The Asian Games Town features Lingnan gardens and buildings.
165438+ In October, Northland was already devastated, while Guangzhou was crisp in autumn and full of flowers. The basin-ear Lingnan architecture in the athletes' village of the Asian Games Town looks quaint, fresh, comfortable and elegant against the background of Lingnan characteristic gardens.
Garden plants here include carnation, Petunia, Zinnia, calendula, Huang Sui cockscomb, corydalis and butterflies ... Dozens of flowers compete to turn the athletes' village into a hundred herbs garden. According to reports, the landscape of Guangzhou Asian Games Town was all designed and constructed by professional companies with higher qualifications, which left a good impression on athletes from all over Asia. An athlete from West Asia said that it is so beautiful to see the scenery like spring in autumn and winter.
Lingnan Cultural Exhibition in Village Head Courtyard
The village head courtyard of the athletes' village is a place to receive distinguished guests from all over the world, where Lingnan culture is concentrated. The village head courtyard is a typical Lingnan building-three entrances and three courtyards. Walking into the village chief's yard, there is a lotus pond in front of you. In the tea room on the right side of the pond, there is a waitress to show tea art and make kung fu tea.
The second entrance of the village chief's compound is a "small museum", which contains traditional Guangzhou arts and crafts such as bone carving, jade carving, wood carving, Guang Cai and Guangxiu, as well as Chaozhou dialect gold lacquer wood carving, Shiwan doll and Zhaoqing Duanyan. The third entrance is the VIP lounge, where the screens and mahogany furniture also reflect the strong Lingnan characteristics.
Athletes love Chinese medicine.
For many foreigners, Chinese medicine is ancient and mysterious. The organizers of the Guangzhou Asian Games specially set up acupuncture, cupping and other Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment techniques for athletes and coaches in the athletes' village, attracting a large number of foreign athletes to come to the clinic.
According to Tong Juan, deputy director of the Department of Rehabilitation, on the one hand, foreign athletes want to try acupuncture therapy, but the main purpose is to relieve their chronic injuries and acute strains through treatment methods with Chinese medicine characteristics. Many athletes feel good after treatment, and they all praise the effectiveness of acupuncture therapy.
"Foreigner" athletes learn calligraphy in their spare time.
In the athletes' village, there is a Chinese learning room that attracts athletes from all over the world to learn Chinese and write Chinese characters. According to Li Rongsen, a calligraphy teacher in the National Studies Office, nearly 100 athletes come here every day. What they like most is to learn to write their own names and "I love you".
Li Rongsen said: "We will tell him how to pronounce his own name first, then write it out and teach him the pronunciation of every word." Besides the name, the Chinese character that athletes like to write most is "I love you", because expressing "I love you" in Chinese has become a popular way of showing love and attracted athletes from all over the world to study.