The impact of the Beijing Olympics on Chinese traditional culture

The impact of the Beijing Olympic Games on traditional Chinese culture. The official name of the 2008 Olympic Games emblem is "China Seal·Dancing Beijing"

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Emblem "China Seal·Dancing Beijing" It has the following characteristics:

1. The emblem design cleverly combines Chinese characteristics, Beijing characteristics and Olympic movement elements.

"Chinese Seal·Dancing Beijing" uses seals as the main form of expression, combining traditional Chinese seals and calligraphy and other art forms with movement characteristics, exaggerating and deforming them through artistic techniques, and cleverly transforming them into a directional movement. An athletic figure running forward and dancing to welcome victory. The human shape also resembles the charm of the modern character "京", which contains a strong Chinese charm. This work conveys and represents four levels of information and meaning:

(1) Chinese culture. The traditional Chinese cultural symbol-seal (Xiao-shaped seal) is used as the expression of the main pattern of the logo. The seal appeared in China as early as four or five thousand years ago. It is a far-reaching traditional Chinese cultural and art form and is still a This widely used form of expression of social integrity means that Beijing will fulfill its solemn promise of "hosting the most outstanding Olympic Games in history."

(2)Red. The traditional Chinese festive color red is selected as the benchmark color for the main pattern. Red has always been considered the representative color of China and the color of our national flag, representing the great Communist Party of China. Therefore, the main color of the logo is red, which has the characteristics of representing the country, representing celebration, and representing traditional culture. .

(3)Beijing, China, welcomes friends from all over the world. The work represents that Beijing is welcoming athletes and people from all over the world to gather in Beijing with its attitude of reform and opening up. It vividly expresses Beijing’s enthusiasm and sincerity in welcoming guests from all over the world, and conveys the concept and spirit of the Olympics. The work is rich in connotation and shows that Beijing, China, welcomes people from all over the world with open arms.

(4) Sprint to the limit, create brilliance, and carry forward the Olympic spirit of "faster, higher, stronger". The modern Olympic movement has always emphasized athletes as the core, and the emblem "China Seal·Dancing Beijing" reflects this principle. The moving figure in the seal is both strong and soft, with a friendly image. It contains Chinese culture and is full of movement.

2. The font design of the emblem adopts the style of Chinese calligraphy and writing, and the design is unique.

The font of the emblem work "China Seal·Dancing Beijing" adopts the style of Han Bamboo Slips (Han Dynasty Bamboo Slip Writing), organically integrating the strokes and charm of Han Bamboo Slips into the "BEIJING 2008" font , natural, simple and smooth, integrated with the emblem graphics and the Olympic rings. The font not only meets the purpose of market development, but also coordinates with the main pattern style of the logo, avoiding future problems caused by the use of ready-made fonts in the overall logo registration and standard font registration. Possible legal disputes over counterfeiting and infringement. 3. The overall structure of the emblem and the independent structure are proportionally coordinated.

After repeated deliberation and revision by experts, the layout and proportional relationship between the Chinese Seal as the main body in "Chinese Seal·Dancing Beijing", "Han Simplified Chinese", "Beijing 2008" and the Olympic Five Rings The aspects, especially the Chinese seal part, are almost perfect. At the same time, each part remains proportioned and coordinated when used independently.

4. It will be beneficial to future image landscape applications and market development.

It can be seen from the extended design of "China Seal·Dancing Beijing" that it contains good and huge potential in urban landscape layout, venue environment layout and other aspects.

China Seal--This is the emblem of the 29th Olympic Games to be held in Beijing in 2008. She looks like Yin but not Yin, like "Beijing" but not "Beijing". She is free and elegant, full of tension, and means dancing Beijing; she is a symbol of Chinese Han culture with Chinese spirit, Chinese style and Chinese charm, symbolizing openness, The image of China that is full of vitality and has bright prospects; it embodies the concepts of New Beijing and New Olympics and the connotation of Green Olympics, Science and Technology Olympics, and Humanistic Olympics, and reproduces the Olympic spirit of friendship, peace, progress, faster, higher and stronger.

