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Ding Jie, The Chief Designer Of Clothing For The Asian Winter Games, Interprets The Chinese Culture And Oriental Stories In The Ice And Snow Craze

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On the evening of February 7, the opening ceremony of the 2025 9th Asian Winter Games was held in Harbin, the ice city. From the Beijing Winter Olympics to the Harbin Asian Winter Games, China's "ice and snow fever" has spread all over the country and injected vitality into the world's ice and snow sports. The theme of this Asian Winter Games is "ice and snow share the same dream, Asia is one heart", which carries the common aspiration and pursuit of the Asian people for peace, development and friendship.

As the chief costume designer for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the chief costume designer for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2023 Hangzhou 19th Asian Games, and the chief costume designer for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2023 Hangzhou 4th Asian Disabled Games, Ding Jie, the designer, once again took the lead in the general costume design for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Harbin Asian Winter Games. Adhering to the theme of "ice and snow are the same dream, Asia is the same heart", this time Ding Jie, with her unique clothing design concept, not only ignited the fashion spark of ice and snow sports for the Harbin Asian Winter Games, but also brought a visual and cultural feast with unique oriental charm to the opening ceremony of the Asian Winter Games with Ding Jie's unique talent and creativity.

It is understood that Ding Jie not only deepened the design metaphor and display content of each link in the clothing design of the entire opening ceremony, but also brought in the narrative way and design details of the entire design, allowing Asian culture and art to converge and exchange here, giving a new visual concept and experience.

"I have designed more than 120 sets of more than 300 costumes for the opening and closing ceremonies of this Asian Winter Games, from the costumes of ushers, pacesetters, delegation flag bearers, flag bearers, and flag raisers to the costumes of actors in each performance chapter. These designs were selected from thousands of drafts of design plans, and I have worked with the team to develop and produce thousands of costumes," Ding said, "This is an unprecedented challenge for me both in terms of design and development capabilities and in terms of follow-up rush production."

At the opening ceremony of this Asian Winter Games, what impressed the audience most was that each set of clothing was integrated with Ding Jie's unique design inspiration. Ding Jie is even more proud of the clothes that embody all the efforts of her team and herself. Among them, the usher's ceremonial clothes are designed with a gradual change of red, which makes people feel as if they are enjoying the red color of the rising sun on the Songhua River, which makes the world blend.

"The design inspiration of this clothing comes from Harbin's winter romance, China's traditional culture, and the natural beauty of Beijing University." Ding Jie said that in order to meet the needs of the opening ceremony of the Asian Winter Games, the vision and the responsibilities of the guide should be unified and coordinated. The clothing presented looks like snowflakes flying all over the sky, and the patterns on the clothes reflect the paper-cut, ice cream The Great Khingan Mountains and rime are condensed in this winter, and the white and pure interpretation of Harbin's unique essence and spirit.

Ding Jie introduced that the design of some of the pacesetters, flag bearers, flag bearers and flag raisers in the ceremony of the opening ceremony of the Asian Winter Games has adopted simple and generous outline lines, including the Olympic table tennis champion Ding Ning, speed skating champion Gao Tingyu, swimming champion Jiao Liuyang, figure skating champion Zhao Hongbo, figure skating champion Han Cong The clothing of Qu Chunyu, the champion of short track speed skating, as the flag guard skillfully outlines the grand outline of the Great Khingan Mountains with a more dynamic rhythm. Inspired by the majesty of the Great Khingan Mountains and the grandeur and magnificence of the nature, she expresses the unique style of this group of clothes with the charm of the endless mountains and the boundless forest. With the solemn interpretation of flag guards and sportsmanship, the picture of harmonious coexistence of the Asian Winter Games is formed.

During the welcome performance of Ice Lantern Reveals a Dream at the opening ceremony, Ding Jie, the designer, put the Harbin Intangible Cultural Heritage art "Founder Paper Cut" on the clothing, and collided with modern science and technology fabric technology, forming a fusion of folk and modern science and technology and art levels. Paper cutting and ice snow, Chinese red and ice snow white, more show the tradition and contemporary, freedom and order expressed by the "handkerchief flower girl" dance. With the perfect blessing of the designer, this moment becomes a harmonious, unified, fashionable and high-level existence.

