Superstars at the Winter Olympics?— Bing Dwen Dwen and Shuey Rhon Rhon!

The mascot is an essential symbol of the Winter Olympics and an important carrier for disseminating the organizer’s history, culture, and humanistic characteristics.

Recently, the mascot of the Beijing Winter Olympics has attracted a lot of enthusiasm among the public. These two popular mascots are called Bing Dwen Dwen and Shuey Rhon Rhon. Bing Dwen Dwen is the mascot of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and Shuey Rhon Rhon is the mascot of the Winter Paralympics.

These two mascots perfectly integrate Chinese cultural symbols and ice and snow sports and carry the new image and new dream of China in the new era.

Get to know Bing Dwen Dwen and Shuey Rhon Rhon.

Bing Dwen Dwen is the image of a panda covered by an ice crystal shell, reflecting winter ice and snow sports characteristics. ‘Bing’ means ice, it symbolizes purity and strength, which are the characteristics of the Winter Olympics. ‘Dwen Dwen’ means honest, healthy, lively, and cute, which fits the overall image of the panda and symbolizes the muscular body, tenacity, and inspiring Olympic spirit of the Winter Olympic athletes. And pandas are recognized by the world as China’s national treasures, with a nice, cute and naive look.

The colorful halo on the panda’s head is inspired by the “Ice Ribbon”, which is the national speed skating hall of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Shuey Rhon Rhon, the mascot of the Winter Paralympics, was designed and created based on lanterns.

The shape on the top of Shuey Rhon Rhon symbolizes good luck and happiness; the continuous pattern formed by the dove of peace and the Temple of Heaven symbolizes peace and friendship; the decorative design on the mascot integrates the traditional Chinese paper-cut art.

‘Shuey’ stands for snow, and it symbolizes whiteness and beauty, which is the characteristic of ice and snow sports. The first ‘Rhon’ means tolerance, tolerance, exchanges, and mutual learning between cultures of different countries. The second ‘Rhon’ represents fusion, warmth, and mutual understanding.

Why are they so popular?

The birth of the mascot is the result of extensive participation from all walks of life, embodies the wisdom of many people and experts at home and abroad, and reflects the work spirit of openness, sharing, and pursuit of excellence. The two mascots are vivid, cute, unique, and exquisite. They are organically integrating Chinese cultural elements, modern international style, features of ice and snow sports, and the characteristics of the host city, vividly showing the enthusiasm of the 1.3 billion Chinese people for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics.

At the same time, the mascot also vividly interprets the Olympic spirit of tenacious struggle, unity and friendship, understanding and tolerance, and enthusiastically expresses the beautiful vision of promoting exchanges and mutual learning among world civilizations and building a community with a shared future for humanity.