China Seal--This is the commitment of the 1.3 billion Chinese people to the world. Setting this mark means using China's most solemn and sacred etiquette to once again solemnly promise to the world to make the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games the most outstanding Olympic Games in history. This is the integrity and dignity of the Chinese people. . From this moment on, dancing Beijing opens its arms to show an open attitude; from this moment on, dancing Beijing opens its arms to welcome friends from all over the world; from this moment on, dancing Beijing opens its arms and dances with the leaders of the world.

China Seal—Dancing Beijing

Adopts typical Chinese artistic expressions. It integrates unique Chinese characters, seal cutting and calligraphy, and is designed in the form of a seal to convey the profound and profound oriental cultural heritage. The shape of the character "京" in the design has been artistically processed and cleverly transformed into a human figure running forward, dancing, and cheering to welcome victory. I have carefully read the question you asked and I will answer it based on the characteristics of your question. I hope my answer will be helpful to you!

China (Humanities) Olympics and Chinese Traditional Culture

Humanities Olympics, how to reflect "humanities" in the Olympics, newspapers have published many articles and talked about many very good opinions. I think the most important thing is to carry forward Chinese traditional culture. Now there are some people, including some intellectuals, college students, masters, doctors, and even professors, experts and scholars, who do not understand certain aspects of basic common sense of Chinese culture and have blind spots that need to be eliminated. Some Chinese students came to Europe and said they were from China. They happily told them that they liked Lao and Zhuang. He asked inexplicably: "Who are Lao and Zhuang?" Germany not long ago erected a statue of Confucius. Why? ? Some people say it's because he's a celebrity. What is Confucius famous for? Some people say that his greatest characteristic is his conservatism. Are Germans that conservative? If this kind of phenomenon happened in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, then what kind of humanity would there be?

In the 20th century, from the "May Fourth Movement" to the "Cultural Revolution", almost everyone criticized Confucius' Confucianism. People who went to primary school in the 1950s are now around 60 years old. The enlightenment education these people received was to criticize Confucius' Confucianism. After the later great criticism, many people still have deep imprints of that era in their minds. Although there have been great changes in the past 20 years, some people still find it difficult to change their preconceived notions. People who started attending primary school during the Cultural Revolution in 1966 are now in their 40s and are the main force in society, serving as teachers and fathers, and playing the role of educators in society. If they still have many blind spots in their basic knowledge of Chinese culture, you can imagine the impact. For special reasons, some people have been influenced by Chinese culture and have basic common sense, while most people do not have this opportunity and are just driven by life to pursue survival and then enjoyment. As for culture, it is just an aspect of hobbies. Those who do not have such hobbies can just be spectators. In short, many people now, including some intellectuals, have some blind spots about the basic common sense of Chinese culture, which need to be eliminated urgently. This is not a personal reason, but is caused by a special historical era.

Nowadays, activities to popularize traditional culture across the country take various forms, cover a vast area, develop rapidly, and are in the ascendant. Children's Bible reading activities are mainly carried out in kindergartens and primary schools, and there are also specialized Chinese schools and private schools. In a few years, they have spread all over the country and have developed rapidly. A total of more than 10 million children have participated in the activities. The content of the reading is mainly elementary readings such as "Disciples' Regulations" and "Three Character Classic". Under the initiative of the central government, Chinese virtue education has been widely carried out in primary and secondary schools, and a large number of extracurricular readings on traditional virtues have been published. One of them, "Traditional Chinese Virtues Maxims", has sold more than 6 million copies in one year. Some private schools, on the basis of implementing the teaching plans prescribed by public schools, add traditional culture courses to comprehensively teach the basic knowledge of Chinese culture.

