2023 Spring Festival Gala Mascot

In 2023, the mascot of the Spring Festival Gala is Dragon Chenchen.

December 6, 2023, the CCTV Dragon Spring Festival Gala mascot "Dragon Chenchen" was officially unveiled to meet you. As an important spiritual symbol and cultural symbol of the Chinese nation, the image of the dragon has been used in literature, art, folklore, architecture, clothing, painting and other fields for thousands of years.

Derived from a number of cultural relics with "dragon", "Dragon Tatsu Tatsu" modeling combines the elements of the five precious relics, the reporter takes you from "head" to "Tail" to recognize "Dragon". The nose of "Dragon Tatsu Tatsu" is extracted from the turquoise dragon-shaped vessel unearthed at the Erlitou site in Yanshi, Henan Province, and is a design element with unique ancient characteristics. In the color scheme, "Dragon Tatsu Tatsu" has chosen traditional Chinese colors such as Dahui, Renge, Xiaxia, Yu Rui and Chunchen.

2023 Spring Festival Gala mascot Design Concept:

Turquoise dragon shaped ware giant head curled tail, nose protruding, body undulating, as if it is accumulating strength to the sky, the image of the vivid and vivid, is the representative of the Chinese nation's dragon totem objects, the overall length of 64.5 centimeters, composed of more than 2,000 pieces of different shapes of turquoise. The overall length of 64.5 centimeters, by more than 2,000 pieces of turquoise in different shapes and shapes of fine pieces put together, the size of each piece is only 0.2 to 0.9 centimeters, the thickness of 0.1 centimeters or so.

The magnitude of workmanship, refinement of production, and size are rare among early Chinese relics depicting dragons. The decorations on the arch of the eyebrows and the shoulders of the dragon are taken from the cloud pattern copper ban decoration in the collection of the Henan Museum, which is exquisite and chic, adding to the fun and ancient charm of the mascot. The cloud pattern copper ban was unearthed in Henan Xichuan under the temple of the Spring and Autumn Chu Tomb, its owner is the son of King Zhuang of Chu, "the center of the world".