The design concept and meaning of Bingdundun Xuerongrong:

The Beijing Winter Olympics mascot "Bingdundun" is designed and created based on the panda. Ice symbolizes purity and strength and is a characteristic of the Winter Olympics. Dundun means honest, healthy, lively and cute, which fits the overall image of the panda and symbolizes the strong body, tenacious will and inspiring Olympic spirit of the Winter Olympic athletes.

The mascot of the Beijing Winter Paralympics "Xue Rongrong" is designed and created based on a lantern. Snow symbolizes whiteness and beauty, which is the characteristic of ice and snow sports; Rong means tolerance, tolerance, communication and mutual learning; Fusion means fusion, warmth, and knowing each other. Rongrong expresses the concept of exchanges, mutual learning and harmonious development of world civilizations, and embodies the beautiful vision of creating a more inclusive world through the Paralympic Movement and building a community with a shared future for mankind.

The design process of Bingdundun and Xuerongrong

Everyone loves Bingdundun. In fact, the design inspiration of Bingdundun originally came from candied haws.

According to Cao Xue, the head of the mascot design team for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Bingdundun was completed by a design team of 14 people led by him. It took 10 months and was all visual work from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. School of Art and Design, half teachers and half graduate students.

According to public reports, in 2019, they came up with 16 sets of plans in 19 days. There were no holidays, they revised and discussed repeatedly every day, and drew tens of thousands of manuscripts in one day.

In the end, the "Candied Haws" plan from the Guangmei design team impressed the judges and was determined to be the key to revising the plan.

Cao Xue said that candied haws on a stick is a northern snack with very down-to-earth cultural attributes. The key is that the ice-shell sugar coating on it is related to ice and snow sports. This is also the source of inspiration for the “ice shell” on the outside of Bingdundun.