Pom Pom Flower Making Time

It takes 5 hours to make one pompom flower.　

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It is understood that the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics awards **** with 1251 bunches of bouquets, cumulative flowers ****16731, are purely handmade, requiring A lot of manpower and time, such as knitting a rose petals need 20 minutes, a rose consists of 10 pieces of petals, plus leaves, stems, just one rose will need a knitting division to spend at least 5 hours.

Besides the delicate appearance and the transmission of the Olympic spirit, behind each bouquet of flowers lies a number of moving stories.

In order to accomplish this task and allow more people to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, knitting associations*** from seven provinces and cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, were mobilized to participate in the event, in which the bouquets for the Beijing Winter Paralympics were mainly completed by the China Disabled Persons' Welfare Foundation. In addition, there are some handmade workshops in Shanghai region also participated in the bouquet making.

Knotting is one of mankind's oldest handicrafts.

A century ago, floss knitting was introduced from Europe to China's coastal cities. Wise Chinese craftsmen integrated traditional oriental knotting techniques into floss knitting, which greatly enriched the stitches, patterns and scenarios of floss knots, and what we see today as the "Sea School of Floss Knots" is the result of the convergence and development of these knitting techniques in Shanghai. The "Sea Style Flannel Knitting Technique" we see today is the result of the convergence of these knitting techniques in Shanghai.

In 2009, the "Sea Style Floss Knitting Technique" was inscribed on the Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

And in the Beijing Winter Olympics, which has just begun, this traditional Shanghai intangible heritage has transformed into a never-fading Olympic flower, as the Olympic award bouquets on the field, out of the overseas, and meet with the audience from all corners of the world.