In the program segment of "Long Praise of the Ice River" in the chapter of "Hot Ice and Snow" at the opening ceremony, the design inspiration of the performance clothing comes from the perfect integration of the image of ice picker with the fur collar element and the industrial style of Harbin, showing the tall and straight figure of Harbin ice picker in the northeast, and combining with ice and snow, the ice picker will produce beautiful gold and silver mountains. At this time, Harbin, which is full of passion, is glorious with thousands of miles of snow and ice, and large ice blocks cannot stop Harbin's sincerity and enthusiasm. The supportive line outline and curve decoration let this group of designs express the hardness of the Northeast men and their exploration of dreams.

Ding Jie designed luminous clothes for the dumping device, speed skating and roller skating performers in the performance segment of the opening ceremony of "Burning Fast". "In order to reflect the colorful design concept of Harbin Ice Lantern, it is the first time to use the 'programming' technology to combine three types of 88 sets of light-emitting clothing that can present different effects. It is the first time to break through different types of light-emitting clothing in the opening ceremony of international sports events. It is the first time to show the combination of programming breakthrough." Ding Jie said that the "river pattern" of Chinese clothing and the "Chinese knot" Knitting patterns collide with the clothes of speed skating actors, and then, with the help of programming principles, interweave with the actors' interpretation into an epochal design vocabulary, which is a demonstration of China's original strength and scientific and technological innovation strength.

Ding Jie also embodied the visual effect of "programming" technology in the outline structure of the clothing by combining the lighting effect of the scene and the actor dumping device. At the same time, she combined digital technology and futuristic art display mode, so that the magic of "dumping device" can be added to convey the visual expression of ice and snow sports in clothing design and digital art, It shows more futuristic design means and large scene expression.

The visual feast of "lilac flower" dance slowly unfolded in the chapter of "High Mountains and Rivers" of the opening ceremony. Lilacs in winter are a symbol of tenacity and beauty. "In the cold winter, when most flowers have fallen asleep, lilacs still bloom and show their tenacious vitality. Just like our ice and snow athletes, they are not afraid of the cold and sway in the wind alone, emitting a faint fragrance, as if to tell the world that even in the coldest season, life can still bloom with the most beautiful brilliance." Ding Jie explained her design inspiration in this way.

It is worth mentioning that in terms of clothing design and processing, Ding Jie has constructed a unique aesthetic and light experience of the "lilac flower" dance with three kinds of fabrics. "A skirt needs 40 meters of fabric to show such a big opening and closing effect. At the same time, the Chinese embroidery process is also used at the chest to show the details of ice floss. The technology and technology are integrated to bring the audience into this journey of ice and snow chasing light." Ding Jie said.

During the performance of "Republic of Ten Thousand Miles", performers from 5 countries and 3 regions in East Asia, 11 countries in Southeast Asia, 7 countries in South Asia, 5 countries in Central Asia, and 14 countries in West Asia successively wore their own costume designs to perform, which made the audience feel as if they were traveling in various countries. Based on the understanding of the folk culture and clothing characteristics of each country and region, Ding Jie not only extracted the core design characteristics of different countries and ethnic groups in design, converted the aesthetic image of each country into clothing language, but also based on China's textile science and technology in the process of fabric selection, The original weaving technology perfectly demonstrated the unique and unique clothing culture and good wishes of these countries, and pushed the opening ceremony performance of the "2025 Ninth Asian Winter Games" to a climax.

"From the" tiger head and tiger brain "of the Winter Olympics to the" ice and snow journey "of the Asian Winter Games, we should go all out for love. The biggest challenge is the large amount of clothing for the opening and closing of the Asian Winter Games, and the tight design and time." Ding Jie said, "All clothing can only be achieved with enough effort from design creativity to production. I hope to present the imaginative and contemporary clothing expression of Chinese original designers on Yadong, so that these designs can become the spiritual nourishment for our forward development."

"From the Beijing Winter Olympics, to the Hangzhou Asian Games, to the current Asian Winter Games, from design concepts, to design drafts, to ready to wear, it has become a habit to work all night long," Ding Jie said, "General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that we should better promote the Chinese culture to go global, and use literature to carry the message, communicate the message, and educate people to explain and promote more excellent cultures with Chinese characteristics, reflect the Chinese spirit, and contain Chinese wisdom to the world. The sense of mission of the country and the sense of honor of designers have given us endless perseverance and inspiration," Ding Jie said, When clothes are designed and displayed by myself, I realize that it is a love of design that is embedded in the blood and bone marrow. As a Chinese designer, telling Chinese stories is an important way to let the world better understand and respect Chinese culture, which is an inescapable responsibility.

"As a designer, I will be committed to becoming a inheritor and practitioner of Chinese excellent culture," Ding Jie said.

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