At present, more than 150 Confucius Institutes have been established around the world, and primary school students in some countries (such as Japan, etc.) are reciting the Analects of Confucius seriously. How can Chinese college students not read the traditional classics of the Chinese nation? Some college students lamented: The "silence" of classics is a national tragedy, and ignorance of classics is a personal tragedy.

Currently, many students are eager to learn traditional national classics. In many middle schools and universities, students themselves organize Chinese studies societies and invite teachers to give lectures, guide, study, and discuss "The Analects of Confucius" and other classics, which expresses people's desire to carry forward the good traditions of Chinese traditional culture. Will.

The business community and some cultural departments hold many lectures and forums, many of which talk about traditional cultural content. Classes and training courses on basic knowledge of Chinese culture, mainly for senior managers of enterprises, have emerged in prestigious universities. The Wenjin Forum held by the National Library Branch has taught traditional culture series with more than 300 sessions and is very popular among readers. The lectures organized by the Youth League Working Committee of the Central Government were added to the Chinese Studies series in 2007. The Central Party School, National Defense University, etc. also held lectures on Chinese studies. Many provinces, cities and counties have opened "Chinese Studies Lecture Hall". For example, Changle City, Fujian Province has opened more than ten "Chinese Studies Lecture Halls". Mass media such as television and radio stations also disseminate excellent traditional culture in the form of lectures and interviews. CCTV's "Hundred Schools Forum" invited professors such as Yu Dan to give lectures on Chinese literature and history and their experience in reading scriptures. They were warmly welcomed by the audience, which showed the huge influence of mass media and also reflected the people's extremely high enthusiasm and demand for understanding and learning traditional culture. .

In the activity of building a cultural community, Andingmen Street in Beijing cooperated with the Confucius Institute of China and invited experts to preach Confucianism to community residents; Tongzhou District also invited experts to lecture on traditional Chinese culture, which had a great impact; Shanghai, There are retired professors in Fujian who give lectures on "The Analects of Confucius" to the community, or organize owners to recite "The Analects of Confucius", which has played a positive role in improving the atmosphere of the community, promoting harmony, and enhancing cohesion.

The Humanities Olympics should promote Chinese traditional culture. There are some obstacles to carrying forward Chinese traditional culture, which must be eliminated. The main aspects are as follows:

1. In the ideological and theoretical circles, it is necessary to theoretically correct the concept of opposition between traditional Chinese culture and Marxism. It should be noted that the Sinicization of Marxism and the modernization of Chinese traditional culture are consistent, synchronous and inseparable. It is wrong to resist the promotion of traditional Chinese culture under the pretext of the guiding position of Marxism; it is also wrong to promote traditional Chinese culture and oppose Marxism.

2. In academia, the relationship between Chinese and Western academics must be straightened out. In addition to teaching Chinese, the Confucius Institutes established around the world should also be an important base for spreading Chinese traditional culture. Many foreigners are learning Chinese traditional culture, but Chinese people don't understand it or don't know much about it, or even think they don't need to know about it. Should they feel ashamed and embarrassed?

3. In schools and families, there is a phenomenon that teachers and principals do not know as much about traditional Chinese culture as students, and parents do not know as much as their children. Many primary and secondary school students need teachers to explain Confucian classics. However, many teachers are still quite unfamiliar with Confucian classics and cannot guide students in learning. They cannot "learn to be a teacher and act as a model for the world". They do not know how to set an example for students in how to behave and do things. Therefore, it is recommended that all normal colleges and universities should strengthen Chinese studies education and establish Chinese studies as a compulsory course for public students to adapt to the needs of the current situation.

4. Among leading cadres at all levels, there are many policies that criticize and inherit and develop China’s excellent traditions. Some cadres have insufficient understanding of the promotion of excellent traditional culture and a deep understanding of the central government's principles and policies, which hinders their initiative and enthusiasm for implementing policies. Improving cadres' awareness thus becomes an important key to implementing the central government's policy of promoting excellent traditional culture. It is very necessary to provide appropriate training to party and government cadres across the country so that they can understand more about the content of Chinese studies.