Winter Olympics.”
The Beijing Winter Olympics is scheduled to be held in February this year, and many countries have announced diplomatic boycotts. The United States announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on December 6 last year to protest against the CCP’s violation of human rights. The White House called on other countries to follow suit, condemning the CCP’s persecution of Muslim Uighurs and suppression of democratic protests in Hong Kong.
After the White House announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Sports Minister Grant Robertson announced on December 7 last year that the country’s diplomats would not participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
On December 8, 2021, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that he would not send officials to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, citing discord between the two countries and the CCP’s mandatory assimilation in the Xinjiang region of the mainland Minority beliefs.
On the same day, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated in the House of Commons that Britain would not send officials to participate in the Olympics.
On the same day, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau also said: “We announced today that we will not send any diplomatic representatives to participate in the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games this winter.”
“For many years, we have made it very clear that we are deeply concerned about human rights violations.”
In addition, Lithuania and Kosovo also announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
(Reported by reporter Liu Minghuan/Editor in charge: Fan Ming)
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