What does the closing ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics mean?

People who are not familiar with the Winter Olympics may not know that apart from some performances at the closing ceremony, there is a special link-the memory link. Compared with the history of the Olympic Games itself, "memory link" is a relatively new project. In retrospect, the memory link first appeared in the Rio Olympic Games, and its significance is mainly to remember the lost life. Strictly speaking, the "memory link" appeared for the fourth time at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Then, compared with other countries, how does China carry out the link of remembering the dead, and what does it mean? Next, let's discuss it together!

As we all know, death is a very taboo thing in China. Even in large-scale cultural performances, performance death rarely exists. China's expression of death has always been implicit. Therefore, it was presented in the same implicit way at the closing ceremony of this Winter Olympics. As can be seen from the closing ceremony, China's memory link is embodied in the song "Farewell" and the real thing "Folding Willow". Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is blue. Li Shutong's ci, foreign songs, don't have a sense of integration of China and the West. Interpret this song in a brand-new way to express China's memory of the dead.

With the singing, 80 performers appeared, and they composed hanging willow branches with their own songs. "Folding a willow to bid farewell" has a long history in China. The willow branch's "willow" means leaving another "stay", which represents giving up on the deceased, hoping to be as tough and beautiful as a willow branch. With the weeping willow screen blown by the wind, there are 365 people on the screen, 365 days a year, and 365 people represent our thoughts for the dead day and night. As the singing became more and more stirring, 365 people gathered together, picked up the already prepared 106 beam and held the Wang Liuzhi Monument, which was a poetic and romantic Chinese style.

How can we not lament the delicacy and gentleness of China's traditional culture? How to treat this commemorative link?