Beijing**Client|Reporter Li Xia Zhi.
On December 6, the mascot image "Long Chenchen" of the 2024 Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon was officially released and unveiled.
The mascot image of the 2024 Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon highlights the beautiful meaning of auspiciousness, peace and happiness. The mascot of the 2024 Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon seeks design inspiration from the long-standing excellent traditional Chinese culture and draws emotional resonance from real life, which not only contains the meaning and beauty of the zodiac dragon in traditional culture, but also shows the spirit of the Chinese in the new era. "Long Chenchen" extracts the unique ancient characteristics of the dragon nose from the turquoise dragon shaped vessel unearthed in the ruins of Yanshi Erlitou in Henan Province as a design element, the dragon spine structure, the dragon belly pattern ** in the earliest record of the word "China" in the Western Zhou Dynasty He Zun side of the four ridges and cloud thunder patterns, the decoration on the eyebrow bow and the dragon's shoulder are taken from the cloud pattern copper forbidden ornament collected by the Henan Museum, which is exquisite and chic, adding the fun and ancient charm of the mascot.
The nine dragons on the nine dragon walls of the Palace Museum are well-known for their exquisite craftsmanship and majestic momentum. "Long Chenchen" refers to the "five-clawed golden dragon" on the wall of the Nine Dragons to design the dragon claw shape, showing the majesty and solemnity. The gilded dragon collected in the Xi'an Museum belongs to the typical beast body dragon shape system, with a jagged back ridge and a long tail dragged back and rolled up, representing the superb metallurgical technology of the Tang Dynasty.
The color scheme of "Long Chenchen" chooses traditional Chinese colors such as Da Xuan, Xuan Chi, Zhu Xia, Jade Silk, and Chunchen. "The glow of the sun, the smoke of the sunset", the color of the glow represents the red clouds, representing the youthful color of the rising sun. Chunchen is the color of the ice and snow melting, the germination of plants and trees, and the blue-green system to which it belongs is the representative color of the oriental green dragon. The green dragon is one of the four astronomical phenomena in ancient China, representing spring, hope and growth, and also giving the "Dragon Chenchen" a vigorous vitality from winter to spring, bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new.