On the night of November 11, 2005, the Beijing Workers' Stadium attracted global attention: the mascot of the 29th Olympic Games was unveiled and officially unveiled.
The five mascots are creatively based on "fish, panda, Olympic flame, Tibetan antelope, and Beijing swallow". They are affectionately called "Fuwa Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Ni". It is composed of "Chinese Fuwa" of "Ni".
The creation of the Beijing Olympics mascot plan embodies the efforts of countless artists and representatives from all walks of life, and is a crystallization of collective wisdom.
On December 15, 2004, in the conference room on the 16th floor of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, 24 experts and scholars with outstanding achievements in the fields of art and culture, including Chen Yifei and Zheng Yuanjie, reviewed 662 valid mascot entries. Art selection.
On December 17, the recommendation and selection committee composed of 10 Chinese and foreign experts including famous artists Jin Shangyi and Chang Shana reviewed and evaluated 56 works that entered the recommendation and selection stage. Six works, including panda, tiger, dragon, Sun Wukong, rattle and Ah Fu, have been designated as the direction for revision of the mascots of the Beijing Olympic Games.
Based on the opinions of the Recommendation and Selection Committee, the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee established a mascot modification and creation group headed by Han Meilin, a master of arts and crafts, and composed of 9 domestic design and animation professionals. Since late December, the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee has held multiple special meetings to study and propose revisions. The Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee Executive Committee reviewed the mascot design plan twice, and many artists participated in the creation and modification discussions of the mascot. On the basis of brainstorming, Han Meilin, the leader of the modification team, finally completed the design of the mascot plan.
In order to further understand whether the creative idea of ??the "Chinese Baby" image is correct, during the revision and creation process, the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee held several mascot evaluation work meetings and invited representatives from all walks of life to evaluate the mascot candidate works. Comment. Huang Miaozi, Ding Cong and other well-known artists in their 80s, as well as some young elites who have been active in the art and design circles in recent years, all went to the scene in person to put forward constructive opinions on the creation of the mascot. The mascot designers of the Athens and Sydney Olympic Games also made suggestions for the design of the Beijing Olympic Games mascot.
In addition, the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee also solicited opinions from primary school students and kindergarten children through questionnaires. This group of mascots has been loved by many children. The Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee conducted a questionnaire survey on 49 third-grade students in a primary school in Beijing and 22 children in middle and upper classes in a kindergarten. Surveys show that the mascot candidate "Chinese Fuwa" has strong recognition among children, who think this image is very cute.
The Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee invites the National People's Congress, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Municipal People's Congress, the Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference, democratic parties, Olympic research experts, athlete representatives, design industry representatives and other people from all walks of life to evaluate the Beijing mascot candidates. hour. The vast majority of the participating representatives affirmed the mascot candidates and believed that the works were novel in creativity, ingenious in conception, vivid in shape, distinctive, and had a strong Chinese cultural charm; they were relatively complete in creativity and shape, embodying Chinese style, National sentiment and modernity reflect the harmony between man and nature.
On April 21, the Beijing Olympics Mascot Selection Committee held another meeting to hear and discuss the modifications to the mascot. The jury believed that the "Chinese Fuwa" image has rich concepts, far-reaching meanings and complete design, and unanimously agreed to submit the revised candidate plan to the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee Executive Committee for review.
The mascot of the Beijing Olympic Games consists of five "Fuwa": "Fuwa Huanhuan" is based on the Olympic flame and represents passion. The prototype of "Fuwa Jingjing" is a panda, which comes from the forest and represents joy. "Fuwa Beibei" is a fish baby, which comes from rivers, lakes and seas and represents prosperity. The prototype of "Fuwa Yingying" is the Tibetan antelope, which comes from the grassland and represents health. The prototype of "Fuwa Nini" is Jingyan, which comes from the sky and represents luck.
Liu Qi, Chairman of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, said: "The Beijing Olympic mascot is another special gift that China has given to the world and the Olympic Movement.
It corresponds to the emblem and slogan of the Beijing Olympic Games. It expresses the Chinese people's yearning for peace, friendship, progress and a harmonious world, and conveys the sentiment of "Beijing welcomes you". The Beijing Olympic Games mascot has strong Chinese characteristics, embodies the cultural characteristics of our country's multi-ethnic family, and contains the Chinese nation's understanding of the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and the basic idea that everything in the world is interdependent and operates in harmony. "
In addition to his admiration for the Beijing Olympics emblem, International Olympic Committee President Rogge also praised the lovely Beijing Olympics mascot from the bottom of his heart. He personally sent a letter of congratulations saying: "Fuwa is the result of the Beijing Olympics organization. Carefully selected to represent a wonderful little family from all over China, they bring friendship to children in all corners of the world. "Roger said: "I like every image in the Fuwa and the story of how they bring traditional Chinese blessings to the world. Beijing's choice touched my heart, and I believe that Fuwa will also touch the hearts of the world. "
On the 11th, at another important historical moment of the Beijing Olympic Games, five mascot dolls formed a cheerful and happy small team, bringing passion and joy, health and wisdom, good luck and prosperity to the world From all over the world, leaders from all over the world are warmly invited to gather in Beijing to celebrate the grand ceremony of mankind and interpret the beautiful story of China’s blessing to the world.