The Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 closed on February 20. More than an event, the Games are also for exchanging goodwill and friendship. The design details of various elements such as the medals, emblem(图案) and mascots(吉祥物) serve this purpose. Let's take a look at these Chinese elements through the designs.
Medals 
The front side of the Winter Olympic medals was based on the ancient Chinese jade concentric circle pendants, with five rings representing "the unity of heaven and earth and the unity of people's hearts". The opposite side of the medals was inspired from a piece of Chinese jadeware(玉器) called "Bi", a double jade disc with a round hole in the center.
Emblem 
Inspired by the Chinese character "冬" for "winter", the upper part of the emblem resembles a skater and its lower part a skier. The ribbon-like decoration in between mainly symbolizes the host country's rolling mountains, Games venues, ski courses and skating rinks.
The blue color in the emblem represents dreams, the future and the purity of ice and snow, while red and yellow—the colors of China's national flag – present passion, youth and vitality.
Mascots 
Bing Dwen Dwen, the cute mascot of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, attracts attention with the panda's full-body "shell" made out of ice. The inspiration came from traditional Chinese snack "ice-sugar gourd," (tanghulu), while the shell also resembles a space suit—embracing new technologies for a future of countless possibilities. "Bing" is the Chinese character for ice, which symbolizes purity and toughness. Dwen Dwen is a common nickname in China for children that suggests they are lovely, healthy and clever.
