What do the five Fuwa of the Beijing Olympic Games symbolize?

Fuwa is the mascot of the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, whose color and inspiration come from the five Olympic rings, from China's vast mountains and rivers, rivers and lakes, and people's favorite animal images. Fuwa conveys to children around the world the spirit of friendship, peace, and positivity as well as the wish for harmony between human beings and nature.

The Fuwa are five anthropomorphic dolls whose prototypes and headdresses imply a connection with the sea, forest, fire, earth and sky, applying the expression of traditional Chinese art and showing the splendid Chinese culture. Each doll of the Beijing Olympic mascot represents a good wish: prosperity, joy, passion, health and good luck. The dolls carry Beijing's hospitality and blessings to all corners of the world, inviting people from all countries *** to gather in Beijing to celebrate the 2008 Olympic Games." The dolls are called "Beibei", "Jingjing", "Huanhuan", "Yingying", "Nini". Each take a word in their names in order to form a harmonic "Beijing welcome you".

The idea of the five children is based on the five elements of China. The original "Jin" incarnation was an anthropomorphic brass-colored dragon child, but it was replaced because dragons are not well recognized in the West. As one of the five elements is indispensable, Han Mei Lin came up with the idea of "fire overcoming gold". The one-piece design of "fire baby" and "dragon baby" solved the problem. Now Fuwa Huanhuan flame head-shaped yellow ornament is "gold".

But who will fill the vacancy of the dragon? The cranes and magpies proposed by various parties are not suitable. The former was slender and out of step with the rest of the doll's design; the latter was black and white, similar to a panda. In the end, the group chose the rainy swallows, which are characteristic of Beijing and allude to the city's old name, Yanjing.

What kind of hat to put on the head of the 5 children made the experts struggle. Han Meilin first thought of the tiger hat, 5 children wear after the indeed good-looking, but it is difficult to add connotation on the basis of this, design space is too small. Han Meilin opened the material collection. Material collection than the ordinary magazine slightly larger than the open book, the thickness of nearly 10 centimeters, each page of the pattern is his hand-drawn. From the 70-odd volumes of the collection, he picked out the rustic Northeastern three-tile hat shape. On the basis of this hat shape, each increase in national characteristics of the decorations, the formation of the 5 tile is now different styles, the appearance and have **** sex modeling.